Posted on 10/23/2010 4:30:28 PM PDT by American Dream 246
Mumbai trip: The entire Taj Mahal hotel has been booked, the President's team will have 570 rooms, including all banquets and restaurants, 125 rooms more rooms for Obama's security, the 2 jumbo jets are in addition to Air Force One...
indiatimes.com
Since Obama is expected to arrive in the afternoon on November 6, and will travel by road to the Taj Mahal Hotel, the entire stretch from airport to the hotel will be under heavy security.
To ensure fool-proof security, the Presidents team has booked the entire the Taj Mahal Hotel, including 570 rooms, all banquets and restaurants. Since his security contingent and staff will comprise a huge number, 125 rooms at Taj President have also been booked, apart from 80 to 90 rooms each in Grand Hyatt and The Oberoi hotels. The NCPA, where the President is expected to meet representatives from the business community, has also been entirely booked.
The officer said, Obamas contingent is huge. There are two jumbo jets coming along with Air Force One, which will be flanked by security jets. There will be 30 to 40 secret service agents, who will arrive before him. The Presidents convoy has 45 cars, including the Lincoln Continental in which the President travels.
Since Obama will stay in a hotel that is on sea front, elaborate coastal security arrangements have been made by the US Navy in consonance with the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard. There will be US naval ships, along with Indian vessels , patrolling the sea till about 330-km from the shore. This is to negate the possibility of a missile being fired from a distance, the officer said.
The President will be accompanied by his chefs, not because he would not like to savour Indian cuisine, but to ensure his food is not spiked.
He is blowing it like there is no tomorrow. He may know something.
no marching band??
He does manage to play golf in between trips. We pay for that as well.
Who the h#ll foisted Juan McLame on us as the alternative to Hussain? What a joke, I still get chest pains just thinking about the embarrassment that was the McLame campaign.
He must get alot of threats. I don’t ever recall this type of security or lavishness on any other presidential trips before BO and MOOchelle took over. The media will use the trip to take attention off the wipe out of the elections.
I see a shovel ready project in the works and wonder when B Hussein, the great one, will begin constructing his first palace.
First real glimpse of the level of paranoia that is/has set in. Wow...reports a few weeks ago rumored he had gone off his rocker...we're in real trouble. I'd take a Biden, but my bet he resigns after the elections...
Read the last line in the article...
It is full-fledged paranoia.
Yeas, I don’t ever recall another President having this amount of security and expense for a Presidential visitation. What’s the big deal in going to india? I don’t think this is wise by any means, so what’s going down there?
hes hurrying up before he gets impeached
um...that’s a little too much skin for a First Lady to be showing. She absolutely has no class what so ever! That photo is plain embarrassing.
Has anyone else had the dark fantasy of what THEY would type into TOTUS ??
Picture: it’s the State of the Union Speech: the House Chamber is full of Dignitaries. All the networks are broadcasting it.
Obama steps to the podium and:
MY FELLOW AMERICANS. . . .
WE’RE NO STRANGERS TO LOVE. . . .
YOU KNOW THE RULES, AND SO DO I. . . .
(evil grin)
...and I don´t call Saigon HCMC, either.
Yes, as far as I can tell this is a real, unaltered photo of Michelle. I found it at a blog run by a black, author, self proclaimed Hip-Hop afficionado and Obama fan. Looking through his blog you will see that he worships the ground Barack and Michelle walk on. He published the photo on his blog and I haven't seen it at any of the usual places I see photoshops so I assume it is legit.
Here is the blog link and his self-bio:
http://harryallen.info/
Harry Allen, Hip-Hop Activist & Media Assassin, publishes the blog Media Assassin at harryallen.info. There he writes about race, politics, and culture, much as he does for VIBE, The Source, The Village Voice, and other publications, and has been doing so for over twenty years.
As an expert covering hip-hop culture, he has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, on National Public Radio, MTV, VH-1, CNN, the BBC, and other information channels. Others know him for his long-time association with the seminal band Public Enemy, and for his widely-heard cameo on their classic record, Dont Believe the Hype.
Allen serves as an advisor to the Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) at Indiana University, and as the host/producer of his weekly WBAI-NY/99.5 FM radio show, NONFICTION.
Isn’t the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai where the MUSLIM TERRORIST attacks occurred two years ago?
I just cannot understand all this trouble for a Presidential visit....unless this is true and he is quite paranoid. Mindboggling expense.
Need a job? Obastard has food stamps and welfare for you.
So that’s where Bombay went. Damn.
Well, we got a new term out of it: obama-rich.
Is there no one that can put the brakes on his spending for these trips?
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