Posted on 02/21/2009 1:05:50 PM PST by MyTwoCopperCoins
You said — “Be a lot more effective if the gunner wasn’t exposed.”
See Post #33 for an answer to that one. I thought a tank would be needed, but apparently not with Smart Truck III. The Secret Service ought to get a few of those...
How fitting that Obama picked an almost bankrupt, soon to be out of business car maker for his new limo. ha ha ha
My thoughts exactly. Why is it that this POTUS is getting all the beefed up security?
I wonder if they see potnetial, well I'll not say, after he, naw I think I'll stop now.
Will it be used for protesters?
Obama’s not used to protesters, you know. All he’s ever seen are adoring fans who are most like political hacks or ACORN workers. He’s not ventured out here in the real world whether there are lots of millions of people who really don’t give a hoot for His Fakeness.
“Guns like this are illegal in the United States to everyone except the military.
That means he’ll never be attacked with a similar weapon, so how is this the “proportional response” that liberals claim is required?”
The presidetial motorcade isn’t just used in the United States. Any place he travels on the globe, all the vehicles in the motorcade are flown with him in two C-17s. So this could come in handy in lots of places other than the US.
Kick ass video by the way but miniguns are nothing new to the motorcade.
Mr. Obama probably has nothing to worry about - seems like most of the folks who have attacked Presidents in recent years have been left-wing whack jobs. Lee “Fair Play for Cuba” Oswald, Lynette “Manson Family” Fromme, Sara Jane “People In Need” Moore, John “I Love You, Jodie!” Hinckley, Frank “Dope Dealer” Corder, etc. And those kind of people love Mr. Obama!
You asked — “ST, why would ANYONE show up to try to get a glimpse of him and his entourage.”
LOL..., well, in case you didn’t know, here are the figures for the last election and the numbers of people that voted for him...
69,456,897
That’s quite a crowd... :-)
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I was going out to the airport when Bush came into town, to try and get some pictures and see Air Force One. On the way there, I ran into his motorcade as they were speeding back to the plane. And, of course, all the traffic was blocked all around, and I got out of the car, not knowing at first what the commotion was all about, but I figured it was Bush, pretty quickly. It took about five minutes before he got there. And I’ll tell you, when they’re “on the move” they don’t slow down, even for corners... they just speed along as fast as they can.
Don’t mean to be a spoiler, but that’s a marketing video from the company that installs the weapons. Who says Osamabama or USSS has one?
Complete waste of firepower to protect a sleazy piece of crap!
You asked — “Will it be used for protesters?”
You would have to inquire of the Secret Service for that answer, I suppose...
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And then — “Obama’s not used to protesters, you know. All he’s ever seen are adoring fans who are most like political hacks or ACORN workers. He’s not ventured out here in the real world whether there are lots of millions of people who really don’t give a hoot for His Fakeness.”
You might have a point there, if they put Obama, himself, on the trigger... LOL... However, wouldn’t that be like a lawyer being his own counsel in court. I mean, the President providing for his own security, manning the weapons, that protect himself?
But, considering that they probably won’t let him near the trigger, I suppose we don’t have too much to be concerned about in that regard.... :-)
America is turning into a third world country run by an empty suit who people say is more popular than J. Christ.
You said — “Complete waste of firepower to protect a sleazy piece of crap!”
Well, since any President always has his enemies no matter which side of the political spectrum he is on — I would imagine that the Secret Service doesn’t want to set the precedent that the Office of President of the United States is up for target practice... :-)
“they just speed along as fast as they can.”
Yeah, well, it worked in “The Kingdom.”
69.5 mm. is a crowd that could be a lot smaller it would appear.
In my lifetime, I would never have thought a sitting POTUS would have such a thing on US soil.
Do I think 0 is an imposter and usurper? Yes. But he can be impeached. Or declared ineligible by SCOTUS. Legally. This is a whole different impression.
You said — “America is turning into a third world country run by an empty suit who people say is more popular than J. Christ.”
Especially with the post-modern culture we’re in and the thinking that is linked to post-modernism and about “absolutes”... The Bible does make it clear that there will be an abandoning of the faith and Jesus even asks (although, I’m sure rhetorically...) will there be faith when He returns. I think He is due to return shortly, in not too many years (if not even months or weeks [could be...]).
As we can see, there was 69,456,897 people who voted for Obama, which was the largest number of voters giving him the largest plurality of votes of any recent President (either Bush or Clinton). So, it’s obvious that people are inclined to post-modernism and its abandonment of the idea of absolutes in our existence.
You said — “In my lifetime, I would never have thought a sitting POTUS would have such a thing on US soil.”
Yeah, and I didn’t think we would have Islamic terrorists actually training themselves *on our soil* either, plus infiltrating all levels of our society and claiming in open fashion that they will take over the United States, along with mosques popping up all over the country, funded by terrorist dollars and having terrorist types of material in terms of the propaganda that they put out. And no one is doing a thing about all that...
So, it’s no wonder that the Secret Service has to resort to this kind of protection for the Office of President of the United States...
My post was mostly tongue in cheek sarcasm, but I don't think that an Uzi or MAC 10 is even in the same universe for lethality as the Gatling gun in the video.
Maybe the .50 cal “automatic sniper suppression system” causes worry about a lawsuit. Or the side panels bristling with anti-RPG missiles. Wouldn’t want those going off during a Hopey Changemas parade.
I hope Obama and his posse don’t have any ideas doing a drive-by on the RNC headquarters.
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