Just weeks after 17-day Hawaii vacation Michelle hits the slopes with daughters on Aspen ski trip
Hannah Roberts
The Daily Mail [UK]
20 February 2013
With the economy on its knees, many American families have had to forgo their annual holiday just to make ends meet.
But barely a month after returning from a luxury Christmas break in Hawaii Michelle Obama is on holiday again – this time at the exclusive Colorado ski resort of Aspen. It’s her 16th holiday since her husband took office.
The First Lady Michelle Obama is spending Presidents’ Day weekend in the upmarket resort with her daughters, Sasha and Malia, and was seen hitting the slopes – albeit apprehensively – on Saturday…
…Once again while Mr Obama returned to the White House after a fundraising trip to West Coast, the rest of his family headed to Colorado – rather than visiting slopes closer to Washington in Virginia or Pennsylvania.
Their trip came despite previous criticisms over the family’s extravagant vacations, including a trip last summer to Martha’s Vineyeard where the family rented a farm estate for around $50,000 a week.
Mrs Obama also raised eyebrows when for the second year in a row she left earlier than her husband for their annual Christmas holiday in Hawaii, incurring additional expenses of an estimated $100,000. The 17 day holiday is estimated to have cost taxpayers $4milloion.
All total, with Christmas and summer holidays included, the Colorado jaunt is trip number 16 for Mrs. Obama since the family moved to the White House…
Read the complete article at The Daily Mail. Included is a side-bar, “First Lady of Luxury Travel: The Costly Trips.” Read it.
Related: $1,000/hour: Obama books world’s top golf pro for vacation.
Economic growth is in the negative, unemployment is on the rise, Walmart’s forecasting a disastrous February for retail sales, poverty’s up, gas prices are up, the cost of health care premiums are up, middle class incomes are falling, consumer confidence is at a two year low, our deficit is unsustainable, and Barack Obama has just signed up for private golf lessons with two of the top teachers in the country.
You might want to go back and read that last part again….
And read the whole thing.
Update: F-16s scrambled after Cessna interrupts president’s golf weekend
The Associated Press is reporting that a Cessna 152 entered restricted airspace over the resort where President Obama is golfing today, triggering the scramble of two F-16 fighter jets. CBS News’ Mark Knoller notes that the incident isn’t all that uncommon…
