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Obama in Colombia: ‘Part of My Job Is to Scout Out Where I May Want to Bring Michelle Back Later...
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Posted on April 15, 2012 4:26:48 PM EDT by Sub-Driver
Obama in Colombia: ‘Part of My Job Is to Scout Out Where I May Want to Bring Michelle Back Later for Vacation’ By Terence P. Jeffrey April 15, 2012
(CNSNews.com) - Just two days after President Barack Obama gave a sharply edged response to news anchor Larry Conners of KMOV in St. Louis after Conners had asked the president about Americans who “get frustrated and even angered when they see the first family jetting around [to] different vacations and so forth,” Obama told a panel at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia that part of his job there was to scout out locations for a future vacation with First Lady Michelle Obama.
Obama was speaking on a panel with Colombian President Juan Mauel Santos and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff when he made the remarks. The panel was moderated by Chris Matthews of MSNBC.
“I want to thank President Santos and the people of Colombia for the extraordinary hospitality in the beautiful city of Cartagena,” said Obama. “We're having a wonderful time. And usually when I take these summit trips, part of my job is to scout out where I may want to bring Michelle back later for vacation. So we'll make sure to come back sometime in the near future.”
Obama, the two other presidents, and Chris Matthews were sitting in white armchairs for the panel. Obama was wearing a blue blazer, but was not wearing a tie.
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I guaranty Obama will be broke and divorced within 5 years of leaving office just like most NBA players.
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i guarantee you'll be on here nonstop for the next four years,unlike the other this guarantee is 100% right ;D
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i guarantee you'll be on here nonstop for the next four years,unlike the other this guarantee is 100% right ;D
Obama thinks he is a billionaire while living on a million dollar salary.
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Why do you post videos with complete nutcases?
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Good post chief. There are still patriots in this country.
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I guaranty Obama will be broke and divorced within 5 years of leaving office just like most NBA players.
don't be silly... he'll be the most revered president in the last 100 years... he'll be an amazing diplomatic asset to future presidents
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retarded drunk guy in front of concrete wall
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don't be silly... he'll be the most revered president in the last 100 years... he'll be an amazing diplomatic asset to future presidents
True.
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http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/01/22/michelle-obama-praises-politically-savvy-hanoi-jane-n1782845
This commie should go live w Hanoi Jane is she is so fond of her
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He's going to be like Carter....another you don't invite to the WH. He's such a piece of shit.....
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I guaranty Obama will be broke and divorced within 5 years of leaving office just like most NBA players.
I guarantee that you don't know the difference between "guarantee" and "guaranty".
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2572615/Michelle-Obama-plans-pricey-trip-China-First-Family-criticized-spending-hundreds-millions-dollars-traveling-taxpayers-dime.html
And that pig is off again on another vacation
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2572615/Michelle-Obama-plans-pricey-trip-China-First-Family-criticized-spending-hundreds-millions-dollars-traveling-taxpayers-dime.html
And that pig is off again on another vacation
In comparison to other presidents he is in line with the rest. You fake outrage is getting annoying you fucking ocd riddled shut in.
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In comparison to other presidents he is in line with the rest. You fake outrage is getting annoying you fucking ocd riddled shut in.
and there were 100 threads on here bitching about GWB's vacations and displaying outrage. so why aren't the same people outraged again? oh wait I know.
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I don't remember Laura Bush doing this.....I don't remember her doing much other then the book thing and going to Walter Reed. I don't remember Hil doing much like this as well.
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if he's on vacation, then he's less likely to be implementing a horrible liberal agenda.
Imagine if obama was working 70 hours a week... he'd probably have amnesty (marco approvio!), a gun bill (romney approved) and maybe some other nonsense passed.
Be thankful he's only half-assing it.
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and there were 100 threads on here bitching about GWB's vacations and displaying outrage. so why aren't the same people outraged again? oh wait I know.
My point is that the outrage is retarded. He didn't spend that money simply to go to on vacation, he is the president, hence alot of security, arrangement etc need to be made. If you disagree then fine, but the figure means nothign without dissection. Was the money for manicures, or secret service, security etc?
I honestly can't see how one could reconcile a thinking man who is a millonaire using tax payers money for fun that is documented. All presidents endure immense stress, unless they are wasting money they shoudl vacation alot. This idea of perpetual work is absurd, humans do best when they are relaxed, expecting him not to relax is retarded and counter logic to reality.
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My point is that the outrage is retarded. He didn't spend that money simply to go to on vacation, he is the president, hence alot of security, arrangement etc need to be made. If you disagree then fine, but the figure means nothign without dissection. Was the money for manicures, or secret service, security etc?
I honestly can't see how one could reconcile a thinking man who is a millonaire using tax payers money for fun that is documented. All presidents endure immense stress, unless they are wasting money they shoudl vacation alot. This idea of perpetual work is absurd, humans do best when they are relaxed, expecting him not to relax is retarded and counter logic to reality.
LOL!!!! O-fag has not worked a real day in his life other than the work in the bath house in Chicago for his wealthy white older male donors.
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My point is that the outrage is retarded. He didn't spend that money simply to go to on vacation, he is the president, hence alot of security, arrangement etc need to be made. If you disagree then fine, but the figure means nothign without dissection. Was the money for manicures, or secret service, security etc?
I honestly can't see how one could reconcile a thinking man who is a millonaire using tax payers money for fun that is documented. All presidents endure immense stress, unless they are wasting money they shoudl vacation alot. This idea of perpetual work is absurd, humans do best when they are relaxed, expecting him not to relax is retarded and counter logic to reality.
can't disagree with anything you're saying. I just find it hilarious that all of the liberals on this board were outraged by GWB's vacations during 2000-2008 and now they all become very pragmatic about the vacation thing.
it's always been a stupid thing to argue about. but people continue to beat the dead horse.
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can't disagree with anything you're saying. I just find it hilarious that all of the liberals on this board were outraged by GWB's vacations during 2000-2008 and now they all become very pragmatic about the vacation thing.
it's always been a stupid thing to argue about. but people continue to beat the dead horse.
Agree, if a wal mart employee is given 6 weeks I think the president should be allowed to blow off some steam. The figure is absurd but probably a reflection of bloated pay, sparing no expense etc.
I honestly am not sure he doesn't deserve it, not obama, just someone in that position. Dude looks like he aged 20 years in two, it's clearly alot of stress, in fact perhaps the most in the world?
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Agree, if a wal mart employee is given 6 weeks I think the president should be allowed to blow off some steam. The figure is absurd but probably a reflection of bloated pay, sparing no expense etc.
I honestly am not sure he doesn't deserve it, not obama, just someone in that position. Dude looks like he aged 20 years in two, it's clearly alot of stress, in fact perhaps the most in the world?
Chooming, drinking, snorting lines every night, committing treason on a daily basis, keeping track of ones lies, etc - probably does that to a person like Obama. ;)
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/03/first-lady-michelle-obama-travel-china-march-19-26-2014
Now why is she going there?
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Agree, if a wal mart employee is given 6 weeks I think the president should be allowed to blow off some steam. The figure is absurd but probably a reflection of bloated pay, sparing no expense etc.
I honestly am not sure he doesn't deserve it, not obama, just someone in that position. Dude looks like he aged 20 years in two, it's clearly alot of stress, in fact perhaps the most in the world?
yeah. I don't care who you are. if you spend 8 years as the POTUS, your health WILL suffer. I mean we have 300 million people in this country. so about 150 million people voted against you. and with the way the political rhetoric is these days with "pseudo journalism" taking over the airwaves, over 100 million people "HATE" you and want you to fail. I honestly don't know why anyone would want that job to be honest. I honestly believe that you have to be somewhat of a sociopath to be able to handle that kind of pressure.
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Thing is...Reagan, the Bushes etc all owned their places and went there regularly. Obama bounces around and then does shit like flying separately, taking elaborate vacations, taking a lot of vacations. Bush stopped playing golf cause it looked bad with combat troops deployed. Bush and his wife used to go to Walter Reed all the time and nobody knew...Obama has camera guy with him taking a dump. The guy enjoys the trappings of the President without doing the work. However I agree with 240...better he fuck off then destroy what little we have left.
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Thing is...Reagan, the Bushes etc all owned their places and went there regularly. Obama bounces around and then does shit like flying separately, taking elaborate vacations, taking a lot of vacations. Bush stopped playing golf cause it looked bad with combat troops deployed. Bush and his wife used to go to Walter Reed all the time and nobody knew...Obama has camera guy with him taking a dump. The guy enjoys the trappings of the President without doing the work. However I agree with 240...better he fuck off then destroy what little we have left.
Ok, if this is true then he is a shit bag. However, I am pretty sure that Bush has taken far more vacation time then Obama. That's a fact, are you saying that he opts for his own vacations of his choice that are more expensive?
Perhaps he is justifying it by saying look at how much vacation the guy who did this job before me got?
all these guys are corrupt, all humans are. Some are more principled then others, I honestly don't think it makes a difference who is in the head position, humans with that much power will be corrupted. The system is the problem.
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How dare this kneegrow...
thats tue issue
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can't disagree with anything you're saying. I just find it hilarious that all of the liberals on this board were outraged by GWB's vacations during 2000-2008 and now they all become very pragmatic about the vacation thing.
it's always been a stupid thing to argue about. but people continue to beat the dead horse.
Well, according to the link below, there's a lot of truth to the assertion that GWB, at the same point in his presidency as Obama is now, had taken 367 days of vacation compared to Obama's 92 days.
Now, according to info at the link, most of Bush's vacation days were spent at his ranch in Texas. Obama, while still subject to the constant accessibility for consultation and decision-making requirements of every president even while on vacation, does not have a vacation home so it's likely that the costs (especially for security) for Obama's vacations on a per day basis are higher.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/aug/13/who-vacationed-more-bush-or-obama/ (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/aug/13/who-vacationed-more-bush-or-obama/)
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Well, according to the link below, there's a lot of truth to the assertion that GWB, at the same point in his presidency as Obama is now, had taken 367 days of vacation compared to Obama's 92 days.
Now, according to info at the link, most of Bush's vacation days were spent at his ranch in Texas. Obama, while still subject to the constant accessibility for consultation and decision-making requirements of every president even while on vacation, does not have a vacation home so it's likely that the costs (especially for security) for Obama's vacations on a per day basis are higher.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/aug/13/who-vacationed-more-bush-or-obama/ (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/aug/13/who-vacationed-more-bush-or-obama/)
hahaha 367 days of vacation? sign me up for this job fuck.
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http://cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/251000-taxpayer-cost-flotus-daughters-side-trips-dublin-and-3300?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Marketing&utm_term=Facebook&utm_content=Facebook&utm_campaign=N-FLOTUStrip
What a waste of 330k for these locusts
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Locusts ;D lmao
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The travel costs for vacations taken by the first family and the Bidens have reached over $40 million with the Air Force's revelation that two golf outings by President Obama this year cost $2.9 million, according to the taxpayer watchdog group Judicial Watch.
The group said that the Air Force provided documents and records that put the price of the first family's trip to Key Largo, Fla., in March at $885,683 just for flying Air Force One. The travel costs to golf in Palm Springs, Calif., in February, where the president also met with King Abdullah II of Jordan, was $2,066,594, said the Air Force documents, according to Judicial Watch.
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Judicial Watch has been filing repeated Freedom of Information Act requests for travel costs and the Air Force has provided many documents during the administration.
So far, Judicial Watch said that it has tabulated vacation travel costs, mostly just Air Force jet time, at over $40 million. Far more money is spent on accommodations, communications, rooms and cars for staff, security and U.S. Secret Service protection, Navy and Coast Guard ships offshore and the prepositioning of cars and helicopters, but those costs are not usually revealed.
“It is clear that the Obamas continually abuse the perks of the president’s office at taxpayer expense,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a statement to Secrets. “And it is particularly interesting that Obama has chosen to take not one but two luxury vacations back-to-back while inveighing against ‘income equality.’ President Obama’s waste of the hard-earned tax dollars of working Americans on unnecessary luxury travel is an abuse of office.”
Editor's note: Judicial Watch is representing the Washington Examiner in the newspaper's federal lawsuit seeking access to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau records under FOIA.
Below is the full release provided by Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch Obtains Records Revealing Obama’s 2014 Palm Springs and Key Largo Golf Outings Cost Taxpayers $2,952,278 for Flight Expenses Alone
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today, it has obtained records from the U.S. Department of the Air Force revealing that President Obama’s February 2014 Palm Springs, California, and March 2014 Key Largo, Florida, golf outings cost the taxpayers $2,952,278 for flight expenses alone.
According to the Department of Air Force documents, the flights to and from, Palm Springs for the February 17 – 20, 2014 trip totaled 9.8 hours at $210,877 an hour, which comes to a total of $2,066,594.60 in flight expenses. The records came in response to a Judicial Watch Freedom of request filed on February 18, 2014.
Also according to the Department of Air Force documents, the total cost for flights to and from Key Largo, Florida for the March 7 - 9 trip totaled 4.2 hours at $210,877, which comes to a total of $885,683.40 for flight in expenses. The records came in response to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act request filed on March 10, 2014.
Though the administration billed the President’s Day weekend trip to California as an effort to highlight the state’s severe water drought, the White House official schedule showed the president spent just four hours at three drought-related events on the afternoon of Friday, February 14. He then spent much of the next three days playing golf at some of Coachella Valley, California’s, most exclusive golf courses, which, according to Fox News, “consume roughly 17 percent of all water there, and one quarter of the water pumped out of the region’s at-risk groundwater aquifer.” Each course uses nearly 1 million gallons of water a day.
During March 7 – 9, the First Family spent Spring Break at Key Largo, Florida’s, exclusive Ocean Reef Club, where members must have a minimum net worth of $35 million to join. According to its website, “the Club boasts two championship 18-hole courses, a rarity in the Florida Keys … a salon and spa, more than a dozen restaurants, a 175-slip marina, a private airport, and so much more.” The costly Spring Break vacation took place on the heels of Obama’s State of the Union Address in which he focused on income inequality.
According to records obtained by Judicial Watch, through FOIA requests and subsequent lawsuits, the Obamas and Bidens have spent more than $40 million taxpayer dollars on trips since 2009, beginning with the Obamas' much-publicized New York City "date night" in 2009 up through the president's most recent Palm Springs and Key Largo golf outings. The most lavish expenditure so far on record was for the Obamas’ 2013 Africa trip and Honolulu vacation, which cost taxpayers $15,885,585.30 in flight expenses alone. The single largest expense for accommodations was for Michelle Obama's side-trip to Dublin, Ireland, during the 2013 G-8 conference in Belfast, when she and her entourage booked 30 rooms at the five-star Shelbourne Hotel, with the first lady staying in the 1500 square-foot Princess Grace suite at a cost of $3,500 a night. The total cost to taxpayers for the Obamas' Ireland trip was $7,921,638.66.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com.
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http://rt.com/usa/156212-obama-biden-vacation-tab-40
Typical chooming thug