Michelle Obama: “Private” citizen with piles of public perks
Team Obama is playing the “private citizen” card again to create a bubble of political protection around the profligate, policy activist First Lady.
We’ve seen it before.
When conservatives challenged Mrs. O’s caustic 2008 campaign trail statements disparaging America and fear-mongering for votes, her hubby invoked the “civilian” shield. He threatened Republicans to “lay off his wife”, arguing that political spouses should not be subject to public scrutiny because they didn’t choose public life.
Horse-hockey.
Obama’s outspoken bitter half conscientiously and deliberately inserted herself into the public square long before the family moved to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue — whether it was organizing a Woods Fund panel with her husband and Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers, taking a publicly-subsidized government job with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, parlaying her relationship with political mentor Valerie Jarrett into a cushy public job at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she oversaw a patient-dumping scheme that benefited her political cronies, leveraging her hubby’s Senate victory to snag a lucrative seat on the corporate Board of Directors of TreeHouse Foods, Inc. despite having zero experience in the industry, publicly begrudging other Americans’ choices in how they earn their money, using her East Wing power to push Obamacare, or exploiting the bully pulpit to restrict food advertisers’ speech and serve the SEIU’s legislative agenda under the guise of fighting child obesity (more on this in the paperback version of Culture of Corruption).
She wants all of the cake of public and political life — and all the unfettered entitlement to stuff her face in front of us while we sit silently, respecting her “rights” as a “private citizen” to immunity from criticism.
When Michelle Obama stops using her public office to push new Big Government power grabs and redistribute wealth to her cronies (flashback: Chicago Obama-lympics), stoke racial grievances, and meddle in Obama administration personnel decisions that lead to whistleblower firings, I’ll leave her alone.
Until then, if she can’t stand the heat, perhaps the globe-trotting, paparazzi-magnet doyenne should avoid luxury foreign beach resorts in the dog days of August and cool her haute couture heels closer to home.
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Tom Maguire on the jet-setting friends of Michelle O and the grief card:
AN EXPLANATION THAT DOESN’T EXPLAIN MUCH:
Michelle Obama returned to Washington on Sunday from five days on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, taking a mother-daughter trip with Sasha, 9, that stirred controversy. A White House source told me, however, that Mrs. Obama traveled to Spain to help a grieving friend deal with the death of her father.
…Mrs. Obama met two friends in Spain, who flew there on their own. The three women were joined by a total of four daughters. (Some news outlets reported Mrs. Obama was on vacation with 40 friends; that was not true.)
One of the women is a longtime Obama friend, Anita Blanchard, an obstetrician who delivered Sasha and big sister Malia, 12. Her husband is Marty Nesbitt [link], a close Obama friend and treasurer of Obama’s presidential campaign fund.A White House source told me the Mrs. Obama was not able to attend the funeral for Blanchard’s father at the beginning of July. Blanchard, who was taking her daughter on a promised trip to Spain, asked the first lady and Sasha to come to Spain with her. (Malia is at overnight camp.) “She felt it was important as a dear friend to do this,” I was told.
Because nothing says “healing” like an international media circus with dozens of Secret Service agents, policeman and reporters around.
I accept that she could not dictate the venue to her friend. However, Ms. Obama could have politely declined, suggested an alternative site or time, or gone ahead and demonstrated that she both vacations and grieves in ways quite unfamiliar to most of us.
MORE: There is no question Ms. Blanchard and Michelle spend a lot of time together:
LYNN SWEET CHICAGO-CENTRIC FOOTNOTES:
1. Jarrett, the Whitakers, Nesbitt, Blanchard vacationed over the holidays with the Obama family in Hawaii. The same group also traveled to Oslo in December to see Obama pick up the Nobel Peace Prize.The same group was also at the Nov. 24 State Dinner.
That was in addition to celebrating Michelle’s 46th together.
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Anita Blanchard is a doctor at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where Mrs. Obama collected her hefty p.r. salary and engineered the patient-dumping scheme. Her hubby Marty Nesbitt chairs the Chicago Housing Authority, served on the Chicago failed Olympics bid, was a top fundraising chairman for Obama, and worked as an executive at one of subprime queen Penny Pritzker‘s companies.
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Oooooo. Catty, Michelle. But accurate.
They can’t spin their way out of this one. bho and mho are using our money to parade all around the world. Then they have the nerve to tell us how we should live our lives and how we have to pay more for everything so they can spread the wealth around. This is beyond being Marie Antoinette. This is a insult to the entire country.
Our dear mao has got what she and this bho wanted from the get go. We lighter shade skin need and have got to see these two sock it to us to see they get the life style they ‘deserve’! It does not matter who, how many, how your kids and g-kids pay to see this gets done. Some think the shade of the skin says you can do as you darn well please! Well, come Nov. we will see how this works out.
L
Hey, girlfriend….you want to claim you represent the U.S. government on these dubious outings, then you are fair game!
And…as your employer, I demand to see all the receipts…ALL of them. Don’t be passin’ the buck to your g-friends, or claim that this or that was a “gift.” I want to see your paper trail. As a former hospital administrator, I assume you know what that means? An accounting of expenses?
That’s so interesting, because when I lost my father 3 summers ago, my childhood friend did the most sensible thing to help me grieve…he flew me to the most exclusive of Iberian beaches to meet and dine on Andalusian-style chilled gazpacho soup, chargrilled turbot, veal escalopes with mustard, Oriental rice with sauteed mushrooms, a Mallorca-style vegetable ratatouille and sliced fruit with ice cream, accompanied by wines from the northern regions of Rueda and Riojawith with the King of Spain, no less. WOO-HOO!!
BryanNY,
Did you get a ‘to go’ box?
L
If she was a conservative, the world press would flay her alive just because of the carbon footprint of the airplane. They’d say she had no remorse for her actions.
Oh, but since she’s a socialist, it’s a necessary bonding experience with her daughter.
If she doesn’t want her antics to be broadcast around the world, then crawl into a hole in Chicago and STFU.
Where was the mention of Jesse Louis Jackson Jr.? He flew to Spain, too, and stayed in Marbella.
Where was the mention of the encounter between Michelle Obama and Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, Governor of Riyadh and brother of the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia…
And what about another meeting of the first lady with … son of the Interior Minister of Qatar and member of the Royal family Qatari, Abdullah Al-Thani.
Michelle Obama’s trip to Spain was not “Tone Deaf”, it was Pitch-Perfect…
… to the Cordoba Initiative…
ITookTheRedPill,
Is this jackson the same one what has issues in Chicago with blago and this bho?
L
People are already weary of the Obama clan. We don’t have a monarchy, nor do we want one. We are not ready to give up our country to the global ruling elite. No way, no how.
I heartily support the FLOTUS in her foreign endeavors.
If she would only stay overseas…….
Enjoy your perks while you can FLOTUS. They will be revoked in November 2012. Your husband and yourself need not worry about the Unemployed or the Overtaxed. We will be eating cake.
SNORT!
What about using her brother’s basketball scholarship connectinos at Princeton to get herself admitted to Princeton?
With all the many reasons these imposters need to be gone NOW, it’s really hard to imagine them continuing their charade until 2012…..and us having anything recognizable left of America.
Sorry Michelle My Belle, but you are just a low life who happened to hit the big time and don’t seem to know how to handle it without showing your lack of class. Spending money like there is no tomorrow while people are losing their livelihood is not cool.
Your fortunes won’t last long and when it’s all over, you are still be a Walmart-class person in designer clothes.
Or as Palin said “a pig with lipstick”.
1 at camp
2 in Spain
1 in Chicago
Who is minding Bo?
Who is paying?
I am glad she exposed herself for the lovely and classy FLOTUS she is (not).
The dress she wore to the Gulf with the black oil Rorscharch test is my favorite in her haute couture wardrobe. I read the oil blobs as a prediction for the elections of 2010 and 2012 that favor conservative Americans.
Her Royal Majesty Queen Michelle should not be questioned.
Oh dear. This could cause an international incident! Several paparazi were reported to have lost consciousness.
Oh, the HUMANITY!!!
On August 9th, 2010 at 8:01 pm, letget said:
YES!
This woman is so activia challenged.
This does not appear to have been reported in the American media, but the Spanish media reported (translated):
Could we just give Michelle Antoinette to Spain? After all, they backed out on us in Iraq. I could hardly think of a more fitting punishment.
I see she survived the “Whale Wars”!
A little history on Marie Antoinette…
Just the other day I ran over a rabbit. It happened so fast. One minute he was off on the shoulder and the next he was under my car. The poor thing never knew what happened. It was all such a shock.
I’m having a hard time working through this now that I see how fragile life really is. A nice vacation in Europe might help me through these dark days. Do you think MO will send me a check?
The newly wealthy are just so darn… tacky.
The Obamas, like most political democrat elite families (Kennedys, Clintons) cannot stand criticism. They always are right and have to be right so their lives have meanings. That is a dream on down the liberal food chain to zit-faced high school and collegiate bloggers.
Mrs. Malkin is right—if Michelle Obama doesn’t want to be criticized, she ought to stay out of the limelight.
Of course, if she were a republican, that would not stop people from trying to spy on here like all those balding, post menopausal journalists who probably bookmarked Rudy Guliani’s daughters facebook page.
I repeat, Michelle Obama’s trip was not about what most people think.
It was about her endorsing and actively participating in the “Cordoba Initiative”.
Michelle Obama’s trip to Spain was not “Tone Deaf”,
it was Pitch-Perfect…
… to the “Cordoba Initiative”.
They’ve made their goal clear – they seek, within the next 10 years, a world like that of Cordoba circa 1210 A.D. … an Islamic caliphate.
“Let them eat cake” referred to the burned bits of food on the bottom of the oven that one needs to scrape off, not actual cake.
Well at least the current First Lady hasn’t murdered anyone like the previous First Lady.
And unlike Ted Kennedy, the previous First Lady stayed at the scene of the accident, apologized to the family and oh by the way: She wasn’t First Lady when that happened.
But since you can’t come up with an example of Mrs. Bush going on a lavish vacation on taxpayer expense like Mrs. Obama did, go ahead and grasp at whatever straws you need to make your argument.
Just wondering les, is anyone who is involved in an accident where someone is killed a murderer, or just Laura Bush?
If that is the best defense you can come up with for the grifters in the White House, you lose bigtime.
Personally, I don’t mind when the Obummers leave the country.
I just don’t like it when they come back.
Something stupid.
Perhaps. But, because of his support for tax-payer-funded-abortion, her husband is responsible for the deaths of thousands of babies.
Ah, the mark of a marxist; stir up class envy continually, and buy gold taps for the toilet. Without even batting an eye.
And sometimes les is not more.
A regular brat pack.
Oh silly me. I thought les was talking about Hillary Clinton and Vince Foster.
Good one.
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These two usurpers both need a good dose of Activia, along with all the entire administration.
Congressional Activa is Nov. 2nd.
I’ve been trying to figure out what the Marxists in power remind me of…they are unprepared for winning the lottery. You know some kind of event that escalates them to a higher life style. Barry reminds me of a 15 yr. old that won a student body election, The Class King.
More recently with Mrs. Odopo’s acts like she won the PowerBall lottery and hasn’t realized the well will dry up…but having plenty for now she keeps up the spending. This woman is as dangerous as her hubby.
On August 10th, 2010 at 9:53 am, RedDog said: Oh silly me. I thought les was talking about Hillary Clinton and Vince Foster.
‘zacly… nicely put Red Dog…
Les, you are a degenerate dem.
Would referring to the First Lady as “private citizen” SpudButt be inappropriate at this time?
les: now now-the gun lost it’s self; Miss Hillary was so traumatized by something—
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Let your sidearm be like Master Card:
Don’t Leave home without it.
“degenerate dem”
Is that an oxymoron?
Or some other kind of moron?
ot, but breaking news: Stevens in plane crash?
I know that many of you will be very surprised to see me write these words, but Barack Hussein Obama is eligible to be President…
She still lives like she’s stickin it to the man.
News Alert Ms.O….
ITTRP–eligible in Kenya?
Yes.
Barack Hussein Obama is Constitutionally eligible to be President…
…in Kenya
So they won’t give there children Christmas or birthday presents, as it would spoil them. But they take them on trips to exotic places to meet kings and Queens. Yeah just like all regular kids get to do.
Brats? I didn’t see brats on the menu.
And, speaking of Kenya’s new Constitution, as well as les’ comment above, did you know that one of Kenya’s most prominent Constitutional attorneys died under very mysterious circumstances?
Professor H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo, a prolific thinker and author, and guru in property theory and law in Kenya, met an untimely demise on April
24, 2009.
Just coincidence, I’m sure… There couldn’t have been anything in the new Constitution that he opposed which would have made his death a prerequisite to getting the new Constitution passed.
On August 10th, 2010 at 5:34 am, les said:
I know you want to talk about Hillary Clinton and Vince Foster, but let’s talk about the murder of Barry’s gay “close friend”…
You have called Laura Bush a murderer.
All politicians (and their families) feed like hogs at the public trough. It has always been thus. Politics is synonymous with cronyism. Our entire Congress, and of course the Pres and his other half, fashion themselves American Royalty. This is one reason why Congress is at 11% approval, and Barackchelle Obama are heading downwards as well in the ratings.
At least Laura Bush didn’t murder anyone like the former senator from Massachusetts.
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The more Comrade Obama (PBUH), his beauteous Queen Michelle, and their Royal Court of socialists / marxists are gone–the better I like it!
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They are doing a lot less economic damage to the U.S.A. while they are in Spain–or elsewhere.
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John Bibb
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les said:
I bet you received a Malibu Barbie vice the Ballerina Barbie you really, really wanted for Christmas.
As a co-worker said, with these people they’re distracting you with one hand while something else is going on with the other. I’ve also read the Spanish media reports–where you’ll get the truth–about Madame O privately meeting with Saudi officials. Given that all of the Obama cronies were there along with the hush-hush tete-a-tete, they were not only conspicuously acting like pre-revolution French aristocrats or lottery winners, they were pretty much up to no good.
Red Pill, I saw a little bit about this Kenyan constitution on Glenn Beck’s show last night. That went under the state media’s radar of course.
I tell you one thing I sure miss Laura Bush.
1. Citizen Cellulite?
2. If she’s a private citizen, why didn’t she fly commercial like the Prime Minister of England?
3. Ever hear of “Space A?” Torrejon, Spain, has a United State Air Force Base. I’m sure Citizen Cellulite could have caught a hop.
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. We are the civilian national security force! Bitterly clinging to my Bible and guns, and loading magazines. The resistance is here; the resistance is now. RESIST!!!!!!!!!
ECS
I went to the store hoping that when I came back les would be here defending his comment about Laura Bush being a murderer. It confirmed my deep belief that liberals are both cowards and stupid.
Tiger, less of les would work for me.
Honestly, that’s the first post I can remember reading from les. But definitely, less of les is a good thing.
TigerLady,
les has been here before, and has been just as tasteless in regard to someone’s death.
Doesn’t look like I’ve missed much.
On August 10th, 2010 at 12:25 pm, greenfairie said:
We need to take this very seriously.
This trip was a secret sumit.
It was the Obama administration endorsing and actively participating in the “Cordoba Initiative”.
Their goal is clear – they seek, within the next 10 years, a worldwide Muslim nation.
What would someone do if they wanted to publicly say that they intend to make the United States the 58th member state of the OIC, but do it in a “coded” manner, such that Muslims “in the know” would get the message, but most Dhimmis would not?
I think it would go something like this…
les,
What about the death of Obama’s adopted sister?
Let me guess… you didn’t know that Obama had an adopted older sister?
The MSM never told you about her.
On February 16, 2010, “An American Expat in Southeast Asia” shared some of what was being shared in the Indonesian media. His comments included:
Ten days later she was dead.
Follow the link above and the link below to learn more about
HOLIYAH SOETORO SABAH, “LIA”
Oh, you meant Michelle Obama, not Chelsea Clinton….
Mickey O did not go to Spain to console an old friend IMO. I’ve tried to find out more about the Saudis and Qatar people who were there at the same time. This is just toooo convenient. I’m going to follow this….especially the Cordoba Initiative. She is up to no good for America I betcha.
LES: You owe everyone here an apology for the incredibly stupid comment you made about Laura Bush. If you can’t do that, apologize for being an ignorant, Kool-Aid drinking, butt kissing Obama-loving jerk.
On August 10th, 2010 at 7:25 am, BOB said:
Just wondering les, is anyone who is involved in an accident where someone is killed a murderer, or just Laura Bush?
Bob – Call it manslaughter, murder or vehicular homicide, but at the end of the day it’s all the same, someone lost their life as a result of Laura Bush’s actions. I can only imagine if Michelle Obama had killed someone in an accident. You, Ms. Malkin and the others here would be calling her a murderer or worse and calling for her public execution. I actually like Ms. Bush and pity her for having to spend her life with the village idiot, but facts are facts, she did kill someone.
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HI LES–#75.
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I’ll see your “village idiot” and raise you a Comrade Obama (PBUH)! Real Dumb is in charge now.
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The damage this socialist / marxist is doing to our economy–and our pocketbooks–is making Jimmy Carter look like Ronald Reagan. It will be clearer to Les when he does his 2011 taxes and notices that he has 10 percent less to spend.
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John Bibb
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Actually, it’s not the same at any part of the day.
Would you like me to outline the differences?
Hey les,
The current First Lady met with Marxists and Islamists in Spain.
It’s the very reason she went there.
Meanwhile, the former First Lady is in the U.S.A., meeting troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
A majority of Americans would rather have George W. and Laura represent us than Barry and Michelle.
The Bushes love this country.
The Obamas want to bring this country to its knees.