OPINION
The Emperor: An entourage more royal than the Queen’s
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You won’t see this article reported anywhere in the US lamestream mainstream media, so thought the good, decent and hardworking people of America needed to see how their President is spending an unseemly amount of your money while attending the G20 summit this week.
From an editorial written by Dale McFeatters of Scripps Howard News Service -
“The heads of government in London for the G-20 summit are discussing serious and weighty issues, which in time will be duly reported on, but right now the British press is entranced by the sheer size of President Obama’s traveling entourage. And no wonder.Obama arrived with 500 staff in tow, including 200 Secret Service agents, a team of six doctors, the White House chef and kitchen staff with the president’s own food and water.”
And, according to the Evening Standard, he also came with “35 vehicles in all, four speech writers and 12 teleprompters.” For sure, our president is not going to be at a loss for words.
The press duly reported on Air Force One and all its bells and whistles but also on the presence of the presidential helicopter, Marine One, and a fleet of identical decoys to ferry him from Stansted airport to central London.
Among all those vehicles is the presidential limousine, which one local paper mistakenly called Cadillac One, but is universally referred to as the Beast. The limo, reinforced with ceramic and titanium armor, carries tear gas cannon, night vision devices, its own oxygen and is resistant to chemical and radiation attack. It is, marveled one reporter, a sort of mobile panic room. The Guardian called it “the ultimate in heavily armored transport.”
The president is entitled to all the security, communications and support he feels necessary to do his job but surely, when we’re trying to project a more restrained, humble image to the world, the president’s huge retinue could be scaled back to something less than the triumphal march from “Aida.”
(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.scrippsnews.com)
What in the hell does any man, let alone the President need 500 staffers, a team of six doctors, 200 Secret Service agents, 35 vehicles, four speechwriters, 12 teleprompters, Presidential helicopter, Marine One, decoy vehicles, a chef, the entire kitchen staff and the Beast to attend a meeting with his New World Order pals?
What are the American people who are unemployed or under employed or barely scraping by to think when they learn their President lavished himself with such a massive entourage and with their money?
This man is a complete embarrassment! He has to go!
4 Comments
The thing I find very interesting is the six doctors. Six doctors? What the ???? is going on? Perhaps there is jihad on his head? Then I could really understand all this, really, but that is the ONLY reason that makes sense. Six doctors makes sense if planning for serious injury potential and want your own docs on hand because, with jihad on your head, as an infidel Muslim, you are not safe anywhere in the world and can’t trust anyone. Again, this is the only reason that makes sense. But then come out an say, “I was a Muslim. I reject Muslim. I denounce Mohammad and “Allah”. I am a Christian. I live for Christ, The Light of the World. Because of this, Myself and family have a jihad on our heads. We are a security risk, now, to the country and thus, resign, and go into hiding like somemany others who fear for their lives for denouncing Islam.”
(Just my random and instant reactionary thoughts)
I confess, canusee, I am not well schooled in how one is targeted for jihad and for that matter, why? When I studied Islam as religion minor at a private college our Professor touched on this issue but chose to instruct the class on the peaceful and loving elements within Islam. Since then, my understanding of such an act has grown but only slightly. Seems to many any who say “boo” to an Imam could be targeted for jihad.
I too found it very odd that he’d bring such a large team of doctors with him. Why so many? Nothing this man does makes the slightest bit of sense to me. Nothing. He is an amoeba of a blob that makes no sense. Some believe him to be very sick especially due to the severe weight loss so who knows.
Sorry about your family. I certainly would never take part in a religion that targets me and my family w/jihad simply because I chose to follow a different religion, such as Christianity. Be safe.
Helen, I am sorry if the way I wrote left the impression I was denouncing Islam and in danger. I have never been Islam/Muslim. I was saying for Obama, if the reason for all this over-the-top security and doctors is Jihad, than to come out and say what I put in quotes. Thank you for your concern, though; thoughtful and compassionate.
Why would anyone need 500 support persons for a three day trip????? And, what an insult to the British people that he brings his own chef and kitchen staff with him. A bit of bangers and mash might do him well. But, no, I think he has gotten a taste of the caviar lifestyle; while he’s telling the rest of us to try Spam.