Ann Romney has never worked a day in her life

Those who criticize the cost of Obama’s Christmas vacation don’t want you to know that George W. Bush spent at least $20 million taxpayer dollars just on flights to his ranch in Crawford.
The right wing has been outraged at the four million dollar plus price tag for Obama’s family Christmas vacation, and they constantly hold George W. Bush up as an example of how thrifty a president should be when going on vacation.
The problem is that W. wasn’t thrifty. He was the most expensive vacation president in US history. Not only did Bush spend more days on vacation than any other president, but he used Air Force One more often while on vacation than any other president.
During Bush’s two terms, the cost of operating Air Force One ranged from $56,800 to $68,000 an hour. Bush used Air Force One 77 times to go to his ranch in Crawford, TX. Using the low end cost of $56,800, Media Matters calculated that each trip to Crawford cost taxpayers $259,687 each time, and $20 million total for Bush’s ranch flights.
If cost of the flight was the only expense involved to taxpayers Bush’s vacations would still seem rather economical, but there is more, much more. Unlike the Obama’s $4 million Christmas vacation price tag, which includes the cost of everything from transportation to accommodations for the First Family, the White House staff, and the White House press corps, Bush’s numbers only include the cost of flying the president to Crawford. The cost of transporting and accommodating staff, media, friends and family is not included in Bush’s vacation numbers.
In response to growing criticism that the president was on vacation too much, the Bush administration adopted the Rovian tactic of scheduling, “work events,” while the president was in Crawford so that they could claim that President Bush’s vacations were working vacations. During his infamous pre-9/11 August vacation, the AP reported that, “Using the ranch as a base, he will promote White House initiatives in Rocky Mountain National Park, Denver, Albuquerque, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and San Antonio.”
Bush’s “working vacations” cost taxpayers a small fortune in travel costs because President Bush and his staff would make day trips on Air Force One all across the country in order to counter the criticism that he was on vacation too often. For eight years, Bush essentially used Air Force One as his personal vacation taxi service.
What was also not counted in Bush’s Air Force One mileage total were the vacations where Bush flew to Crawford from Camp David such as the following via Media Matters:

In a December 27, 2001, Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Sun-Sentinel article (accessed via Nexis), national correspondent Jeff Zeleny reported “[a]fter spending Christmas at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, the president and first lady boarded Air Force One to travel to their ranch near the village of Crawford.”
And on December 26, 2007, The Associated Press reported that Bush took “Air Force One to fly from his Maryland mountaintop retreat to his Texas ranch here to see in the new year.”

FactCheck.org was writing about the anonymous chain emails about Obama’s travel costs and noted in July that the stories about Obama’s travel expenses are, “part of continuing pattern of false and misleading claims about the travels of the president and the first lady,” and that Obama used Air Force One less in his first two years in office than George W. Bush did.
That same pattern of false information about Obama’s travel costs relative to Bush’s is also rampant on right wing blogs, websites, and Fox News. The cost of Obama’s Christmas vacation is a good example of how right wing media can take a small fact like vacation costs or the number of Americans paying taxes in a single year and build an entire misinformation campaign around it.
The total cost of Obama’s Christmas vacation may be $4 million, but George W. Bush spent exponentially more taxpayers dollars, because he used Air Force One for political purposes in an attempt to distract the public from the amount of days that he was spending on vacation. In flights alone just for himself, George W. Bush spent five times more money flying just himself to Texas than Obama is spending on an entire Christmas vacation.
It is likely that the Bush administration spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on vacations, but the false outrage machine is on overdrive due to one Obama Christmas vacation.
By not including the cost of everything, the Obama bashers distorted the numbers to make it appear that Obama was lavishly spending taxpayer dollars on vacations, but a look inside the numbers reveals that nobody knows how to waste taxpayer dollars quite like the GOP.
Merry Christmas, Republicans. Here’s to another false Obama smear debunked.

I'm not talking about what the government spends, but the politicians. When's the last time you rented a farm for 40K a week?

Point is Corky both Obama and Romney have very little in common with you...accept it

Obama got to where he is with 100% hard work...everything that is right with America
Romney got to where he is because of his Dad...just like the guy that lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave from 2001-2009...how did that turn out?

Fact!

They were?

Her kids weren't home that much anyway. Palin was too busy shoving them in front a cameras at every turn..

affirmative action is never what's right about America, equality is...

That seems to be the only thing you are successful at, calling people C%NTS. Keep up the work.

CUNTY ?

Obama got to where he was because Jack Ryan dropped out of the 2004 IL Senate race in disgrace.
In a parallel universe, he's still IL's State Senator in the 13th district.

The president and first lady reported a joint adjusted gross income of $789,674.

Everyone in the USA can relate to that.

The Obamas earned more in the previous few years —as much as $5.5 million in 2009 — because of sales of Obama's books.Amazing he made all that money from selling very few books.

genius... he is the President of the United States of America. He is renting a house for a week for vacation. Since this house is obviously a ridiculous insult to humanity, where do you want him to stay? The Motel 6 off the interstate? What place would be acceptable to you to quiet your fake outrage?

yep, she still has never worked. therefore the Republics will put her in charge of the department
good job, drones. mitt can't lose with this laserlike intensity

she hasn't so much as lifted a finger of real work in 25+ years

fact

it cracks me up the way fox news is posturing like this woman's comments are sanctioned or condoned by Obama or the White House... that Obama made the statement and not some random CNN pundit. Obama distanced himself from her immediately.

Great comedy

Because he's black it must be affirmative action, nice racism douche bag.

He was born into money dummy, are you too stupid to realize that?

Hilary Rosen happens to be right. If you read her WHOLE comment, and are a woman with even a quarter of a brain you would agree.
Maybe they should have used the example set by these two heterosexual patriots before divorcing?

They're grasping at straws as usual.

give me a reason to think otherwise...transcripts will do....

No one except for the Obama campaign.

And no, it's not a fact that the Romney family "never had to struggle as hard as the vast majority of families with fewer children" - Mitt became a wealthy man long after they had the majority of their kids and during that time Ann had to deal with MS and cancer. Do you consider Multiple Sclerosis and Cancer having it good (or better than everyone else, for that matter)?

Why you are defending the Obama campaign on this is beyond me.

I don't give a fuck where he stays, he chose one that's 40K a week....you spend 40 a night.....you have nothing in common with him.......you don't have to kiss his ass

You don't even know the Romney family's circumstances - you are in no position to parrot the Obama campaign's slime.

They're probably puzzled at the idea of having 5 children when they worked so hard to legalize abortion on demand and keep the mills at Planned Parenthood going. The Romney family and their embodiment of the traditional American nuclear family is almost like an anathema to Liberals.

Yeah, I already get it. You see a successful black man and you know its affirmative action until proven otherwise. That's why I called you a racist because you are one.

Good for him. He's obviously earned it. You always claim that people should be responsible, pull themselves up by their own boot straps, and earn their own. You just pointed out that Obama did that. Kudos to you.
The difference (for my obviously mentally challenged friends here) is that Obama wasn't born into money like good old Willard was.