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First Lady underfire for glitzy Spanish vacation

ORG XMIT: PRN4 First Lady Michelle Obama on Glamour's December issue - one of five celebratory Women of the Year covers. (PRNewsFoto/Glamour) (The Spokesman-Review)
ORG XMIT: PRN4 First Lady Michelle Obama on Glamour's December issue - one of five celebratory Women of the Year covers. (PRNewsFoto/Glamour) (The Spokesman-Review)

 First Lady Michelle Obama on Glamour's December issue - one of five celebratory Women of the Year covers. (PRNewsFoto/Glamour

As  her husband celebrated his 49th birthday in Chicago with Oprah, first lady Michelle Obama was halfway around the world, on vacation with her 9-year-old daughter, Sasha, in Spain. The two are traveling on what the White House has described as a four-day "private trip" with several Obama family friends along the country's ritzy southern coast. Holly Bailey, YahooNews.com More here.

Are the Obamas' separate vaction plans worth the interest they've incited?

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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.