Many have compared Michelle Obama to Marie Antoinette.
Barely a month after returning from a Christmas break in Hawaii, First Lady Michelle Obama is once again on a luxury vacation – this time taking the kids to an exclusive ski resort in Aspen, Colorado.
The First Family is spending President’s Day weekend at the home of Jim and Paula Crown, reports the Aspen Daily News. The Crowns, originally from Chicago, own the Aspen Skiing Co. and a home on the Tiehack side of Aspen.
Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo confirmed Michelle, Sasha and Malia are in town, having met with Secret Service personnel over the last few days.
“This is not state visit. … I think she has the right and privilege to be able to escape from public life,” Sheriff DiSalvo said. “It’s a privilege to have the First Lady here.”
Michelle and daughers Sasha and Malia on the slopes.
Mrs. Obama was in Aspen last July when she spoke at the Crowns’ residence in front of about 150 supporters, most of whom paid between US$1,000 and US$10,000 to attend. The event was a joint fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee and President Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign. During her 28-minute speech, she thanked the Crowns as personal friends.
The fact that Michelle Obama is on yet another luxury vacation, 17 days after returning from a month-long stay in Hawaii over Christmas, has not escaped those who have been harshly critical for their lavish vacations, in light of a troubled US economy.
The Obamas on their Hawaii vacation.
Mrs. Obama also raised eyebrows when for the second year in a row she left earlier than her husband for their annual Christmas holiday in Hawaii, incurring additional expenses of an estimated US$100,000. The holiday is estimated to have cost taxpayers $4milloion.
“With the economy on its knees, many American families have had to forgo their annual holiday just to make ends meet,” noted FOX News when reporting the news.
The UK Daily Mail listed the fantastic places the First Family have been on vacation while in office, which have included:Liberty Mountain Resort, in Carroll Valley, Pa. in February 2010; Vail and Beaver Creek for Presidents’ Day 2010; taking a 40-person entourage to Spain in August 2010 that cost taxpayers more than US$300,000; Hawaii trip in December 2010 costing US$1.5 million; and Martha’s Vineyeard during Summer 2011 where the family rented a farm estate for around US$50,000 a week.
Michelle Obama took Sasha and Malia to Vail and Beaver Creek last Presidents’ Day, just days after the President tried to sell his cost-cutting budget to the American people by asking them to stay at home.
“If you’re a family trying to cut back, you might skip going out to dinner, or you might put off a vacation,’ President Obama said.
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Michelle Obama has zero shame….her and Barack are out of control…they are not king and queen….yes she can have a vacation in peace …when her worthless ass is returned to private life. He tells the American people to cut back and do with out this and that …millions out of work and he is driving up the national debt to record highs….and she lives like royalty…while so many are losing their homes and have no way to even put food on the table how can you defend them?? the Obamas are plum sick!!!
Talk radio star Teri Obrien posted this on her websiteÖ
Michelle Obama: Do As I Say, Not as I Do Liberal, Chapter 3798
Posted on February 21, 2012 by Teri
http://teriobrien.com/2012/02/21/michelle-obama-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do-liberal-chapter-3798/
As we discussed on last Sunday’s edition of the Teri O’Brien Show, we discussed Michelle Obama’s latest glamorous getaway, this time to a luxury ski resort owned by Jim and Paula Crown, wealthy democratic donors, who just happen to come from Chicago. But, wait–there’s more:
The Crowns own the Aspen Skiing Company, known locally as The Skico, which has been involved in a labor dispute with Lee Mulcahy, a former ski instructor who was fired he says for criticizing the disparity between what the Skico pays its instructors ($69 a day) and the cost of a day long lesson ($625). Mulcahy, who took his complaint to the National Labor Relations Board, pointed out that he was merely asking for a living wage, something he argues the Crowns already support through their philanthropy to organizations that back a living wage. (Shia Kapos, “Aspen’s have-nots hurl challenge at Crowns,” Crain’s Chicago Business, January 24, 2011)
In May 2010, Mulcahy wrote a letter to a local newspaper questioning Skico’s corporate mentality of “the customer is always right, no matter when they are wrong” and gave the example of a private shuttle that wouldn’t offer a ride to skiers at public bus stops on a snow day because he was concerned his well-to-do customers would complain. Though Mulcahy stressed he was lucky to work for Skico repeatedly, he found himself fired. According to the Chicago Tribune, Mulcahy maintains it was in retaliation for voicing his opinion and for sending emails to fellow instructors about living wages and discussing unionization. He filed with the National Labor Relations Board. (Alejandra Cancino, “Speaking out in Aspen snowballs into lawsuit,” Chicago Tribune, December 12, 2010). Alas, Mulcahy ultimately lost his NRLB fight last June, but not before the NRLB required Skico to end its policy barring communication between instructors on personal email accounts about wages, benefits, work conditions and unions. (Scott Condon, “Aspen Skiing Co., Mulcahy end bitter feud–for now, The Aspen Times, July 1, 2011.)
Wait-does her husband’s NLRB, complete with its new “recess” appointments, appointed when the Senate was not in recess, know about this issue?
I’m sure if confronted about another act of blatant hypocrisy, Michelle would give the questioner one of her patented scowls, and take it as just another example of the racism inflicted on her by this racist country.
(H/T Big Government)
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One thought on “Michelle Obama: Do As I Say, Not as I Do Liberal, Chapter 3798”
Lee Mulcahy, PhD on February 23, 2012 at 6:22 pm said:
Teri, LOL—below is a letter to the editor I sent to the Aspen Times that they refuse to print. Here is some small town gossip in the biggest little town in America. I’m in a lawsuit with the Crown’s Skico CEO after their multiple overreaches.
It gets funnier. Not only did the Crowns fire & smear me, they banned me from National Forest. Google Lee Mulcahy banning. The Skico partners with the Aspen Art Museum —Wait, it gets better: the art museum banned me too! I did public art which was in a public place; the Crowns tried to strongarm the City of Aspen into taking it down. The City requested that I remove it in a letter copying 3 executives @ Skico. Which begs the question—–who does the City work for? FYI, I’m not a criminal —but I am an 8th generation Texan artist who happens to believe in liberty. Since the comment book at the sculpture maintained all kinds of filth [the CEO of Skico was spotted writing in it after dark, please know that I am an Eagle Scout, a PhD, & am freestyle ski aeria certified. Currently, we are in a libel suit. Instead of all this court stuff where justice is determined by big $ [and I'm fighting billionaires], I proposed this to the CEO of Skico:
Even funnier—it’s a small town and they print EVERYTHING. Well, when I asked to run it as an advertisement, the paper’s editor/co-manager [huh?] refused. Can u say company town? Or lack of separation between editorial and publishing? Note: Skico has a large ad budget with the Aspen Times. [LOL: they refuse to advertise in the Aspen Daily News].
“Just returned from art class @SAIC. [School of the Art Institute of Chicago]. Had birthday breakfast this morning with girl pals dressed as Barbie. Check out aspen ideas festival….”-tweet, Skico/General Dynamics/JP Morgan Chase owner Paula Crown. Her Aspen Skiing CEO:
“Watch out, I’m blogging now. How’s your Aspen? @ heidizj: Good move, Heidi.”-AspenSnowCEO
Dear Mikey,
Despite our differences, we both love teaching skiing & our community. Although I have to ROFL when local earls & countesses line up to pay $10,000.00 to meet barefoot Michelle Obama at the castle General Dynamics built four blocks from my Communist public housing house.
Rome in the 4th Quarter or Versailles?
These days our politicians are just blowhards; whereas, our Revolutionary forefathers deeply respected a good fight: Vice President Burr fatally wounded former Secretary of Treasury Hamilton in a High Noon dueling shootout.
Taking inspiration from the current Roger Marolt/Aspen Times and Lo Semple/Aspen Daily News ski-OFF: Why not a Mulcahy/Kaplan Wild West flip-OFF at the base of Aspen? Cheerleaders?—would Heidi & Paula bring pom-poms and go all Dallas Cowboys for you?
It’ll be hilarious: CEO vs. peon.
BIG $$$ vs. white trash.
Chicago North Shore vs. Fort Worth, Texas.
Audi driving Master of the Skico Universe vs. pick-up driving banned Skico whistleblower.
Aspen Institute green “limousine liberal” vs. “Don’t tread on me” NRA/Tea Party occupier.
Castle Creek free market DU MBA vs. Burlingame public housing unionizer Sorbonne-attending PhD.
Skier vs. snowboarder.
Darth Vader vs. Luke Skywalker.
Elite 1% vs. 99%.
Or a moguls contest on AH’s Scarlett’s instead of all this legal stuff? Man to man. It would be so in line with Aspen’s history. But if I win, Skico has to pay more than $9.25/hr. u call a “living wage” here & I get my job back. Full disclosure: I was freestyle aerial certified. But I’ll even flip on a snowboard and u can use those skis Roger Marolt pokes fun of u about.
And that’s the paradox of the public space, everyone may kind of know something unpleasant, but once someone says it, it changes everything.
Therefore, I cannot resist:
Paula Crown, PhD candidate at the Art Institute of Chicago, is on President Obama’s arts council; Michelle has lunch at Paula’s palace; General Dynamics, a merchant of death, and Wall Street’s JP Morgan Chase are prosperous.
What was the name of that Dan Sheridan song Skico has banned? “Big $”?
28th amendment to get the big $$$ out of politics already?
So back to skiing, AspenSnowCEO, are you in?
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