Michael Reagan, Floyd Reports
The members of the media who savaged my stepmother Nancy Reagan for buying new china for the White House – dinnerware that will last for decades – have for the most part either ignored the cost and the significance of Michelle Obama’s regal visit to Spain or downplayed it.
Those who criticized this display of Mrs. Obama’s royal pretensions – the cartoonish depiction of the First Lady as Marie Antoinette – she of “Let them eat cake” infamy, reaching for a sweet, got right to the heart of the matter. Others simply went into ecstasy over her comings and goings, all but swooning over her meeting with genuine royalty, the King and Queen of Spain.
It was said that after having endured an unannounced visit to her Newport estate from Jackie Kennedy and little Caroline, a dowager from one of the nation’s economic royalty sniffed, “Who were these people?” I suspect His Spanish Majesty at least harbored similar thoughts.
Presenting themselves as “private tourists,” the First Lady and her vast entourage of guests and Secret Service agents spent a lot of the public’s money.
Rather than lowering herself to use public transportation for herself and her large entourage of pals, she used Air Force planes. Cost? According to CBS News, a whopping $146,000 round-trip cost for the U.S. Air Force 757 jets. This, the network explained, did not include the cost of time on the ground.
The tab for lodging about 70 security types – Secret Service and U.S. military – amounted to something on the order of $95,000 in hotel costs. In addition, security personnel got a government allowance of $273 per day. Added to that tab were the costs of keeping the dozen-or-so cars in her motorcade chugging along.
It’s not the money alone that should rile her fellow Americans. As I see it, the outrageous aspect of the whole episode is the time she picked to go jetting off to Spain with her daughter and some 40 close friends. As she hobnobbed with Spanish royalty and went sightseeing with her coterie of chums, back home unemployment stood at 9.5 percent; last month alone some 131,000 of her fellow Americans lost their jobs.
She has been called “tone deaf” by some media observers, suggesting that she sees herself as being above it all. The hubbub about a pricey coat put together by a designer who also caters to the illustrious anti-American Spice Girls certainly so indicates. After all, she has to be suitably clad when she appears in public, even if the public wears street clothes while standing in the unemployment lines.
Her behavior has been repeatedly mirrored by her husband, who displays his grief over the plight of the victims of the Gulf oil spill by hitting a little white ball (some symbolism here?) around various exclusive golf courses from coast to coast.
Surely America’s would-be royal couple must realize that their behavior will most certainly cost a lot more than the public’s money. If ever there was a one-term presidency, this one seems on the road to becoming a reality.
Moreover, Barack Obama’s loyal constituency on Capitol Hill is going to be the first to pay the piper. November promises to be the equivalent of the storming of the Bastille, with hordes of Obama supporters on Capitol Hill suffering the electoral equivalent of a very sharp guillotine blade.
Considering the fact that Obama is one smart cookie, the penalty due and payable for his behavior and that of his spouse cannot have escaped him, unless of course he is delusional and is convinced they can get away with all this “let ‘em eat cake” business.
We’ll see.
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To Michael: to even mention your beautiful, accomplished, intelligent, patriotic,incredible stepmother,Mrs. Nancy Reagan in the same sentence with this afirmitive action recepient is beyond the pale. Your parents made me proud to be an American. Many ,many women in this country strive to be anything at all like Mrs.Reagan. The current president's wife is an embarressment not only to women but to anyone in this United States with a brain. I can only imagine what dignitaries outside this country must think of her. Makes me shudder…..
Money can't buy you class!
MIchelle is the epitomy of classless and tasteless. she actually brings out the ole redneck racist in me and makes me say, "well. ya'll this is just a T N D."
When, when when will they be gone?????
THEY BOTH HAVE THE SAME AGENDA: weary the american people, overwhelm them with joblessness, homelessness, increased taxes, government forced regulations…(THIS IS HOW ISLAM WORKS… BY FORCE…NOT CHOICE… THINK ABOUT IT) hiring more irs people to keep stealing money from taxpayers… (wages are constitutionally not federally taxable) read the back of the w2 form YOU VOLUNTEERED TO PAY TAXES… but it is unconstitutional to tax wages… wages is not income… do some research… anyway… get involved in your local political operations. check out those who you plan on voting for… there are democrats and SOME REPUBLICANS who are members of the socialist party and are in favor of THE NEW WORLD ORDER… SO WATCH OUT WHO YOU VOTE FOR… google the new world order, the one world government and also read on line The Creature From Jekyll Island… and pray like never before. We can make the changes that are based on True American values… we can hinder this evil world take over… i still dont like the whitehouse dishes but michelles actions … especially taking all these cronies is uncalled for … unacceptable, un lady like but then again she is the FIRST… ILLEGAL … LADY (cant keep guns from criminals nor can you change the behavior of selfishness …without a heart change…) regardless, lets not stay angry but pray for the mercy of God to reach these deceived people…
I LOVED PRESIDENT REGAN… LOVED HIM BOMBING KADAFEE… NO BS… MISS YOU MR PRESIDENT.
It appears that Michelle Obama got a chin inplant sometime before moving into the white house. Look at the before white house vs after white house pictures.
This entire administration makes me want to puke. It also makes me sick that even IF Obama is not reelected they are set for life on tax payers dollars, pension, health insurance, security (well, the security doesn't bother me). It doesn't matter if he does a good job for the American people or turns the country into a rat hole, he and his family still win big!
It is funny how money can change someone. In 2006 BamBam couldn't afford cab fair. Now that they struck it rich by way of capitalism they are above middle class. To me they pretty much are no class. It is as if the White House is being occupied by the Black Clampetts. Wait until the white wash runs off and they all of a sudden aren't being invited to any of the Kerry boat outings on his yacht the Purple Heart, or what ever it is.
" The love of money is the root of all evil! "
Michele Obummer is a phony race baiting negroe she pretends she wants kids to eat healthy and if you look at her big ass you wonder if her mother had her eating healthy.That garden she grew on the White House property was a failure so she ran to the market to make it look like she and the kids grew it.She got a good education by being black and with her husband the community organizer got some good paying jobs for doing nothing.This made her tired so she needed vacations so she could get energized and her bozo husband had to go because of all the golf and basketball he was playing.In the end it's the fault of Bush.
She is a black supremist…
Thank God they didn't post pictures of Michelle in a bikini. (full, nausea induced body shiver.)
Yes those 2 low lifes has certainly made it big on the tax payers backs. It is still hard for my brain to comprehend that there are enough damn stupid Americans to vote for that low life. If they had used their heads if they being idiots could have seen just what this sob was going to do. As for this ugly varmint( he/she) he lives wth anything she tries to do it will not help her looks in any way. When I hear him called President, her first lady and them first family I really and truly want to PUKE!!!! I have names for them but I can assure you they are not the names previously mentioned!!
something has to be done to restore the once great nation of ours. these people actually make my stomach feel ill, i can't watch this p o s non-citizen speak. i'm tellin ya,,,,something is gonna happen, and it won't be pretty for these traitors. they are not listening now, and later will be to late. GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.
Barry the commie dictator wannabe and his homely comrade wife don't give one damn about perceptions.
They and their leftist, socialist, progressive, democrat, liberal, Muslim loving gang members (read
Pelosi, Reid, Soros, Emanuel, etc) are convinced they can tear this country down in a short
time and to hell with what anyone who wants to make them accountable for their disgusting and illegal
actions. Wake up America!!! There is an alien in the White House and he doesn't like this country that
we love, The United States of America. Wake up, and get out in November and vote this pile of
crap out of our government. God Bless The USA.
Well, gosh! Whatever are all the complaints about? Doesn't Royalty "DESERVE THIS" …and even more? They sure seem to think so! It does get old! We're supposed to tighten our belts while they spend our hard earned money as though it belongs in their private coffers! The Reagans inspired pride in being America. Now we have this sort of thing in our White House. How far we have fallen! Makes a person almost want to cry!
I think the king and queen of spain was in shock when the obama crowd showed up. They have never had such a visit from the lower class then them. The obama's think that visit would lift them up in the polls I expect.
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