Originally Posted by goober

Which is the deal for anyone who can't take commercial flights for security purposes. They pay for a regular ticket and the Air Force flies them.
It's been like that for decades.
So what's your real beef?

Originally Posted by Steve

A Boeing 757 and a fleet of armored cars for Michelle’s sight seeing tour!



Michelle One

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 CEO’s 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!
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Seems to me that this is a mildly shitty thing to do. Not only are the American taxpayers paying for one jet for the President (which I have no issue with), now we're paying for another one so Michelle and the rug rats can go to France and England. What a waste fo fucking money.

These stupid fucking people are such hypocrites it's sickening...

Originally Posted by goober

Which is the deal for anyone who can't take commercial flights for security purposes. They pay for a regular ticket and the Air Force flies them.
It's been like that for decades.
So what's your real beef?

Originally Posted by fishjoel

Originally Posted by Steve

A Boeing 757 and a fleet of armored cars for Michelle’s sight seeing tour!



Michelle One

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 CEO’s 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!
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Seems to me that this is a mildly shitty thing to do. Not only are the American taxpayers paying for one jet for the President (which I have no issue with), now we're paying for another one so Michelle and the rug rats can go to France and England. What a waste fo fucking money.

These stupid fucking people are such hypocrites it's sickening...

Originally Posted by Redv

I see nothing wrong with the First Lady and her girls going shopping or sightseeing in Paris. I had no objection when other First Ladies went shopping or sightseeing as I'm sure they did. Jackie Kennedy loved the finest clothes and so did Nancy Reagan so they had to do some shopping at one time or another.

Originally Posted by Steve

The shopping and sightseeing isn't the problem. The problem is how they're getting around...

Originally Posted by Redv

They are getting around in the same way that other first families got around. None of them ever used public transportation and I don't expect the Obama's to do that either.

Originally Posted by CSA

cahnge we can.. ohh forget it....

Originally Posted by fishjoel

What ever happened to Obama's "tightening your belt" BS? Apparently a trip like this is just indespencible.