Priorities
By Mitch Berg
Claudia Rosett on the real story behind the Obama daughters’ vacation:
It’s not actually about the First Daughter, per se, who according to serially vanishing stories has been vacationing with a group of friends in Mexico — a country for which the State Department just last month issued a new warning to all U.S. travelers.
It’s about the judgment of the White House, which apparently deems there is “no vital news interest” to this story.
How so?
Read the whole thing.
Think “patricians versus plebeians”, and the media that props our Patrician President up.
Get back to me.
March 21st, 2012 at 8:37 am
What a coup for a Mexican drug cartel to kidnap or God forbid, kill the daughter of the POTUS. She could have a whole team of Secret Service agents with her and still have a bad end. What the hell are they thinking? Every day this moron proves how freaking stupid he actually is!
On the other hand, I believe that any cartel leader with half a brain would not be that stupid and would figure that even though the libturds decry wars and their normal first reaction would be to sue them, the possibility that 20 SEAL and 20 Army Ranger Teams would be dropped into Mexico to take them out!
March 21st, 2012 at 10:24 am
Don’t you have a team of Secret Service agents surrounding you? (I bet they even have concealed carry permits)
March 21st, 2012 at 11:12 am
Why Mexico? They could have gone to any place in the world. Australia is nice this time of year.
March 21st, 2012 at 11:22 am
Am I the only one who thinks it’s strange that a 6th grader jets off alone on “spring break” in Mexico with her friends (not to mention 25 Secret Service agents)?
March 21st, 2012 at 1:34 pm
Am I the only one who thinks it’s strange that a 6th grader jets off alone on “spring break” in Mexico with her friends (not to mention 25 Secret Service agents)?
The story I read was that this is a school field trip and there are adult chaperones in addition to the Secret Service detail. Still it seems a bit extravagant for a school to sponsor a field trip to a foreign country during spring break for a thirteen year old*.
As little as I care, I wouldn’t care as much if we as taxpayers weren’t picking up the costs for what appears to be yet another Obama foreign vacation.
* Field trips in my experience were usually little more than an excuse to get out of school for the day. One that occurs when school is normally not in session and in which the kids are travelling to a hot tourist location seems more like a vacation without mom and dad to me with the “educational” component being an afterthought.
March 21st, 2012 at 1:40 pm
Not strange. These are the Obamas. Not to be confused with the Tudors, http://www.sho.com/site/tudors/home.do
although there seems to be some similarity.
March 21st, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Of course, the same media that had no problem reporting on the doings of Barbara and Jenna Bush scrubs skweeky-cleen when Barack’s family is the issue.
March 21st, 2012 at 3:20 pm
Field trips to Mexico? When I was in elementry school, we took field trips to the post office, a bakery, and the local hospital. Oh, and a bean cannery. Things must be different when you are a member of the 1%.
March 21st, 2012 at 3:37 pm
Does it seem kind of odd to anyone else that a school would schedule a “field trip” during “Spring Break”? It kind of makes me wonder since this is a private school, if it might not be a “benefit” to the parents who pay tuition to not have to keep their kids home during the week that other students have off.
March 21st, 2012 at 8:36 pm
Big deal, pffftttttt…. I hope the Obama kids have fun! (lighten up…)
Flagg, my cousin partied with the Bush twins, that lucky bastard. (Yes, they could party.) (college chicks… hmmm, Jimmeh Carter’s head woulda asploded… )