Are the Right actually right?

There has been a bit of a furore in America surrounding Michelle Obama’s holiday in Spain at the moment. The chief perpetrators to the drama are none other than the right wing publications. But let’s forget for a minute that Rupert Murdoch – a staunch conservative Republican who abhors anything remotely liberal, owns most of America’s media and the right wing politicians when criticizing the Obama administration are being malicious and sometimes racist may actually have a valid point to their argument?

Now Michelle and her youngest daughter Sasha may not be ‘living it up’ in a lavish hotel suite in Dubai, but given the dire economic state of the country at the moment, the 10% unemployment and not to mention the catastrophe of the oil spill along the Mexican Gulf, one could have been a little more prudent.
Depending on how you much you believe when reading the American newspapers, some are saying that Michelle is on holiday with a posse of 40 deep (that’s not including security), enjoyed the luxury of using the Air Force 4 (costing several thousands of dollars) and she is snapped hobnobbing with Spanish royalty. In any other circumstances this may not have really made headlines (using tax payers money, or not), but in a time when there is a global recession, it is bound to make a stir.
The key thing to consider are the ‘optics’ .i.e. how things are perceived by others. By reading some of the comments left by readers from various newspapers, the general consensus from those who criticize Michelle, is ‘Why couldn’t you holiday in America?’ Or even yet, ‘Why go on holiday now??’ A lot of western leaders who are indeed conscious of the optics have planned a holidays close to home, even the outlandish leader of France, Sarkozy is keeping it low key
Until the right get their way, they will always be petty and look for real or unreal faults of the current government, but questioning the validity of spending thousands to go on holiday during a tough period in America now, may actually be...right?