Report: In the Last Year Queen Michelle Spent One Out of Every Nine Days on Vacation
Not counting the trip to Ireland and Great Britain.
(White House Dossier) — First Lady Michelle Obama over the last year has spent a total of 42 days on vacation, or a little more than one out of every nine days, according to a White House Dossier analysis of her travel.
Her vacations, the cost of which are mostly borne by taxpayers, include trips to Panama City, Fla., Martha’s Vineyard, Hawaii, South Africa, Latin America, Vail, Colo., and her visit this week to her brother in Corvallis, Ore.
The total does not include a nine day sojourn in Martha’s Vineyard that the Obamas will enjoy this month. Nor does it include a trip she made to Ireland and Great Britain in May, which I’m counting as official travel.
The total vacation time would have been slightly higher had the Obamas gone as planned for an April weekend in Williamsburg, Va. The trip was cancelled due to an extended stalemate between President Obama and Congress over the budget.
Mrs. Obama’s extensive vacation travel comes while many America citizens find themselves out of work or having trouble making ends meet as the economic recovery stalls.
Taxpayers pick up most of the cost of transporting the first lady and her extensive entourage — including Secret Service and her staff — to her various destinations. While she may in some cases pay some of the tab for her personal expenses and travel, the amount is dwarfed by the overall cost to the public.
On trips she makes with the president, though, the costs are only somewhat greater that then they would have been had he travelled alone.
Mrs. Obama’s vacations began in August 2010 with a two day weekend trip to Panama City, Fla., where the Obamas stayed overnight at a Gulf of Mexico hotel in a symbolic effort to show that the Gulf area was safe for travel in the wake of the disastrous BP oil spill.
Next up was what has become an annual pilgrimage to ritzy Martha’s Vineyard, where the Obamas stayed 10 days and dined at several exorbitantly priced restaurants.
In December 2010, with President Obama delayed because Congress was still in town, Mrs. Obama decided to leave without him for their annual Hawaiian vacation, racking up at least $63,000 in additional costs because she travelled alone.
Since the president arrived late, he decided to leave Hawaii in January two days later than scheduled — resulting in a 17 day vacation for the first lady.
Mrs. Obama went right back out on vacation the following month, taking a four day skiing trip in February of this year to Vail, Colo.
In March, Mrs. Obama travelled to Latin America for a five day trip. I’m counting two days of this as vacation, though, because she took her children and her mother along, performed some sightseeing, and went to the beach.
The first lady went to southern Africa in June for six days in what was partially an official visit. Since Mrs. Obama took her mother, her children and their cousins along, since the trip was billed in advance as having personal significance for her, and since the travel included several tourist destinations and a safari, I’m counting half of the journey as vacation, or three days.
Finally, Mrs, Obama took her mother and one of her children to visit her brother in Corvallis, Ore. this week. The trip was not announced by the White House and appears to have lasted four days.
Via Drudge
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How much has that cost us?
How many vacations did she take before they were ‘all expenses paid’? Any?
shes now proud of her country unlike before
but shes still a disbarred lawyer and affirmative action America hating scumbag to me
eat your peas while on vacation chewbakka
party hearty while they destroy the USA
good little disbarred puppet socialists
The devil went down to Georgia looking for soul to keep, got his ass kick and went to D.C. JACKPOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry, souls to keep, got his ass kicked.
Typical low rent, classless, welfare queen.
She’s not employed. How can you be on a vacation, if you are not employed?
FUMO
Wookies must get real mean if they don’t get to tramp around on tax payers money. speaking of tramp and tax payers only tax payers in IRAN.
Guess what crazy eye’s Cynthia Mc Kinny is up too and who’s paying for it?
This is treason and she should be arrested.
Fucking bitch….. both of them.
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/who-is-paying-for-former-georgia-congresswoman-cynthia-mckinney-to-badmouth-the-u-s-in-muslim-countries/
Along with the “Freeloaders” that go with her……………….
Don’t count Mama out !
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The question is….. where is the wookie right now? Suddenly she jets off with the girls AND Voodoo Mama to Oregon to visit her brother? She can’t stay at his house, because adequate security could not be set up. What is she up to?
I have a feeling it’s much higher then 1 day a week…. sort of like how many consecutive days has obama actually spent in the White House working and not having parties,Diner’s and Concerts??????? or playing BB,BOWLING,FREE MOVIES IN OUR THEATER…. And so on.
What did the Ocean do to deserves such treatment. Poor Ocean I heart you much I will much much.
I’m also much sorry about that OBL thing.
slightly OT but..
anyone else consider this?
obbutma goes to egypt, gives a speech, uprising…
obbutma goes to england, riots ensue months later…
@Patrick43
HA. good one
Might as well vacation, and spend away, as long as the rest of the world still accepts the US dollar, and believes it has value.
I can’t wait for these people to leave D.C.
So much for “shared sacrifice”.
Shared sacrifice my ass!
LOL sorry rbosque , didn’t see your post.
mooch gets her groove back,
let the subjects eat cake…
How many days did she spend reading to children,visiting schools,bringing
children to the White House, talking with children about gardening,visiting the military families?
I appreciate this site and others like it but sometimes I wonder what am I supposed to do with all this information?
It just makes me mad and then what?
Does not seem to me she has taken anymore than other first ladies.
In fact if you compare she has probably done more work than all the other first ladies cimbined and I liked all of them.
By the way that is a photo from years ago.
It is the one Glenn Beck called a dress.
Her mama, aunts and uncles, cousins and friends are with far too many times. There is no conscience there, no ethics, no shame…….just give me this, give me that because I’m part of the ruling class.
It does need time to graze – moose need a lot of down time for feeding
for someone that hates BIG WHITEY, she sure does like our free tax money to plunder
Her mother lives with them if no mother then they would have a nanny. I have never heard she took anyone but her niece and nephew. Even Fox News knew she did not take her friends.
Liberals are STILL using the lame car insurance analogy to defend individual mandates. LOL
Ooooops, sorry. Screen drift and mistaken click. LOL
Dang it…..I came over to this article looking for Georgie poooh Sweetapple. Did you guys hurt his feewings???
lanxon: yes, she did read to children, but what did she read? Probably books that are written by leftists with hidden leftist messages and not so hidden leftist messages.
She has done more than the rest of the First Ladies? Let’s see the statistics on that. She may be doing more harm than good in the area of healthy food. Most overweight people have reasons for being overweight and may need counseling versus a big media blitz caused by Michele. Her “wonderful” work on healthy eating turned into another big government program, and she was not elected to do that.
Doing more work than the other first ladies isn’t necessarily a good thing. I suggest you read the facts on what other first ladies did before you make a false statement. If you are young, you don’t know what the others did.
@ fubar: That is exactly what I have been thinking. I will put it differently:
Obama the community organizer is now the world organizer. When he goes to other countries, it is not to benefit America, it is to organize them into activists, just like he did in Chicago.
people, its exhausting traveling the world to put down ur country, bitch needs some R&R from taxpayers she dispises
Hidden messages??? You are too funny. Green eggs and ham???? Stop it. Showing kids how to run and play???? Gosh then Nancy should have never said just say no and Lady Bird should have never said Keep America beautiful.
“She may be doing more harm than good in the area of healthy food. Most overweight people have reasons for being overweight…”
-Wow, you sound like a huge liberal making up excuses for fatties. Do most criminals have reasons for being criminals? Poor and lazy people for being poor and lazy?
Green eggs and ham????
-Well, the Cat in the Hat was obviously a subvervise anarchist…
Showing kids how to run and play????
-Unstructured, imaginative play for fun with no winners or losers breeds socialism.
Poor and lazy do not go hand in hand.
When we played we had winners and losers
It was asked before, but just what job does she have? How can she be taking ‘vacation’ when she’s not even working?
Being First Lady isn’t a job; it’s a perk.
I look at the track record of truth, and there is no truth in the Obama family. Everything they do is to further their leftist agenda, and the leftist agenda for our schools is to dumb them down and promote false facts about America. This is how leftists have managed to grow in numbers.
@Rapaula: I am about as conservative as you can be. There was an article recently about how Michele’s focus on overweight children could be detrimental to them. And would Michele care about that??? No, she cares only about growing the government with yet another program.
Luv it. Obese children have health problems. They have.more health problems when they are adults. Talk about education– I live in Texas. Last two governors have put us at about 45 in the nation.
Did any of you ever complain about the other first ladies. Let’s be honest. If you did I Iknow which one.
@ Jullou– don’t forget the whole CONTROL aspect of the moooove ‘initiative.’ Leftists just looove it when the masses are doing as they say, and not gorging themselves at burger joints like Mobozo likes to do. (for all her talk on “healthy eating”– she’s got a sandwich named after her at the closest burger joint to the WH. Needless to say, it ain’t big on the health foods.)
Moderation. I have been on a weight program forever but I worked the taste of the NFL and I most certainly ate the cake bosses cake. Then I went back to moderation. We all deserve s little something.
Lanxon,
Are you kidding me? Nancy Reagan was vilified constantly. Maybe you weren’t born yet when she was First Lady (and Lady she was and is).
And so just when did it become the government’s problem?? Some kids DO have medical issues (see the boy who died in MD last week by his mother’s hand).
When did the gov’t get to take over our RESPONSIBILITY and ACCOUNTABILITY? Must’ve missed that particular memo. I don’t want a woman who gorges on NOT HEALTHY food a couple of time a week lecturing me or my child on how to eat healthy. Everytime we see a menu or hear about a meal this woman eats, its NEVER low carb or fat or sodium.
She’s all about CONTROL. She doesn’t give a d*mn about making anything better for anyone. Just like her tantrum-throwing, microphone ripping, podium overturning, door kicking husband.
I was around then. I remember. Nancys clothing probably cost more than all the rest combined. She believed in the stars. Her children never liked her and still do not. You know Party just wants to be in the will.She seems like a nice person to me.
Luv it.
He kicked the door maybe he should cry.
shut up and eat your peas you bunch of overwieight unenlightened peasants!
or my husband will have this website shut down. transforming this country of racists into a socialist utopia is hard work. of course i deserve some time off. you bunch of ingrates. everything i do is for you. all this so you don’t have to bitterly cling to your guns and bibles. so you can lead a healthy and beautiful life like me. yet you show no respect or appreciation. even when i’m vacationing i’m really hard at work. how do you think i came up with the “nutrition plate”? even while i’m dining at the finest restaurants i’m hard at work for you, trying to make your miserable lives better.
someday you will appreciate my beauty and my brilliance…
or you will be put in a fema camp.
hugs and kisses,
the wookie
FEMA
trailers left over from Bush
GRIFTERS; LIVING THEIR DREAM ON SOMEONE ELSE’S DIME. THEY NEVER KNOW WHEN ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. IN THEIR MIND, TOO MUCH IS NEVER ENOUGH!
Gosh we are still paying for all of the former presidents and first ladies.
Oh Boy…we got rupaula and lanxon back on the same thread……….what…..are they paying you idiots again? fucking trolls!
The ugly, fat, wookie, cunt is the WORST, worst lady as none other has spewed such hatred of our country. She is a commie, crook, dis-barred POS who preyed on the elderly – google the mooch and patient dumping. Not even that hag Ros Carter showed this much hatred for this country.
hallelujah, holy shit….where’s the tylenol?
It appears you’re losing the thread of your tenuous thoughts, lanxon.
She’s (Mobozo) all about CONTROL. She doesn’t give a d*mn about making anything better for anyone. Just like her tantrum-throwing, microphone ripping, podium overturning, door kicking husband (Obozo).
At the end of a presser ’cause someone actually wanted a response to a difficult question that ‘bamie didn’t like. I hated them at the time, but at least the Reagans had manners and real comportment.
So, what about Mobozo’s mom’s penchant for voodoo. You really think that’s where it ends? Phfttt. Don’t throw stones unless you’re sure they can’t come back at you.
Let’s put it this way . . . Michelle will not end up when she leaves the WH in 2013 with a higher approval rating than Laura Bush. One thing we were always sure would happen. Laura would not embarrass us. I will never forget that backside picture of Michelle when the Merkels were in the WH for a State Dinner . . . I still cringe.
Wow then Party and the others believe in the stars.
Not sure who you are referring to but Michelle mom is Baptist. I knew the Baptist were strange but voodoo. I am Methodist by the way CME.
So she took her own picture and put it in the media.
dahozho says:
August 12, 2011 at 2:32 pm
“Everytime we see a menu or hear about a meal this woman eats, its NEVER low carb or fat or sodium.”
-Why would the sensationalist press print that? Why would anybody print it? How many copies is the byline “Michelle Obama eats a Wednesday night dinner of chicken breast and green beans” going to sell.
Besides, you are missing the point of whole get healthy thing she is promoting. You can eat the delicious crap on occassion if you exercise. You don’t think she is running that burger off on the treadmill? I eat high octane garbage reguarly and drink too much beer, but nobody would accuse me of being out of shape. That is because I also run at least 20 miles per week, plus lifting, plus hiking, hunting, biking, skiing, hockey, etc.
The “Oil Slick” outfit.
What is that picture from? The latest Summer’s Eve commercial?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7v7uBA6LW8&playnext=1&list=PL007FE271907E08E0
After this whole sordid affair the whole country is going to need a jumbo douche.
@The Original, she has many cringe worthy photo-ops. The one that is burned into my brain (before I could get to the bleach)…she was in shorts, getting off AF1 going to the Grand Canyon. OMG, Jackie-O…not. More like Tacky-O.
Nancy Reagan was a size 2, the sample size designers make for buyers. She was given her wardrobe for the most part and the value was declared on their taxes. I want to know how much The First Fat Ass has spent on those custom made clothes…she is too big to wear off the rack and, which btw, still never manage to fit her. I sure as hell hope we’re not paying for that warehouse full of crap. Are they donated? If so, where’s the proof she’s declaring them as gifts? Who’s paying? When Mrs. Reagan replaced the WH china, it was done through donations and didn’t cost us anything. She was a flawless First Lady…this one? First Lady in Name Only…FLINO is a compliment to the Grifter-WH Squatter-Tasteless-Tacky-Moocher. She’s a clueless ghetto-rat who thinks nouveau riche is a compliment. Just like their guttersnipe rapper friends. Low class, vulgar, uncouth embarrassments. Has anyone given her a class in table etiquette yet or is she still picking her teeth and eating with her fingers at state dinners for the camera? She’s disgusting.
Nothing more pathetic than a big assed skank ho trying to frolic on the beach like a delicate little beach waif……………aint happening’ bitch !!
What happened to Spain?
And Mrs. Reagan was a practicing Episcopalian. YOU brought up her astrology dabbling. I brought up the other dabblings in the current WH. YOU run. And I simply don’t care what ‘religion’ you claim to be. What does that have to do with anything? Voodoo practioners can be Catholics, xtians can follow their horoscopes, etc. Doesn’t effect either situation.
And why is EVERYTIME we see or hear about her meals, it is NEVER the plate mandated of complex carbs and veggies?? (And Obozo noted last week that she eats at that burger joint so often they’ve names a burger for her.) She’s also fallen off her vaunted workout routine of 2 years ago– packed on about 30 lbs. since then, and admits it. If its about moderation, I’d really like to see her practice some.
Mooch eats cheeseburgers everywhere she goes…..do a search on Michelle Obama Cheeseburger and you will get a ton of hits……do a search on Michelle Obama salad bar and the only hit you’ll get is the salad bars she wants to force upon our kids. This women is a disgrace and thinks she’s the queen living in the white house.
Do as I say not as I do….blah,blah,blah….. another vacation for me!
Now we know Nancy was old. I did not like the shorts.either but het legs did look good. I can remember Nancy wearing one shoulder gown with skinny wrinkled arms
@Madame DeFarge, LMAO loved every word you said.
Hillary and Laura replaced China too. Gifts ha ha.
@lanxon:
Now we know Nancy was old. I did not like the shorts.either but het legs did look good. I can remember Nancy wearing one shoulder gown with skinny wrinkled arms
Those were legs? I thought they were sides of beef – gross!
“The official George W. Bush State China Service (total price tag: $492,798) consists of 320 14-piece place settings bought with privately raised money through the White House Historical Association Acquisition Trust.”
Beef that looked good.
lanxon says:
August 12, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Beef that looked good.
Are you talking about Michelle? Her legs look horrible. You are not showing much discernment.
Stop it. Take a look ay any picture of her legs Hands down the best of any first lady.
You might like her legs but they’re connected to a humongous pork butt.
Movin on up to the East Side to that dee-lux apartment in the skyyyyyyyyy
Did you not know that people are opting for black like butts. Stop it. She has the average females butt.
I look at that picture of her on the beach and think, “You’ll never get that kite off the ground”.
Let African or Oprah pay for their trip,since they think that black people are smarter than white people.
What is with all these left wing trolls here today?
DEar Carlos some ate some are not. It is the dame for every race
Air Force Two should be renamed “Air Force Mooch”.
“You don’t think she is running that burger off on the treadmill?”
In a word, no.
My family has been forced to put vacations on hold for the last 4 years now.
Empathy is not in the DNA of this first family.
For no job and being an endless vacation planner, she sure has a lot of servants. What’s the count now, 27? Are they all travel agents or something?
Thanks for the conversation. We will probably never agree, but it was interesting, fun conversation. I will visit again.
The only thing that gives me pleasure in her spending our money and that man-child she’s married to giving it the multi-billion dollar corporations and foreign countries is this…. It’s not going to the people who voted for him. It would very much sadden me to watch the lazy, entitlement whores have money to spend like he and Moochelle are doing, pissing away all that wonderful free money on fun, excitement and good times. Her loyalty, like the man-child is to watching all Americans ROT!
Good old US of A… ATM for the rich and famous Democrats who want to loot the workers to go golfing and on vacation. Can anyone say ‘typical leftist’?
Ironic that she was on leadership board of the Communist Party of America in Chicago and yet she spends as much as royalty on her lavish vacations and fried chicken.
The top Commies always had lush Dakas in the country for their R&R and getaway from the masses.
Sorry, that’s Dacha’s. I’m not up on my Ruski lingo.
@lanxon….Your idol has the most aides (servants) of any first lady in history. She has also taken friends on her extremely expensive trysts about the globe. She does not really work yet vacations one day for every nine while loyal Americans are losing their homes, going without food and unable to find work. Yes, she’s a terrific example, isn’t she?….Get out the cake.
I be glad when ObungHo and the Sasquatch will have to pay for their vacations and entertainment.
the first lady job. just another “no show” job in a LONG line of no show jobs since berry got into poltics! at least they aren’t paying her 300,000K a year.
Can’t wait to see these worthless Apeferimative Action monkey’s thrown the hell out of the former WHITE house, Goddamn disgrace putting these pavement apes in power, wake the f up America.
“I’m just an Orca in paradise”