The Obama Taxpayer Funded Family Vacation Continues

He seems to fluff his lines on the big occasions, and there is a wicked rumour making the rounds that President Atta Mills has been practising the name of his host, "Bama Obarack, Marack Omaba, President Omarack"…

As part of the Obama kids summer break, global vacation, the family is going to stop over in Ghana also, and apparently the country is all pumped up over the visit. This writer is so excited that she takes some swipes at their neighbors on the African continent.

Elizabeth Ohene, a former government minister in Ghana and former BBC journalist, looks forward to US President Barack Obama's visit to her country:

Folks may recall that Ghana is home to another world leader, former secretary general of the UN, the graft ridden and corrupt Kofi Annan. Bill Clinton also paid a visit there when he was president.

I was struck by two things while reading this story. One this woman used to be a BBC journalist, which raises a whole lot of questions about BBC's objectivity when it comes to it's reporting. She is rightly proud of her country and doesn't issue apologies like a certain other person we all know, but the bias on display here leads one to wonder what sort of stories she did in the past that she got paid for as a "journalist", that had the same sort of taint to them.

The second thing is this comment from an Obama spokesperson

"An extraordinarily close election, decided ultimately by about 40,000 votes, the country remained peaceful, power was transferred peacefully, and they continue to pursue a development agenda and bolster the rule of law."

while they remain largely silent on the results of the Iranian election and the ongoing protests and continue to side with dictator wannabee former leader of Honduras who tried to throw their constitution out the window and was stopped by that country's supreme court, and in our media is stilling being characterized as a coup.

So while, for a lot of us who daily worry about keeping our jobs, who probably do not see any vacations in our near future, and continue to tighten our budget belts, the first family continues to host extravagant parties at the White House, travel around the world and push their lackeys in Congress to continue to spend our taxpayer dollars like drunken sailors in New York during fleet week, and continue spitting in the face of the hard working, tax paying citizens.

I realize there are reasons for the president to travel abroad to take care of state business, it is just on all of these trips in these hard economic times, he has continued to drag the family along so that they can have the time of their lives all on our dime. There is a time and a place for everything, and a better time to be doing this sort of stuff is when our economy has recovered and it does not take on the sheen of Marie Antoinette with her infamous quote about eating cake.