{"id":6307,"date":"2011-08-19T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=6307"},"modified":"2011-08-19T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T20:21:08","slug":"obamas-fly-his-her-jets-to-lux-vacay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/08\/obamas-fly-his-her-jets-to-lux-vacay.html","title":{"rendered":"Obamas Fly &#8216;His &amp; Her&#8217; Jets to Lux Vacay&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/bt\/api\/res\/1.2\/Xwztts..YllmhoCfVV8Hqg--\/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD0zMDA7cT04NTt3PTI3MA--\/http:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en_us\/News\/forbes.com\/270x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d9\/Barack_and_Michelle_Obama_at_the_Home_States_Ball.jpg\/180px-Barack_and_Michelle_Obama_at_the_Home_States_Ball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"189\" \/>Michelle\u2019s Separate Travel Costs Taxpayers Thousands<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0KEITH KOFFLER\u00a0on\u00a0<abbr title=\"2011-08-19\">AUGUST 19, 2011, 10:26 AM<\/abbr><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Michelle Obama and President Obama traveled to Martha\u2019s Vineyard just hours apart, costing taxpayers thousands in additional expenses so she could have just a bit of extra vacation time.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Obama and her daughters arrived just before 2 pm Thursday on a U.S. government jet, according to the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvtimes.com\/marthas-vineyard\/article.php?id=7200\">Martha\u2019s Vineyard Times<\/a><\/em>, which got its information from the local airport. The first lady\u2019s office has been silent on her travel. President Obama arrived in the evening along with the family dog Bo.<\/p>\n<p>The extra costs related to Mrs. Obama\u2019s solo trip mainly include the flight on a specially designed military aircraft she took instead of Air Force One, as well as any extra staff and Secret Service that had to be enlisted to go with her. She would also have had her own motorcade from the airport to her vacation residence.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Obama\u2019s separate jet travel sends the wrong message on a host of issues, from global warming to the budget deficit to the economy \u2013 in which currently so many people can\u2019t afford to take a vacation at all.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Michelle has gone on vacation ahead of the president on the taxpayers\u2019 tab. Last December, she racked up what was likely\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehousedossier.com\/2010\/12\/22\/michelle-obama-hawaii\/\">more than $100,000<\/a>\u00a0in expenses leaving early for their Hawaii vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehousedossier.com\/2011\/08\/19\/michelles-separate-travel-costs-taxpayers-thousands\/\">http:\/\/www.whitehousedossier.com\/2011\/08\/19\/michelles-separate-travel-costs-taxpayers-thousands\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle\u2019s Separate Travel Costs Taxpayers Thousands by\u00a0KEITH KOFFLER\u00a0on\u00a0AUGUST 19, 2011, 10:26 AM Michelle Obama and President Obama traveled to Martha\u2019s Vineyard just hours apart, costing taxpayers thousands in additional expenses so she could have just a bit of extra vacation time. Mrs. Obama and her daughters arrived just before 2 pm Thursday on a U.S.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[701,223,550,1867,1502,885,1680,1498,1354,2228,1620,1430,35,450,484,1516,806],"tags":[2312,972,9411,1580],"class_list":["post-6307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-economy","category-entitlements","category-evil-plot","category-godlessness","category-government-waste","category-injustice","category-insanity","category-liberals","category-michele-obama","category-moral-decline","category-news-2","category-obama","category-politics","category-taxes-2","category-u-s-debt","category-warning","tag-air-force-one-one-for-michele","tag-lavish-obama-vacations","tag-michele-obama","tag-obama-audacity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obamas Fly &#039;His &amp; Her&#039; Jets to Lux Vacay... - Watchwoman on the Wall<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/08\/obamas-fly-his-her-jets-to-lux-vacay.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obamas Fly &#039;His &amp; Her&#039; Jets to Lux Vacay... - Watchwoman on the Wall\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Michelle\u2019s Separate Travel Costs Taxpayers Thousands by\u00a0KEITH KOFFLER\u00a0on\u00a0AUGUST 19, 2011, 10:26 AM Michelle Obama and President Obama traveled to Martha\u2019s Vineyard just hours apart, costing taxpayers thousands in additional expenses so she could have just a bit of extra vacation time. 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