I'm sure you've heard that just a few days after American voters kicked his party to the curb in historic numbers, Obama is off to India, taking what appears to be the largest presidential entourage in American history for a largely unnecessary and heavy-on-the-pleasure-and-society excursion.The price tag is a reported $2 billion, amounting to $200 million a day. And the response from the White House and the far left? "It's not going to cost that much." What a compete joke. Check out of some of the figures for what basically amounts to Obama's latest, greatest vacation:
-3000 people will in the presidential entourage.
-800 hotel rooms and suites have been booked for said entourage.
-40 cars have been transported to India to haul said entourage around.
-34 warships are reportedly being sent along, including an aircraft carrier (again, the government has denied this, saying "not that many").
-40 aircraft and a slew of helicopters just for good measure.
If I didn't know better, I'd think King George II of England was heading up this royal waste of resources. And even if the $2 billion and $200 million/day figures are inflated, just how inflated can they be? The White House conveniently refuses to release a dollar figure. Suffice it to say that Obama is spending, at a minimum, hundreds of millions of our taxpayer dollars for a trip that need not be taken and which could obviously be taken for a much smaller pricetag.
The utter gall of this monarch (errrr, man) to take such a trip just a few days after the resounding losses that his party suffered on November 2 -- losses incurred in part due to the big spending policies pursued by this administration and its minions over the past two years.
But alas, this is just the latest example of a completely out-of-touch man who has no business being the president of the United States. Along with George W. Bush, he is the worst and most ill-qualified president of my lifetime.
I've recently reflected on this question: How could this far leftist, out-of-touch, arrogant, condescending, elitist, thin-skinned shell of an individual ever possibly get re-elected in 2012? Simple answer: If the republicans put up a shitty candidate. A certain deranged right-winger from Alaska comes to mind, for example.
Unfortunately, that's likely what we're in for in 2012: An endless argument between these two rotten parties about how "our candidate isn't as bad are yours!" We have so much to look forward to.
And yes, you might inquire whether I'm being a little hard on the ol' president. But after two long years of this bullshit, I think we've earned that right.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/obama-visit-critised-for-overthetop-spending/134409-2.html
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/34-warships-sent-from-us-for-obama-visit-64459
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