Eating her peas – Michele Obama spent 1 out of every 9 days on vacation over the past year

michelle_obama-ugly-1Cutting back, tightening our belts, eating our peas. That’s only for us commoners. Things like that don’t apply to the First Witch Michelle Obama. Remember her big Spain vacation last year on the tax payer dime? The media tried to hide it, but it leaked out and people weren’t happy. The latest vacation is a trip to Oregon to visit her brother off the tax payer time, that the media has completely ignored. This caps 42 days over the last year that the first Witch has taken a vacation on the take payer dime. This is equal to about 1 in every 9 days on vacation over the last year according to White House Dossier. These numbers don’t even include the upcoming two week vacation the Obama family will be taking to Martha’s Vineyard starting later next week.

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.

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.

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.

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August 12, 2011 · Filed Under Michelle Obama


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