The Presidential Planner: Michelle to Hawaii; Barack Works With Congress

Yes, the president and family should have vacations. But is the country hurting economically? Could the first family take a less expensive (for the tax payer) vacation? IMHO, giving the govt’s debt and the country’s economic woes, the president could be a leader and set a more frugal example.

That would be a falsehood. Obama dictates to the Congress, and demands they do a specific thing, or he will NOT cooperate and allow it to pass. Obama is THE problem, in Congress.

Wow. A vacation where Michelle actually stays in the United States and is not recklessly spending obscene amounts of money over seas.

Pretty sure she’ll spend obscene amounts of money anyway as that is what she does best.

Well, it’s apparent Obama’s Executive Order 13589 — Promoting Efficient Government Spending doesn’t apply in this case. The Secret Sevice guys probably love it however.

Attached to the government spending is a provision to save the light bulb, let’s
hope it survives. Once again no mention of Obama Signing into law the defense
spending bill.Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth states this
bill codifies indefinite detention without trial into U.S. law. Also expands the Military role
in holding suspects and does enormous damage to the rule of law. According to Roth,
Obama goes down in HISTORY as the President who ENSHRINED indefinite detention into law. I guess this and having half the country living in poverty
according to U.S. Census, and the facts we now have the most people on food
stamps, and the highest yearly average gas prices, shows that his record is just
what democratic voters are looking for.

Michelle Obama’s 8th vacation this year alone – over $14 million of taxpayers money spent on this overbearing bore’s vacations.

I ain’t staying here, I don’t needs no pitlin taxpayer payroll thing… I gets all the taxpayer money i want.. now excuse me while we cook and pig and eats it

*note: the author is a comedian and can say anything he wants, at least that what jon stewart and bill mahers says

I wonder if Obama will join all his friends next January, Ayers,Rezko,Blago and Rev. Wright for the good ole days or will he move to Hawaii?

So glad her majesty has AF2 at her disposal. Wouldn’t want to delay the 17 day vacay for her and the little princesses.

No worries, Barry will join them on AF1 tomorrow.

So much for stopping global warm…uh, I mean climate change.

“If you think there are alot of people on food stamps now just wait till you see what happens if the Republicans force spending cuts and austerity measures on the public and shrink the economy even further…except if they just cut out food stamps. Judging by the favorable reaction Newt gets when he slanders the unemployed and the poor for example, it might happen”

Yeah, without food stamps there’d be mass starvation!

the air force 2 or whatever they call it cost about $85,000 to run per hour. Hawaii is a 15 hour flight both ways YOU DO THE MATH

–the air force 2 or whatever they call it cost about $85,000 to run per hour. Hawaii is a 15 hour flight both ways YOU DO THE MATH–

Soon that plane will be solar powered. Trust me.

If you really want to go after banks…and we should, you’re better off registering as a Democrat and working to get Democrats elected who will attempt it.”

I laughed so hard I spit my 5th martini of my 6 martini lunch right on John Corzine!

…and of course the biggest question,,, will he try yet another new shave ice flavor combo??

“If you really want to go after banks…and we should, you’re better off registering as a Democrat and working to get Democrats elected who will attempt it.”

Can you cite a scintilla of evidence to support that ludicrous claim?

Deanbob – like so many this holiday season, they are going home for the holidays. She is originally from Illinois but he is from Hawaii and this is apparently their tradition – escape the cold Illinois winters with warm Hawaii. He has taken far fewer vacations and less time off than a certain prior Republican President who left this country in a shambles.

Posted by: pksk531 | December 16, 2011, 9:18 am 9:18 am

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Of course Foggy, nearly all of the marginal regulations which have been imposed on Wall st. have been championed by Democrats, and nearly all of the efforts to weaken them have been led by Republicans. It’s happening right now. That’s why we have a regulatory law called Dodd-Frank and not Boehner-McConnell. Can you cite any evidence to the contrary? What regulations of Wall St have the Republicans passed since they gained control of the House? Now that’s a funny one.

Numbers; If Obama and his wife were not spending taxpayer money, your comment 11:16 AM about spending to stimulate the economy would be less disingenous. As it stands, it’s just spin.

Posted by: newcountryman | December 16, 2011, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm

You would be smarter to research the fact the Obamas will be spending lots of their own money to take this Christmas holiday on top of the usual security issues that come paid for with the position of President of the United States.

I’m tying to remember the right wingers whining about the record number of vacations and vacation days Bush took. Guess they weren’t paying attention then. Or they’re hypocrites flogging excuses for their hypocrisy.

Numbers; If Obama and his wife were not spending taxpayer money, your comment 11:16 AM about spending to stimulate the economy would be less disingenous. As it stands, it’s just spin.

Posted by: newcountryman | December 16, 2011, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm

Your argument was very weak, which I just proved. (the Obamas will be spending lots of their own money to take this Christmas holiday on top of the usual security issues that come paid for with the position of President of the United States.)

I don’t remember the Republican right picking apart Laura Bush’s travel without her husband on every trip ever taken under the sun. What you’re dealing out is hypocrisy – a double standard – a mainstay of the Republican right.

Don, More like the Obama’s are dealing in hypocrisy. He’s the one who was preaching “change”.

Posted by: newcountryman | December 16, 2011, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm

He has not only preached change, he’s delivered. He’s taken 60% less vacation days than Bush did during the same period of his presidency. Too bad you can’t recognize that through your hypocritical haze.

Bush went back to his ranch in Texas.

Posted by: newcountryman | December 16, 2011, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm

Bush flew back and forth to his ranch for vacation days 77 times during his presidency – 77 4-hour round trips to his home with all the accompanying costs. How does that compare to two extra flights for the Obamas? Besides the 77 documented trips by Bush, how many times did Bush’s wife fly home without him?

Bush had already taken 4 MONTHS MORE (180 days vs 60 days) holiday time than Obama in the same time period.

Did you understand that? Bush had taken FOUR MONTHS MORE vacation time than Obama in the same time frame.

You’re whining is misdirected, partisan, and a touch late.

Big whoop! How many hours does it take to fly from the WH to Hawaii vs from the WH to Texas? What is the difference in cost?

Posted by: ceeLeelee | December 16, 2011, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm

Oh the dimness of the wit. SEVENTY-SEVEN trips back and forth to the ranch. TEN trips a year. You figure it out.

Bush having taken FOUR FULL MONTHS MORE holidays than Obama at this point. Four full months MORE holidays!

The hypocrisy of the Republican right would be a joke if it wasn’t so completely corrupt and corrosive.

“Barack Works With Congress”….Are they all at the golf course???

Yeah, well, you should have whined about that when Bush was in office. I didn’t vote for him and I have no heartburn with him, either. In retrospect, he was a far better commander-in-chief than obama could ever hope to be. Your whining about Bush does not excuse the absymal failure that is obama. Now, get back to twinkling or find somethng useful to do besides bellyaching about President Bush.

Works out to be something like 50 vacation days/year. What an absolute slacker I apparently was!

Posted by: newcountryman | December 16, 2011, 6:32 pm 6:32 pm

Again, the shallowness of the research is pathetic.

Start with August 2001. Bush took the entire month off, arriving back in Washington just in time to watch the planes hit the twin towers. And it didn’t get any better – within the first three years he had taken 6 full months of vacation time, not including weekends.

Now flying on the taxpayers dime to get home for the weekend (like Bush did many multiple times) is a totally different matter. It’s as if you wingers have just woken up from a coma, and have no sense of history or proportion. Get with it!

I guess Obama’s is just too darn busy campaigning to go home….also on our dime.

I guess Obama’s is just too darn busy campaigning to go home….also on our dime.

Posted by: newcountryman | December 16, 2011, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm

Seriously, did you just wake up from a coma? Are you unaware of Bush traveling home 10 times per year, every year for 8 years on your dime? Are you not aware of how much a huge improvement Obama has made on that?

Get some historical perspective, it will make your posts far more worthwhile.

I don’t see how anyone in their right minds can justify BarryO and Michelles extravagant taxpayer spending. You can’t spin it anyway but negativelly. He is the first president to reside over a downgrade in our credit rating. Secondly, Bush went home to Crawford, why doesn’t Barry go home to Chicago. Thirdly, the first lady needs to wait and fly in one plane with the children and her “husband” instead of charging the extra flight to the taxpayers and this has been going on ever since he got in office. Fourthly, Their vacation costs are well over 14 million dollars now and our country is broke and getting broker. How is that for hope and change? Obama may be able to come up with a billion dollar campaign chest but it will not be gotten righteously primarily because he has been charging the taxpayers for all of his campaign trips instead of using his campaign funds to do it. Barry and MIchelle remind me of a couple that think they won the lottery and just can’t spend it fast enough. Their behaviour is classless and clueless and they don’t even realize it. When they went on their trip to Ireland and England it was written in the British newspapers that they had a bigger entourage than Queen Elizabeth. These two believe they are American royalty: King and Queen. Summed up: They are an embarrassment to us and to our country. We currently have one out of every four children on foodstamps so to even mention that the repulbicans will make it worse is disengenuious. We had nowhere near that number under Bush or other presidents and we certainly did not have 20 million people out of work and on unemployment. If anyone votes for this president based on what they can get welfare, foodstamp, unemployment wise they deserve what will happen to them and their families because this president needs four more years not to get the country better but to finish his job of destroying it. I for one cannot even fathom what our country will be like for another four years under this empty suit. He is the worst president in the history of our country and the majority of Americans realize it now no matter how the liberal media try to spin it.