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Washington Examiner:

Fearing for image, First Lady's aides warned against Spain vacation
By: BYRON YORK
Chief Political Correspondent
09/04/10 7:56 AM EDT

Spain's King Juan Carlos, right, welcomes U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha on their arrival at the Marivent Palace, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. U.S. first lady Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha had lunch with Spain's king and queen on Sunday at the royal family's holiday retreat on the resort island of Mallorca in the Mediterranean. (AP Photo/Manu Mielniezuk)
The New York Times reports First Lady Michelle Obama's aides cautioned against her going on the early August European vacation in which she stayed at a 5-star resort in Spain and mingled with royalty. The lavish trip, the aides reportedly argued, could result in harm to her image. "Aides say privately that they warned her there would be a cost to the trip, but she overruled them, insisting it was a rare chance to spend time with Sasha and with a friend whose father had died," the paper reports. "But the intensity of the uproar -- including accusations that she was a 'modern-day Marie Antoinette' -- caught the White House and Mrs. Obama off guard."

The trip resulted in the first extended negative press of the First Lady's time in the White House. Critics questioned why Mrs. Obama chose to go to a glitzy, high-priced resort at a time when unemployment is high and many Americans are suffering economically.snip
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Some of the aides recommended Michelle not going to Spain? That infers that there are a few brain cells still operable in the White House.

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And a few who are willing to talk quietly to the press.

 

 

"The lavish trip, the aides reportedly argued, could result in harm to her image. "

 

It's hard to harm the image of someone who's married to The Hawaiian-Kenyan.

 

Conversely, it's hard to damage the image of The Hawaiian-Kenyan being married to Moochelle.

 

(A match made in heaven and blessed by J. Wright.)sarcasm

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