Posted on 03/28/2009 9:05:23 PM PDT by Steelfish
Prospect Of Barack Obama Show Causes UK To Clear Its Decks
With an entourage of 500 staff, an armour-plated limousine and a fleet of decoy helicopters, America's new president will arrive for his first visit to Britain amid huge razzmatazz on Tuesday for the G20 summit. But it will be his closed-door meetings with world leaders that are likely to prove the most significant of the trip
Paul Harris in New York and Robin McKie
The Observer 29 March 2009
Britain will get its first chance to see Barack Obama this week when a White House cavalcade - complete with armoured limousines, helicopters, 200 US secret service staff and a six-doctor medical team - sweeps into the UK.
Obama will fly into London for his first visit to the UK as president of the United States on Tuesday to take part in the G20 summit in the capital's Docklands area. He will not be travelling light.
More than 500 officials and staff will accompany the president on his tour this week - along with a mass of high-tech security equipment, including the $300,000 presidential limousine, known as The Beast.
Fitted with night-vision camera, reinforced steel plating, tear- gas cannon and oxygen tanks, the vehicle is the ultimate in heavy armoured transport.
In addition, a team from the White House kitchen will travel with the president to prepare his food. As one official put it: "When the president travels, the White House travels with him, right down to the car he drives, the water he drinks, the gasoline he uses, the food he eats. America is still the sole superpower and the president must have the ability to handle any crisis, anywhere, any time."
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Maybe he’ll bring the PM a Slinky and one of those 3 for $10 tshirts they sell on the sidewalks in DC.
A Velvet Elvis would be nice, or the Dogs Playing Poker.
Something classy.
With P. T. Barnum, the clowns would get a Model T...
The UK is treating Obama like he’s The Beatles, and dude thinks he’s the New Emperor of the United States instead of President. I’ll bet the punk even has an assistant to wipe his royal hiney! What a freaking CROCK!
Did all the presidents travel with this large a group? just wondering....
hahahahahaha
There’s gonna be 200 Secret Service there?
I think Clinton came the closest & the wide-load & their daughter lived it up with trips all around the world.
“A Velvet Elvis would be nice, or the Dogs Playing Poker.”
How about a set of leopardskin seatcovers for the Presidential limo? (from a Kenyan leopard, of course;)
Do you feel like were being fleeced?
He might put a new twist on the old joke: “I traveled to England, and all I gave the Queen was this crappy t-shirt”
Now what does he need the medical staff for - shouldn’t he be partaking of that wonderful shining example of socialized medicine and taking notes?
lol
Those are even more American than Star Wars!
Anyone know?
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