For only the second time in my adult life, I am not ashamed of my country. I want to thank the hardworking American people for paying $242 thousand dollars for my vacation in Spain .
My daughter Sasha, several long-time family friends, my personal staff and various guests had a wonderful time. Honestly, you just haven't lived until you have stayed in a $2,500.00 per night private 3-story villa at a 5-Star luxury hotel.
Thank you also for the use of Air Force Two and the 70 Secret Service personnel who tagged along to be sure we were safe and cared for at all times. By the way, if you happen to be visiting the Costa del Sol, I highly recommend the Buenaventura Plaza restaurant in Marbella ; great lobster with rice and oysters! I'm ashamed to admit the lobsters we ate in Martha's Vineyard were not quite as tasty, but what can you do if you're not in Europe ...just grin and bear it?
Air Force Two (which costs $11,351 per hour to operate according to Government Accounting Office reports) only used 47,500 gallons of jet fuel for this trip and carbon emissions were a mere 1,031 tons of CO2. These are only rough estimates, but they are close. That's quite a carbon footprint as my good friend Al Gore would say, so we must ask the American citizens to drive smaller, more fuel efficient cars and drive less, too, to offset ours!
I know times are hard, and millions of you are struggling to put food on the table and trying to make ends meet. So I do appreciate your sacrifices and do hope you find work soon.
I was really exhausted after Barack took our family on a luxury vacation in Maine a few weeks ago. I just had to get away for a few days.
Cordially,
Michelle (Moochelle) Obama
P.S. Thank you as well for the $2 BILLION dollar trip to India from which we just returned!
P.P.S. Thank you, too, for that vacation trip to Martha's Vineyard . It was fabulous! And thanks for the smaller jet that took our dog Bo to Martha's Vineyard so we and the children could have him with us while we were away from the White House for eleven days. After all, we couldn't take him on Air Force One because he might pee on some wires or something.
P.P.P.S Oh, I almost forgot to say thanks also for our two-week trip to Hawaii at Christmas. That 7,000 square foot house was great!
Love 'ya! Remember we all have to share the pain of these economic times!
You are so welcome Michelle! I'm working very hard to help you on your next well deserved vacation (I may be a little short for a while since I had to close my business) but I'm sure I'll find something soon since the economy is turning around so quickly.
Respectfully,
Your Golden Goose
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
CriticalBill wrote: You are so welcome Michelle! I'm working very hard to help you on your next well deserved vacation, I may be a little short for a while since I had to close my business!
lol
I knew there was a laugh in this thread somewhere...I think you priced yourself out of business CB- Just like everyone else in America you gotta compete with 3rd world wages to make it nowadays. Now if you had lived under a bridge i'm sure your business would have survived
AspenValley wrote: I can understand people bashing Obama, even viciously.
But i just think bashing the President's wife is really, really classless.
Me too....I could probably accept it coming from another woman, but not from a couple of "guys." Don't they know that it looks bad? How were they raised and what did thier fathers teach them about how to treat women?
Dispicable
And then guys like Viking wonder why to they don't have a woman to have and to hold, to love and to cherish
Martin Ent Inc wrote: Coming from you that is Priceless...
Lets leave the women and children out of it shall we? We didn't make sport of Barbra Bush and her offspring, so I think you should leave The First Lady and her young lady's out of it as well
