White House Admits to Asking News Agencies to Pull Malia Obama Vacation Story
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The White House has admitted to telling news agencies to pull stories on Malia Obama visiting Mexico for spring break, Politico reports.
Kristina Schake, Communications Director to the First Lady, emailed Dylan Byers:
From the beginning of the administration, the White House has asked news outlets not to report on or photograph the Obama children when they are not with their parents and there is no vital news interest. We have reminded outlets of this request in order to protect the privacy and security of these girls.
The Blaze first noticed the disappearing stories Monday afternoon, when accounts of Malia and 12 friends visiting Oaxaca with 25 Secret Service agents mysteriously began turning into broken links.
However, in admitting to “reminding outlets” about not reporting on the Obama children when there is “no vital news interest,” the White House has also tacitly admitted that Malia is (or now maybe was) in Mexico for spring break. Additional evidence has surfaced confirming that. One site has published a photo of the Obamas going to church on Sunday. It notes that Malia is absent, and says that’s due to the Mexico trip:
That site has also posted alleged photos of the vacation, but we have decided not to repost those.
As The Blaze noted on Monday, a vacation for Malia in Mexico raises a slew of questions considering the State Department has warned American citizens against travel there.
In fact, the language contained in the State Department’s travel warning is quite ominous.
“[C]rime and violence are serious problems throughout the country and can occur anywhere,” the warning reads. “U.S. citizens have fallen victim to TCO activity, including homicide, gun battles, kidnapping, carjacking and highway robbery.” [Emphasis added] It continues later:
The rising number of kidnappings and disappearances throughout Mexico is of particular concern. Both local and expatriate communities have been victimized. In addition, local police have been implicated in some of these incidents. We strongly advise you to lower your profile and avoid displaying any evidence of wealth that might draw attention.
Additionally, the warning (dated February 8) notes that “U.S. government personnel and their families are prohibited from personal travel to all areas described as ‘defer non-essential travel’ and when travel for official purposes is essential it is conducted with extensive security precautions.” However, it adds that “USG personnel and their families are allowed to travel for personal reasons to the areas where no advisory is in effect or where the advisory is to exercise caution.”
According to the release, no specific warning has been issued for Oaxaca, where Malia is said to be. However, there have been concerns about that area in the past.
This is a breaking story. Updates will be added.
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inexiletill2012
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:38amATTN : MEXICO TRAVEL IS SAFE !
as long as you have 25 Secret Service agents with machine guns around you
Report Post »Locked
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:51am“Oaxaca: Oaxaca, Huatulco and Puerto Escondido are the major cities/travel destinations in Oaxaca -see map (PDF, 286 kb) to identify their exact locations: No warning is in effect.
Puebla: No advisory is in effect.
Queretaro: No advisory is in effect.”
As the pictures show her at Monte Alban, Oaxaca, that area is quite safe. The Blaze’s reporting that the country in total is not safe is like comparing visiting the Grand Canyon to walking down downtown Camden. Most of the violence in Mexico takes place in the northern states.
Report Post »gramma b
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:55amI agree that 13 is too young to be taking Spring Break vacations without parents. But, give the Obamas a break. They are afraid that Daddy will lose the election, and they no longer will be able to vacay on the taxpayers’ dime. These people think they are entitled to a luxe vacation every month or two, as long as someone else is paying. Sending 25 taxpayer support Secret Service agents to Mexico to protect a kid and her friends on Spring Break is an outrage. These people are just as “entitled” as the welfare recipients who comprise their base. They are just getting away with a much more expensive scam.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:59amSo if “no advisory is in effect” why pull the story for “security reasons”? Did they pull the story about Moochelle and the same daughter with an entourage of their friends who travelled to Spain? Spain has active terrorist cells there. So we do this based on the city in question is that what you‘re saying and the white house isn’t saying?
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:04amHave you ever tried to put
Report Post »the cat back in the bag ?????????????
conservativejon
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:09amwhy is this story important? a few reasons
1) the state department has called mexico a dangerous place to visit for americans. ok now one of the presidents children are there for vacation. imagian what it would mean for the american people if teh first daughter was killed there. war at the very least.
2) they took 25 agents for protection. think how much this costs the taxpayers. yes they need protection but it would be prudent for the president to pick somewhere safer for a vacation that would require less security.
3) the girl is 13. and she is going on a vacation to mexico with out her parents. while this is their porogative it shows a sevire lack of good judgement and that is an issue for the american people
4) never has the media had to take down a story like this for anything but national security. you can say that having a story of the first daughter vacationing in a dangerous country a matter of national security, but then go back to point 1 and 3. anything less than that is censorship.
5) it shows how out of touch he is with the american people his wife just got back from a beach vacation and now this. this man has the audacity to claim he understands what it is like to be a normal american family. its hypocritical
to properly read and understand the news you must have the ability to critical think and extrapolate from reports. i figured this out 2 minutes after seeing this story. whats scary is not what is found in it but what we might have missed
Report Post »Locked
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:13am@Avengerk
“So if “no advisory is in effect” why pull the story for “security reasons”?”
It would be reasonable to think it’s because people would take the opportunity to be stalk her, to heckle her, or to try and harm her anyway. Not because it’s Mexico; but because she‘s the president’s daughter.
Flip it around: you’ve got an adult mind. Why do you think tracking the movements of the president’s daughter could be a security concern?
Report Post »db321
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:28amChild Protective Services should take her away from these honorable and destructive parents. Let hope she and our Secrete Service personnel make it back safe.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:28am.
Obama doesn’t want it known that a Drug Cartel provided Security and Safe Passage…….
I think they used Fast & Furious Weaponry to protect her too……
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:29amOh I see LOCKED..“it would be reasonable to think people would take the opportunity to stalk her”. So sending your 13 year old and 12 of her friends with a compliment of secret service agents to a country you’ve warned other Americans not to visit is the height of integrity and good sense to a git like you as long the Daily Telegraph in the UK. isn’t reporting it? So if the media is blacked out, no one in Mexico has the ability to tell anyone else (perhaps even drug cartels) that a U.S. president’s daughter is there and therefore “no one can take the opportunity to stalk her”. You’ve outdone yourself LOCKED..you’ve taken your mealy mouthed blather here to new levels of banality.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:34am@Avengerk
You might not have an adult mind after all. Let’s try it again: Why do you think tracking the movements of the president’s daughter could be a security concern?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:36amHope they remember their Free Condoms and Food Stamps.And since Mexico says these provinces are safe, it must be so. . The Christian , Conservative Republican bashing LOCKED, who claims to be a Christian Conservative, Says so. He’s just another Liberal Progressive DEMOCRAT in a Conservative mask.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:38am@13th imam
Actually, the State Department is the one who hasn’t issued a travel warning for the states I listed. So… congrats to me, I can actually read?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:40amLet’s try it again LOCKED…”Don‘t send your 13 year old and 12 of her friends to a country you’ve warmed Americans not to visit if “security concerns” are paramount to you”. Is this really so difficult for you champ? This has nothing at all to do with “security concerns” it has everything to do with optics during an election year. The first question anyone with an ounce of common sense in a tight economy will ask is “how much is this costing us for 13 kids and a compliment of secret service agents to vacation in Mexico?”. Bad Optics sport….if you think Obama doesn‘t filter everything through a political prism you’re an even bigger idiot than I took you for.
Report Post »snotice1
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:43amCrazy! this is terrifying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:45amso shes 13 and going away with her friends to mexico, remember she is part of the elites. when your in the elites you get to do things that we can not. hell she has the best body gaurds in the world and they have been planning this for months or years. shes safe, forget about it. what a waste of radio time GLENN. watch the other hand.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:47amCongrats
Report Post »Barry can read also, but like you he can’t comprehend what he reads.Saul is proud of you. But I read him also.
Locked
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:49am@Avengerk
” Is this really so difficult for you champ? This has nothing at all to do with “security concerns” it has everything to do with optics during an election year.”
I’m amazed. You yourself are saying that Americans have been warned away from Mexico (which is patently untrue in the states in question, but let’s pass that), but can’t come to agree there are any security concerns?
I’m honestly disappointed. Even as an intellectual exercise I thought you would be able to think of some kind of security concern with tracking the movements of a president’s daughter. I thought too highly of you, I suppose.
Now, optics could obviously play a part in it too; I’m not thrilled that it takes 25 Secret Service members to help out on this trip, especially as we’ll likely be stuck with the bill. I think Obama should definitely be confronted with this in the next press interview. But know what? I think it can wait until she’s no longer on the trip and having paparazzi follow her. I honestly don’t know how ANY parent can say “Yeah, I think unknown people should report the movements of a child who’s away from her family.”
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:50amBy the way LOCKED…when Moochelle and her daughter travelled with an entourage of their friends to Spain it was broadly covered by the media. Spain has active terrorist cells within it’s borders. Where was the concern then? Oh wait…it wasn’t an election year then. Gullibility and a penchant for wanting to make others as gullible as you seems to be another of your failings LOCKED.
Report Post »jkjk
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:00pmAs tax payers we should be told what these losers are doing. This makes me sick, and I can’t wait until they toss this trash out of the white house. Maleria was bringing friends? What the hell is wrong with this crap, and why isn’t this a big deal? She needs another vacation alone after working so hard. They suck! I hope they drink lots of tap water !
Report Post »djm159
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:05pmThis is the most absurd thing from the White House and Marie Antoinette wannabe yet. A 13-year-old needs to go on spring break on the taxpayer dime when there are children who are too hungry to go school and people who cannot afford the gas to drive their children to McDonalds. Sorry, my mistake, McDonalds is poison, Mexico – safe haven. This is immoral. What a spoiled little rich brat. I don‘t give a tinker’s dam about her safety that’s a problem for the Marxist in Chief and Marie Antoinette junior. The entitlement mentality is in the genes. What a direct slap in the face to the American people. The rich should pay more taxes right? Let’s decrease the presidential travel budget for the most arrogant unfeeling piece crap God ever put on earth. What a joke these people are and to Mexico of all places. Then again, why not. Fast and furious kingpin Obama and Holter are in bed with the Mexican drug cartel. the mafia princess will be safe.
Report Post »db321
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:07pmIs it RACIEST to say that this family is totally NUT!
Report Post »RJL
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:11pmWho cares? Not a story. Only the conspiracy theorists on the Blaze could make something of a non story.
All Presidents and the families are protected against nuts and kooks like the Romney supporters on The Blaze.
I dislike the President and his policies but I want the President and his family protected at all times.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:14pmSo by LOCKED’s mealy mouthed “logic”…if you remain in the “states” he outlined you’ll be perfectly safe in Mexico…as long as you have a secret service compliment with you..then it’s only a matter of “tracking your movements” that you should be worried about. Do you even hear yourself sometimes LOCKED? You have to be one of the most myopic, pathetic individuals I’ve ever had the discomfort of addressing. If security is paramount to you…you don’t send your daughter to Mexico..is this really so difficult LOCKED? This will be my final post to you on this subject LOCKED I have no desire to play your peurile games of circular arguments and nitpicking of syllables any further. Addressing you is like addressing Rain Man but without the idiot savant qualities..it’s just the “idiot” part with you. You go ahead sport…keep telling us about “patently false” and “states” in Mexico like a good mealy mouthed twerp. We‘ll ignore the fact that it’s the optics of what the cost is to send Obama‘s daughter and a gaggle of her friends to Mexico that’s the real reason why the white house had the story pulled and the compliant media obliged. We’ll just ignore similar trips to Spain in the past covered broadly by the media..but they of course didn’t happen in an election year.
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:22pmToo bad Mr. President! Perhaps you should have stayed in the private sector if you didn’t want people to take pictures of your kids. When you stayed silent as Letterman, Maher, etc. trashed the Palin kids, you lost all credibility when it comes to defending your own. Too bad so sad.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MfgeFnOZbI
Evantoo
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:25pmMight have an unfortunate collection of drug cartels pool their resources, including all those unaccounted for fast and furious ones, and spoil the week. Unlikely though, they get much of their supplies and support from the policies of the WH and don’t want to rock that boat.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:40pmWASHINGTON – First Lady Laura Bush lashed out at media coverage of her 19-year-old twin daughters yesterday, claiming the press has victimized her family for the sake of a quick buck.
“I think it’s selling magazines and newspaper articles and television at the expense of my children,” Bush told CNN’s “Inside Politics.”
“That’s what I think it is.”
In remarks sure to be controversial, the First Lady argued for a blackout on news coverage of daughters Jenna and Barbara, whose problems with underage drinking have been widely reported.
“I think that our children ought to be totally left alone and allowed to have a totally private life,” Bush said.
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2001-07-31/news/18364287_1_underage-drinking-jenna-bush-bush-twins
Report Post »UNBOTHERED
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:53pmNot one story or sentence about THE RACIST WHITE B@STARD Zimmermann who murdered an innocent Black youth in Florida Trayvon, yet the Blaze feels the ned to do a story about this.
This site is such a racist biased website. And you all know it and embrace THAT FACT
Report Post »AndiAndiAndi
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:54pmI don’t care how many armed guards are with he little spoiled little turd and her 12 friends. The Obamas are disgusting parents! The tax payers are paying for a freakin’ 13 year old to take a vacation to Mexico with 12 friends. That is absolutely vulgar. The Obamas are horrible parents. They are training their daughter to be a little slut. 13. Her parents aren’t with her. She should be with her family. What the hell is wrong with Mr. and Mrs. Obama? This man needs to be impeached immediately!
Report Post »Darlie
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:56pm@Locked—Mexico has not been safe for decades. My father worked out of a Mexican consulate in the 70′s. He would not allow us to return for a visit after we returned to the States. As a child I saw one young lady too many in a hospital crying and not able to tell her story “in front of me,” a child. The police are so corrupt our neighborhood hired vigilantes to protect us from them. Mexico closely regulates the news going out, it is a socialist country with strong communist leanings that no on seems to want to talk about. (Ever heard if the redistribution on farm land that took place there in the 1930′s?) Sadly, looks like we’re there, too.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:59pmI hope she doesn’t come back “burdened with child”.
Report Post »black9897
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 1:00pmHe also made it a felony to protest on federal land. What’s that sound? Ah, yes…our freedom being stripped away.
Report Post »charlieO
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 1:06pm#1- If it was about the Bush girls the pictures and rumors would be flying like crazy.
#2- Spring break for a 13 year old??????????? and her friends!
The plausible answer is security – We choose not to disclose any information at this time.
Report Post »Hippocrates!!
Locked
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 1:07pm@Darlie
I lived in Mexico for a study abroad trip several years ago; I also have vacationed in D.F., Puebla, and Oaxaca (and really I recommend them to anyone who wants to learn some native American culture or some of the history of the country; speaking Spanish helps, of course). As in ANY place, you need to pick where and when to travel. And as with anyone, not having your ever move tracked and reported is not only common decency, but paramount to security.
@Avengerk
I do love that when you refuse to answer something, you feel the need to go on a rant, explode, then cry out how “I’m not responding to you any more!!!!… until the next time I do so.” I think this is the… third? Fourth time you’ve done so?
It’s fine; you can’t admit your own hypocrisy in crying “Mexico is unsafe!“ and then claiming ”there are no security concerns in tracking the movements of the president’s daughter.” I understand; to do so would be to admit you’re wrong, and if there’s one thing @Avengerk can never do, it‘s admit he’s wrong :-)
Report Post »Eleutheria
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 1:23pmI don’t think the secret service carries machine guns, but I understand and support the substance of your sarcasm.
It would be a bit difficult for the secret service to carry an M249 SAW under their jackets ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M249_light_machine_gun
Report Post »The Blu Morpho
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 1:25pmWhat KIND OF FREAK sends his THIRTEEN YEAR OLD to the biggest ORGY in the world? There are nothing but WHORES and DRUNKS in Mexico on SPRING BREAK! THIRTEEN???? REALLY?? What happens when she goes on spring break in college? FIRST MATTRESS AT THE ORGY???? WTF??
Report Post »encinom
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 1:38pmGive up Locked, the typical Beckerhead is filled with nothing but hate and venom. This non-story is just Beck’s way of feeding red meat to brainless zombie followers. No thinking required to follow Beck, just be paranoid and full of hate.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 1:47pm@Unbothered
“Not one story or sentence about THE RACIST WHITE B@STARD Zimmermann who murdered an innocent Black youth in Florida Trayvon, yet the Blaze feels the ned to do a story about this.”
You‘re embarrassing yourself if you don’t even know that Zimmerman was Hispanic, not white. Doesn’t make it less of a story, but you might want to stop flying off the handle if you haven’t even read past the title on other sites. The guy should be locked up, but The Blaze will report on what it wants.
Report Post »Daisytoo
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 1:48pmWhat’s illegitimate is hiding the fact that this 13 year old girl is on vacation w/about a dozen of her friends — and we, the tax payers, are paying for their Secret Service babysitting fees, airfare etc.!
My own children have had the advantages (and disadvantages) of growing up w/money. No sensible parent from any economic strata would send their 13 year old kid anywhere — never mind Mexico on Spring break! — w/a bunch of other 12/13 year old children w/out family members along. The Obamas are the worst sort of nouveau rich possible.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 1:56pmMalia Ann Obama – initials MAO, like Communist China’s Chairman MAO. Natasha Obama – Named after Russian Communist Boris Badinov’s Girlfriend from Rocky & Bullwinkle. Coincidence? I think not.
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 1:59pmReally?
there’s a person posting on here now called Proud Aryan?
lol, you people aren’t even trying to hide it anymore.
what a sad, paranoid, hate filled bunch of “christian patriots” you are.
Pathetic.
Report Post »Grizzlybarrmomma
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 2:03pmLook at the photos. This isn’t about safety. How many black children were allowed to go along? One photo shows Malia surrounded by white children. Al Sharpton will be all over Conservs for exposing Obama’s daughter, but will avoid to mention the privileged whities on the trip and the fact that Mrs. ‘O’ may be worried that this will be the last chance for her daughter to travel there with 25 US guards vs 5 when her husband goes into permanent retirement this NOVEMBER.
- Bring it on Marxist Media (M&M), Griz
Report Post »Justthefactsmam
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 2:08pm@JZS The prime difference between President Obama‘s children and President Bush’s, is that President Bush wasn‘t parading his daughter’s in the Media whenever it served his policy arguments…
Report Post »neworleansnann
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 2:14pmLocked, you do not know what you’re talking about. Do a search for drug cartels in oaxaca. I’ve been there and since that time seen stories on problems there:
Mexico captures drug cartel leader – World news – Americas …
Mexico has captured the leader of one of its seven major drug cartels, the “Diaz … operates across southern Mexico, Tuesday in the southern city of Oaxaca, a …
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/…/t/…diaz-parada-drug-cartel-leader – Cached
More results from msnbc.msn.com »
There are drugs running from Central America up.
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 2:17pmENCINOM is clearly a hate filled leftist imbecile. His attempts at dialog are pathetic. Typical obama voter.
Report Post »BarackStalin
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 2:18pmIf Obama’s children have “no vital news interest”…
Then why do I keep hearing Obama talking about them in relation to politics and news?
Report Post »Locked
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 2:21pm@Neworleans
“you do not know what you’re talking about. Do a search for drug cartels in oaxaca. I’ve been there and since that time seen stories on problems there:”
Do you believe cartels or gangs are operating in American cities, especially in border states? If so, would you raise a similar issue with American tourists visiting Texas, California, Arizona?
Seriously, Oaxaca was awesome; fantastic (and relatively inexpensive) silver jewelry. Sorry that you’ve visited the cartels when you went?
Report Post »USAMama
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 2:37pmI agree that she should not be in Mexico for her own safety, especially when they are telling everyone else not to go (and the fact that I’m sure its not cheap to send 25 secret service members etc.). However, I also agree that if it’s dangerous (and I believe it is) it makes it more so to have it all over the news. But they should know that of course its going to be in the news, and since they don’t (or aren’t supposed to) control the media, all the more reason NOT TO SEND HER!!
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 2:41pmJustthefactsmam, of course Bush talked about his daughters and wife. And there’s a big difference between Barbara Bush and the current first lady, which makes it okay to mock the Michelle Obama in the mind of the right.
There’s a difference alright, just not the one you named.
Here‘s your buddy mocking Obama’s kids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC-ZJjFf4Yk
Report Post »JanSilver
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 2:58pmLocked, sometimes you need to research a bit more. From the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office (www.fco.gov.uk) states the following from Oaxaca.
Report Post »Sporadic outbursts of politically motivated violence also occur from time to time in certain areas of the country, particularly in the southern states of Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca.
AND
Oaxaca
Sporadic outbursts of politically motivated violence occur from time to time in Oaxaca. The Mexican Authorities caution against travel to the area around the town of San Juan Copala.
That was updated as of today. I certainly would not let my 13 year old go out of the country without me and Mexico is one country I don’t need to visit.
Locked
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 3:08pm@Jansilver
Welcome to the United States. We’re not the UK.
Report Post »GollygeeMrwilson
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 3:08pmIt all just stinks. Stinks I say. Everything this phony does and says stinks to high heaven. Every act, every statement, every E.O., every fart, everything! It all just spits in the face of every good, patriotic red-blooded American. What have we done to deserve this plague that has been visited upon us. I pray that we have the strength of character to survive until November and then the collective common sense to send this embarrassing national nightmare packing.
Report Post »seenbetterdaze
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 3:26pmThis region in Mexico just had a 7.6 EARTHQUAKE! Agents must have had a heart failure! Can’t protect against Mother Nature or even plan for something like that. Hope Malia and her little friends are okay.
Report Post »lisa6388
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 3:48pm1.) THE FIRST FAMILY WILL NEVER READ ANY OF THESE COMMENTS! and we all know that their staff will not tell them what the American Citizens are thinking.
2.)The most important question here is (with a HUGE deficit) who is paying the bill for this vacation and all the cost involved…..WE THE PEOPLE (AGAIN). The first family knows they are going down and are trying to milk this for all the money they can.
Report Post »mrfunn
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 4:14pmjzs
The kids are off-limits.
Would be nice if Obama did the same.
Obama is using his daughters for political purposes.
“Obama taps daughters to give big issues a human scale”
http://articles.philly.com/2012-03-18/news/31207632_1_malia-and-sasha-michelle-obama-somalian-pirates
“March 18, 2012 | By Nancy Benac, Associated Press
WASHINGTON – President Obama likes to talk about his children. What parent doesn’t?
But Obama is not just another father shooting the breeze about his children‘s antics in last night’s soccer game. He is the president, and he brings up his daughters to explain his thinking on all sorts of combustible national issues.”
it gets better
Report Post »JasonHodge
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 4:21pmObama’s children may not be news but the use of Secret Service agents and their associated cost IS NEWS and should be covered.
Report Post »USN Patriot
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 4:47pmUnt you vill not report stories about the dictator in command or his family. Dis is VERBOTTEN.
Report Post »Justthefactsmam
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 4:48pm@JZS Typical. Your post was about the fact that Laura Bush was upset about media making money off of pictures of her daughters, I said that the difference was that the Bush’s did now bring their daughters into the media spotlight supporting POLITICAL things, ie… “I don’t want my daughters having to be punished by a baby“ or ”I hope my daughters make right decisions, but want them to have access to birth control if they need it” and as usual, you and your liberal ilk, when they can’t win on the facts, you resort to either name calling, or shifting the discussion to “Well Glenn Beck said…”, which had nothing to do with the subject being discussed… (And I know that JZS is a troll, nothing I saw will change his/her mind, but I believe facts should be pointed out when they need to be)
Report Post »Susie40
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 5:12pmI agree that the populace shouldn‘t know where the UFO’s kids are and what they are doing.
Report Post »The bigger point I note….this admin. has the necessary puppets in place to scrub whatever they want. Yes this should not have been out there. But NO, the admin. should not have the power to pull strings and get all mention of ANYTHING scrubbed. This proves that the rumors of site scrubbing of UFO’s past is disappearing from the web. I can’t think those rumors were unfounded.
(unidentified foreign operative)
cuinsong
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 5:19pmIs this good parenting?
Report Post »Letting a 13 yr old go any where near Mexico alone?
Even with a security teem that is taxpayer funded I would not let my daughter go!
This is a good example of his blind short sited stupidity!
Hay NObama What if she makes a bad decision and things get out of control?
Is she old enough to be responsible or are you going to blame the security detail?
I would say the decision to let her go alone was wrong.
I guess he does not care what kind of example this sets for the rest of us!
This song is fit him good called “Their Wrong”
http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_12090926
jlcook
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 5:46pm@LOCKED, This is not my 13 year old daughter,( who would not be allowed to go at ALL!) this is the POTUS daughter, techinically, as important as the POTUS himself, can you say national security risk. Who cares how safe it is, I wouldn’t let her go to Nebraska without me or her mother. This is yet another POOR decision on the BO’s behalf. What 13 year old goes to Mexico for spring break, are you kidding me, is she gonna be on a bar doing the maranga with her skirt over her head. What the hell is wrong with you. Besides don’t they take a vacation somewhere in the world every 2 weeks anyhow. Your an idiot, I hope your not raising a daughter.
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 5:46pmLocked
Report Post »I agree with you about safety. I’ve been to Mexico about 10 times, 7 in the last 7 years, went to Oaxaca in the early 90′s, excellent historic city with tons of culture, most of which security concerns will prohibit the lollypop guild from enjoying. WE WILL pick up the tab and that makes most of us angry. It would be nice to think that the press will ask questions after her return, but, have you ever noticed that Barack makes a statement and MIGHT take one or two questions from a pre-vetted media person then leave. He has a lot to answer for BUT feels he does not answer to anyone. And the media for the most part simply WILL NOT ask tough questions even if he actually had a q and a session. Control the information and control the people.
jlcook
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 5:50pm@JZS GO AWAY JACKASS!!!!! Commi up somewhere else d-bag.
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 5:51pmRJL
Report Post »A little self constraint for christ sake!
drago
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 5:58pm@locked, jzs aka encinom.
Report Post »You’re a busy little troll today arent you? You skip school to play world of warcraft and troll the blaze today? Idiot…..
mamatango
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 6:32pmIsn’t Oaxaca about where the earthquake hit in Mexico??????
Report Post »edgdco1
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 7:15pmDidn’t Michelle and the girls just get back from Aspen? How can I get a job like that? Do I have to marry Barry? He would be okay with that. Just have to go to one of those states where it is legal. Don’t those Obama girls have to go to school? How do they get all that time off? Just askin’!
Report Post »patriotchick12
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 7:16pmCBS news just reported that Malia is on a scholl sponsored trip to Mexico. But would she have needed 25 Secret Service agents if she went to Punta Gorda say
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:20pm13 year olds go on Spring Break ???? Gotta’ be kidding !!
Report Post »are they using Air Force Two ??? 25 SS agents, WTF ???
GAWD, this family has a total disconnect, with the “Little
People”…..
Locked
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:12pm@Drago
Fascinating. I wonder if when you look at people you only see them by skin color? Otherwise I’m not sure how you can mistake me for liberal posters… might be early onset psychosis?
Got a doubt? E-mail The Blaze and ask for e-mail or IP verification.
Hey, at least this time you didn’t get deleted for breaking the profanity filter, right? ;-)
PS: To all the rest on here; turns out it was a school trip, not a vacation.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:57pmJustthefactsmam says, “I said that the difference was that the Bush’s did now bring their daughters into the media spotlight supporting POLITICAL things.” Justthefactsmam, Bush’s daughters campaigned for their father in 2004. Come on man. Here’s the first thing on youtube I found about the 2004 election: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k99IM3ZjZ8 When you go on the campaign trail and speak in public on behalf of your father’s Presidential campaign, that’s “bringing your daughter into the ”media spotlight.”
Justthefacts, frankly, it’s kind of annoying when people just make up facts out of thin air. Sorry, but because you don’t remember something, that doesn’t make it a fact. Next time, before you invent “facts,” do a little research.
Report Post »lori in Texas
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:05pmThe timing is interesting. Mahlia goes to Mexico with friends as Obama signed that executive order on Friday that differs from the previous executive orders that were regarding the same subject matter. It is kind of like the BP oil spill: Obama administration and EPA was talking about how the oil companies need to be more regulated and fewer permits just before an unheard of oil spill. Obama has a pattern of addressing something and then a catastrophe about that thing happening.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:31pmJust to recap here. The President’s daughter goes with a school trip with her classmates and teachers. The press reports on the trip and the White House asks them not cover it. There’s press value in that, but worldwide coverage of his daughter‘s school trip is probably something her classmates or teachers don’t really want and something that doesn’t improve their safety. I’m sure there are a lot of people, Al Quaida for example, who’d love to kill a bunch of US kids.
Seriously folks, if you were President, in the world we live in, and you child goes on a trip with her school, would you want her every move, and the movement of her classmates, and teachers broadcast to the world? Say what you want, but I don’t think you would. And if you were President, I imagine you’d ask the press to lay off too.
Report Post »Kiev500
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:15pmI‘m for appropriate privacy for all politician’s kids, but this story makes me wonder how many things we either don‘t hear about or specifically DO hear about because of some political operative’s loose definition of what “security” means. How many things related to the war or diplomacy has the government kept secret because of potential embarrassment? For instance, the “collateral murder” story made infamous by wikileaks that resulted in the arrest of Army Spc. Bradley Manning, -the machine-gunning of a group of innocent people and subsequently a van full of children by a US helicopter gunship. Bradley Manning was arrested for making the story public. No one was ever arrested for killing those people, or shooting those children, nor for covering up the story. I could go on. More examples include the Jessica Lynch story, the Abu Ghraib prison abuse story, stories about torture of innocent people in secret CIA prisons, the Pat Tillman story, etc. So… should we trust our government? Can we realistically be expected to run a legitimate election without full knowledge of what our government is doing and what it is involved with? This says nothing of the quote “news stories” that we do see or hear about that are actually lies and dishonest propaganda designed to manipulate the public. Someone once said the first casualty of war is the truth. For those powerful organizations who profit by this arrangement, the stage is set for perpetual war. We’ll just call it the war
Report Post »Conservative for Political Dignity
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:27pmLocked:
Report Post »You are an *******. Let‘s nitpick and say which parts of Mexico are safe and which parts aren’t. Cause bad guys don’t have cars and go where they want. How about we focus on the fact that a group of underage American girls in Mexico is just not a good idea in the first place, especially when it costs the taxpayers mucho dinero.
Just keep you eyes closed, your head in the sand, and vote for Obama in 2012. When your kids reach the same age as Obamas let them go to Mexico alone. God forbid anything happens but if does, it will be a simple case of natural selection.
All the people who think like you are nothing without huge bureaucracies protecting then (or providing the illusion of protection) and explaining to you what you should think. I pray for you and your children. If you ever see the light I hope it isn’t too late.
Sci
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:37pmpeople are saying the secret service agents were paid regardless of being in Washington or Mexico – hotels and food costs a lot and she took 12 of her little 13 year old friends with her – ridiculous parenting
Report Post »Kiev500
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:45pmI‘m for privacy for all politician’s kids, but this story makes me wonder how many things we either don‘t hear about or specifically DO hear about because of some political operative’s loose definition of what “security” means. How many things related to the war or diplomacy has the government kept secret because of embarrassment? For instance, the “collateral murder” story made infamous by wikileaks that resulted in the arrest of Army Spc. Bradley Manning, -the machine-gunning of a group of innocent people and subsequently a van full of children by a US helicopter gunship. Bradley Manning was arrested for making the story public. No one was ever arrested for killing those people, or shooting those children, nor for covering up the story. I could go on. More examples include the Jessica Lynch story, the Abu Ghraib prison abuse story, stories about torture of innocent people in secret CIA prisons, the Pat Tillman story, etc. So… should we trust our government? Can we realistically be expected to run a legitimate election without full knowledge of what our government is doing and what it is involved with? This says nothing of the quote “news stories” that we do see or hear about that are actually lies and dishonest propaganda designed to manipulate the public. Someone once said the first casualty of war is the truth. For those powerful organizations who profit by this arrangement, the stage is set for perpetual war. We’ll just call it the War on Terror.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:47pm@So-called Conservative
I’ll ask you the same question put up before. The border states of the US are dangerous too. Are you saying none of the president’s family should visit states like Arizona, Texas, or California, because there are potentially unsafe due to gang or cartel influence… no? Oh, go figure.
Report Post »bumpkin
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 2:44amThese people are just full of secrets, aren’t they? While I would NEVER allow my 13 year old to travel without me (mine are all grown now, thank GOD, but even with men surrounding them with guns, – I wouldn’t trust those men in charge of my tender little girl(s) -it might be important to empty the Obama’s current home of children that could innocently talk to their friends about something detrimental they saw or heard… or, perhaps I am merely theorizing. However, knowing what we know, -am I? Consider this: Before Mr. Obama appointed Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, she represented him in lawsuits as the Solicitor General… now, could he have promised her a seat on the Supreme Court if she could get those petitions denied a hearing? http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/09-8857.htm or, http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/09-6790.htm or, http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/09-724.htm Did Obama appoint Kagan as a reward for getting those petitions against him denied? Did she also do earlier legal work for him? Will she recuse herself in any and all Supreme Court hearings against his eligibility for the Presidency? The man is crawling with secrets. He planted her onto the Supreme Court so she could RULE on those lawsuits if they eventually reached the SC. That reeks of secrecy and ill-gotten gains.
Report Post »SECUREOURBORDERSNOW
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 11:16amGramma B: Exactly right, the entitlement mentality to the nth degree. Exactly how much did this cost American taxpayers. Wait till the summer arrives: Cape Cod, maybe another European vacay, most likely Hawaii and at least several more before November. These people make me sick. Cannot wait until November. Remember when gas was $1.84 in January, 2009. Obama policies have done so much damage to this country as far pushing it down the road to socialism or marxism or communism. So much for the change. When does it end? November, 2012. Anybody but Obama.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:54pmMore crapolla from this phony “do as I say, not as I do” regime and its obedient lapdog Pravda media.
Report Post »kevymac
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:35amEveryone who can afford to send their 13yr old child, along with several of their friends and 25 bodyguards, anywhere, even to Chuckee Cheeze, please raise your hand.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:39amWhat grates on me is that here’s the white house saying the story was pulled for security reasons. So why send your child to a country the feds are saying not to go to in the first place? With 12 of her friends no less? I‘ll tell you exactly what’s going on…it’s an election year and the high living Obamas got caught with their hands in the public piggy bank again…that’s “bad optics”.
Report Post »Johnny Cocheroo
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:25am@Avenger
Right on….
Who in their right mind would let their children go to Mexico on spring break – especially a child of the most powerful man on the planet? There is no reason a girl her age needs to vacation in Mexico city. Plenty of history here in the good ole’ usa.
Why not California, Florida, the Rockies, Maine, the Great Lakes, etc? I am sure the locals would appreciate the money being spent domestically.
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 5:56pmAvengerK
Report Post »They flew on a United Flight at least to Texas, They are staying at the Hotel Camino Real, it really is one of very few upscale hotels in Oaxaca, I would stay there. The hotel is 2-3 blocks from the main Plaza with the oldest Cathedral in North America. So much for security.
MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:36pmGuess this ******* thought it would be safer to send his
Report Post »Daughter to Mexico, rather than Chicago, Hilarious !!!!!!!
I can hear Moochell now, “Let them eat cake” …………….
SREGN
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:33amIt’s good to be the king.
Report Post »tgthompson
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:35amDo as I say not as I do.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:11am“You look like the Pi$$ boy”…”well, you look like a bucket of S-it to me…”
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:56amyes and it’s good to be the Princeless. i could care less where she go’s. i just wish it was not on our dime. BO loves stirring the pot. watch the other hand.
Report Post »cleansweeplibs
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:32amIsn‘t this just a slap in the face of working Americans to see Obama’s kids on Spring Break with not a care in the world. Because of Obama’s energy policies we are suffering though extremely high gas prices that will probably see many American families cancel their vacation plans. This has got to STOP. The King must be thrown out of office. This is not right.
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:43am@cleansweeplibs
“Isn‘t this just a slap in the face of working Americans to see Obama’s kids on Spring Break with not a care in the world.”
(You’re right, Obama‘s 13 year old daughter shouldn’t be allowed to have any fun in her life. I suppose nobody’s kids should be allowed to go on spring break ever, just to please you.)
“Because of Obama’s energy policies we are suffering though extremely high gas prices…”
(So, every person who actually knows about such things says that the President has little or nothing to do with gas prices, which is also what every Republican said when gas prices skyrocketed under Dubya, but you know better than they do. In fact, it was said (can’t remember by whom) that the quickest way to raise gas prices is to keep talking about war with Iran, which every Republican has decided to do. It couldn’t be because they really want gas prices to go up so they can blame it on Obama, could it?)
This has got to STOP. The King must be thrown out of office.
(If he were truly King, you would’ve already been stood up against a wall and shot, and the world would be a better place for it.)
This is not right.
Report Post »(You’re “not right” in the head.)
MrChurch
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:30amI don’t understand what the issue is here. These young girls are entitled to their privacy. No matter who the President is – their sons and daughters should be allowed to live their lives without the threat of intense media scrutiny. It’s not easy being the child of the leader of the free world.
This isn’t corruption, or media manipulation, or deception, or unusual. If it were your children you would have done the same thing. But many of you just hate the guy because he’s him – and your keyboard muscles are a little ridiculous.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:34amYes…of course. She’s travelling with 12 of her friends. How much is this costing the tax payer?
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:42amWhen they are traveling on the tax payer dime, it is damn well my business. I’d love to take a VACATION, but I can’t because I work part-time, I barely can buy food and the little food I buy has to last me a month. I haven’t had a vacation since Dec 2009.
Why are these girls supporting the Mexican economy and not the U.S. economy? I will tell you why, Obama is trying to collaspe our economy and if you can’t see this, you are freaking BLIND.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:42amLet me get this right….Mexico is on a list of countries we’re advised not to visit. Not only do the Obamas send their daughter there, they send her with 12 of her friends and a compliment of Secret service agents. Yeah..sure…the story was pulled for security reasons. It was pulled because the “optics” are bad. Here are the Obamas again living large on the tax payer’s expense. YOU shouldn’t go to Mexico but the Obamas and their entourage of friends can because the security is paid for by the rest of us. Please..stop insulting everyones’ intelligence.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:43amOh, man you name calling little liberals, you always have to make it about hate, race, class warfare. Why don’t you stop that ****, it doesn’t fly, those are your tactics, not ours.
Report Post »kevymac
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:44amIt’s news and we have a right to know how many millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent for this child of “privledged parents’ .
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:49am@mrchurch——-Here is what you need to understand.The people paying for it want to know. You say as parents we would want the same (privacy). well…..when you stop speaking for us then maybe you will understand. There, now you can‘t say you don’t understand.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:49amMrChurch
You must be just another blind liberal. The fact here is she traveled with 12 of her friends to a country that her Daddy’s State Dept said is unsafe and WE had to pay the bill for her and her 12 friends security. I know if Bush had done this with his daughters you would be crying impeachment for WASTING taxpayer money on his spoiled rotten kids. Save the excuses for when Obama gets kicked out of the White House next year. I know we are just a bunch of mean conservatives that are tired of liberal hypocrisy.
Report Post »conservativejon
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:54ama few reasons
1) the state department has called mexico a dangerous place to visit for americans. ok now one of the presidents children are there for vacation. imagian what it would mean for the american people if teh first daughter was killed there. war at the very least.
2) they took 25 agents for protection. think how much this costs the taxpayers. yes they need protection but it would be prudent for the president to pick somewhere safer for a vacation that would require less security.
3) the girl is 13. and she is going on a vacation to mexico with out her parents. while this is their porogative it shows a sevire lack of good judgement and that is an issue for the american people
4) never has the media had to take down a story like this for anything but national security. you can say that having a story of the first daughter vacationing in a dangerous country a matter of national security, but then go back to point 1 and 3. anything less than that is censorship.
5) it shows how out of touch he is with the american people his wife just got back from a beach vacation and now this. this man has the audacity to claim he understands what it is like to be a normal american family. its hypocritical
to properly read and understand the news you must have the ability to critical think and extrapolate from reports. i figured this out 2 minutes after seeing this story. whats scary is not what is found in it but what we might have missed
Report Post »Silver Lining
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:03amIf it was my children they would not be traveling to ANY place that our own State Department has deemed unsafe. My children and 25 of their closest friends would not be traveling on the taxpayer dime. The possibility of something happening to my children would not endanger national security. My children’s friends would not have to worry about being hung out to dry in the event that my spoiled “hostess” found herself in a dangerous position such that all of that security would be focused on her and her alone…not her friends. Finally, my children are not spoiled teeny-boppers who have self-indulgent parents that indulge their every whim.
Report Post »thope1023
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:09amThe issue is that the State Dept has issued a warning for kids not to go to Mexico on spring break…
Yet the Obama‘s don’t live by the rules…they just make them.
Report Post »commonsensesue
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:12amThe issue IS…that YOU (if you pay taxes) and I are PAYING for their little spring vacay trip…that’s what! It is disgusting that our president and his wife would allow their precious daughter to be endangered…and endanger the lives of 25 Secret Service members. And that’s not to mention the lives of 12 other innocent children. WHAT is in the head of a parent who would allow their daughter to go (perhaps being known as the good friend of the POTUS? Ugh).
No 13 year old is entitled to go on a spring vacation, but IF they do, it should be with their parents…and when you are the president, then your daughter should be visiting historical sites in THIS country! Tell me…do you think these girls have seen all of them? Certainly there is somewhere they could visit here. No, instead we have a president who believes he is exempt…the tough economic times are not to include him. Regular Americans can hardly afford to put gas in their car, hardly afford to put food on their table, but HE can send 38 people on an extremely expensive vacation…at OUR EXPENSE!
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:22amChurch lady-
Report Post »Um, well, piss off in the most imaginative way you can come up with. Your man brings them into the fray at every opportunity for his use of “the cause”. Blame your man, shut up the proverbial pie hole, pay your taxes, and remember to vote and vote often if you are a “D”.
Misha
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:24amYou miss the point, which is typical of you libs with your rose colored glasses. It’s less about her being on Spring Break and more about the fact that the Obama Administration has the audacity to “remind” the media they don’t want their daughters in the news. If it was about her safety, she wouldn’t be on an unsupervised vacation in a foreign country. It’s about Obama and his power trip and arrogance – he’ll do what he wants and how dare anyone question him. It is newsworthy and it should be reported without hinderance – Obama is censoring the news not only on this but on many many other things as well. He needs to be IMPEACHED.
Report Post »sixpacktr
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:31amJust so your lib mind can grasp this, it isn’t about Malia. It is about the fact that President Algae and the First Wookie think it is perfectly okay to let their 13 year old daughter travel to a country the US State Dept has issued a warning about without accompanying them. And, to just rub it in our faces, have 12 of her friends go with her, along with 25 Secret Service agents, ALL ON THE TAXPAYERS DIME! What, the vacation in Hawaii 3 months ago wasn’t restful enough? What, the ski vacations last month weren’t restful enough? I don’t understand what a 13 year old needs to have a spring break vacation outside of the home anyway, but that is btw Pres Algae and the First Wookie and their daughters. But it does concern me when they expect ME to pay for THEIR daughter’s vacation!
Tell you what, since you think that this is a non-story. You volunteer to foot the bill for this. Then, I won’t care where she goes or how many she takes with her. It is all private money then. But when you think that your kids are entitled to a vacation on the TAXPAYER’S DIME, when I personally haven‘t been on a vacation for several years because I CAN’T AFFORD IT, then I get a tad upset.
I just pray that the American people will kick these two leeches out of the White House in November. But there are too many stupid people around that think this behavior is just hunky-dory.
Report Post »littleleers1
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:33amNo, we don’t hate him. We DESPISE his policies, lack of judgment, and spending OUR money like it grows on trees. This is yet another vacation for the Obamas. How many now? I have lost count. BHO and Michelle do not care how much of our money they spend on their luxury needs such as vacations while telling us that “we must all sacrifice”, lower our home’s thermostats, and keep air in our tires.
This people consider themselves royalty. America has no royalty. The President is employed, by, we, the People. We pay his salary and we pay his rent in the White House. Yes, we DO have a say how this reckless and irresponsible man handles our affairs and our money!
Report Post »Logicalbabe
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:44amI don‘t hate the guy because he’s him. I detest his policies because they’re bringing down America, which he and his wife hate. They think they’re entitled to 12+ weeks of vacation a year. I wonder how much they’ve cost the taxpayers for their vacations compared to other presidents. I heard the one to Aspen cost over 5 million. It‘s what he thinks he’s entitled to that is wrong. He’s living like the Marxist he is, using the money of the taxpayers to live like the king he thinks he is.
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:48am@COFemale
Hey, sorry if you’re struggling, but according to the Republican mindset, it‘s you’re own fault you’re not rich.
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:55am@sWampy
“those are your tactics, not ours.”
You’re right, so all of those signs portraying Obama as an African witch doctor, and comparing Michelle Obama to an ape, the tea party guy a year ago (or so) who caught flak for making some joke about “spic and span” while talking about Hispanics that took part in a march, or minuteman Shawna Forde shooting a little girl and her father execution style, the magical ***** and watermelon jibes, all of that crap were just figments of our imaginations, because you people are not racist at all.
Report Post »RichiefromNJ
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:08pmMRChurch,
What upsets me is how the taxpayer is funding a spring break for a 13 year-old and her friends while I can’t afford to take a vacation with my kids. He and his family are living a very elitist life style which I am paying for. And it would not matter who the president was – his color, party or anything else – this behavior is unacceptable at this time when WE THE PEOPLE are suffering.
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:30pmMRCHURCH: The issue is hypocrisy. You can’t see it because you choose not to.
Report Post »Cowboy
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 2:01pmWhen Obama stops invading MY privacy, I‘ll stop invading his family’s privacy.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 3:02pmMr. Church ( yuck, yuck ) : You are wrong. I would not send my daughter off to Mexico with her friends and the 25 secret service agents- courtesy of the tax payers ( are the agents the chaperones ?? ) And Vance : The Race Card. What you guys always play when you run out of intelligent explanations ! The Race Card..the Discrimination Card .. and the Blame Card.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:29amJust had Bernie Goldberg on my show; go to his website and read his column today. “It‘s not Obama’s Fault.” http://www.bernardgoldberg.com
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:49amTRON
There is not a search and I could not find the title you mentioned. Maybe my eyes are not plugged in right this morning. Could you give the direct link to that article, please?
gotta walk the dog….
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:28amBesides a stupid decision, what if something happens to one or all of the children or secret service that would be a terrible lose for many and what would the AJ say “I know nothing”? I pray for their safe return. I hope I am wrong that the taxpayers has to pay for all expenses. (dreamer) First Lady, glad you talked about how great your dad was while you were growing up but lady what were you thinking this time?
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:28amI recall an attack on two federal agents in Mexico and the news stated that federal agents weren’t allowed to be armed while in Mexico. Does this mean 25 unarmed agents are protecting these girls or does this mean ONLY agents protecting these girls are allowed to be armed ? I think there is a huge news story here and an even bigger news story of the WH once again trampling on the 1st Amendment.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:26amGuess the Obama vacations give new meaning to the Hillary “ it takes a village” philosophy. If the American tax payer was shafted for this entourage and the accompanying Secret Service, the Obamas must be related to and channeling their Marie Antoinette lineage . Talk about CLUELESS. Disgusting. But am sure this will be twisted into accusing the nasty conservatives of “ exploiting” Obama’s daughter. typical media manipulation by our 99% Bull-oney White House ! And their Lap Dog Media will comply as usual….
Report Post »NobodyowesU
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:25amI hope they don’t come across any of those guns her daddy and his DOJ let walk across the border.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:25amThe story is… The 25 secret service agents, not Malaria… Or whatever her name is !
Report Post »neverending
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:42amMalaria works!
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Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:50amMalaria kills!
Report Post »Crazed Sex Poodle
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:23amAre you sure it’s a vacation…or is she going there to buy cheaper gas?
Report Post »Imagettinsome
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:23amAren’t the kids surrounded by Secret Service? Why would their security be an issue?
Report Post »pugczar
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:22amThen they‘d better not breathe one more stinkin’ word about anyone else’s kids.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:20amIt‘s nice seeing the Obama’s poor parenting skills first hand. Who in their right mind would allow their kids to go to Mexico of all places? Especially after the travel warnings? What could they have been thinking?? Yes, I’m aware of the “25” SS guys… Like terrorists have never, ever gotten beyond them EVER before! Who is Obama going to blame if his daughter is, heaven forbid, hurt there?? BUSH??
Report Post »barber2
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:11amObama does not believe in personal responsibility. He is a ” collectivist.” Thus, he will let the tax payers “ redistribute” for his vacations and then find some other group/ person to blame if there is a bad result from HIS decision…..
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:18amIts all about the children!!..BS Barry, its all about the optics and how it looks to be a failure and a horrible parent. 13 year old in mexico without her parents, costing us untold dollars for protection. How can they spin this when Barry trots his offspring out all the time to make a ‘point’…..Whoever tries to justify this is delusional. Hey, Whitehouse, WE THE PEOPLE, are not as stupid as Barry and Plugs Biden.
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:29amwe must remember all the times he preached to us about transparency
Report Post »barber2
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:08amOLD GUY: Obama lost me on the “transparency” issue when we encountered all of that birth certificate controversy and the still hidden from public view school records. These Obama Democrats are about as transparent as a brick.
Report Post »kfogs1957
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:18amI get this, regardless of what your feelings are about the administration, or a young girl making a trip like this, she needs to be protected. Let’s not do what the left does and take a situation that makes complete sense and turn it into a political football. If this was my daughter, and I was in the President’s shoes, I want my kids to be a non story just from a safety issue. Come on guy’s, we are all smarter than this, don’t stoop to the level of the other side.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:26amI guess Hawaii is to dangerous this time of year, with all the gun running and drug smuggling and ….
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:29amSO you would allow your child to go to an interdicted country? You would allow you children to be poster children for your agenda, but do not criticize them?
Report Post »If these children are to be private, then make them private. No using them as examples.
AvengerK
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:35amShe is travelling with 12 friends. You do the math…how much is this costing the tax payer. Are we expected to forget that Moochelle and the same daughter travelled to Spain with a group of friends also?
Report Post »Misha
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:40amSimpleton – really, you need to use the brain God gave you. This is wrong on so many levels it’s ridiculous. She is 13. Without parents in Mexico. We taxpayers are paying for her SS protection. Have you any idea what a coup it would be for one of those druglords to take out the daughter of the President of the United States? He is not burying the story for her protection – if he gave a crap she wouldn’t be there. He‘s burying the story because of his high and mighty don’t question me attitude. He and Holder need to be yanked from office. Yanked.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:47pmMISHA: Can’t yank Holder. His DOJ is too busy investigating that ” white neighborhood watch dude who shot a black teen in Orlando.” Florida is an important election state and, well, you know how sensitive the Holder DIJ is about any “ racially sensitive” issues. Well, ok, SOME racially sensitive issue ! wink..wink…
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:17amHe’s not only a lousy president, but a lousy parent, as well.
Report Post »Sending your 13 year old daughter to mexico, a country the state department tells Americans is too dangerous to visit.
Oh… I forgot, we don‘t get 25 secret service agents at taxpayers’ expense to go with us.
Still, another indication of the character of the man we reluctantly call “president”.
CatB
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:22amI agree .. and what is also distrubing is that the White House would ask … and MSM and websites would COMPLY with removing the story … how can anyone trust the news? .. answer is YOU CAN’T.
Report Post »nysteve
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:15amWhatever – The Obama girls are insignificant.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:18amHis girls aren’t the news story, it’s the 25 tax payer agents that are the news story.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:25amAgree it was/is the fact that a travel warning has been issued and 25 agents are being used to protect her … our children and grandchildren will be paying for the Obama’s lifestyle for years and years after they are gone from the White House … throw them out in November!
OMG 2012
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:32amActually I think it deals more with the WH telling new organizations what they can and cannot print.
Report Post »Delta D-5-3
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:12amBut I guess it was “ok” to have AN OPEN SEASON ON THE BUSH GIRLS??? Remember the MSM’s relentless “attack” on those girls??
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:25amand the Palin!
Report Post »broken1
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:01amYeah I agree. the Bush girls and Palin children couldn’t walk and chew bubblegum at the same time without the LMSM reporting every word. Just like they left Chelsea Clintoon and the Obummer girls alone they should have done so with them. The double standard was pathetic.
Report Post »Damn the Taxes - Full Speed Ahead
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:54amPlease show me an example of what you callously call “open season” on the Bush girls.
Still waiting…..
Thats because you do not have an example of the media ambushing the Bush girls.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:51pmDAMN: How about showing me when the Bush twins traveled abroad with a bunch of their friends which required the Secret Service….will wait ’til the cows come home for your response to that one.
Report Post »johnabs
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 2:17pmU.S. Embassy Asks Bush Twins to Leave Country [Argentina]
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Freebird
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 3:28pmAh let them have fun, if they have problems they can blame their stupid father.
What do they expect when the father is a world renowned terrorist.
Posted by: Billie Bob | November 27, 2006, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm
Just one of many interesting comments made about the Bush daughters traveling out of the country in the above mentioned article.
Funny,it’s different now when the shoes on the other foot.They Obamanites don’t want their children mentioned unless it serves their agenda.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:12amALL THIRTEEN of them and their entourage! Sickening, even as WE are warned not to vacation there, it’s too dangerous? Please, as IF we could afford this kind of vacation or even the gas to go ANYWHERE?
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:11amSo, does this mean we can get the government to stop monitoring us ?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:33amNot even in your own home!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8JNFr_j6kdI
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:46amThanks for the link, CATB. We are so screwed.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:11amThe question that needs to be asked is why the kids are down in the most dangerous area of Mexico when the State Department tells other Americans not to go? I think Obama is hoping something will happen…Nov is not that far away.
Report Post »Delta D-5-3
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:14amYEP! GREAT QUESTION! Who in there right mind would send there daughter to Mexico with the kind of violence only seen in countrys in the Middle East?? You have to ask yourself………why??
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:16amAre you suggesting Obama is willing to sacrifice these girls for an election ?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:18amI don’t care if they want to send them to Yemen for vacation, I just don’t like paying for it.
Report Post »kralspaces
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:21amAre you kidding? There is no ‘hope’ anymore. If he wants something to happen, he just makes it happen. Now what are you implying?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:37amGONZO…don’t forget..she’s travelling with 12 friends as well. It’s not unlike the trip to Spain with Moochelle and her friends.
Report Post »Liberal_Teacher
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 2:38pmIt’s not the “most dangerous part” of Mexico. As a matter of fact, it’s so safe that there is NO State Department travel advisory on Oaxaca. Please get your facts straight.
Delta D-5-3
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:10amWhat a surprise. This WH is absolutely corrupt to the core.
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:02pm@Delta D-5-3
They‘re corrupt because they don’t want details of their 13 year old daughter’s movements made public? Are you really too stupid to figure out why things need to be this way.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 3:19pmVance: No that is not the reason they are being called corrupt. Think harder…..
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:09amThat’s fine Kristina, we don’t want pictures. Just tell us what it’s costing the taxpayers.
Report Post »Thors Hammer
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:19amI may be old-fashioned, but why is a 13 yr old going on ‘spring break’ anywhere? And let’s send along 25 secret service people (at no small expense to taxpayers) to send her to a place we’ve been warned to not go to. As usual, total arrogance!
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Posted on March 20, 2012 at 1:14pm@thor
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