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Barack Obama's trips to Hawaii on a chartered Boeing 757 each cost more than twice the price of Sarah Palin's new clothes. Brad Blakeman, who was in charge of scheduling for President Bush, says a Boeing 757 costs about $20,000 an hour for fuel, crew, and maintenance. Since a trip to Hawaii ...
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$One$ Obama Vacation = 3 Palin Wardrobes
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] At Newsmax, Ron Kessler does some quick math and concludes that, if we count only the flight expenses (i.e., forget about all additional necessary expenses for security, housing, etc.), each Obama trip to Hawaii (the vacation a few weeks back and the trip last week to visit his ailing grandmother) costs about $400,000. Those two trips thus run to $800,000 an amount that would buy Sarah Palin's wardrobe more that five times. Will the Obamedia cover that? About as likely as the chance that the LATimes will release the videotape of Obama and Bill Ayers appearing at the ...

Obama Allegedly Spends Campaign Funds on Personal Travel
IsrapunditObama’s Hawaii Trips Cost More Than Palin’s Clothes by Ronald Kessler “By Obama using a private jet to go on a purely personal visit to see his grandma, he’s wasting not only energy, but he’s using the money that his supporters have given him for campaign purposes,” Blakeman says. “It’s a purely personal visit paid for with campaign funds.”

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