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.
Now, here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher,
She was a low-down hoochie-coocher,
She was the roughest, toughest frail,
But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale.
Mrs. Obama and her daughter arrived at Marivent palace shortly before 1 p.m. and were greeted at the front door of the residence by King Juan Carlos, Queen Sofia and Princess Letizia.
She messed around with a bloke named Smokey,
She loved him though he was cokey.
He took her down to Chinatown,
And showed her how to kick the gong around.
The king, a keen yachtsman, has for decades spent August vacations at the palace with its dramatic cliff-top views of the sea on the Balearic island's southwestern coast near Palma de Mallorca.
She had a dream about the king of Sweden,
He gave her things that she was needin',
He gave her a home built of gold and steel,
A diamond car with a platinum wheel.
Lunch was Andalusian-style chilled gazpacho soup, chargrilled turbot, veal escalopes with mustard, Oriental rice with sauteed mushrooms, a Mallorca-style vegetable ratatouille and sliced fruit with ice cream, accompanied by wines from the northern regions of Rueda and Rioja, the palace said.
He gave her his townhouse and his racing horses,
Each meal she ate was a dozen courses;
She had a million dollars worth of nickels and dimes,
She sat around and counted them all a million times.
The lunch meeting marked the end of a five-day private visit to Spain by Mrs. Obama, who toured beauty spots in the southern region of Andalusia including Marbella, Ronda and the Alhambra palace in Granada.
The king gave Mrs. Obama some seeds for the White House garden as a parting gift, while the queen made a present of handicrafts typical of Mallorca, the palace said.
After lunch the first lady's party was due to fly back to the United States aboard Air Force Two.
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There is a lot to like about the King of Spain. I have a fond memory of his run in with that blowhard Hugo Chavez. There are other interesting events in his life that will make a very readable biography some day.
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"The king gave Mrs. Obama some seeds for the White House garden as a parting gift, while the queen made a present of handicrafts typical of Mallorca, the palace said."
So, I wonder what tasteless and tacky gift that Michelle Antoinette presented in return? Anyone got any guesses, based on the shabby record of official gifting to date?
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You think the lemonade police agriculture inspectors will actually get to check on the importation of the seeds? Doing something they're actually suppose to do. How about sending a SWAT team to deal with a guy whose paper work is off just a little on some orchids.
#6
Groucho Marx from 'A Night at the Opera' "You're willing to pay him a thousand dollars a night just for singing? Why, you can get a phonograph record of 'Minnie the Moocher' for 75 cents. And for a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie."
Inflation has set in since 1935.
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Harry Belafonte is scratching out the screenplay as we speak (with Danny Glover's creative input) to support "Ron" Howard's coming Epic, "White Man's Wookie-Umm-Umm-Umm". Can you lefties lisp "BLOCK-BUSTER ALERT!!!"? This POS Will be HUGE!
WyckL(Sp?)Jean provided (sigh) Slat with this exclusive soundtrack teaser..."I saw our Wookie Euro-kissing with a Queen. Its blouse was perfect!
The dark guns of Chi-Town, "Ah-OOOO"-Draw BLOOD...
With first lady Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha in Spain and Malia away at camp, President Obama will have a few friends over at the White House Sunday to help him continue his birthday celebration. There will be a barbecue at the White House on Sunday for the president and his friends. Today, Obama is out playing golf with a few buddies in town from Hawaii and Chicago.
Let me guess: Vera Baker pops out of the cake?
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Gee, I wish I were President so that all I had to do was party, golf, and ruin the country.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
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I don't begrudge anyone a vacation, but Bambi and his people are remarkably tone-deaf on the vacation in Spain and the golfing. Even getting the American papers to avoid the vacations, which they're doing, isn't helping, since the Brit papers are more than happy to report everything Michelle does.
Remember all the Camp Casey stories? Bush would go to Crawford for a vacation and the American media camped at the front gate. We had wall-to-wall Cindy Sheehan. Remember that?
Now look at the reporting.
And even with the MSM in full cooperation mode, the American people are unhappy with the Obama vacations.
Posted by: Steve White ||
08/08/2010 0:23 Comments ||
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I wonder how many of tiger woods' dates made the scene...
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DC loves this guy. The night life thrives on this.
Anyone who is anyone will be part of this party train. Inside deals and who you know mean something now in DC. Just the way it has always been in DC. Carter- no, Bush 1 & 2- no, Kennedy- yes, Ford- no, Nixon- no but Tip Oneal I bet yes.
#2
the extravagance and arrogance on display among the White House elites that rule America as though they had been handed some divine right to govern with impunity.
I don't think you can put the Telegraph in the "Ogabe's overseas base" category - they're the relatively conservative counterpoint to the leftist Guardian, and IIRC have always been skeptical of The One's appeal.
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) ||
08/08/2010 16:39 Comments ||
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The Obamas could care less about the public outcry. Their haughty excesses only solidify the notion of a one term presidency.
#7
They forgot the, "t," in Ancient. That aside, isn't this always the way liberals push? Create a welfare state, remove the military since it's, "bad," and kill the nation with over spending with all the social engineering programs, and make themselves the new elite aristocrasy. After all, every one else is too stupid and cowardly to run things not into the ground.
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You know I am kind of curious why the Presidency must be in crisis mode all the time. Yes we are fighting a war, but I guarantee that no one wants another President to micro manage a war. So yes he should go to Chicago for his Birthday and yes the First Lady should wine and dine with Kings. It's their job to do these things. I don't like the way the pres treated Bush whenever he would go take a leak and "take his eye off the ball". God forbid he go to Camp David for the weekend. It became a bunker presidency that was afraid of offending someone by taking the weekend off or campaigning.
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There's vacations, then there's this whole ostentatious wrong-headed trip to a place best known for Arab princes and playboy types, donning dresses that cost more than a weeks wages for those fortunate enough to have jobs -- instead of going to, say, the Gulf Coast. Then there are the large numbers of vacations and their frequency...
And sorry you "don't like the way the pres treated Bush whenever he would go take a leak and take his eye off the ball", but guess what -- its the standard when the nation is hurting. THese aren;t the days of Calvin Coolidge. We are at war, under threat and undergoing huge economic stresses. You take the job, you have to grind at it if that's what circumstances hand you. Neither Bush nor Obama deserve to gripe one bit more than I did when I ended up getting called back from the reserves and going to combat because of some dumbass in Iraq invading Kuwait, or getting stuck in shithole called Haiti due to Doc Duvalier.
This stuff comes with the job. If you don't like it, don't sign up for the duty. Hard times require hard work and for a real leader, they will draw even more scrutiny. I know I had lots more expected of me at wartime than in the late 70's thru late 80's. Too damned bad. Deal with it, stop whining.
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Thanks Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo), yet another of my fantasies dashed.....
The Telegraph question aside, you're actually pretty much on the mark, Phester...from what I understand, the European leaders - at least the tougher, more realistic ones, like Sarkozy and Merkel - regard Ogabe as at best a dangerous naif. Vladimir Corleone Putin already knows he can be easily rolled, and a whole cast of lovely lads like Chavez, Daniel Ortega and the Castro brothers think he's probably a kindred spirit.
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