Cost of Obama’s Trip is Dwarfed By George And Laura Bush’s Africa Spending Spree
Cost of Obama’s Trip is Dwarfed By George And Laura Bush’s Africa Spending Spree
As conservatives rage about the cost of Obama’s Africa trip, it is important to remember that George and Laura Bush made a combined 7 trips to Africa all on the taxpayers’ dime.
We’ve played this game before, but anytime the nation’s first black president spends more than a dollar, the right wing freaks out about Barack Obama “wasting taxpayer dollars.” Back in 2011, the right claimed that First Lady Obama’s Africa trip would cost taxpayers millions, but even if you use numbers that the White House disagrees with ($424,000), they weren’t even close.
This time the right has whipped up the fake outrage over a leaked document showing that President Obama’s upcoming Africa trip could cost $60-$100 million. What these same people don’t tell is that George and Laura Bush loved to go to Africa on the taxpayers’ dime…a lot.
During Bush’s second term alone, Laura Bush made five “goodwill” trips to Africa. President Bush made the trip twice during his presidency. Here is former First Lady Bush at an event the night before their trip in 2008, “Tomorrow, President Bush and I leave for what will be my fifth trip to Africa since 2001, and his second trip to Africa since 2001. I’ve seen the determination of the people across Africa — and the compassion of the people of the United States of America.”
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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/2013/06/14/cost-obamas-trip-dwarfed-george-laura-bushs-year-africa-spending-spree.html
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I shuddered seeing the video of him bothering the musicians the first time. He was a total ass. I guess he had momentarily forgotten to act "presidential," which would have upset that nice Karen Hughes, who'd been so damned happy during his first campaign, hooting to everyone he had already developed a real Presidential bearing.
What a jerk, imagining he was entertaining people, acting like a slow 5 year old.
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Did not know the Tea Bagger choir has found a new target for their hysteria. They seem to need constant feeding to keep up their bitching and whining volume.
Didn't Michelle Bachmann go wild overestimating the cost of an earlier trip by President Obama?
They seem to have lost their ability to feel shame. That had to have disappeared before he was even elected.
