ZRX1200
14 years ago
100 k ?

That's alot of hotwings.....
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DrafterX
14 years ago
no Hotwings for X.... 😞
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DrMaddVibe
14 years ago
President Obama to stay in D.C. while Michelle Obama, daughters head to Hawaii
By David Nakamura

First lady Michelle Obama and first daughters Sasha and Malia are headed to Hono­lulu on Friday for a 17-day vacation — without the president.

At least for now.

With the White House and Congress embroiled in a standoff over a spending bill and payroll tax cut proposal that could lead to a government shutdown Saturday, Obama appears ready to make good on his promise to stay in Washington until the issues are resolved.

The White House announced Wednesday that the rest of the first family would leave Washington Friday evening after delivering toys and gifts to the Marines Corps’ Toys for Tots program. As of now, the president will not be on the plane with them, unless an agreement is reached in the next 36 hours.

The Obama administration is pushing Congress to approve a short-term funding bill to keep government in business until a longer-term spending resolution can be worked out.



In both of his first two years in office, Obama briefly delayed his vacation to remain in Washington while Congress completed its business.


In 2009, Obama waited an extra day to be sure Congress approved his landmark health-care legislation. Last year, Obama joined his family five days late as he shepherded two legislative bills through Capitol Hill, extending tax cuts and repealing a military ban on openly gay service members.

In some ways, perhaps it would be good for the president if he doesn’t head West quite as early as planned. As is always the case with presidential vacations, Obama already is being attacked by opponents for planning to take a 17-day holiday.

Read more on PostPolitics.com
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ZRX1200
14 years ago
Poor Barry..........its tough being a 1%er.
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HockeyDad
14 years ago
Occupy Hawaii!
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DrafterX
14 years ago
One 747 full of hotwings wouldn't have lasted 17 days... 😟
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ZRX1200
14 years ago
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Rclay
14 years ago
A++ for the thread title. funny.. mucho Cómico
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DrMaddVibe
14 years ago
Obama: I'm going to Disney World

By Mark K. Matthews, Jason Garcia and Sara K. Clarke, Orlando Sentinel

2:29 p.m. CST, January 17, 2012
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will visit Walt Disney World on Thursday to "unveil a strategy that will significantly help boost tourism and travel," a White House aide said today.

The president will deliver his remarks inside the Magic Kingdom, with Disney's iconic Cinderella Castle as backdrop.

It is the first of what are sure to be many election-year visits to Florida for Obama. The president carried the nation's largest swing state in 2008, but he faces a much heavier lift in 2012 amid a state unemployment rate that remains above the national average.

"We understand that he [Obama] is going to trumpet the value of travel generally and improve facilitation for international travel, especially from China and Brazil," said Blain Rethmeier, senior vice president of public affairs at the U.S. Travel Association.

In Brazil, where citizens have a reputation for loving Orlando's theme parks, there are four consulate offices to conduct the required in-person interviews for people who want a visa to visit the U.S. That means families could have to travel several hundred miles before they are even approved to travel to the U.S.

But a recent Congressional appropriations bill gave the Secretary of State the authority to develop a pilot program to use videoconferencing to conduct remote visa interviews for leisure and business visitors. Such video conferencing would be high on Disney's priority list, as it would likely cut the expense for international travelers who are interested in coming to see the Mouse.

Air Force One is expected to land at Orlando International Airport at 11:40 a.m. Thursday and the president's motorcade will take him directly to Disney World. He will leave Central Florida less than three hours later, at 2:15 p.m.

A congressional aide, not authorized to speak on-the-record, said Capitol Hill expects the White House to make permanent a program called Global Entry, which cut down clearance times at customs check-points for "pre-approved, low-risk travelers" arriving in the U.S.

There also is the understanding that Obama would tout new hires of consulates for Brazil and China — a move the State Department announced last year and one that could boost by 1 million the number of visas processed annually in each country.

These policy changes are the latest efforts by the Obama administration to get around gridlock in Congress through executive actions. And the highly-public nature of these moves doesn't hurt his re-election bid either.

It would be hard for Obama to pick a higher-profile setting than Disney for a tourism announcement. The giant resort draws more than 45 million visitors a year to its four theme parks.

Disney is bracing for heavy security around the Magic Kingdom, its biggest and best-known park and the expected stage for Obama. The resort has reduced the park's operating hours for the day, pushed back the start time of a daily parade to move it further away from Obama's visit and prohibited employees from using entrance passes for the day. It has also imposed parking restrictions at a nearby hotel, Disney's Contemporary Resort, which will be used as a media staging area.

At the same time, Disney has extended hours and added entertainment at its other three parks in hopes of steering guests away from the Magic Kingdom. Resort workers have also distributed in-room letters to people staying in Disney hotels advising them of the changes.

And it is in the midst of printing new time guides for the day that will be distributed beginning tomorrow.

The president's event will begin at 12:35 p.m.

Mid-January is one of the slowest periods of the year for Disney. But there are still likely to be tens of thousands of tourists in the Magic Kingdom when Obama delivers his speech.

It doesn't appear, however, that Obama will get much love from local politicians. Aides to U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said the Florida Democrat was unlikely to attend because the office "got word too late" of the visit and had meetings planned in other parts of the state. And Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer is scheduled to be in Washington that day for a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/os-obama-disney-visit-20120117,0,4346027.story 



Why is he going to Disney World?




Because he's f'n goofy!
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dubleuhb
14 years ago
Last Paragraph says it all, no one wants to be seen with this clown.
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DrMaddVibe
14 years ago
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DrMaddVibe
14 years ago
Michelle Obama Decides to Ski Aspen

by KEITH KOFFLER on FEBRUARY 18, 2012, 8:17 AM


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.

Just last August, she sojourned on Martha’s Vineyard, and the month before she travelled to southern Africa for a trip that mixed official business with tourist outings like an African safari. In July 2010, she took an exorbitant excursion to the southern coast of Spain, flying out with friends and family on a large jet that often serves as Air Force 2 and then staying at a ritzy hotel.

What’s more, as the government struggles to cut the deficit, the symbolism of a first lady jetting out to Aspen with a security entourage at taxpayers’ expense to ski would seem to send the wrong message about cutting back on spending.

For her last two Hawaii vacations, Michelle left separately from her husband at extra cost to taxpayers in order to ensure she got the full vacation while the president was forced to remain in Washington a few extra days to finish work with Congress.

President Obama last summer called for “an attitude of shared sacrifice” to solve the nation’s deficit woes.

Michelle this weekend is reportedly staying at the Aspen home of a wealthy Obama backer from Chicago. She held a fundraiser at the same residence last July.


http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/02/18/michelle-obama-decides-ski-aspen/ 
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HockeyDad
14 years ago
Let them eat cake!

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DrafterX
14 years ago
🤔 🤔
I flew in and out of Denver the other day... no hot wings at the airport... coincidence..?? 😕
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dubleuhb
14 years ago
I wonder if Media Matters goes through the same scrutiny, doubt it.
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MACS
14 years ago
Wow. Even the Obama apologists aren't even bothering to apologize... they're just antagonizing and redirecting.

The guy is a TOOL. Not a good tool, either, like a snap-on or craftsman... he's more like a harbor freight tool.
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