Knucklehead of the Week

Goes to, you guess it, Michelle Obama for her lavish vacation in Spain after her husband advocated Americans to be thrifty.  The economy is not doing well, families are cutting back, many are having difficulty finding employment and the First Lady flies to Spain on taxpayer dime for a vacation.  The New York Daily News labeled Michelle as the ‘Modern Day May Antoinette” in their article dated 8/5/2010 (Article :  Here).  I agree with them.  This is the attitude of a modern Marie Antoinette.  All that’s left is for Michelle to say, “Let them eat cake.”  Or, for this day she can say “Let them eat Roman Noodles” or something like that.

No, this image is not helping her overcome her angry black woman image nor helping (time to choke here) to become the New Mrs. Kennedy.  Michelle may be thought as being a smart woman in certain circles of elitist but she’s got the wrong kind of smarts.  A ‘smart’ woman would not have gone on a lavish vacation to Spain with taxpayer funded security detail.  This exorbitant vacation killed her likeable image, if she ever had one.  Her husband says Americans should pinch pennies and be thrifty while her wife and kids flies to Spain, rent up to 60-something rooms, block off a portion of the public beach, and dine with the King of Spain.  Kinda hypocritical, don’t ya think?

What is funny is the US State Department lifted a travel warning about racism in Spain.  Article. They lifted the ban on their website a moment or two before her plane landed in Spain to heed off a possible blunder.  So, if the State Department had a travel warning, the cost of the trip was exorbitant, the Gulf is in a crises, the economy in the US is on the Recession ledge, then why did Michelle not have a vacation within the United States?  Are we Americans not good enough for her?  Her husband doesn’t think so.

This attitude among the Obamas is example of the liberal elitist.  ‘Do as we say, not as we do.  Because, we know better and deserve it.’  We have Sen. Kerry of Massachusetts docking a million dollar sailboat in Rhode Island to skirt MA taxes.  We have Michelle spending on a lavish vacation when her husband is preaching thrift.  New York Democrat Charles Rangel has been brought up on ethical misconduct charges in the House of Representatives for not reporting income and using government letterheads to raise money.  etc, etc, etc.

Michelle, if you’re listening, use your head.  You are not better than the rest of us and not deserving of a Marie Antoinette vacation when your husband is preaching everyone else to be frugal in this economy.  When you move out of the White House in 2013 and want to spend your money and not the government’s then you can spend as much as you want, where you want.  But, right now you’re the Knucklehead of the Week.