If Bush Did It

**Written by Doug Powers Kathleen Parker has a column in the Washington Post that calls for over-reactionary American critics of Hope & Change™ to leave Michelle Obama alone and cut her a break for the Spain trip and other extravagance during these tough economic times. Leave her alone? The First Lady is a proponent of taking one person’s pie and giving it to somebody else; She’s for the mandatory measurement and tracking of kids’ Body Mass Index ; She promotes the bill that regulates and will ultimately decimate our health insurance options. The list goes on. Don’t criticize Michelle Obama? When she leaves me alone, then believe me, I’ll be more than happy to return the favor — in good times or in bad. Until then, all I can do is ask her defenders who are saying the cost of the trip didn’t even put a dent in the treasury, “How many poor people who are getting screwed over by the teachers union bailout could $400,000 worth of food stamps have helped?” That’s a lot of pie that could have been given up so somebody else could have had more (frankly I can’t believe that the metaphor for wealth hasn’t yet been officially changed from pie to celery, but give it time). That said, in this one instance, I am willing to cut the First Lady a break. I remember when a friend of mine in Detroit lost a parent and how difficult it was as we struggled our way through the grief process from our suites at Badrutt’s Palace in St. Moritz, Switzerland. And the financially-strapped relatives back home who we charged a good portion of the trip to didn’t complain one bit — as it should be. Obligatory: **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe

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