Michelle Obama Takes Girls to London for Fish and Chips

I thought everyone was going to have to ’sacrifice’. the only people the Obama’s are interested in sacrificing are people like my friend who is about to become homeless in a few days.

I’m trying to get the word out about his sisters fund raiser for him, I’m afraid it may be too late though. Here’s a link in case you are interested.

http://mylastshredsofsanity.blogspot.com/2009/06/its-contest-its-raffle-its-fundraiser.html

Good guy, former police officer, just hit some really hard times and couldn’t seem to find another job- he had two and lost both within two weeks.

Luva reading ad hominem rants like yours is the reason I often stay away from this board for days. Your harsh attacking tone and continued use of taking the name of Jesus in vain is below you don’t you think? Did it ever occur to you that some FA readers might be more offended by that then Michelle’s shopping trip to Paris?

How can the conservative agenda ever be taken seriously when we have rants like yours so ugly they make me want to take Obama’s side?

It’s well known I’m no big fan of the Obamas, but for goodness sakes, do you have to begrudge them EVERYTHING? Yes, the Obamas are more than over the top and don’t appear to be the best example of American Leadership, but like it or not, they still won the white house. I think if you check the actual facts, you will learn that the Obamas DO have to pay for the airfare for Michelle and the kids (it’s part of their perks, they have an expense account for personal use, but DO have to reimburse ,at commercial rates, for personal airfare).

I doubt they have to pay for the secret service, which of course, comes with the job.

I too am not happy that they are such poor examples in both the “worst recession since the great depression and the great global warming crisis.” Can’t you at least see they are hanging themselves with their own rope? Who could possible take them seriously except of course, the last love sick of the MSM?

For what it’s worth, I’m sure I’ve gone overboard myself at times on personal attacks. My point; it doesn’t serve the conservative cause when any of us do it.

I am embarrassesd by the obamas and their leap to royalty status.
Can you imagine what would be said if a Republican did this??? Just what was the carbon footprint for all this travel??? Guess they couldn’t have buddied up with dear ol’ Dad in HIS plane…

Guess they’d better do all their traveling during their only term in office.

Beware The Birds, Vultures are circling as the Obama’s chickens come home to roost.

Let them eat cake!

We probably need to cut her some slack. After all, when you know there is only 4 years to get in some sightseeing on the public dole, get r done!

Thankfully, on Drudge, is a wonderful pic of Michelle in London in a delightful outfit. I mean delightful.

@Tom in Ca:
@FedUp:

All right, all right…..you guys forced me to go look…..oooff…

I’ll post the pic so others can enjoy it:

Exit question:

What is the carbon footprint of this little adventure?

Ok lets count the number of news outlets inside the US that will even have a story related to this shopping spree as being a negative.

I told you. Delightful.

The shoes…..probably best description would be something similar to OJ’s description of the Bruno Maglis in the murder trial.

Upon closer inspection, the guy in the photo in the red tie knows. He is stifling a gut laugh.

man,did you see the size of them DOGS? woof!

Please somebody tell me that she didn’t wear that getup to Westminster Abbey–please!!

cringe–words fail me. . .

We all fuss about this mess…..I DO TOO! I think it is awful and I think it is a disgrace to have them in DC. BUT what can we do? Is there a way to get them out? Before their time? WHAT WHAT can the US do to get this? I know people voted him in, BUT those people I hope know now what they are…If a person works for their dollars, which I DO, then we are a nothing. If you don’t work for aliving, then these DC are ‘GREAT I guesslllllllllll I am sick of these People, BUT WHAT CAN WE DO??

I do that and think sometimes, does it really help? BUT I guess it does and I will keep doing it.

I agree with you. We have to keep on and keep on trying, that’s all a person can do. And I will keep on. Thanks.

You can bet it cost the tax payers allot, can’t we? Just sick………..I personally don’t see how someone like these people can get into the white house. But they did……….voted in, I know that, but I know I did not vote for him and would never………….and lots of others didn’t vote for him either, but lots did. Taxes are high eneough like it is and taxes just keep going up or know they have here where I live………and am sure almost every state has gone up on taxes. Just sick…….

AND I am not quite sure I want to know how much it cost US ALL for her to do what she did and what she does and what he does. I just know I am tired of paying for THEIR things and everyone else’s things that don’t do this and don’t do that.

And people that smoke, YES, taxes went sky high on them……….but that is the start of allot, isn’t it??

I have been sending Faxes again and fixing to go back and send some more. Decided it is best to do it and keep doing it. If these people get tired of seeing so many faxes maybe they will read them and see what they say and do something……..

As to the cost of Michelles’ excellent adventure, we also have to factor in the cost of the numbers of people she brought along–security personnel, personal trainers, makeup people, wardrobe advisors (cough), hairdressers, personal chefs, etc. . .I’m willing to bet that this little jaunt is costing us well over a cool $1 million. . .

It’s interesting to note the media’s silence on this little trip, except for Maureen Dowd’s editorial justifying the Leader’s “date night” and other leisure activities.

If a GOP first lady and kids did this,the left would be screaming about where the money should have gone.

Personally, I am disgusted by expenditures like this. I am equally disgusted by people that are only critical when the “other side” does it. For all of you complaining about this trip, ask yourselves this question: “Would you be as vocal if this story was about Cindy McCain, if her husband Senator John would have won the presidency?” If your answer is something like “The president and his family are in such a high pressure situation, it’s only fitting that they have opportunities to travel and relax,” then you win the Keith Olberman award for hypocrisy! Until we step outside of the two-party box, we’ll continue alternating the barrage of insults, depending on who won the previous election. I for one think America is better than this, but a majority of us are stuck in the political “Super Bowl Syndrome.” How’s your team doing?

Mike’s America,
I’m glad to see someone getting defensive, that means you are at least paying attention. I am not defending the Obama’s at all. In the same vein, I would not defend the McCain’s, Bushes, Clinton’s, etc. I’m saying that our system is extremely flawed, and the left vs. right, back-and-forth B.S. is perpetuating this system.

To directly answer your questions:
Obama deserves no pass, I’m not recommending you give him one.
I seriously doubt that I posted anything similar to this on any “lefty” blogs when Bush was president, the issues were different.

To clarify, I believe most of the people behind these particular criticisms WOULD give the president a pass if he or she was from THEIR party; thus the comparison to Keith Olberman.
If the shoe fits . . .

God help us ALL. Such disgrace they are! WE THE PEOPLE see the light – and this is NOT the United States Of America we are EACH proud of – and we stand tall and AMERICAN’S are who have been ‘taken with him’ are now waking up also!! Some times it is difficult to come to realization when the reallize they have ‘hired the wrong person’ – but THIS FOR CERTAIN is the case for anyone who REALLY has intelligence! Some who are ‘give me-give me’ will never wake up until God forbid it be – that they or their parent needs health care and they don’t qualify because they are ‘too old’ or don’t fit the grove of qualifications!
May we NEVER see that occur! Call your senators / your congressman and the white house and tell them how you feel – and your opinions and how they need to be listening to you as they ‘work for us’!

So….future stimulus packages for all Americans to travel to London and Paris to enrich our cultrual reach? We should ask for it.

Last time I looked the First Lady and her daughters weren’t coming to ask for bailout money so I guess the admonition doesn’t apply. She is our President’s wife so of course she was given protection. What would you like her to do? Sit home and knit blankets for the homeless all day. Dress in rags? And never come out of the house? Get over yourselves. Obama is not to blame for this mess we are in and his wife and kids sure aren’t. 8 years of Bush. 2 wars and lack of oversight and plain downright greed on the part of corporate America caused the problem coupled with the spend, spend, spend gotta have it all in every color mentality of the American people. We helped screw our own selves and we let ourselves be brainwashed by the fear factor mentality of the last President and cronies. Quit blaming the Obama’s for this mess.

Cheryl Adkins: Get over yourselves. Obama is not to blame for this mess we are in and his wife and kids sure aren’t. 8 years of Bush. 2 wars and lack of oversight and plain downright greed on the part of corporate America caused the problem coupled with the spend, spend, spend gotta have it all in every color mentality of the American people. We helped screw our own selves and we let ourselves be brainwashed by the fear factor mentality of the last President and cronies. Quit blaming the Obama’s for this mess.

You don’t mind my saying so, but it’s dumb asses like yourself that are the reason we are in the mess we are in… picking people like career politicians in Congress (Barney Frank, Pelosi etal)… and then picking idiots like Obama to fix their obvious corruption and stupidity. Fox/hen house?

How about you get a grip and realize that the housing boom started in 1997-98. Ponder that for awhile.

Well, Mata and Mike. Cheryl Adkins is obviously as confused and clueless as the Obama’s. All are in over their heads and, unfortunately, don’t appear to realize it.

Well I am not the one delusional enough to not realize that George and Cronies are the one who left this mess to be fixed to begin with. Perhaps your memory is faulty. But Obama is president not god or a miracle worker. He has no magic wand to wave to make the 8 years of bushanomics go away. It took 8 years to get here so why are you unrealistic enough to think it will go away in a few months?

And in case you don’t like the Heritage Foundation, we’ll give you another lesson in spending from the liberal WaPo. Hint… see that big, tall line to the right? That’s government spending under President Obama from 2010 to 2020. All those little lines? The various wars, and NASA’s race to the moon.

Reality’s a bitch, eh? Figured out what Congress, Barney Frank, Clinton’s Treasury department have to do with the housing boom yet?

@MataHarley:

That chart has to be, gulp…..game over for Cheryl.

Well some of us live in the real world and have real lives so we have something better to do most of the time besides get on the internet to insult people and rewrite history. Besides since you all are still belaboring under the delusion that the Iraqi invasion was over weapons of mass destruction and that we borrowed billions from China to fund this invasion to look for them, what can I say to disillusion you? The fact is George was minding the store for 8 years. If you saw prosperity good for you but those of us living in the real world didn’t. Our jobs were outsourced, our ability to go to college was curtailed by financial aid cuts, and our husbands, wives, sons and daughters marched off to a useless invasion. And at the end of his time we were left with no retirement funds, gas so outrageous we could barely go to work, the housing market in a shambles, the automakers and banks on the verge of ruin. Well when you are the big cheese the s*** falls on you. He dropped the ball. He lied, cheated, and stole his way into office to begin with and he lied repeatedly to the American people. And yet he was allowed to stay. Worse than that a whole bunch of idiots voted him in for a second term. What more is there to say. Barack Obama or just about anyone except Sarah Palin couldn’t do much worse than that. But when you are dealing with a bunch of racist, elitist delusional brainwashed group you can’t expect much more than for them to complain. No matter what he and his family do, even if it’s right, even if it accomplishes the goal you people will still moan and groan.

Thank you for insulting my typing now. My command of the English language is just fine. Guess you couldn’t argue with what I had to say so you decided to redirect the conversation. Typical with people of your mindset.

Besides leftist or no, truth is still truth. It doesn’t change just because you find it inconvenient or choose not to believe it.

Cheryl , it’s hard to believe we were both living in the same country! The way I remember it, as well as the objective facts, is this:

1. Bush inherited Clinton’s recession (FACT)

2. Despite a 911 attack, the stock market and economy under Bush soared to all time records for 6 years straight. Regardless of the fact that homes rose to overinflated values (with many thanks to “Fanny and Freddie”), I bought a house when Bush took office and sold right before he left office with an enormous “profit” for doing nothing more than buying at the “right time.” I’m quite sure never again in my life time will I have the opportunity to makes such easy and tax free money.

3. You must have been the only one living in hardship while the rest of the county saw HUGH gains in their 401K’s and home values. The unemployment was lower than the Clinton years.

4. The only reason it ended after 6 years is because the dems took over congress. That was the genesis of all bad things that followed up and until our current train wreck.

You make accusations of racism without a shred of evidence. For all that anyone might want to accuse Bush of; no reasonable person could ever make a realistic accusation of racism. That however, can’t be said for your party who so far has wiped out half of the American Negro population by genocide (abortion). LOOK IT UP! Do you think it’s just a “coincidence” that most Planned Parent clinics are in black neighborhoods?

I would also be interested in knowing what job/skill sets you lost to outsourcing that were so unique you are unable to recover. Why don’t you give us some examples Cheryl?

In the meantime, I suggest you “buckle up”, because if you thought the world sucked under Bush, hang on the for cliff Obama is about to throw you over. Hopefully you will get over you “victimhood” and realize that who you really hate is more than likely yourself and your own self-loathing party.

Lastly Cheryl, know this: Obama is NOT going to save you! Only you can do that.

Guess you weren’t invested in the stock market last year. I am not expecting Obama to save me. But I guess if all the crap thats gone on in the last few years hasn’t hurt you then he can’t “hurt” you either. Besides I don’t need saving. I have no 401 K or retirement to worry about so I really lost very little. But I know people who lost a great deal. My husband came out of the military 10 years ago so no problem there either. But others have lost loved ones. Maybe if you would take your head out of the sand long enough to take a look around at the rest of the world who aren’t you or who aren’t as fortunate or smart or gifted as you you might learn a great deal. We all don’t live in nice houses with wonderful paying jobs. Some of us are homeless. Some of don’t have jobs. Some of us live on minumum wage and are single parents.
None of that got any better under the last regime. So excuse me if I do not think that George Bush was the greatest President ever. I never said that I thought Obama was either. But at least he’s not Bush. My point is that you people refuse to even give him a chance. Because he wasn’t who you wanted you automatically condemn and criticise every move he makes before you even know if it will work. It wasn’t how you would have done it so it must be wrong. I, at least, gave George a chance after he stole the election. But he ruined when he invaded Iraq and used fear mongering and lies to do it.

WTF? Cheryl wanders in here, whines about selling our souls to China for 4.3% of the entire GDP for an eight year war that hadn’t even gone on for six full years when Bush left office. Bet she hasn’t got an idea of how many years the Iraqis have had a permanent government in place, either.

And of course, never once does she address that’s not even a thimble full of what Obama has spent in six months. In fact, from the looks of it, you can add up every war in that graphic and it still pales to Obama’s spending… even via WaPo standards.

Cat got your tongue on that stuff? Or are facts foreign to your somewhat limited vocabulary, Cheryl?

And according to the story she wove, I have to wonder just what was her supposed ex military husband doing when she was theoretically protesting in the streets about Iraq when his buddies and friends may still be there? Granted… the real or imagined “he/hubby” served to preserve that she had that exact right. But I guess I’m cut from a different cloth. As a Vietnam wife, I never once dreamed of taking any negative feelings to the street – harpooning my friends, who were still on the battlefield, in the back.

Different values, I guess.

In response to hard facts, she throws out the predictable “touchy feelly” talking points crap about being an ex military wife, and slings what victim “poor me” mud she can think of. Whining about how bad *we* are on history and can’t refute truth… suggests we all live in mansions and that she and others have a monopoly on hard times and poverty. (Oh, but she hasn’t lost any money in this recession/depression). She then stomps her foot about being abused and a victim… makes a drama queen finale exit… only to show up a little over an hour later.

damn… small favors are not coming our way, I guess.

Clue to the clueless…. I sincerely doubt anyone on this forum has a trust fund to live off of. In fact, I’m quite sure that all of us work for a living…. save Real American Patriot, or CRAP as we call him. He lives off the taxpayer on government extended unemployment because he thinks it was created to be there so he doesn’t have to take a lesser paying job. He’ll just wait for that “packaging” industry to return from overseas before he starts working again. Must remind him not to get a job as a Montana miner….

All I can say is… is this the cream of the Obama cyber hit squad crop??? OMG…. more fish in a barrel to shot. And dang… do they need a new script or what?

Kudos to you all who gave her an exhale of time and valuable oxygen. Personally all I can say is ta ta, au revoir, and vamoose, Cheryl. This is a new low in discourse I personally can’t find any interest in engaging. And frankly, there’s too many “catch all” phrases that strike me as she “doth protest too much” take as genuine. She’s offers a sob story and accusations as “personal defense” in lieu of debate with facts. Not worth the time….

@ Cheryl Adkins I’m glad to see Aye Chihuahua mentioned congress. Cheryl, do you know anything about government or are you as others are saying here, just a liberal hack that goes around spewing the same rhetoric over and over. Here’s a little lesson. Our system of government has a system of checks and balances. The Legislative branch can check the President if there is a problem and the veto power he has can keep them from going too far as well. The Judicial branch is there to keep the laws that the Legislators pass within the boundaries of the constitution and protect the people from tyranny. So if you are so disgruntled with the Bush years, my dear, there should be plenty of blame to go around.

Kudos to your husband for serving in the military. My grandfather served at the Battle of the Bulge, was one of the lucky ones to make it home. My husband’s grandfather wasn’t so lucky on Iwo Jima. My father volunteered his service in Viet Nam as well as several of my most respected friends. These people made it possible for you to be a liberal. There are few places in the world, especially the middle east, where a woman can speak her mind as you have. Thanks in part to our work in Iraq the people there have the chance to become a free or at least freeer society. Things take time and blood is unfortunately shed. Look at the history of this country if you want to see some astounding casualty numbers. My brother-in law just volunteered to go in a third time to help the cause over there. Over there should be emphasized. I’d much rather have this war over there than here where the terrorists would like to have kept it.

As far as Obama goes, I live in Illinois and I can tell you that he was not shining star here. He made very little impact here in his home district. He also has had his hands in plenty of crooked looking deals over the years. The media tells you what they want you to know not necessarily the whole truth. I’d love to give the guy a chance. He’s in! Here’s his chance. What has he chosen to do with it? Going around the worlds apologizing for America is not a good place to start with me. Siding with the likes of Hugo Chavez and Castro over this Honduras deal has also left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Presidents have to make hard decisions for the country as a whole with little to no regard to who’s saying what about him personally. The fringe groups should not rule the majority either.

I challenge you Cheryl and any other liberal perusing this blog to take an OBJECTIVE look as this president and this Congress. It’s not about the party winning, it should be about the country winning for all of us. If they are so great, then show us, do something that makes us all sit up and listen!