[Lucky9teen]

Glenn Beck said the only answer he got as to the reason for the trip, was for the President to see the "Festival of Lights". WTF....3000 people entourage? 34 WAR ships?, 40 car caravan?.... If he needs that much security, why is he taking his wife and his daughters to such an unsafe place???

And why is he posting his full itinerary for all to see?

[blackdog]

Talk about a stupid headline.........

2 Billion

End of article.

[Seruzawa]

Let them eat cake.

[Jacquerie]

He travels with a retinue more extravagant than any ever imagined by a despotic muslim sultan.

Remember how the media beat up Nancy Reagan for weeks over new White House china?

[animal172]

And to top it all off, the Indians are taking the coconuts off the trees in the area that The Chosen One will be visiting.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

When the media start criticizing the messiah for this, like they criticized Bush and Reagan for everything they did, I’ll know that we finally have our country back.

[TexasCajun]

34 warships sent from US for Obama visit

[GoldenPup]

How Much is Obama's India Trip Costing Tax Payers?

Far, far too much...unless we could get the Indians to keep him...then it would be worth it!!!

[ViLaLuz]

The reason is to celebrate Diwali? WHAT is the REAL REASON?

I saw an article that Michelle was going to be visiting sex workers for some UN thing.

[RetSignman]

[If he needs that much security, why is he taking his wife and his daughters to such an unsafe place???]

EXACTLY, it’s the equivalent taking their kids along to watch the Normandy Invasion./s

This (man) is clinically insane.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The trip will cost taxpayers 200 million a day for 10 days.

The Obama's will rent the entire Hotel Taj, 570 rooms.

Those numbers always needed to be taken sceptically - they came from Indian media citing an un-named Indian state goverment official. This is like some un-named bureaucrat in the Maryland state government giving us numbers on the British PM's last trip to the US. And though I don't doubt that the trip is going to be expensive, $200M/day sounds unbelievable, even in our current economy.

Anyway, there are several US reports now saying the numbers are nonsense:

Washington Wire
Pentagon denies 34 warships

Obama's administration is doing enough real harm for all of us to call out and shine a spotlight on without getting distracted by stuff like this.

[Erik Latranyi]

If he is taking 34 warships, maybe he is leading an invasion so the United States can takeover India!

After all, India will supplant China soon as the largest economy.

On another conspiracy note, what if this is a way to eliminate Obama (terrorist attack) so he can retire somewhere and Biden/Hillary can run the show until 2012?

[Theo]

What is the source for this $200 million/day figure?

[The Comedian]

I'd give it about an 80% probability that America is going get the Jericho option while His Kenyanness is evacuating the royal entourage to Mumbai.

Economic collapse + civil unrest, then domestic nukes.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[CaptainPhilFan]

Whatever the cost is, it’s an over the top
excessive trip to be taken by a President
(ugh I hate using that word to identify him)
while his consituents are losing jobs
and fighting the tide of rising taxes
and lost income.

It’s a horrible display of insensitivity,
it’s almost criminal. Is it merely to bring
that much American cash to India?

Are the 200 CEO’s going to negotiate deals
for more jobs over there on our dime? The whole
thing is wrong and Barry doesn’t give a shit.

The actual price tag of this trip is not cheap,
we can easily determine that. Whatever the price,
it is far too much. THAT is the argument.