That's right. She's off again, on our dime, sight seeing and filling out her "country's visited" dance card.

First lady Michelle Obama will visit China on March 19-26, with stops in Beijing, Xi’an and Chengdu on a trip that will focus on education, the White House announced Monday.

Obama will be accompanied by her daughters, Malia and Sasha, and her mother, Marian Robinson. President Obama will not be on the trip.

During her visit, the first lady will meet with Madame Peng, the wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, and will visit cultural and historical sites. Obama will be focusing on the power and importance of education, both in her own life and in the lives of young people in both countries," the White House said in a statement.

In preparation for the trip, Obama will visit the District's Yu Ying public charter school, which features a Mandarin-immersion program, on Tuesday. Sasha Obama studies Mandarin at Sidwell Friends school, and she practiced some phrases with former President Hu Jintao during the former president’s state visit in 2011.

The first lady has said she sees such trips abroad as an opportunity both to act as an ambassador for the United States and to expose her daughters to the world. Her daughters receive national briefing books on the countries they visit, styled after the books prepared for the president and first lady.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post...ina-this-month/

Emphasis added in order to note: (1) Michelle is NOT an United States ambassador. She's a private citizen and should pay her own freight for this trip; and, (2) isn't it just delightful we taxpayers get to help the girls "see the world" and for Sasha practice her Mandarin in the very country where it's spoken?

The daughter going as "Senior Aides" again?

Zitat

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....and to expose her daughters to the world.

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Then why not do it on your own nickle if it is that important for your daughters you dirty whore. I would like to send my kid abroad too, but it actually cost regular people MONEY to do it.

Double post. Sorry kids.

My favorite line from "Michelle Obama ‘Snubs’ China’s Peng Liyuan" cited by Rev.

Even before Xi Jinping became China’s President, there was excited chatter in China about the prospect of his wife, Peng Liyuan, standing next to the glamorous Michelle Obama (emphasis added) Uh huh.

I had forgotten about this event and I am glad Rev brought it back to mind. I hope the Chinese have not forgotten and I doubt they have.