The right (once again) is trying to goad the Obamas into decreasing their security

[LuckyTheDog]

This is part of a pattern. This kind of thing happened during the campaign as well. They pretend to be outraged at the "excessive cost" of keeping our president and first family safe.

To be clear, what the Obamas do with their money is one thing; what they do with ours is another. Transporting and housing the estimated 70 Secret Service agents who will flank the material girl will cost the taxpayers a pretty penny.

Perhaps it could be that the Obamas, who seem to fancy themselves more along the lines of international celebrities than actual leaders, espouse a different view of sacrifice. When Michelle Obama accompanied her husband to Copenhagen along with best buddy Oprah Winfrey, she billed the trip - an ultimately unsuccessful bid to bring the Olympics to Chicago - as follows: "As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the President to come for these few days, so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home."


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/08/04/2010-08-04_material_girl_michelle_obama_is_a_modernday_marie_antoinette_on_a_glitzy_spanish.html#ixzz0vps9Atdy

[left is right]

1. Just 8 short years ago

we taxpayers paid the Secret Service to go barhopping on a nightly basis with the rowdier of the first twins

[LuckyTheDog]

2. Here is another example

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20012904-503544.html

Read the comments below the story.

[HipChick]

3. ..his motorcade ties up the traffic on short trips like this..Marine One is easier and cheaper all

the way round...does not tie up the DC police..