Breaking News: Michelle Obama should have stayed at a Motel 6...

[cynatnite]

Yet the bigger public furor concerns the cost and appearance of the trip. In a scathing editorial published Thursday, New York Daily News writer Andrea Tantaros trashed Michelle Obama as a "modern day Marie Antoinette" for taking such a glitzy vacation while most of the country is struggling to make ends meet.The Obama entourage is staying at the luxury Hotel Villa Padierna, a Ritz-Carlton property often described as one of the world's top 10 hotels. Rates range between $500 and $2,500 a night. It's not clear that the Obama delegation picked this hotel specifically, or if the Secret Service — which often gets final say over where a protectee stays — made the accommodations call.

Either way, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that the first lady will pay her personal expenses — as will the friends who are traveling with her. But that only covers a small part of the ultimate expense, given that she has full-time Secret Service protection and has to travel with an entourage of staff. That cost, as well as her travel on board an official Air Force charter plane, is covered by taxpayers.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100805/pl_yblog_upshot/first-lady-under-fire-for-her-glitzy-spanish-vacation

What a loon :crazy:

[flvegan]

1. Ah, the damned if you do, damned if you don't First Lady.

Had she stated at a Motel 6, she'd get shit for "making us look bad" and "putting herself in harms way" or whatever. She stays somewhere nice and she's an elitist spending all our money on room service and massages. Please.

Besides, I'm inclined to think that a lot of her expenses get comped. Want to stay in our best penthouse? Absolutely, ma'am. The finest champagne sent to your room? Think nothing of it. End of the day, I get some of the highest bragging rights available. You can't buy that kind of advertising and good press.

[DBoon]

3. If they stayed at a Motel 6, you'd hear comments about "ghetto trash"

By staying in a nice place she is "acting above her place"

See how racism works?

[CreekDog]

13. Probably not...people in federal positions aren't allowed to accept anything worth more than $25

there are relatively few exceptions, but the basic gist is that the government cannot accept free things.

maybe people hand her stuff and give her stuff, but the rules for the President, his staff and many others in gov't is that you can't accept things of any value. i don't know if the ethics rules apply to her position, but i imagine political counsel to the President recommends she follow them anyway.

[red red red]

2. There is not one thing...

that the Obama's could do to satisfy some people - not one thing!
So why even try! :shrug:

[DBoon]

5. yes there is one thing they could do to satisfy some people

become "white"

[JuniperLea]

10. !!!

Touche... you have that right. And they need to do it yesterday, dammit!

:wtf:

[JuniperLea]

4. Damn her for stimulating the economy with her own damn money!!!

WTF???

:wtf:

All those hotel workers doing their jobs, getting paid and shit! :wtf: All those meals eaten at restaurants... I bet the bitch tipped too!!! :wtf:

If I need :sarcasm: you are :crazy:

[joeybee12]

6. Hey, I LIKE Motel 6!!!!

They leave the light on for me!

[Atman]

8. Yes, but the Ritz leaves the chandelier on for you!

:hi:

.

[joeybee12]

9. Dot hey take pets?

Motel 6 does...so i guess they have something on the Ritz.


:hi:

[Atman]

7. She's the First Lady, fer chrissake!

I don't want her staying in a Motel 6 with bedbugs and drunk fuckers banging the headboard against the wall in the room next door. Believe it or not, there ARE some privileges that come with being a head of state, even if you're a Bush or a Reagan!

.

[spanone]

11. fuck the daily news.....shitrag

[indepat]

12. Madame Tantaros, you are acting like an asshole and fuck-head unless you so trashed

Laura when circumstance were similar: if you did, then you are just a pimpled asshole, metaphorically speaking of course. :P

[madrchsod]

14. nancy and ron reagan stayed at our bedbug Ramada Inn when......

he was running for president....i guess michelle thinks she`s better than nancy...:rofl:

[Lilyeye]

15. This is ridiculous. I would never expect less from a President's wife

whether she was a republican or democrat.

[katandmoon]

16. Imagine if Bush were still in the WH and Laura took a delux trip like this, much on the public dime,

while so many Americans are out of work and struggling.

Do you really not think DU's outrage over such a lack of sensitivity would be off the charts?

[Bitwit1234]

17. Hey didn't Bush the lesser stay in Texass during the most of

the attack of the Twin Towers. And how about that birthday party and strumming a guitar while New Orleans drowned. Oh I forgot. He is a republican that's allowed. It is Democrats who should wear crowns of thorns and sack cloth.

[damntexdem]

18. And why not a youth hostel? Heck, since she's first lady ...

they'd probably even give her a bottom bunk.

;-)