Posted on | July 7, 2009 | 4 Comments
From: Brin, Randall [mailto:randy.brin@philips.com]
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 6:48 AM
Subject: FW: first fraud lady obama
Read this — and when do we get totally fed up?
A Boeing 757 and a fleet of armored cars for Michelle’s sight seeing tour!
On Sunday, President Obama flew back to the United States on Air Force One. His wife, two daughters and her mother did a bit of shopping in Paris before taking their own Boeing 757 (C-32) over to London to do some sight seeing.
We all remember Obama’s admonishment to corporate CEOs in February:
“You can’t get corporate jets, you can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers dime.”
Apparently that doesn’t apply to his wife.
The London Times opened it’s description of Michelle’s visit this way:
Motorcycle outriders, armoured Chevrolets and bullet-headed men in raincoats criss-crossed London yesterday as Michelle Obama and her daughters spent a second day on an unofficial visit to the capital.
The Times went on to describe that when Michelle and the girls arrived at Westminster Abbey, the building was closed to tourists with people already in told to “wait against the wall.” An American visiting the Abbey said, “Right then I knew it was probably someone from our royal family.”
Michelle’s motorcade shut down the London street above as the First Lady of the World and her children go for Fish and Chips at a pub in Mayfair. The entourage inside the restaurant was 15 people while dozens more wait outside. Include the dozens of Air Force personnel to fly and service the plane, embassy personnel and other staff and we are talking about a serious expenditure of tax payer dollars.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans have lost their jobs and won’t be able to take their family on a summer holiday. Despite their circumstances they’ll still be expected to fork over the tax dollars to pay for Michelle’s trip.
Tell your friends about this — it’s their money being spent!!
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Comments
July 7th, 2009 @ 10:24 am
Dear Dr. Orly-If I were highly critical of the prior administration and others re: spending the taxpayers money, I certainly would make every effort in my administration to avoid anything that would appear wasteful at best and/or squandering the taxpayers hard earned money. It is called maintaining a low profile. I’m sure that Michelle could have visited these places in a much more subdued fashion. I would be very afraid that people would see me as a hypocrite of epic proportions. If they are trying to impress the American taxpayers they are doing a great job, with the country in the straights that it is in today, they are really setting a great example.
July 7th, 2009 @ 2:00 pm
How do I remove this entry???
July 7th, 2009 @ 11:16 pm
Denise: the website you’re posting goes to an article about Obama and the hospital he was born in. There is nothing about an auction or auction #.
Maybe you should post the page you printed out.