You’ve got to hand it to Michelle Obama. It’s one thing to talk about shared sacrifice and fairness. It’s another to live it. Oh wait. Never mind. She’s jetted off to Aspen, Colorado with her daughters to ski and hobnob with the 1% over this President’s Day weekend. I wonder what this trip is costing us.
Michelle Obama has embarked on a skiing vacation with her daughters in Aspen, Colorado, according to the Aspen Daily News.
The first lady, who just returned last month from 17 days of relaxation in Hawaii, is skiing in Colorado on Presidents’ Day Weekend for the second year in a row. Last year she went to Vail.
Michelle’s decision to ski out West again instead of hitting slopes closer to Washington would seem an inopportune choice for a first lady who is helping her husband campaign on issues of “fairness.”
The Obama campaign has set itself up as the defender of the poor and the middle class against the “One Percent,” a theme which clashes with the image a first lady who is taking frequent and exclusive vacations.
The first lady plans to keep this vacation low-key and has no public events scheduled. Gee, I wonder why.
Update: Linked by Scared Monkeys and First Street Journal – thanks!
Update 2: Frugal Café linked – thanks! (Be sure to check out the video.)
Tags: Aspen, Colorado, michelle obama, ski, vacation
How DARE you insinuate that “Her Royal Highness and her two Princess’s” should not enjoy the fruits of her royal status and mingle with…ugh…common folk. It is uncouth simpletons like you who would turn our glorious empire to what…a republic?
Lady Pelosi and Sir Reid laugh at your foolishness. It is good that His Most Royal Highness King Obama does not read this drivel, but instead is learned beyond your comprehension with wisdom gleened from the communist manifesto. Otherwise, it would be the stocks for you.
I snap my fingers under your nose!
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Michelle Obama is spending the night 4 blocks from my house here N Aspen.
What the occupy & the tea party movements have in common is the message of: “Enough!” Or:
Dear 1%/big govt, treat us little people with dignity.
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I’d like to walk 4 blocks over from my house to my neighbor billionaire Paula Crown’s house [owner Aspen Ski Co/JP Morgan Chase.....] with a big fat Texas white trash sign on my pickup & park it in front of her drive like they do in real democracies down in South America that says:
…Dear Michelle,
Hope u r having fun skiing @ my limousine liberal neighbor’s “rustic” Petit Trianon. Are u talking art? [ROFL: Paula is on the Presidential Arts Committee & banned @ 1 time or another from Aspen Skico property: a song, a singer, a local newspaper and a whistleblower.] Or weapons? [not so ROFL: The Crowns' big $ is General Dynamics, a merchant of death that sells to both sides.]
btw, what’s the name of that song Skico banned?
I’m gonna B frank. We’ve figured u elites out. Games up. We r the 99%. Enough.
[google Chris Hedges 4 more on this.] If you take a morning walk on Monday, I’d suggest u take a left on Tiehack and go 3 blocks 2 my house & see the sculpture we [all 27 of us N occupy aspen--hey we grew!], made last week. It has lots of references to the Revolution, both American &…. French. We even made a guillotine and hung a barbie from the 3rd floor window. your host, our local Marie Antoinette tried to get the last sculpture removed—it was public art in a public place—really LOL —the City sent me a letter asking me to remove it. It gets funnier. The City copied two VP’s & a CEO from SKico on it.
Can u say company town?
but then your husband signed a law that allows him to send Americans 2 Guantanamo without trial without warrant without limits on time….& I love my community here in Aspen so I resort to the power of the net. besides, the hardware store gossip was that the X-tra visitors in town looked like Chicago thugs. not the crown royals —the secret service.
my european friends remark: u americans r only free 2 do what they tell u. ironically, the aspen art museum summed it up nicely in a recent exhibition on Crown owned property: AMERIKA
little people, unite. occupy the tea party
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Heh…
It’s the stocks for a whole lot of us anyway.
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I’m just wondering how many liberals are going to read the above and not get the sarcasm ;P
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Do they make chair lifts that wide?
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Ahhhh HAhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
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Ego-Bloated Flotus Gorges On Vacations
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“Gorges On Vacations” … er, I think she gorges on a full time basis. Who is responsible for FLOTUS’s nutrition plan?
Maybe she should try a controlled diet instead of criticizing the schools and restaurants for quality and quantity!
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[...] the Lonely Conservative states, what a shocker that the First Lady wants to keep this vacation low key and below the radar. [...]
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She’s more Marie Antoinette all the time, isn’t she? People do notice these things. And not all voters are in the 1% who can explain that away; even many Democrats are fed up with the talk about “skin in the game” and noticing it’s never the OBAMA skin…
Do these people know about Camp David????
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It’s not easy for Chelle’ to find something large enough to play on with that behemoth butt. I did hear that avalanche warnings had been posted in that area. “Got to be jelly, cause jam don’t shake like Tsunamis.”
I’ll bet that $50,000 in frillies is being put to its’ intended use this weekend with BO not there.
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Would any conservative/Republican have weathered such misbehavior?
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Poor child of the forgotten. Douche Nozzles like you are a great reason for retroactive abortion!
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And yet I noticed that while you were ranting about us 99%er’s, you never did explain how the obama’s can claim to be one of us and yet go on taxpayer paid elitist vacations. How is that? Or were we just supposed to accept what our “superiors” do is beyond our comprehension and behave ourselves and be quiet?
You belittle and insult quickly and easily, but you never give any practical debate or reasons for your parties actions. Please go back to your handler and ask him to inform you on how to conduct an open, honest debate. I know you won’t get an answer because you and your type never bothered learning this skill, since I’ve never seen it displayed by a liberal.
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Oh yes…
What we used to call Michelle’s conduct was “living high off the hog”, which means having a great time at somebody else’s expense.
In this case with michelle, it the taxpayer paying for her good good times.
Glad to see you drop by liberalmann, it was getting a bit quiet around here. Hopefully, you may someday start engaging in the conversation… instead of just flinging trash around and name-calling.
But I’m not holding my breath… you have a lot of maturing to do before that.
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[...] No Shared Sacrifice By Michelle Obama as She Skis Aspen [...]
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[...] The Lonely Conservative, No Shared Sacrifice By Michelle Obama as She Skis Aspen: You’ve got to hand it to Michelle Obama. It’s one thing to talk about shared sacrifice and [...]
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