Oh boy! Watch heads explode on this one...LOL....

[monmouth]

New York Times:

Malia and Sasha Obama will fly with the first lady to France on Friday to join President Obama for a family weekend in Paris, a White House official said on Wednesday.

Read the whole story: New York Times

[babylonsister]

1. Link? And what a great experience for the girls! Terrific! nt

[monmouth]

3. Got it off my HuffPo streaming news. I would imagine HuffPo has it

on their main page...

[Triana]

2. That is an EXCELLENT, educational trip for the girls...

...I think it's good for 'em to get out of the US when they're young and see other parts of the world.

(PeeEss - f*ck the hypocrites whose heads will surely explode over this) :nopity:

[ErinBerin84]

4. Mika was complaining about it this morning

on Morning Joe (Obama spending an extra night in Paris with his wife). Seriously. She has a major stick up her ass.

[alsame]

6. Someone should remind her that Bush took Laura and his

daughter Barbara to CHINA for the Olympics.

[dancingme]

8. and the elephant safari in Africa

when he joked to his daughter about elephants mating.

[alsame]

25. Yes, I forgot about that one. n/t

[Cha]

17. Someone should remind her she

looks like a jealous prick.

[bdamomma]

59. oh you know how they have very short memories of such incidents.

[elleng]

22. Does SHE have children?

Ignorant, uneducated children? Never taken out of the U.S?

[JamesA1102]

28. Mika is a conservative

Who has always disliked Obama.

[shellgame26]

38. Mika behaves

like a battered wife. She seems scared to death of joe

[Raine]

40. I think she has Daddy issues

and Joe seems to be a substitute. Biggest part of the time she is drunk out of her skull, I'm serious.

[EquallyExhausted]

29. what the hell is her problem?

seriously, it takes a special kind of person (not the good kind) to begrudge young children such an opportunity.

i hope sasha has a great birthday in paris. :)

[Cass]

31. As if no other Presidential families ever took an overseas vacation.

:eyes:

What a stupid thing to complain about.

[Baikonour]

32. The stick is called "jealousy." n/t

[Honeycombe8]

35. What IS her problem? I guess she'll say anything to stay seated next to Joe. nt

[Thrill]

41. He is the only President where its a big deal how much

it cost for him or his family to travel. You never heard this crap with other Presidents. Hmmmm wonder why?

[gauguin57]

48. Being Zbigniew's daughter, I'm sure she traveled on the public dime PLENTY.

Shut the eff up, Mika.

[LeftishBrit]

51. Why, is she against his being away from America at all, or in France in particular?

[SharonRB]

5. Uh oh

I can hear them exploding already. And they thought a night out in NY was bad -- this is going to really get them going.

It will be a wonderful trip for the girls.

[Arugula Latte]

7. I love the way the Obamas just don't care what the rightwing freaks shriek about.

The rabid nutjobs will wail, but to no avail.

[JuniperLea]

9. Me too!

And if they get too loud and obnoxious, Obama does the ol' "you've probably heard blah blah blah" and then proceed to knock the wind right out of those pathetic sails. He is good that way.

[zulchzulu]

10. The more right-wing teabag asshats hate my favorite city, Paris, the better!

I've been there before where Ugly Americans show up at a nice café and start screaming for a fucking Decaf coffee... with wretched CoffeeMate...

[dalaigh lllama]

33. Please tell me that doesn't happen often

Just got back from France and Germany, and I LOVE the rich coffee and real cream you can get everywhere over there. I'm trying to imagine someone demanding decaf and coffeemate. *shudder*

[QueenOfCalifornia]

46. Isn't it beautiful?

I want to be there right now.

I never drank a decaf anything in Europe... But the wine bills... jeesh. :)

[WinkyDink]

52. Sounds apocryphal.

Yes, been there several times.

[secondwind]

11. I'm a big Clinton fan, but don't forget that Hillary took Chelsea to more countries than

any other First Lady.

Chelsa went to Africa, India, EVERYWHERE.

[babylonsister]

12. Here's a link, and again, good for them all! And the ladies are staying on!

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/the-obama-girls-too-will-see-paris/?hp

The Obama Girls, Too, Will See Paris
By Rachel L. Swarns


Malia and Sasha Obama will fly with the first lady to France on Friday to join President Obama for a family weekend in Paris, a White House official said on Wednesday. It will be the girls’ first foreign trip since they moved into the White House in January.

Mr. Obama is scheduled to return to Washington on Sunday, but First Lady Michelle Obama and Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, plan to stay on in Paris for a few days next week.

Aides to the Obamas have said that the couple is looking forward to exposing their daughters to different parts of the city, the country and the world. Malia and Sasha also traveled with their parents to Kenya in 2006 when Mr. Obama was a U.S. senator.

Mrs. Obama will have one public event in Normandy, France on Saturday, but the rest of the family trip will be private, the official said. There will be no official announcements outlining their sightseeing plans.

[Cha]

24. Thanks for that bit

of reading up on further details of their trip to France.

[Trocadero]

13. Didn't the Bush twins go to South America on the taxpayer dime, and that is

where Jenna had her purse stolen?

[Nedsdag]

16. Weren't they accused of running naked through the hotel hallways

and were told by Argentinian Embassy to leave the country?

[mdavies013]

14. Just present the facts...Bush vacationed more than any other president...so FU to stupid people...

They would rather talk about this than issues any day. God forbid we talk about healthcare, foreign policy, etc.

[tocqueville]

15. it blows my mind

why this should be a problem at all...

[DrToast]

18. Obama should take the first family to the moon

That would really piss people off.

[GoCubsGo]

19. I am a bit disappointed....

I was hoping that the story was going to say that the girls were meeting him in Cairo for a tour of the pyramids. Now THAT would be cool! And, educational!

[tocqueville]

20. it's Sasha's birthday on the 10th

[babylonsister]

27. That's sweet! Maybe

you'll see them, though I doubt they're going to run out of things to do in Paris. :party:

[elleng]

21. Part of summer break!

Great! We did it several times; they're sure entitled!

[Cha]

23. The family that

plays together stays together!

If the mikas and the gitchos were jealous of President Obama taking Michelle to a Broadway play then this is going to eat out their insides.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

26. I envy that family.

[jazzjunkysue]

30. Very cool. I want a pic of them up in the Eiffel, and on a bridge.

They deserve it, for all the sacrifices the campaign cost them.

[MadMaddie]

34. It is mind boggling that the party the supposedly touts family

values attacks the Obama's for putting their family in the forefront of their lives.

Faux newss.....nothing to report but angst!

[Jennicut]

36. It will be a great experience for the kids. My kids got on a plane at 2 and 3, no problems.

They liked it more then me for sure.

[Berry Cool]

37. It's perfectly fine

just so long as they stay away from that there Dijon mustard.

[Raine]

39. That's TERRIFIC

what a wonderful trip to enjoy as a family. :-)

[SamCooke]

42. I don't understand why the media is counting the $ when it comes to this family flying around nt

[Wednesdays]

43. K&R

:kick:

[AtomicKitten]

44. Right. And Junior flew to Crawford 77 times to clear brush. n/t

[Raine1967]

45. Link?

I would really like to read the article you are talking about. I know this isn't LBN or anything, but a link would really help.

[DearAbby]

47. I wonder...

If President Obama and First lady Michelle would like to adopt a frumpy old woman, who is partial to MuuMuu's as a third daughter...I'll walk the dog. How about it? Springtime in Paris...who wouldn't be jealous?

[DesertRat]

49. Oh man I can see it now

[grantcart]

50. I think everyone on the thread has missed the significance of this

The French can be a little cynical and stand off ish with Americans


Obama is bringing secret weapons to Paris.


The French have no hope when they get a glimpse of the entire family.



We will now own the French.

[RebelOne]

53. Here are some exploding heads. The Rapture Ready fundies.

www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=95802

[old mark]

60. Thanks anyway - I read a few and could stand no more of those

bastards. I really hate RW "christians".

mark

[LibertyLover]

61. Good grief - those people are beyond strange -

thinking it was so wonderful that W liked to vacation in the USA. The man was an incurious dolt who couldn't find Europe on a map if it was the only continent up there. Aaarggghhhh. Anyway, I'm glad that Michelle and the President are making sure that Sasha and Malia travel and experience other countries, cultures, ways of looking at things, histories and people from an early age. My parents made sure that we traveled as much as the family budget would allow and it's a great (and humbling) learning experience.

[Phx_Dem]

54. Yeah, because the Bush twins, Chelsea and Amy Carter never traveled

with their President fathers. The GOP seems to think it's a good idea to treat the President and his family as shitty as we treat our returning, injured soldiers.

:puke:

[old mark]

55. Probably going to bring back cases of French mustard......

at the taxpayers expense!

Socialism!


:rofl:

mark

[bdamomma]

56. good, let those girls see the City of Lights.

open their eyes to other parts of the world.

[Arkana]

57. The girls are the third rail of the Obama family for the media.

Even Limbaugh hasn't dared to go near them--which is funny, since he harbored no such reservations toward Chelsea Clinton.

[EffieBlack]

58. By tonight, Obama girls will have more foreign policy experience than W did when he became president

I was always amazed at the fact that W. never took advantage of all of the many opportunities provided by his family to travel anywhere beyond Tijuana before becoming president.

Fortunately, it looks like the Malia and Sasha will have a very different take on the world as they grow older. What great parents they have!