Michelle Obama visits Haiti

Michelle Obama makes first solo trip abroad as first lady, draws criticism from the rightToday first lady Michelle Obama embarked on her first foreign trip without her husband in tow, and even before her scheduled arrival in Mexico, the junket has yielded a surprising development — an unannounced stopover in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The side trip comes on the heels of the three-month anniversary of the devastating earthquake that claimed the lives of thousands of Haitians and displaced many more from their homes.

Still, critics of the Obama White House have brushed aside the benign-seeming aims of the junket — to promote "youth engagement" across the U.S.-Mexico border with Mexico's first lady, Margarita Zavala de Calderon — to deride Mrs. Obama's political priorities. In one of the most prominent of several such attacks, conservative blogger Michelle Malkin singled out Michelle Obama's supposed support for "illegal alien shamnesty" and added that it's "too bad she has no interest in showing 'engagement' with American families plagued with far bigger problems than obesity."

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As a tax payer. I would rather that my tax dollars pays for a trip for me to Nassau. But instead we are forced to pay for a no accomplishment trip by this big grilled, wide load first Lady. What a joke. This woman has nothing to offer. She would have a problem carrying out instructions in a White Castle hey, just my opinion. By that' s my freedom of speech that the Obama administration wants to do away with. Hows the change workin out? No good is it?

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