In case you thought the “non-partisan media company” known as Politico was an objective news organization, playing politics right down the middle (as they promised they would when they started), think again. From today’s sob story about how the media is being mean to Michelle Obama:
It’s been a long time since Michelle Obama has been attacked like this.
The first lady’s lavish Spanish vacation was the lead story in the Drudge Report for days. Political columnists and commentators lampooned her as a 21st-century Marie Antoinette, unwinding at a luxury resort while unemployment lingers near 10 percent and President Barack Obama’s poll numbers fade. And headlines set off political sirens: Scandal! Tone deaf! Elitist!
Tone deaf? Elitist?
Yet still, those mean conservatives just won’t let the poor woman have her umpteenth vacation before the First Family, you know, goes on vacation again:
The attacks from right-wing commentators — and a handful of left-leaning pundits — produced the first harsh critiques against the first lady since the heated days of the 2008 presidential campaign when she told an audience that America had finally improved: “For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country.”
The outrage from conservatives could foreshadow how Republicans might treat the first lady when she sets out to stump for Democrats during midterm elections. When Obama returns to the campaign trail, it could expose her to attacks by Republicans and jeopardize her new, more polished image as a modern woman balancing a career, children and marriage to the leader of the free world.
Ya think?
Yet at the same time, the GOP must walk a fine line in dealings with Obama, whose popularity rating is at 50 percent and whom many working women admire. It’s a risky move, Republican strategists say, to resurrect the fist-bumping, militant caricature of Michelle Obama that at times overshadowed her husband’s presidential race campaign.
Which Republican “fist-bumping, militant caricature” could Politico possibly be thinking of? This one, from that hateful, radical wingnut publication, the New Yorker?
If this is the level of fact-challenged political analysis Politico now deals in, Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei might as well go back to the Washington Post, if the kiddie corps now running the place will have them back.
Obama’s Spanish holiday triggered a feeding frenzy among conservatives. The New York Daily News’s Andrea Tantaros claimed “Michelle Obama is a modern-day Marie Antoinette on a glitzy Spanish vacation.” Fox News’s Greta Van Sustern suggested the first lady was “trying to torpedo” her husband with a “fancy foreign vacation.” Rush Limbaugh ridiculed her as “Mooch-elle.”
Even Joe Scarborough, the former GOP congressman-turned-MSNBC-television-host, said the controversy was “part of a bigger narrative … about Michelle Obama.”
John Feehery, a Republican strategist, told POLITICO the first lady brought it on herself.
“I do think that taking very expensive trips without [the president] is not particularly good judgment, especially when the country is kinda going broke,” Feehery said. “That’s fair fodder.”
Somehow, you know — you just know — that Politico doesn’t believe that at all.
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Once again, they (msm) would've SHAT on GW and Laura Bush if the situation were reversed.
Obama's popularity is at 50%? Where? In Detroit? Kenya? The West wing of the White House? Oh I know, in the Muslim community. Michelle is not a very likable woman – that's all there is to it. She is not classy or particularly intelligent. Not many accomplishments to her credit. Her fashion sense defies the imagination. I guess she forgot when her husband's birthday is. Maybe he doesn't know, either. No, he has the DATE right.
Who ares WHAT 'The Politico' says?! If Ms. Obama behaves in an arrogant, elitist way on the taxpayers' dimes…..ti should be pointed out.
The last time i looked, Michelle Obama had NOT won the 'Immunity Challenge' , so she'll be judged on her behavior here and abroad…for better or for worse.
She's in control of her behavior, so she will be held accountable.
Both Michelle and BHO need to woman-up and man-up, NOW.
The DNC knows that Obama cannot be a positive on the campaign trail, which means that they HAVE to keep Michelle clean, and able to campaign. She's their almost 'last' go-to person in the White House. Can't go to Reid. Or Pelosi. Or Barack. Or Rahm. Or any other waste of skin in that cesspool. The Democrats will use their Propoganda Machine/complicit MSM to keep her as their lightning rod.
It isn't going to work.
Everybody finally sees these manipulators for what they are: Elitist Radical's, damaging our Country.
Poor Moochelle!
Moochelle … ma belle …
Who cares what Politico says?
Yes people, lay off of poor Queen Moochelle Antoinette. You have hurt her feelings … now she has only a few close friends to comfort her:
26 obsequious personal servants waiting on her hand-and-foot at an annual cost to taxpayers of over $2 million. http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/...
For the first time in my adult life, I can't wait to vote you out of my country.
Thanks, Politico, for keeping the issue alive. I was afraid that it would fade away a little too soon . . .
I can't wait until Nov 2012 when we can send the Obamas on a loooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggggggg vacation. Also can't wait until Nov 2010 to make sure they want to go on lots more vacations…
What a national embarrassment these people are. The 0bammunists hit Spain with the "race card" last year because last year Spain questioned two black U.S. Government employees.
But right before Michelle visited Spain, the entire country was no longer "racist".
It's a miracle. Perhaps the 0bamas really can save the planet.
Politico is nothing but a public form of JournoList – a clique of smug, arrogant elitist idiots like Ben Smith, VanDeHei, Albritton, & Andy Barr.
BOYCOTT Politico & its advertisers. If I'm linked by Drudge I still end up there occasionally, and I'm always stunned by the number of conservatives/libertarians who comment there – some stories have 600+ comments. Don't give them the traffic!
Who's an advertiser – how about Netflix? Who heads Netflix? An Obamaton – Reed Hastings, who donated $28,500 each to the Obama Victory Fund & the DSSC in 2008 – plus tons of $$$ to other Dem causes. http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributi....
We need to get serious, folks. There is no persuading Kool-Aid drunkards to be reasonable & fair. We need to put them out of business. Look what they did to Beck's advertisers – scared the big companies to death.
Warns us not to attack her? Don't have to, she's doing a fine job on her own.
Before Michelle O jumps into everybody's refrigerator with her Gucci shoes, where is the Surgeon General on the obesity issue? But ,of course, the SGOTUS is obese and they hide her away. If Michelle can't get the SGOTUS and Oprah to drop the pounds she should shut up.
Amongst his "friends"!
If Michelle Obama does not like the heat she gets for her actions then she needs to stay away from the public eye and not speak up. If she stumps for Democrats in November then her actions are fair game to be critisized and exploited. And the Candidate that has her stump for them takes the risk of getting the fallout.
The guy in the suit jacket is lookin at the floor boards under Moochelle, he looks kinda worried.
Michelle Obama has proved time and again that she is not fit to be First Lady of the US. She has no class, she has no sense of style, she is a liar, she has no taste, she has no sense common or otherwise; and she is downright mean.
Politico is owned by the Washington Port. It's simply a satellite masquerading as independent blog on the web. Enough said.
Michelle doesn't get a pass, there is nothing virtuous or warm about her. She was and is a shrill woman who the press sanitizes. She's the perfect Marie Antoinette partnered to the perfect media constructed and anointed Empty Suit. There is nothing warm and gracious about either of them. They are a unit of phoniness. Perfect for the dumbed down Oprah, Upper West Side and Hollywood crowd.
Someone needs to tell her she looks dumpy and unnatural in everything she wears.
Politico is notorious for closing comments when things don't go their way. I witnessed it last week first hand.
Shhhhhhhh…..
……you'll wake the sparkly unicorn.
shhhhhh…..
Like the JournOlist, there's a big O in PoliticO
If Dubya was globe trotting like these tone deaf dipsh*ts, the cacophony would be thunderous.
Sorry libbies, Crawford, TX. does not qualify.
Not so sure about that, either.
Oh gawd…..is it that far away?
Seriously, I can't listen to his sing-song community agitator tome anymore.
I have to turn the tube off.
You're right.
I end up there on occasion and have also been dumbfounded by the con/libt commentary ripping them a new one.
Libs do like to be submissive, though.
They're both the personification of crass behavior.
Even the Euroweenies have noticed.
Suddenly Politico and Time are concerned about the Repub's success. What a coincidence!
She makes it soooooo easy for them. Plus – she is a blatant America hater and straight up racist!
And to think, we the taxpayers have to support these Obumma's the rest of their lives. Maybe they'll be tried for treason and lose their benefits package and hopefully go to jail! 26 personal servants……My god! that's a lot of ass wiping
All his friends have ended up under the bus. Loyalty is not a strong trait among Marxists, apparently. You know, when the older folks – I'm getting close, myself – just smile when Obama's shortcomings are mentioned as if to reflect that there have been many presidents without much popular support and that he is nothing new or special. I say, "You are so wrong!" He is a very bad man. The debt alone is enough to brand him a traitor to America. But the article was about his wife. She's just a spoiled child.
Mooseshelle is Obama's safety valve in case the " I was born in Hawaii" trick was not sucessfully hidden from the public. The down side is he had to marry that thing and the constant stench of industrial strength hair straightener is no party either.
Since you don't believe in HEAVEN AND/OR HELL you won't take this personally "Politico"……GO TO HELL!!!!!!!!!
She's got very toned arms though. And if her arms are that ripped, you can only imagine how beefy her thighs must be. Imagine having those things wrapped around your head…
Politico never said one word about the vote in Missouri,,,like it never really happened or if it did that it meant nothing. POLITICO is so in the tank for the progressives, I usually only look at it to see the lame arguments the left is making. I would go to huffblo,,,,but every time I do I puke on my keyboard.
Exactly what "career" is Worf "balancing", pray tell?
Obama may not be American, but at least hes married to one–right? I don't think you can attack the first lady, but I do think you can attack lavish holidays and spending on the taxpayer's dime. The Obama's have had more vacations than I care to think about. Further, if Bush took a vacation, you could bet your bottom dollar that would be contrasted against the war, economy, disaster (real or imagined) so as to make him look uncaring. The liberal media double standard is their undoing and Obama's living large lifestyle will be his.
I wondered when the issue of Spain's activity would be brought up. It's funny, Michelle can hate her country for the sins of a few, then go to visit the epicenter of colonialism and slavery. Much of the evils that Spain brought down on the black race still exists in much of the Caribbean nations.
However, there is great Islam influences in Spain such as the architecture, culture and the like. Possibly she was there to soak up some of that – sort of like when she got Obama to attend Wright's church? What goes around comes around?
Don't for a second that there isn't a co-presidency going on here. Hillary wanted to follow Bill and if a knuckled-headed black male Harvard trained lawyer can become president, why not a knuckled-headed black female trained lawyer?
The similarities of the two couples are quite stunning.
If I didn't think it possible to damage ones' reputation so badly I'd swear the Obamas are being done in by their own party. Talk about a prelude to a political lynching! I shall observe with barely-concealed enthusiasm!
First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants
1. $172,2000 –
Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 –
Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First
Lady)
3. $113,000 –
Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the
President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000 –
Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000 –
Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 –
Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First
Lady)
7. $84,000 –
Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 –
Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 –
Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 –
Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. $64,000 –
Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 –
Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 –
Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 –
Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 –
Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary to The First Lady)
16. $50,000 –
Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special=2 0Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide to The First Lady)
17. $45,000 –
Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000 –
Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 –
Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 –
Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social
Secretary)
21. $35,000 –
Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 –
Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of
Correspondence for the First Lady)
(This is community organizing at its finest.)
There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life. One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense, when even
Hillary, only had three;
Jackie Kennedy one;
Laura Bush one;
and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President's own pocket.
Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe
FRIENDS…..THESE SALARIES ADD UP TO SIX
MILLION, THREE HUNDRED SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS ($6,364,000) FOR THE 4 YEARS OF OFFICE?????
AND WE ARE IN A RECESSION????? WELL….MOST OF US ARE. I GUESS IT'S OK TO SPEND WILDLY WHEN IT'S NOT YOUR OWN MONEY?????
Copyright 2009 CanadaFreePress.Com
Yes, I know, The Canadian Free Press has to publish this because the USA media is too scared they might be considered racist. Sorry USA !
Methinks Politico doth protest too much.
Exactly!
When Bush did take a vacation, the very thing you mentioned DID happen. He was excoriated by the MSM, and he only went to Crawford, Texas, his own home, not a 5-star hotel with an entourage of friends and family.
Nah, they are doing it to themselves. Obama won the presidency but he and his wife have clearly demonstrated an air of entitlement to which they feel they are owed and deserve by virtue of the office. Very much like the "let them eat cake" statement from Marie Antoinette. His/their entitlements will end after the elections of 2012, unless he does something impeachable and there are enough Republicans in the Congress to remove him from office.
I thought it was clear from day1 that Politico was no less biased than WAPO. . . I never click on them and find that their writing is available elsewhere. Like all 'RATs, they merely lied in their pretending to be 'in the middle.' In the question of how much 'corruption' of Rangel and Walters will affect the election, I'd predict 'not at all,' corruption is their reason d'etre, provided it results in increased power. NOVEMBER OR NEVER! ! !
Maybe she should just stay at home playing with her arugula if she is afraid someone might actually question her and stupid things she says.
"Let them eat arugala!"
-M. Obama
Sometimes even Breitbart links to Politico but since the Journolist story broke, i have avoided Politico and spend more time here or at Carlson's Daily Caller.
YOU WROTE:
Politico is nothing but a public form of JournoList – a clique of smug, arrogant elitist idiots like Ben Smith, VanDeHei, Albritton, & Andy Barr.
And Mike Allen, of course, who just returned after working for Debbie Wasserman-Schultz – Nancy's puppet girl.
Otherwise, you nailed this, so I have nothing more to add except for the fact that I have thousands of buds on my classic car forums who are patriots and would love to know more about NetFlix. Not a problem at all!
You really are a libbie plant, aren't ya?
Go to The Daily Caller instead of Politico now.
Imagine if Laura Bush headed for Europe on Dubya's B-day? The MSM would have ran with it for weeks.
Anyone with half-a-brain could have figured out that if you're a public figure you don't go on lavish vacations with much of it on the taxpayer's dime during the nastiest recession since 1929.
Why couldn't she just wait until after Nov. 2012? They'll be on permanent vacation after Jan. '13. But I guess they won't have the free 757 jet and all those black Suburbans then.
I still remember the grief George H. W. Bush (Bush 41) got from the news media for taking time off to drive his speed boat during the First Gulf War.
Is she still trying to grow her hips over her shoulders…..boy it's getting close …..she is a @$@^%^….
Attention:
"Baloshka" is statist progressive infiltrator sent here to make the Breitbart site appear "racist".
This piece of human filth has been spewing his racist bile for several weeks, but for some reason, the Breitbart moderators are unable or unwilling to block him. It would be nice if the Breitbart administrator could trace his IP address into progressive sites to determine who is paying him.
To George Soros or whoever is paying this racist mole: You are wasting your money. Actually it's much worse than that … since we all know "Baloshka" is a "progressive", every disgusting thing he says is a reflection on progressives, not us.
FOAD.
I have to admit, these comparisons over the last week remind me of this Kate Beaton comic
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=273
"Yoo hoo! Does this pike make me look fat?"
So we can't criticize Michelle Obama… for a vacation that deserves some strong criticism. But the left can crucify Sarah Palin if she would order a vanilla cone versus a chocolate cone. RACISM!!!
My word of the day is "Pathetic". Actually the word of the last 18 months is "pathetic".
It is now at the point of no return for Obama and his Madame, as the high degree of arogance and profound lack of leadership is mind numbing. Basically I am taking the stance of: Anything remotely related to Obama, just tell them to "piss off".
To hell with this collard green eating joke of a woman.
Even with 26 personal servants Mrs. Obama has the ability to balance being a mom, being first lady and being married to the Pres. Wow. What fantastic story of personal sacrifice.
My grandmother's husband dumped her in 1929 when the stock market crashed. My grandmother was a single mom of two girls in the 1930's, way before it was fashionable. She managed to work, raise my mom and my aunt, provide a home, food, clothing, etc. during the Great Depression with NO government help and without 26 personal servants to see to things. She inspired me and and taught me what sacrificing for your family is all about. Mrs. Obama does not have the first clue about balancing work and family. I am sure the 26 personal assistants make it a bit easier.
One word: journOlist.
OK now all together, stand up & shout as loud as you can:
We thought the old tv show, Movin' On Up was off the air!!!!
The only thing the BozObamas are missing is the JJ character, they've got the attitude down pat.
Yeah, yeah, yeah movin' on up to the white house, sing it with me, MOVIN' ON UP TO THE WHITE HOUSE…….
Michelle= BEEATCH
How many vacations can these people take a month before we can complain?
I'm not sure these people have even started working.
Sarah can't get new clothes without rabid criticism.
career? What career, a jet-setter bon vivant? All she does is attempt to tell others how to raise their children when she is obviously doing a lousy job of raising her own.
no, this i simply cannot imagine EVER happening.
Mooch-elle is getting sensitive eh?
Any moron voting for Sasquatch should be tarred and feathered.
Agreed, Maladroit. Baloshka makes no sense that I can see. How does "Mooseshelle's" presence deflect from the birth issue? And while many feel the birth issue is important, O'bumbles is moving so damn fast in the wrong direction the birth thing kinda fades into the mist.
Thanks for the tremendous value add there, Motleycroo.
Yeah, and since he was to take regular breaks or vacations there, it was regarded as the second oval office, which means that a lot of admin/security peripheral stuff/protocol stays on the ground there. More than one C5 follows the prez wherever he goes, carrying all of those shiny black suburbans, etc. on EVERY TRIP. Except to Whitehouse West. Bush going to Crawford was in many ways a "staycation", which is the only thing most of us can afford now that O'bumbles has successfully transformed our economy.
Man, he already did many things TRULY impeachable, it's just that Repubs don't have the stones or the majority.
Look, if we elect Repubs (gag) back, at least we can scare them into listening and heeding our wishes for our country. You can't do that with dumbocraps. Why? Ever notice how many dumbocraps work for wall street when they're not busy picking your pocket? It's so they can amass enough personal wealth to be impervious to the will of the voters and screw us anyway.
Michelle can NOT hold a candle to Nancy Reagan ,, she is just another Bimbo Elite . Sarah would make this Bimbo look STUPID.
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