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Sacrifice, Obama-style

Posted 06 Aug 2010 in Barack Obama, hypocrisy

Much is being said, and rightly so, about Michelle Obama’s lavish vacation. It’s not enough that she and President Obama jaunt off to New York to attend a Broadway play at taxpayer expense. Now the First Lady is taking her opulent lifestyle to Spain and leaving you with the tab.

While many of us are struggling, the First Lady is spending the next few days in a five-star hotel on the chic Costa del Sol in southern Spain with 40 of her “closest friends.” According to CNN, the group is expected to occupy 60 to 70 rooms, more than a third of the lodgings at the 160-room resort. Not exactly what one would call cutting back in troubled times.

Reports are calling the lodgings of Obama’s Spanish fiesta, the Hotel Villa Padierna in Marbella, “luxurious,” “posh” and “a millionaires’ playground.” Estimated room rate per night? Up to a staggering $2,500. Method of transportation? Air Force Two.

To be clear, what the Obamas do with their money is one thing; what they do with ours is another. Transporting and housing the estimated 70 Secret Service agents who will flank the material girl will cost the taxpayers a pretty penny.

Perhaps it could be that the Obamas, who seem to fancy themselves more along the lines of international celebrities than actual leaders, espouse a different view of sacrifice.

With the economy still in shambles and talk of raising taxes in order to cover the government’s drunken spending, it’s more than a little galling to see the First Lady ask the American taxpayers to fund her selfish, indulgent trip.

How many vacations have YOU taken this year? Michelle Obama is taking eight…so far.

…by the end of the summer, the first lady will have taken eight vacations. That includes a June trip to Los Angeles, where she and her daughters attended the NBA Finals, as well as an upcoming trip to the Florida Gulf Coast next weekend and a 10-day visit to Martha’s Vineyard later this month with the president.

All this is especially offensive since she and President Obama have repeatedly lectured America about our need to dig deep and give more in these “tough times.”

“We have lost the understanding that in a democracy, we have a mutual obligation to one another — that we cannot measure the greatness of our society by the strongest and richest of us, but we have to measure our greatness by the least of these. That we have to compromise and sacrifice for one another in order to get things done. That is why I am here, because Barack Obama is the only person in this who understands that. That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.”
~Michelle Obama, February 2008

“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
~Michelle Obama, October 2008

“Everybody in the country is going to have to sacrifice something, accept change for the greater good. Everybody is going to have to give. Everybody is going to have to have some skin in the game.”
~Barack Obama, January 2009

Clearly, the Obamas meant that WE are going to have to sacrifice and give up more so they can live an increasingly extravagant, imperial lifestyle.
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UPDATE: Here’s an excellent column about the Obama administration and the end of responsiblity.

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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