Jet-setting Mama Obama!
Oh, give the gal a break!
Michelle Obama's jet hardly touched down in Spain beforer her toughest critics were sharpening their knives and circling for the kill.
Whether it was a newsman at Fox - or malicious reporter at the New York Daily News - it didn't matter!
Michelle Obama was ripe for the reckoning.
Even a posse of blood-thirsty poison-pen-pundits have been hammering away at the normally well-received poised 1st lady.
In this instance case, though, the critics were lambasting Michelle over everything from the trip's price to a travel warning on the State Department's website.
At issue?
Allegedly a travel warning was posted on the State Department's web site accusing that racist prejudices could lead to the arrest of Afro-Americans who travel to Spain.
So, was Fox (a perpetrator of one noisy newsbite) expecting Michelle to protest to the webmaster, cancel the vacation (booked in advance at premium cost), or or argue ad nauseam in a bold-faced effort to dispel the wild attacks on her integrity?
How, by holding a press conference?
On her holiday, nonetheless!
Would you?
Talk about waste.
Since the alert was "deleted" two days prior to Michelle Obama's arrival, the controversial finger-pointing placed Fox in a curious foot-in-mouth position.
The issue is moot now, isn't it?
In retrospect, it appears that trigger-happy Fox - out to "get" Mrs. Obama - jumped the gun needlessly.
Ouch!
Then, the Huffington Post - author of one acid-tongued article - went out on a leafless limb when they included quotes from a supercilious OP ED article with the specific aim of sticking it to Michelle, too.
A writer (so unworthy of a credit that I won't give it) chastized Michelle for not only taking the holiday - but also for reserving a suite at a five-star hotel on the chic Costa del Sol Hotel - known for its tony expensive environs.
Although handlers explained that the Michelle Obama was going to pay for personal expenses out of her own silk purse, that didn't assauge the nasty of-line-critics who - come hell or high water - were bent on getting their pound of flesh (no matter what the consequence).
When the ridiculous scheme failed to pan out, the screechy nosebody proceeded to attack the Obama twosome- not only on the costliness of the Secret Service detail - but the wisdom of jet-setting to exotic locales during tough economic times that have prevading on these oil-soaked shores.
Oh, pooh!
From a logical point of view, it should be pointed out that had Michelle stayed at a cheaper hotel (she was lodged at the Ritz Carlton, one of the gripes from her opponents) the costs would have been higher since lower-profile Hotels would have probably needed to hire on special security forces to handle the 1st Lady's sudden arrival.
When the mediocre writer pointed an accusing finger, and labelled Michelle Obama a modern-day Marie Antoinette, I laughed out loud at the lunacy of it all.
How cliche!
Let them - um - eat cake!
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