Ten Million dollars wasted

How does that trip end up costing ten million??

Just wondering what the breakdown is on that.

She really has six toes?? I had no idea!

...not to mention the Carbon Footprint!:~D

Oh, but you have to appreciate what a sacrifice it was for the Obamas and Oprah to spend those few days traveling. Mrs. Obama said that.

That $10 million could have gone to families whose unemployment has run out and they're losing everything. It could have gone to the food banks. Hell, if you'd just thrown it down the toilet it would've done just at much good as that damned trip.

At least Obama met for 25 minutes (in his jet on the runway in Copenhagen) with his general, only the 2nd meeting in 9 months and the general has been begging for more troops.

I guess you don't understand the economic boost everyone would have got from hosting the Olympics. I would say that a $10 million expense is not much compared to the hundreds of millions and maybe even billions that would have come to America if Chicago would have won the bid. It didn't work out this time, but if it had, I don't think you would have been complaining.

Not wasted. Chicago was in the Final Four...the city had to be promoted to the Olympic Committee...and Obama was not the only high ranking official representing his country there. Do you have any better suggestions? Like him or not, Obama is well thought of by the international community so he and Michele were good choices and that hometown thing was probably seen as an edge. Hosting the Olympics would have created thousands of jobs and brought in tens of millions in revenue.

it would have been nice if Oprah would have paid for the trip, not like she couldn't a ford it and Chicago is her home too.

And I thought Chicago was one of the top five voted out in the first round of consideration?


It would have been a tremendous shot in the economic arm with the travel, construction, extra police. But that would have only been a short term fix and in after 2016 where would we be? All those folks hired to get the city ready and staffed would be out of work and right back into a slump again.

I also think Obama is wasting money going all over the country making stump speeches. He's been elected already, when is he going to start working?

Did anyone catch the opening Saturday Night Live skit about Obama, I was on the floor crying it was so funny.

wow, 10 million dollars. I think it was a waste no matter what anybody says. I just came across this and just heard about it now. He should be more concerned about what our country needs and stuff instead of spending 10 million dollars on a trip, that didn't really accomplish anything.

And ew ew ew, a 6th toe. Why was it out there like that. If that was me with a 6th toe, I would've hidden it. And you would think, that since Oprah has all that money, that she would get it fixed. I know I would've.