As America heads swiftly toward its impending rapture date, Michelle Obama fans are wondering why our FLOTUS has not taken advantage of the opportunity to publish a “How to Make the Most of Your Ramadan Fast” diet book or, alternatively, eat some more hamburgers while no one is paying attention. Perhaps it is because our FLOTUS is too busy going on vacation, every single day of the year. Some people are upset about this apparent revelation, because shouldn’t the First Lady spend more time in the confines of her residence, having luncheons and knitting? Instead, as a direct insult to the American people, First Lady Magellan Obama thinks she needs to “see the world” and “do things.”
We thought maybe the whole Marie Antoinette-comparison Spain vacation thing was over, but since Michelle Obama is now off to fancy Oregon to “visit family” and burn some money, someone decided it was time to resurrect this very important news story!
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.
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 March, Mrs. Obama travelled to Latin America for a five day trip. I’m counting two days of this as vacation, though, because she took her children and her mother along, performed some sightseeing, and went to the beach.
Obviously, if at any point Michelle Obama sees or comes within walking distance of a national monument, body of water, or enjoyable activity, this automatically turns her trip into vacation. So really, with that criteria, who is to say Michelle Obama is not on vacation all of the time, in Washington, D.C.? If she enjoys planting things in her garden, then that is probably also a vacation thing, too. [White House Dossier]
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garden i see, but how much brush has she cleared?
The true measure of Presidential accomplishment, of course.
WIN
Someone needs a real job (at WHD not the FLOTUS).
It's not like the FLOTUS has much to do. She's not in the Constitution or anything unlike Joe Biden (time) or even Orange Boner.
I'd be more worried if Bammer/Bummer decided to spent most of his summer time playing hoops in the same way W went to his pretend home in Crawford to clear brush to avoid doing his real job.
The White House is one of the most popular tourist destinations in DC, so FLOTUS is pretty much Disneyland 24/7.
The White House is MUCH more popular tourist destination than the International Spy Musuem.
That's because Michelle Obama is more shagadelic, baby…
What about the time she spends in scenic Washington, that must count as a holiday. That takes it up to over 360 days a year!
And, just like Parasailin', I'll bet she's charging a per diem for every lousy day she has to spend in stinky D.C.
She's keeping the cigs out of Barry's hands. Isn't that job enough?
Glad Nancy, Babs and Laura never went anywhere…
Well, in fairness they were white.
Win.
Worse than that…Like so many "Privileged" White folk, they didn't really do anything…
Check out just Nancy's itinerary:
Christening of guided missile cruiser
Taping of Diff’rent Strokes TV episode re antidrug program
Attend “Treasures of the Vatican” exhibit
Man, Willis got so ripped in that episode. I almost dropped my bong laughing.
That always helps. I don't know why FLOTUS has to be so intransigent on this point.
She should be working the Dollar General over on Keller in Manassas Park.
How much does the FLOTUS get paid to put up with this shit? Oh, nothing? Then shut the fuck up, WHD guy.
Shiftless, shiftless, shiftless. Couldn't she at least shine some Teatard shoes?
They think she should be scrubbin' the floors in the WH, I guess.
Yawsuh, mistuh Bush
Even the fried butter sticks taste like dust to me. Like dust.
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.
I am outraged!!!
Panama City, people!!! We're talking Redneck Riviera!
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Exactly. Panama City is a high-end earthly paradise of spectacular beach homes, suffused in an atmosphere made pungently sweet by the smell of smoking wood pulp from the big paper mill in Port St Joe.
Pretty white sand, though. And Seaside is kinda cool, in a "Truman Show" sort of way.
Unless she is out in the white house garden tending the watermelon patch, or washing clothes in a bucket on the banks of the potomac, she's on vacation. The teatards feel strongly that FLOTUS needs to learn her place.
And they know *exactly* where that is.
And, apparently, that place is both being in the White House and not being in the White House, simultaneously.
What, no comparisons of FLOTUS with Aunt Jemima, Mammy, or Hottentot Venus? Fail, Keith Koffler, FAIL!
All his commenters took care of that.
Is that a warning not to wamble over to that site?
"a little more than one out of every nine days…Panama City, Fla., Martha’s Vineyard, Hawaii, South Africa, Latin America, Vail, Colo., and..Corvallis, Ore."
…and yet she never looks jet-lagged!
Black don't crack, baby.
LMAO!! I love the FAKE OUTRAGE on that conservaturd pustule site.
MICHELLE NOBAMA HATES AMERICA, SHE WENT TO MARTHA'S VINEYARD USING MY TAX MONEYS!!!!!!! WAAAAH WAAAAAH!!
How can she go on vacation when, thanks to our stupid tradition of insisting that the First Lady take on a ceremonial position and not work, she doesn't have a job right now?
By lack-of-cognition dissonance.
I won’t believe this story until I see the graph on the Glen Beck blackboard.
He doesn't have a TV show anymore right? RIGHT?
"Obviously, if at any point Michelle Obama sees or comes within walking distance of a national monument, body of water, or enjoyable activity, this automatically turns her trip into vacation. "
Ah shit, from my office here in SF I can see the bay AND the pyramid building. Guess I have to claim my workdays as vacation days now.
I see Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell pavillion from my office; that must make every day a vacation day for me too.
I used to see Ken Cuccinelli's car parked in my parking space. He was a douchenozzle in 2009; he is now a douchnozzle; and when Jeebus raptures his fanny, he will still be a douchnozzle.
Where's my hazard pay?
I can see a pub from my office window. That must mean I'm drunk.
I used to work right across the street from the Pyramid, and also once had an office in the Embarcadero. Compared to now, those days WERE a vacation.
Now I just have a view of a frickin' Mormon temple. Jesus H. Christ (and no pun intended)..
Consider yourself privileged, Miss.
Totally snark-less truth: I work in the best location imaginable. My company has offered to transfer me to other locations (NY, Nova Scotia, and Singapore) but none of them hold a candle to SF.
Spent eight years at Stanford. Best afternoon jogging breaks of any job I ever had.
Are you black? If you answered no, then, no.
Meanwhile stuck Hopey's riding the bus. At least he gets to ride in the front if he wants.
Ooooo, Corvallis!
Is FLOTUS a secret foodie?
Hazelnuts! Bleu Cheese (Rogue Creamery)! Lilliebelle Chocolates! Walla Walla onion rings! Moose Munch…not to mention the WINE!!
I was going to write, "Ooooo, Corvallis," too.
I think she is a not-so-secret foodie.
Sheactually was in Portland and Eugene, too. I think she went to a UO football practice as well as exploring many fabulous things and hanging with her brother (who has a pretty amazing background, too).
Sarah Palin dragging her brood to teatard rallies and eating fried food (that is, when they are not reproducing) = Patriotism!
Michelle Obama taking her daughters to culturally significant or educational places while representing our nation with élan, style and grace: SOCIALIST INDOCTRINATION!!!
Michelle doing the same while eating a hamburger made from grass fed, hormone free, pasture raised beef: HYPOCRISY!!!!!111
I don't remember us keeping track of how many days the Bush ladies "vacationed". Oh yeah, they're not black.
Actually, I do sort of remember us keeping a tally of how much the Bush daughters drank. It was a lot.
They were amateurs, gifted ones but amateurs none the less.
Especially compared to the Palins.
We at wonkette would never ever call drinking a waste of taxpayer dollars.
I don't. Only time I remember it was when they were blatantly falling down drunk in the streets basically advertising their drunkeness.
It's those little things that just escape ya, yaknow?
Panama City–Sounds foreign to me.
Why do they hate america so much?
Panama City is where Juan McCain was born, to his Panamanian mammy…
She can bring that glorious caboose on vacation over in my neck of the woods any time she wants. I'll throw her a friggin parade.
…in bed.
….in my pants
My Snoopy float just came untethered. Oh the humanity!
Can I come?
Let's see. I earn one vacation day for every 80 hours worked. That's, lemme do the math, ONE DAY FOR EVERY NINE WORKED!!!! OMFG!!! *clutches pearls, swoons*
a two day weekend trip to Panama City, Fla.,
I don't know where this guy works, but if it's at a place where they charge you vacation days when you go somewhere on the weekend, that's pretty shitty and he should maybe join a union or something.
If FLOTUS unionizes, they'll just outsource her job to China.
Seriously I thought the same thing. Two day weekend? How dare she take a two day weekend! No wonder all the old white southerners are so spitting mad.
Oil spill or not I'm not certain panhandle Florida is ever safe.
Congress should immediatly pass a law making vacations taken by the first family illegal!!! Oh, I forgot they're on vacation for 5 weeks…..
This sounds like the worst Chris Rock set ever.
"Guys, you know how much ya lady spend on travelin' to Panama City and Spain on the taxpayer dollar? Then she come home and try ta take away y'all cookies?! BITCHES!"
What, does he think Marquesa would do a better job? That guy would be taking a "Gay Beaches of the World Tour" (for research purposes, of course).
It's funny watching these simpletons playing the class warfare card.
"I’m counting two days of this as vacation, though, because she took her children and her mother along, performed some sightseeing, and went to the beach."
OH, I think I get it: See, she brought her children and mom along on the trip, displaying her inherent laziness. Instead, she should have shipped those two brats off to boarding school and the old lady to a nursing home like a good 'family values' mother would.
If you count all the days she's had her children with her, then she's on vacation all year long.
I don't know why I did so, but I checked out the link and read some of the comments. Woo-boy. I don't think the mean IQ there exceeded that of Kortney's cucumber by more than a point or two.
Masochist.
and they all get the vote.
With Shrub it was always easier to count the days he was on the job; which were then divided by the days he was coherant which resulted in the number of days Reagan know what state he was in.
Of course the righties have to drag this twaddle out again and shake it around — it's a desperate attempt to distract people from Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann, both of whom sound like imbeciles escaped from the local halfway house who've been off their medication for a while. Now every time Perry says he's in favor of a constitutional amendment banning Liza Minelli posters, someone has to yell about President Obama using a communist Teleprompter — for the next fifteen months.
HOW MUCH DOES THIS WOMAN GET PAID TO BE THE FIRST LADY!!!!111!!!!!!!11
Yeah!
Has a First Lady ever gave YOU a job???
ELEBENTY!!! BRAZILIAN!!! dates with POTUS.
The FLOTUS vacations are a problem, but not as much as those damned homeless. Every day, I'm trapped here inside, slaving away to cover both of my mortgages, the kids' orthodontia, the wife's bdsm habits, and what do I get? More work and more bills. Meanwhile, the homeless are out there, enjoying the sunshine, working on new cardboard signs, not a fucking care in the world. Life is total balls, dammit!
And tan? They have better tans than I do! Where's the justice?
And most of 'em aren't even ORANGE!
Just how much does BDSM cost these days? I have a feeling it's a recession-proof industry.
Leather goods are expensive. On the plus side, if we ever reverted back to horse and buggy days, some of us would never run short of crops and whips and various other interesting tools.
The More You Know.
When you put it that way …
This reminds me of something I sometimes forget. I remember thinking when Obama became elected how fun it would be watching these wingtards and racists get all bent up. Now, while I am a little surprised at their 110%, 24/7, 365, obstructionist hate machine, the fact remains that they can't stand that a n***ger is in the White House.
So let's enjoy it while it lasts.
Yeah. Good times. wooo hooo. . . . . . .
I know, right? This is so fun. **screaming with eyes god get my out of here**
Yeah…because we'd be much better off if Michelle were spending her time consulting with astrologers instead…
Hey now, those astrologers is what won the cold war.
"Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall while Mars is still in retrograde against the house of Sagittarius!"
Well, the Prez doesn't need his didies changed, and neither do the daughters, so what's a pretty lady to do?
Such an uppity Negress!
And she has servants! Has the whole world turned upside down?
What's next? Saturday AND Sunday off? She gets to spend time with her children? I say we've been taxed enough already!
That's really what it's all about, isn't it? They're all eat up with rage that that black black BLACK woman is sleeping in the White House on those 1200-thread-count percales and eating off that fine, fine china.
And taking Barry's big black cock.
Hey folks… is it really even a vacation if you don't truly have a job… at least she does something for society (kids health, education, etc…) and does it for free… what have you Wingbaggers done with good thoughts… for anyone… ever ?
Don't even invoke those pestilent pusbags. Their sole raison d'etre is inchoate rage that they spray upon anyone in their vicinity in a hostile, gibbering froth. I've just been bashing a few of them into oblivion over at another of my favourite hangouts, and man! I don't know how the Prez does it, but it's all I can do to keep from leaping through the screen and choking the living shit out of these teabaggin' Kochsuckers.
Panama City, Florida? What next? Jetsetting off to Moscow, Idaho? Madrid, New Mexico? Kokomo, Indiana?
Palestine, Texas, obviously because she wants to destroy Israel.
Kalamazoo, maybe?
HAHAHAHAHA. Keith Koffler took the time out to chastise one of his minions for "flaming" another of his minions. Quoth KK(K), "I understand your feelings, but I want to avoid personal attacks here."
Right, Keith. But it's perfectly okay to have your commenters call THE FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES (among other things) "ghetto trash," "ugly," "slouchy," and opine that the American people should "file a class action suit against them" in order to get back all the bling and shit they acquired by "gaming the system" whilst in the White House. JESUS, when did they allow internet access at the state mental asylums?
They call it occupational therapy.
Christ, what? Sheesh. Clearly I do NOT want to go over there and watch them gibber. OTOH, I never could resist danger.
White southern conservatives hate black president. News at 11.
White southern conservatives hate black presidents who aren't House Negro Republicans…
You know, I bet if any House Negro Republicans actually got close to the White House or anything higher than the House, Republicans would suddenly not love them all that much anymore.
I can understand their hating on Tha Man. Barry hurts their little feefees by being all competent and smart and black and IN OFFICE. But jeez, WTF has the beauteous Michelle ever done to get their knickers in such an almighty wad? That's the part I just don't get. They fucking HATE her.
Because admitting that she's beautiful and smart and graceful and stuff would upend their whole worldview that black women can only be sassy Mammies.
There isn't a person on the planet that's immune to her charms except these fucking Teabaggers. You're probably right. They can't let go of that twisted stereotype, even though even their grandfathers didn't live in that day and age.
Attention all peas and carrots:
Deep Fried Butter..
The bar has been set…
The Help goes jetset while the Tea Party starves! Next she will be spitting in the Missus' cup and spreading black agitation.
They're just pissed 'cause she's getting the Barry's Anaconda and they aren't. I'm talking the boyz and the girlz here.
I just know you're right, in that creepy, Republican "I'm not *really* staring at his package" kinda way.
With the irony being that if she were to be shut up in White House all administration they'd be prattling on about her making it her personal palace. It's either Marie Antoinette, or that big-spending, high-flying nigress that can't keep her feet on the ground. Assholes. I thought the less time her black ass was in the White House, the better for them. Silly me.
Nobody got on Laura for being all splayed over the White House furniture like a rag doll in drug-induced stupors the entire Dubya reign.
anytime you step out of the White House, it's a vacation????
Last I checked womenz were meant to be home watching children, which is in itself a full time job. Does she get to enjoy the luxury of business class on these nonstop thrill-rides to visit her brother in *gulp* OREGON?
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