By Ann “Babe” Huggett” One of the fun games I used to play at cocktail parties was theorizing what a current politician had been in a former lifetime. Snickering over Henry Kissinger being a reincarnation of Cardinal Woolsey or Benito Mussolini popping back as Janet Napolitano only shows how obscure things can get after a few tequila shooters. However, there is nothing obscure about the current comparison between First Lady Michelle “Let ‘em eat arugulla” Obama and France’s 18th Century Queen, Marie “Let ‘em eat cake” Antoinette.
Unlike with Marie Antoinette, Michelle’s critics don’t have to go apophrycal when it comes to her living large on the taxpayers’ dime. In a nation where food stamps, unemployment benefits, mortgage foreclosures and a steadily declining standard of living are fast becoming the norm, Michelle Obama is on her eighth vacation this year, living la vida ultima maxima with 40 of her closest gal pals at the Hotel Villa Padierna, one of the poshest hotels in the world let alone Marbella, Spain.
Estimates for the deluxe rooms, travel, food, Secret Service entourage, tourism, flight readiness/maintenance, local police action, like clearing off a public beach for Michelle and daughter, Sasha, are running close to half a million dollars. Limp excuses coming out of the White House Press Room like, “They’re paying for their personal expenses out of their own pockets.” (Like what? Toothpaste?) or “She’s visiting the King and Queen of Spain so that makes Michelle’s trip a public function.” ring hollow. If Michelle was truly visiting Spain on a goodwill tour, she’d be parking herself and her daughter with a minimal staff at the American Embassy in Madrid.
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