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    Beijing hotel workers already 'fed up' with Obama entourage in 3400-square-foot, $8,3

    The Queen has landed.

    Beijing hotel workers already 'fed up' with Obama entourage in 3400-square-foot, $8,350-per-night suite inconveniencing 'pretty much everyone' – and the first lady's mother is 'barking at the staff'



    • Michelle Obama, her daughters and her mother Marian Robinson are staying in a sumptuous presidential suite at a Beijing Westin hotel
    • Mrs. Robinson has been 'barking at the staff since she arrived,' a hotel staffer said, adding that 'we can't wait for this to be over'
    • Secret Service agents are monopolizing elevators and booting high-paying guests from their rooms to occupy a block of space near the first lady
    • Both front and back doors of the hotel are blocked off, with Chinese and U.S. security agents screening everyone who enters
    • Ordinary Chinese describe Mrs. Obama and her family as kind and gracious, but hotel staff are 'fed up'


    By DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR

    PUBLISHED: 16:12 EST, 21 March 2014 | UPDATED: 09:02 EST, 22 March 2014


    Michelle Obama and three of her family members are staying in a $8,350-per-night Beijing presidential suite, but despite a 24-hour butler and other perks that come with the lodging, her entourage has inconvenienced 'pretty much everyone' and made the hotel staff 'fed up,' a well-placed hotel staffer has told MailOnline.

    The sumptuous pad at the Westin Beijing Chaoyang hotel – its website calls the room 'an oasis of comfort – is a 3,400-square-foot masterpiece including a private steam room, 'corner sofas with silk pillows,' and in-room dining for six.

    But the Obamas' stay has already affected staff and guests at the hotel, with the Westin front-desk veteran alleging that Mrs. Obama's mother Marian Robinson has been 'barking at the staff since she arrived.'


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    First lady Michelle Obama, her mother Marian Robinson, and her daughters Sasha and Malia are in Beijing for the beginning of a week-long tour, and their hotel's staff are already tired of them



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    A senior hotel staffer said Marian Robinson (L), Mrs. Obama's mother, has been 'barking at the staff since she arrived at the hotel


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    Can you spot the Secret Service? Many of the agents in Mrs. Obama's detail are Asian-American, helping them avoid standing out while they protect the first lady -- but confusing some hotel guests who don't understand why they can't board some elevators

    Government security forces from both China and the U.S. started Thursday to screen everyone who entered the building, including paying guests, setting up checkpoints that resemble those at airline concourse entrances.

    The Secret Service's monopoly on the hotel's highest floors has meant the Westin had to boot guests with previous reservations out of their executive-level rooms.

    Secret Service agents are also monopolizing hotel elevators long before the Obamas need them, added the staffer, who identified himself as a member of the concierge staff and spoke English during a phone call on Friday.

    'Many of them are Asian, too, or Americans who are Asian, so you know our guests don't understand.'

    'We can't wait for this to be over, to tell you the truth,' he said in a sudden hush. 'We entertain many important people here, but this has been, I think, very different.'

    A spokesperson for Mrs. Obama declined to comment.



    The Westin Beijing Chaoyang's 'oasis' presidential suite isn't the only part of the hotel that the Obama's have monopolized: Their Secret Service contingent has allegedly bumped some high-paying guests from their rooms

    A U.S. Secret Service spokesperson promised answers to MailOnline's questions but didn't provide any in time for publication. The agency generally does not speak publicly about security arrangements for the officials it protects.

    A spokesman for Starwood Hotels, which owns the Westin chain, referred questions to Secret Service.

    Ordinary Chinese who have met the American first lady have described her in media reports as approachable and friendly, and the hotel staffer agreed.

    'The first lady is gracious, and the girls are lovely,' he said.

    The Westin employee and another colleague said Sasha and Malia Obama have been on their best behavior because Mrs. Robinson has kept them on a short leash.

    They emphasized that they have had a disappointing experience with the protection detail that accompanies Mrs. Obama everywhere.
    Wealthy hotel guests bumped from their reserved rooms into other less-luxurious accommodations have inundated the front desk with complaints.

    As a condition of the first lady staying at the Westin, the Secret Service blocked off all the rooms near the presidential suite..

    The Washington Times reported Thursday that an entourage of about 70 people is accompanying the guests of honor to China at taxpayer expense.

    On Board: Travels with the First Lady in China









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    More guards than guarded? The two first ladies (front) strolled through Beijing's Forbidden City with their protection details close at hand



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    Blending in: The Secret Service detail guarding Mrs. Obama and her family members includes Asian-American agents like this man



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    'Mrs. Diplomat': Chinese President Xi Jinping joined in Friday for events that were supposed to include just Mrs. Obama and Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan. The White House has insisted that the trip is a cultural exchange and not a political mission, however.


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    Delightful: Ordinary Chinese have described Mrs. Obama as a wonderful visitor, but her mother (at C) is allegedly causing hotel staff headaches

    The White House has taken pains to frame Mrs. Obama's trip as a cultural journey rather than a political one, but taxpayers are paying through the nose for it nonetheless.

    China News Service described the first lady on Friday as 'Mrs Diplomatic,' and the Xinhua news agency dubbed the trip 'an unprecedented and historical moment in the chapter of China–U.S. relations.'

    The trip won't come cheap.

    Judicial Watch, a watchdog group in Washington, D.C., reports that it cost more than $11 million for President and Mrs. Obama to travel to Africa for Nelson Mandela's memorial service in December.

    The first couple were in Africa for less than 13 hours.

    The Obamas' 2013 visit to Africa, a longer affair, reportedly cost Americans more than $100 million.

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    News you won't be hearing about Michelle Obama's China junket

    Thomas Lifson

    Evidently the White House realizes that Michelle Obama’s expensive and luxurious family junket to China, accompanied by her mother and daughters, looks like a colossal waste of taxpayer money. That’s the logical explanation for unusual restrictions on media access. No reporters are accompanying her. Even the Obama sycophants at the New York Timesare noticing:

    "Mrs. Obama is drawing scrutiny for her decision to travel with her mother and her two daughters, who are on spring break, bringing to mind a vacation she took to Spain in 2010 with her daughter Sasha and some friends. She and her entourage paid for their lodging and entertainment. But the security cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars, and the trip was criticized as lavish.


    The UK Daily Mail reports on the unusual restrictions on media access for those reporters in China who want to cover the junket:

    First lady Michelle Obama will not take questions from reporters or give interviews during her tour of China that begins today, and members of the press corps who usually follows the first family everywhere can't travel with her entourage.

    And although she will make a few speeches with reporters in the room, the picture is largely one of an expensive, taxpayer-funded tourism exercise for Mrs. Obama, her two daughters, and her mother – not the official trip the White House has projected.
    White House press officials haven't comment on the record about whether a reported ban on question-and-answer interviews applies equally to American journalists and international reporters.
    And limited information made available to MailOnline suggests that only two out of 22 scheduled events on the trip will afford journalists a chance to do any significant reporting – including a solitary speech – but still without interviewing Mrs. Obama.
    Both of those events, the White House says, will afford 'limited' space for the press.

    Even more outrageously, Michelle is giving a stiff-arm to human rights activists in China. Whitehousedossier reports:

    First Lady Michelle Obama will not meet with human rights activists during her upcoming trip to China, according to White House officials, focusing instead on gauzy, feel-good kids issues that should be <acronym title="Google Page Ranking">PR</acronym> gold for the oppressive Chinese leadership.

    While avoiding dissidents and anyone suffering under the regime, Mrs. Obama will cozy up to the wife of China’s ruler, Peng Liyuan, a former singer who has a reputation for being beautiful and fabulous and who sang for the martial law troops who had massacred protestors in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
    Those banquets might be a bit less lavish if Michelle made a point of meeting with dissidents. Can't have her girls and her mother inconvenienced.

    Michelle is getting as much as she can out of her husband’s job, and we get to pay the bills for a fantastic family vacation. This woman enjoys living large a bit too much.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/03/news_you_wont_be_hearing_about_michelle_obamas_chi na_junket.html

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    Staff at Chinese hotel "fed up" with the Obama women, wants them to leave.

    Finally something the Americans and Chinese can agree upon. That's just how the rest of us feel, too.





    “We can’t wait for this to be over” – Michelle Obama and entourage driving hotel staff crazy!

    Posted on Mar 21, 2014 at 9:10 PM in Politics | 128 Comments
    By The Right Scoop

    Yeah, totally not surprised given how this president and his wife are living in the lap of luxury on someone else’s dime:
    DAILY MAIL – Michelle Obama and three of her family members are staying in a $8,350-per-night Beijing presidential suite, but despite a 24-hour butler and other perks that come with the lodging, her entourage has inconvenienced ‘pretty much everyone’ and made the hotel staff ‘fed up,’ a well-placed hotel staffer has told MailOnline.
    The sumptuous pad at the Westin Beijing Chaoyang hotel – its website calls the room ‘an oasis of comfort – is a 3,400-square-foot masterpiece including a private steam room, ‘corner sofas with silk pillows,’ and in-room dining for six.
    But the Obamas’ stay has already affected staff and guests at the hotel, with the Westin front-desk veteran alleging that Mrs. Obama’s mother Marian Robinson has been ‘barking at the staff since she arrived.’
    Government security forces from both China and the U.S. started Thursday to screen everyone who entered the building, including paying guests, setting up checkpoints that resemble those at airline concourse entrances.The Secret Service’s monopoly on the hotel’s highest floors has meant the Westin had to boot guests with previous reservations out of their executive-level rooms.
    Secret Service agents are also monopolizing hotel elevators long before the Obamas need them, added the staffer, who identified himself as a member of the concierge staff and spoke English during a phone call on Friday.
    ‘Many of them are Asian, too, or Americans who are Asian, so you know our guests don’t understand.’
    ‘We can’t wait for this to be over, to tell you the truth,’ he said in a sudden hush. ‘We entertain many important people here, but this has been, I think, very different.’
    The first lady’s press secretary, Joanna Rosholm, declined to comment.

    KEEP READING…



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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!

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    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!

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