Oh, Those Uppity Obamas! Vacation Edition

How dare that Michelle Obama leave DC in August to go on vacation with her friends? Who does she think she is, and why can’t she stay in Washington where we don’t want her? Those Obamas, leaving our nation’s capitol and taking trips as if they were VIPs or something!

Sure, we didn’t mind when W took Air Force One to Crawford, Texas, at taxpayer expense, 77 times, but he was going to a flat dry hell-hole nobody envied him for! Besides, he was following Saint Ronnie’s example; St. Ronnie spent a year on vacation over his first six and a half in office! And took Air Force One to his ranch in California, but then, he was a real president who deserved to.

Thankfully, We The PeeeePull are watching the IndoKenyan Uslurper with the help of that Patriot reference work, the Daily Mail, which reports:

It is unclear whether the police presence was paid for by Spain - or whether a nasty invoice could be landing in the lap of the American taxpayer.
The exact cost of the trip is unclear as Mrs Obama, 46, and her friends are footing personal expenses themselves - which is just as well.

Doesn’t the Daily Mail know such stylistic tricks as not repeating important words in adjacent sentences? Why do they not resort to a thesaurus for such synonyms to “unclear” as “hazy,” “misty,” or “unbeknownst to our lazy asses?” At least the Mail has some solid information gleaned from another paper:

Spanish newspaper El Mundo detailed the Obamas’ dinner on their first night in Spain. The tapas menu for the delegation included sea bass tartare, strawberry gazpacho and sardines, followed by a main course of lobster with seaweed risotto.

And helpfully provides the jaw-dropping calculations for Michelle and Sasha’s outrageous bacchanal:

The meal cost about £40 a head, according to El Mundo - which means a bill topping £1,600 would have hit the table if all 40 friends dined together.
Stretched over five nights that’s £8,000 for dinner alone.

Forty friends times five nights?
That Michelle and her TWO HUNDRED FRIEND ENTOURAGE!!!
Having demonstrated its powers of analysis, the Mail goes back to what it does best, good solid reporting:

Mrs Obama’s personal staff, of which there are an unknown amount and who might cost considerably more per day, also have to be taken into account.

But buck up, Wee The PeePull; even though those Obamas think they’re pretty hot stuff, and are all so arrogant and such with using our money for their “security details” and whatnot, Wee shall take Our Country back, and put Our PeePull back in the White House where they belong! (Or the Summer White House. God, Washington’s unliveable this time of year!)

Posted by Mrs. Polly on 08/07/10 at 12:41 PM • Permalink

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The Freeper flap over Michelle’s audacity in taking a vacation with Sasha has been absolutely pathetic. At least they acknowledge that the Obamas and their friends are paying their own expenses. And, from what I can tell, they seem to think that there is no security expense associated with the family when they’re in the U.S. So it’s just because they went to Spain that they’re forcing the taxpayer to shoulder these extravagant costs!

Comment by marindenver on 08/07/10 at 01:46 PM

Oh Christ. The Mail. Every edition comes with a free set of pearls and instructions on how to clutch them. But they’re as accurate as anything else in it, so the instance of self-strangulation among its readership is astronomical.

I can’t be doing with even ripping the piss out of the shitty, craven, worthless rag. Luckily, other people over here do a fine job of that (though this latest instalment’s yet to blip on the radar).

Perhaps the pithiest effort can be found here.

Save yourself the trouble of clicking into its drivel and giving them hits, as this is guaranteed to fill any Mail-shaped gap in your life.

You’re welcome.

Comment by YAFB on 08/07/10 at 01:49 PM

The Mail’s fish-wrapping utility is self-evident, but they’re a handy reference for a considerable part of Wingnuttia.

And why oh why do taxpayers have to shell out for so much more for security for the Obamas than the Bushes, the Reagans, the Clintons, the Carters? What a puzzlement.

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 08/07/10 at 02:03 PM

And, Brit, I do thank you! I hope there really are two of him.

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 08/07/10 at 02:08 PM

No worries. I think Dan and Dan may be making an appearance on these pages at some future date!

Comment by YAFB on 08/07/10 at 02:19 PM

That Dan and Dan clip was splendid. Thank you!

Comment by Oblomova on 08/07/10 at 02:27 PM

I’m ashamed to admit that, like most White Americans, I don’t believe an attractive Black woman has any business enjoying the civilized pleasures of Europe unless she jazz-dances topless in a banana skirt on a mirrored stage-floor. Unless, of course, she’s a Black Commie like Paul Robeson, in which case the custom is to tolerate this shit for a few years, then revoke her international travel privileges and haul her up before HUAC. Pick one—the banana skirt or the 10,000-page FBI file—but don’t try to pretend this is acceptable behavior just because you’re America’s First Lady and the wife of The Most Powerful Man on the Planet.

Oh, and fuck Europe anyway, even though—for any other Administration —this would be a really smart time for the Charismatic Presidential Spouse to generate some upbeat, soft-power buzz amongst our teetering business partners in the Old Country.

And while I agree with Roger L. “The Splat in the Hat” Simon that this is the most tone-deaf and arrogant abuse of political power since Barack Obama unilaterally presumed to win more Electoral Votes than John McCain, I do not share his belief that this is evidence of Obama’s intention to be a one-term President. Rather, I take it as a clear signal to Creative-Class Liberal Elites like myself that it’s time to relax, kick back and start buying the good Scotch again—because Obama is obviously confident that he’s established the legal foundation and secured the back-room blessings required to retain the Presidency forever.

And frankly, in the final analysis, if that means overcoming my queasiness at seeing Powerful Black People slurp gazpacho out of the nice China, I can learn to be tolerant. Oopa!

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 08/07/10 at 02:56 PM

Well, dang, when do we hear from Cokie about “exotic” locales and such when these uppity Obamas could have gone to Myrtle Beach, sorry, Hawaii rather than Spain where they speak Taco? I mean they could have gone to Florida, or Walmart, to hear a foreign languidge…

Please, just kill me now.

Comment by serge on 08/07/10 at 03:45 PM

I believe these uppity black folks in the White House should set a record for taking extravagant holidays far and wide. The Chimp from the last administration was on vacation when the 9/11 warnings were delivered to him and he has generally set more holiday records than most. He even tried to give up golf for the troops but even being a decider didn’t help him in that quest and he had to give in to that dastardly magnificent game. And since we have only white-person-in-White-House-holiday-records to compare to, it’s like comparing apples to oranges. Whatever off time records the current black folks put in, they should be used as a benchmark for the next black folks in White House to compare with. That means that Michelle essentially has a tax-payer funded no-limit Diamond Master Card which she should use to shape world economy in far away vacation spots. After all USA is #1 and this way we can teach those genderless Europeans the ways of American Capitalism while taking a sunbath besides the pool.