Here our Presidents are actually important, and we reserve huge motorcades for important people, instead of people whose great great great great great great great grandparents were important.

It’s good to be the king…

This coming from a culture that spends outrageous sums of money on providing security and castles for the useless, stupid fucking royals.

Nice use of your tax money, assholes. Does Prince Dipshit or Queen Dumbass make you feel all tingly inside while they prance around wasting your hard-earned dollars?

Maybe the Mail needs to be told that, in America! things are done in a big way. ahhhhhhh

Oh, if ONLY we had a publication like the DAILY MAIL here in our Once Proud Republic!!!!!111 They are like a print version of FOX NEWS (The Most Powerful Name in News), without all that pesky RESTRAINT!!!!!!!111

Interesting that you choose to write about the size of the motorcade, and not the price of the trip. From the Daily Mail article:

According to the Hawaii Reporter, the bill for the trip included:
$63,000 on an early flight bringing Mrs Obama and the children to Hawaii ahead of the president.
$1,000,000 on Mr Obama’s return trip from Washington on Air Force One.
$38,000 for the ‘Winter White House’ the president has rented for his family on the beach.
$16,000 to rent beachfront homes for Secret Service and Navy Seals.
$134,000 for 24 White House staff to stay at the Moana Hotel.
$251,000 in police overtime.
$10,000 for an ambulance to be on hand at all times

And those tallies do not include the travel costs of Mr Obama’s staff and Secret Service, car rentals and surveillance operations in advance of the trip, which could easily add up to more than £30,000.
The White House would not comment on the cost of the stay.
A spokesman said the president’s holiday expenses are in line with those of previous presidents.
But the Hawaii Reporter claimed: ‘They could have chosen a less expensive and more secure place to stay such as a beachfront home on the Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station – just a two-minute drive away from the Kailuana Place property where they are now.
‘The president visits the military base daily to workout, bowl with his kids or enjoy the more private beach there. ‘He also could have stayed at a home 15 minutes away on the beach fronting Bellows Air Force Base as President Bill Clinton did.’
The Obamas holidayed at the same spot last year, but rising fuel costs have pushed up the estimated travel costs and the president flew later than the rest of his family because of delayed votes in Washington, adding more to the escalating expenses.
The Honolulu Police Department said overtime for officers cost $250,000 last year, compared to $106,000 in 2008 before his inauguration.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343050/All-Presidents-men-Obama-enjoys-20-MAN-motorcade-splashes-1-5m-Hawaiian-holiday.html#ixzz19iOQAeIg

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t begrudge Obama taking a vacation. I just think that the cost of the trip is a bigger story than the size of the motorcade, although they are of course related.

MediaWhore said:
This coming from a culture that spends outrageous sums of money on providing security and castles for the useless, stupid fucking royals.

Nice use of your tax money, assholes. Does Prince Dipshit or Queen Dumbass make you feel all tingly inside while they prance around wasting your hard-earned dollars?

It’s good to see the conservative troops using their red thumbs down of death in defense of monarchy/aristocracy.

Judge Mental said:
Interesting that you choose to write about the size of the motorcade, and not the price of the trip. From the Daily Mail article:

According to the Hawaii Reporter, the bill for the trip included:
$63,000 on an early flight bringing Mrs Obama and the children to Hawaii ahead of the president.
$1,000,000 on Mr Obama’s return trip from Washington on Air Force One.
$38,000 for the ‘Winter White House’ the president has rented for his family on the beach.
$16,000 to rent beachfront homes for Secret Service and Navy Seals.
$134,000 for 24 White House staff to stay at the Moana Hotel.
$251,000 in police overtime.
$10,000 for an ambulance to be on hand at all times

And those tallies do not include the travel costs of Mr Obama’s staff and Secret Service, car rentals and surveillance operations in advance of the trip, which could easily add up to more than £30,000.
The White House would not comment on the cost of the stay.
A spokesman said the president’s holiday expenses are in line with those of previous presidents.
But the Hawaii Reporter claimed: ‘They could have chosen a less expensive and more secure place to stay such as a beachfront home on the Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station – just a two-minute drive away from the Kailuana Place property where they are now.
‘The president visits the military base daily to workout, bowl with his kids or enjoy the more private beach there. ‘He also could have stayed at a home 15 minutes away on the beach fronting Bellows Air Force Base as President Bill Clinton did.’
The Obamas holidayed at the same spot last year, but rising fuel costs have pushed up the estimated travel costs and the president flew later than the rest of his family because of delayed votes in Washington, adding more to the escalating expenses.
The Honolulu Police Department said overtime for officers cost $250,000 last year, compared to $106,000 in 2008 before his inauguration.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343050/All-Presidents-men-Obama-enjoys-20-MAN-motorcade-splashes-1-5m-Hawaiian-holiday.html#ixzz19iOQAeIg

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t begrudge Obama taking a vacation. I just think that the cost of the trip is a bigger story than the size of the motorcade, although they are of course related.

$3 Trillion federal budget. $13 Trillion GDP. By far the largest economy in human history. It costs a lot to protect the most powerful person on the planet. Perspective, please. Yeah, he’s chillin right now. But Presidents don’t noticably age so much in such short periods because they’re vacationing, even if they’re on vacation.

Publius219 said:
It costs a lot to protect the most powerful person on the planet.

It certainly does. Although 10 cars for 4 people seems a bit excessive.

Publius219 said:
Perspective, please.

Okay. This is the guy who told us that everyone must sacrifice for the greater good and everyone must have “some skin in the game.” I guess by “everyone,” he meant everyone but himself and his family.

It is unfortunate, and they ALL do it. Tabulate the cost of the election, and we are faced with a dismal reality…commercials decide the winners, not merit. How much more shame can be cast upon the citizens of this nation? England, you have no room to talk…your country inspired this blatant waste of resources.

And our great-grandchildren will be paying for his vacation. Isn’t income redistribution wonderful? LMAO

It maybe good to be the King, but it’s even better to be the Messiah.

From Hillbuzz, a look at Presidential Christmases: Class vs. Crass

They’re just mad because he’s contributing to that “Global Warming” nonsense they love to get exercised about in Britain.

Obama doesn’t want to be out done by anybody. The size of the motorcade is a direct result of the popularity of the President and his family. Obama is not the most popular guy right now. There are plenty of democrats mad at him for compromising with the GOP.

So the question here is this: Is Obama helping the economy by employing more people or damaging the environment by using 5 times as many cars???

Judge Mental said:
Okay. This is the guy who told us that everyone must sacrifice for the greater good and everyone must have “some skin in the game.” I guess by “everyone,” he meant everyone but himself and his family.

Strange… Politicians are usually like that. I need to get a copy of the Politician’s dicitionary. I bet “everyone” will be defined as “a nice way to address the non-priviledged.”

Judge Mental said:

“The White House would not comment on the cost of the stay.
A spokesman said the president’s holiday expenses are in line with those of previous presidents.”

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Interesting the whole article had no sources! Why?

Dr Moon says:
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Obama doesn’t want to be out done by anybody. The size of the motorcade is a direct result of the popularity of the President and his family. Obama is not the most popular guy right now. There are plenty of democrats mad at him for compromising with the GOP.
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So, by your theory the more popular the bigger the motorcade? Wait till his numbers start going up he will add a car for every percentage point!

Only a moron would post something so ridiculous! Dr. Moon!

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And our great-grandchildren will be paying for his vacation. Isn’t income redistribution wonderful? LMAO
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Your great grandchildren are paying for your medicare/social security. Maybe you should give it up!

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Publius219 said:
It costs a lot to protect the most powerful person on the planet.

It certainly does. Although 10 cars for 4 people seems a bit excessive.

Publius219 said:
Perspective, please.

Okay. This is the guy who told us that everyone must sacrifice for the greater good and everyone must have “some skin in the game.” I guess by “everyone,” he meant everyone but himself and his family.
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If this was a republican white guy would you be saying that we should protect him less?

TrollJuice said:
udge Mental says:
December 31, 2010 at 1:52 pm Judge Mental(Quote)
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Publius219 said:
It costs a lot to protect the most powerful person on the planet.

It certainly does. Although 10 cars for 4 people seems a bit excessive.

Publius219 said:
Perspective, please.

Okay. This is the guy who told us that everyone must sacrifice for the greater good and everyone must have “some skin in the game.” I guess by “everyone,” he meant everyone but himself and his family.
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If this was a republican white guy would you be saying that we should protect him less?

No. Nor did I say that about Obama.

chatmandu002 said:
And our great-grandchildren will be paying for his vacation

Actually they have to pay off GW Bush’s $1 trillion illegal war in Iraq first. Isn’t fake moral outrage great.

TrollJuice said:
If this was a republican white guy would you be saying that we should protect him less?

If this was a Republican White Guy the Daily Mail would never have reported on it and you wouldn’t have to bother conjuring up a fake moral outrage opinion about it.

Thanks to a compliant, pliable media, Obama treats himself as though he were a King or a Monarch…which is why I’ll happily encourage all the lambasting the little Man-Child will get in 2011. He needs to be put in his place. It’ll all be over by early 2012 when things will start getting better. The gloom and misery in this country won’t evaporate until Obama does.

Fact: I thought all of Europe loved this joke of a president? Who would figure he needs protection? He’s in over his head and he will be out in 2012!

More and more obvious that Obama hates to work and just loves the perks of the presidency. Hopefully, he will have to go home to Chicago and live without the trappings that he so loves. Never in the history of this country, have we had such an incompetent boob as president. Congrats to the media for failing to vet this boy king. Shame on them. 2008 – the year the media died.

Judge Mental said:
It certainly does. Although 10 cars for 4 people seems a bit excessive.

Tell that to the Kennedy’s! Secret Service’s job is to protect the President at all costs. The President does not get to decide how he is protected!

Pablo said:
From Hillbuzz, a look at Presidential Christmases: Class vs. Crass

Yeah….using a partisan hit piece renders you soooo much credibility. What is so “crass” about spending Christmas at your childhood home? You wingnuts would complain, bleat and moan if Obama and his wife spent the entire Christmas day feeding soup to the homeless. It has nothing to do with what he does really, it’s only because he’s not a Republican.

is this article for real? I mean seriously? He is the POTUS…WTF?

Kim Barker said:
Actually they have to pay off GW Bush’s $1 trillion illegal war in Iraq first. Isn’t fake moral outrage great.

Where did you get that data…………..from the Daily Koz? Actually the war in Iraq was part of the $413 billion deficit in the US when the DemoCrits took over Congress in ’06. The people you let do your “thinking” for you ran it up to its present $1.5 TRILLION! But then, DemoCrits can always count on you Dims to chant whatever they tell you to chant.