Posted on 05/22/2011 6:48:25 PM PDT by Steelfish
The Car That Thinks It's A Tank: Inside Obama's 'Beast' Cadillac that is being flown from the U.S. to drive down the Mall By CHRIS GREENWOOD and REBECCA ENGLISH 23rd May 2011
An extraordinary entourage will accompany President Obama and his wife Michelle when they sweep into London tomorrow. The team of at least 500 will include White House aides, a six-doctor medical team and a squad of personal chefs. There will be more than 200 secret service agents, many of them armed. The President will travel in ‘The Beast’, his gigantic bomb-proof General Motors Cadillac with eight-inch thick armour-plating on its doors. The limousine will be accompanied by a motorcade of at least 20 vehicles plus a dozen police motorcycle outriders.
He will land in Britain on Air Force One. But if this picture is anything to go by, Barack Obama might prefer journeying by sea rather than plane. Dressed in a pirate hat, eyepatch and striped red shirt, the ten-year-old Obama was posing before a Hallowe’en party. He is also decked out with a homemade sword, earrings – and a drawn-on moustache and beard. The photo is part of an exhibition by residents of flats in Honolulu,
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Wookie?
Count Barackula; and he sucks!
Goodness, don't you remember that huge entourage Netanyahu came with?
Oh, he didn't?
Oh.
When Truman left the WH, he and Bess climbed into their car and drove home, by themselves, to their home - without secret service, without a pension.
How did we get from there to traveling like a Sultan?
Need security, yes - but hasn't barry heard? We're broke. Maybe he could leave a cook or two home.
He just got his wedding invitation. Seems it was sent out a little late.
I want our President to be safe. But, this sounds excessive.
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The moment he rolled this car out I thought to myself “what is he going to do that requires this much protection and fire power” next thought dictator!
I want our President to be safe. But, this sounds excessive.
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The moment he rolled this car out I thought to myself “what is he going to do that requires this much protection and fire power” next thought dictator!
Yea, the whole thing sounds excessive to me. 500 people, including 200 SS, the private chefs? Come on. I’d love to know when Bush use to go round the world was it this much too?
The best laid plans of mice and men...
hilarious posts there and some serious ones regarding the slow-reaction time of the Secret Service.
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