More than a Vacation a Month for Obamas in 2013
8:36 AM, Mar 26, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER
In the first three months of the year, members of the first family have been on three vacations, averaging a vacation a month. And now it's being reported that the first daughters are on a spring break vacation in the Bahamas.
The Obamas began the new year in Hawaii. "President Obama departed Hawaii this morning for Washington, after spending NINE days vacationing with family and friends in his native state. Here’s a quick look at how he spent his vacation," ABC reported on January 6, 2013.
"Obama played FIVE rounds of golf with SEVEN different partners, spending roughly THIRTY hours on TWO different courses on Oahu. The president made FIVE early morning trips to the gym at the nearby Marine Base at Kaneohe Bay. The First Family spent TWO afternoons enjoying the beach on the base and went for ONE hike to a local waterfall. The president spent ONE father-daughter afternoon with Malia and Sasha, bowling and going out for shave ice, an annual tradition."
Then the first lady and their daughters vacationed in Aspen over President's Day weekend. "First Lady Michelle Obama arrived in Aspen on Friday afternoon and is here with her daughters for a ski vacation," Aspendailynews.com reported in February. "Few details about her trip were available. Sources said she is staying at the home of Jim and Paula Crown, owners of the Aspen Skiing Co. She is reportedly skiing at Buttermilk today, where the Crowns, of Chicago, own a home on the Tiehack side."
While the rest of the family was in Colorado, Obama went to Florida for a golf weekend. "It was not his motivation, certainly, but President Obama is honoring his modern predecessors on this Presidents’ Day weekend by doing what many of them liked to do on breaks: chill out in Florida with the guys — including, in his case, one of golf’s most famous guys, Tiger Woods," the New York Times reported in February.
And now it's being reported that the first daughters are on Spring Break in the Bahamas. "Sasha and Malia Obama are quietly vacationing at the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, Breitbart News has learned," a report reads.
Of course, there's no reason to begrudge the first family for enjoying a good vacation. But at a time when the White House is closed to the public, it all might seem a little odd.
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And now it's being reported that the first daughters are on Spring Break in the Bahamas. "Sasha and Malia Obama are quietly vacationing at the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, Breitbart News has learned," a report reads
•Bert Atkinson Jr. March 26, 2013
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Remember that time you spent your teenage spring breaks in 5-star resorts just laughing it up on the beach with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Secret Service agents watching over you?
No?
According to Breitbart and a variety of firsthand accounts from the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, it appears as though Sasha and Malia Obama are spending their spring break living it up in the Caribbean Community.
Now, to be clear, this is not to criticize the Obama’s daughters. They are just children; Malia is only 14-years-old, and Sasha is only 11.
Now, to be even clearer, this is to criticize the Obama administration. While sequestration has ‘forced’ the White House to blame the GOP for closing its doors to tours for the public and jeopardizing the solvency of the famous White House Easter Egg Roll http://www.ijreview.com/2013/03/4234...nding-matters/ the man-in-charge can somehow pay for his daughters to take this lavish vacation.
So how much does this vacation cost? We don’t know for certain, but as Breitbart points out, Judicial Watch discovered that Malia Obama’s spring break trip to Mexico last year cost taxpayers $115,000 due to accompanying Secret Service protection. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...hamas-Atlantis
Once again, this is not meant to be an attack on the Obama children. But, as the President demonizes the GOP for supposedly ‘deliberately handing out pink slips’ to those affected by sequestration, is it really good PR for the Obama’s to send their children on a vacation only the 1% can afford? As time goes on, it seems more and more like sequestration was nothing but a chess piece in the political game Obama is playing in order to squash the GOP, and that is not in the best interest of America.
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[i]comments
Shouldn't Mr. Obama's "shared sacrifice" mean that some of the 1st families vacations should be stay-cations so the secret service can afford to keep the White House self guided tours open to the citizens of the country? We the people are sacrificing in our lives because of the economic policies of this administration, isn't it time for our politicians and their familes to pony up their "fair share" of "shared sacrifice" as well?
BTW Mr. President, Leaders LEAD-most noticably by example, Leading from behind is called FOLLOWING!
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Agree. If they pay for it, they can send their kids anywhere they like. He is nothing more than a liar, liar, liar and is destroying this country day by day. Too bad our elected officials, Dem or Rep have no backbone to stand up to him and say enough is enough. Pelosi, Reid, Feinstein are just as guilty. And of course the media is just as much at fault, they only broadcast the positive -- or should I say agree with his lies. America, wake up!! We are drowning and no one will throw us a life jacket.
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Still think hes paying for it out of pocket?
See number 21... http://theintrepid.blogspot.com/2008...ate-white.html
Here is how much he makes.. http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/pensionFARQ.html
here is how often he leaves... http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...13_711998.html
Any more questions ladies and gents?
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Hi Danielle Bonner-Peck; lol your so right, your check list just about covers everything he does and doesn't do, and he still gets paid for it, if you worked for an establishment and didn't do the work you were hired to do, do you think they would pay you, I don't think so, and this is what this POTUS is doing ~ living a lavish life him and his family, and his wife hates americans, figure that one out, I like your check list by the way, it tell's us exactly what he is and does.
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Where is MO, why didn't she go too......I am a mother of two girls and I would NEVER send my kids on vacation out of the country with out me!
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In the past, most presidents used Camp David but with teen girls, I get that would be boring. But Mr. Stock, understand what some are saying, YES, we pay him a salary...out of that he should pay personal expenses.
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I agree with Anna-It's his paycheck- let him do want he wants with it. But I am sick of picking up the tab for vacations. There should be some sort of benefit package for the pres. that limit tax payer paid vacations to 4 weeks per year within the US. After that, they are on their own. The office should be treated the way a company pays its people.
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Sad the children of the real taxpayers can't tour the WH on their spring break---but the Obama's children can live it up in a resort.
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