{"id":6479,"date":"2010-08-09T13:53:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T17:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6479"},"modified":"2010-08-09T13:53:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T17:53:56","slug":"first-lady%e2%80%99s-spanish-vacation-another-example-of-obama-rookie-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6479\/first-lady%e2%80%99s-spanish-vacation-another-example-of-obama-rookie-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"First Lady\u2019s Spanish Vacation Another Example of Obama Rookie Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here they go again.\u00a0 After a week\u2019s worth of media beatings for taking an <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2012557439_mobama07.html\" target=\"_blank\">expensive vacation to Spain<\/a> that is costing American taxpayers $75,000 a day (for the security detail), the folks running the Obama Administration still haven\u2019t learned how to avoid self-inflicted PR nightmares.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a brief reminder:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gifts of incompatible DVDs given to the British Prime Minister<\/li>\n<li>Gift of an IPOD to the Queen of England filled with President Obama\u2019s speeches<\/li>\n<li>Conflicting directives from the White House Social Secretary that enabled the Salahis to gate crash a state dinner<\/li>\n<li>Excruciatingly slow response to the Gulf Oil Disaster that made the president look impotent<\/li>\n<li>Haphazard action plan thereafter that made him look incompetent<\/li>\n<li>Continuing to host a series of expensive private parties at the White House during a severe economic downturn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of these can be chalked up to a group of people who were not \u2013 and so far, are not \u2013 ready for prime time.\u00a0 According to columnist Kirsten Powers, if this keeps up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/opinion\/opedcolumnists\/foolish_trip_U9ovxbpefIXEOlmbzshMRL \" target=\"_blank\">the limelight may not be shining much longer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some argue that Michelle should be able to travel wherever she wants if she&#8217;s paying for it herself. This is naive. She is the first lady at a time when Americans are experiencing great economic pain. There are endless great locations here at home that she could put on the map with a visit &#8212; American hotels and restaurants that would be grateful for the business generated by such a high-profile visitor.<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s a huge sacrifice for her, so be it. Sacrifice is actually a noble trait, last I checked.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, if she keeps this up, she will be able to vacation anywhere she wants in about two years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here they go again.\u00a0 After a week\u2019s worth of media beatings for taking an expensive vacation to Spain that is costing American taxpayers $75,000 a day (for the security detail), the folks running the Obama Administration still haven\u2019t learned how to avoid self-inflicted PR nightmares. Here\u2019s a brief reminder: Gifts of incompatible DVDs given to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1320,835,1673],"class_list":["post-6479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-gulf-oil-spill","tag-michelle-obama","tag-public-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6483,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479\/revisions\/6483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}