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Michelle Obama lecturing the Chinese about a free press was pretty hypocritical...

Call the Hypocrisy Police: Michelle Obama Praises Free Speech on China Trip That Banned Journalists

Video at the Page Link:

The White House banned journalists from accompanying Michelle Obama on her trip to China and explained that it was because the purpose of her trip is not political. Some news outlets even repeated the White House’s assertion of the non-political nature of the visit without mentioning that the press was not allowed to accompany them.
But in a speech that sounded at times to be extremely political, she also said the following:

“And that’s why it’s so important for information and ideas to flow freely over the internet and through the media; because that’s how we discover the truth.”

So Michelle Obama lectures a communist police state about free speech standards, while the White House is spying on journalists and restricting access to information in the U.S.. Double-standard much?
Then, Michelle Obama goes on to give the U.S. media a not-so-subtle jab (maybe because she thought they were shut out of the event):

“My husband and I are on the receiving end of plenty of questioning and criticism from our media and our fellow citizens. And it’s not always easy, but we wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.”

Based on the White House’s reputation for failing to be transparent and the President’s griping about the press, this ironic platitude was fluffier than the rice that came with her Peking Duck.
Let’s take a trip down memory lane to 2011, when President Obama expressed this sentiment, as reported by the New York Times:

Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. As one official put it, “No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao’s words in Tahrir Square.”

Gotcha, Mrs. Obama. Not for anything in the world.

Michelle Obama & Her Entourage Arrive in China & Beijing Hotel Workers Say They’re Already Fed Up




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Obama Breaks All Records & Takes ANOTHER Taxpayer-Funded Family Vacation -- Select Here to DEMAND Congress TAKE ACTION Against Obama's Extravagant Trips!

ALERT: Barack Hussein Obama keeps setting new records -- this time, he's decided to take his family on ANOTHER taxpayer-funded vacation (to the posh Martha's Vineyard, no less), breaking the all-time record for presidential vacations. This is in ADDITION to the "soft diplomacy" trip to China that the First Lady, Michelle Obama, is taking without Barack -- with both of their daughters AND her own mother.A trip, by the way, which the White House REFUSES TO SAY how much it will cost!

Meanwhile, Russia invaded the Ukraine, overran defense forces in Crimea, and "test-launched" ICBM missiles. To Obama, that meant it must be time for an ANOTHER all-expenses-paid vacation! BizPac Review is reporting:

"President and Mrs. Obama will be vacationing after all, despite the escalating crisis in the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine.



And for good measure, so will Vice President Joe Biden. On Thursday, it looked as though events in Ukrainian were going to spoil the Obama's long Florida weekend vacation plans, but the White House announced, not so fast. The Obamas will be staying on in Key Largo, Fla., while Biden will be relaxing by the pool with tropical drink in hand in the Virgin Islands, according to Fox News."

YOU READ THAT RIGHT: The Ukraine may be burning thanks to Russia, and the American people may not be able to tour the White House without jumping through months-long "hoops" -- allegedly because of the "huge" cuts in the budget -- but Barack Hussein Obama's family CAN go on vacations and family trips, such as their jaunt in the Florida Keys or their recent tour of Africa... which cost US the small sum of $60 to $100 MILLION.

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! It's time to STOP Obama's EXTRAVAGENT TRIPS in response to the White House's UNCONSTITUTIONAL power grabs!

SEND A MESSAGE TO EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF CONGRESS, DEMANDING THEY TAKE ACTION AGAINST BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S EXTRAVAGANT FAMILY VACATIONS: SEND YOUR MESSAGE NOW!
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Yep -- this is nothing new! When President Obama went to sub-Saharan Africa recently, the federal agencies charged with keeping him safe spent up to ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS on him and his family!

In fact, newly-released records -- that the White House tried to suppress -- have now shown us that the Obamas are spending MORE than ANY Presidential family IN HISTORY on these trips:

"It took filing a lawsuit, but Judicial Watch discovered Friday thatPresident Obama has set a new record for travel on the taxpayer dime. The conservative watchdog group obtained travel records from the U.S. Department of the Air Force that show the Obamas racked up $7.4 million during just three trips in 2013 -- in flight expenses only... Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in August 2013, after repeated stonewalling by the White House."

According to a shocking report from the Washington Post:

Hundreds of U.S. Secret Service agents will be dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. A Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship, with a fully staffed medical trauma center, will be stationed offshore in case of an emergency.



Military cargo planes will airlift in 56 support vehicles, including 14 limousines and three trucks loaded with sheets of bullet-proof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where the first family will stay. Fighter jets will fly in shifts, giving 24-hour coverage over the president's airspace, so they can intervene quickly if an errant plane gets too close.

SO, the President goes on and on about how terrible Congress is for the "drastic" cuts (that weren't really cuts at all)... but HE gets to spend a cool hundred mill onANOTHER overseas vacation for his family... which he writes off as a "crucial" official visit to "partners in regional security conflicts" in order to "forge stronger economic ties"!

HYPOCRISY much? Thankfully, there are Members of Congress who ARE paying attention and looking out for US, the taxpayers! For example:

"Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said Monday that he's thinking of a few thing Congress can do to counter President Obama's executive overreach, including cutting off money for his vacations.

'Number one, my colleagues in the Senate have advise and consent, if they want to shut down the Senate over appropriations bills or ambassadorships or other things. The Constitution gives them the power of advise and consent. The Constitution gives us power over the purse,' Gowdy said on Fox. 'So we have appropriation bills that are going to be coming to the House this spring. We ought to strip money away from this executive branch, because our framers gave us that exclusive right to do so. If one branch overreaches then maybe the other branch ought to stick up for itself.'"

We saw similar action taken last year. According to a report in The Hill, Rep. George Holding (R-NC) suggested that rather than spend $100 million on President Obama's pending trip to Africa, the administration should fund the White House tours canceled under sequestration. "For the cost of this trip to Africa, you could have1,350 weeks of White House tours, which the White House has canceled indefinitely due to budget constraints," Holding said on the House floor. As Rep. Holding also noted, with the country more than $16 trillion in debt, the administration should not be looking to spend $100 million on a week long visit to Africa!



Finally, Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) introduced H.Res. 111, the "White House Tour Resolution", demanding that President Obama refrain from taking more vacations at the taxpayers' expense until he reopens the White House for regular daily public tours. As Rep. Stewart said, "the President is asking the people to sacrifice, but never himself. We don't have a problem with him taking vacations, but it seemspetty to close the White House to tours, when forgoing one or two out-of-town vacations would easily pay for the cost of keeping it open. It's unfortunate that instead of choosing to eliminate wasteful or duplicative government spending as a result of the President's sequester, he has chosen to close the White House to the public. The President is again showing his dedication to politics and not topursuing sound public policy."

America can no longer afford to finance this pretend "royal family" and the hundreds of millions of dollars they spend on VACATIONS!

SEND A MESSAGE TO EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF CONGRESS, DEMANDING THEY TAKE ACTION AGAINST BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S EXTRAVAGANT FAMILY VACATIONS: SEND YOUR MESSAGE NOW!
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Even the liberal New York Times has reported on the fact that "as federal workers brace for a summer filled with unpaid furlough days, [the Obamas] are traveling the nation and globe on trips that exude luxury." The excuses we're hearing like "past presidents did it", and the official White House comment that this whole boondoggle will be "a great bang for our buck", just won't hold water this time -- Americans are facing the most severe economic hardships in decades, and this is NOT the time to be spending MORE taxpayer money on Obama family vacations!

It's one thing for the President to make official State visits -- it's another thing for him to keep using these visits as excuses for all-expenses-paid jaunts for Michelle and the girls. It's time for Congress to tell Obama to STOP wasting MILLIONS of dollars taking taxpayer-funded trips, when he won't even open the White House for school kids' tours. That's why we need to take immediate action and get this resolution passed! But we need YOUR help -- send your Blast Faxes to every single Member of Congress NOW!

Sincerely,
RightMarch.com

P.S. As Breitbart has reported, Obama has traveled to Hawaii every winter, which cost taxpayers at least $20 million during his first term alone. The Obama daughters vacationed at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas with a full Secret Service detail, even as the White House claimed they "couldn't afford to pay" Secret Service agents $74,000 a week to continue the popular White House tours for otherstudents who are on their spring vacations in Washington, D.C.

The Obamas, averaging a vacation a month, have gone to Martha's Vineyard multiple times while the country was in recession and Americans were struggling to find jobs. Michelle Obama has taken a whirlwind trip to Spain and a ski trip to Aspen. Barack Obama took 13 vacations in his first term, which spanned all or part of 83 days. In 2011 alone, Michelle Obama may have cost taxpayers $10 million on vacations herself. Obama's fantasy golf outing with Tiger Woods this year cost local law enforcement in Florida a reported $78,205.

Isn't it time the American people CRIED OUT against this lavish lifestyle... at OUR expense? You and I need to STAND UP and DEMAND that Congress TAKE ACTION NOW!

SEND A MESSAGE TO EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF CONGRESS, DEMANDING THEY TAKE ACTION AGAINST BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S EXTRAVAGANT FAMILY VACATIONS: SEND YOUR MESSAGE NOW!

Or Select Here to Send a Free Message to YOUR Congressmen!

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