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34 warships sent from US for Obama visit

hypocritexposer

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New Delhi: The White House will, of course, stay in Washington but the heart of the famous building will move to India when President Barack Obama lands in Mumbai on Saturday.

Communications set-up, nuclear button, a fleet of limousines and majority of the White House staff will be in India accompanying the President on this three-day visit that will cover Mumbai and Delhi.

He will also be protected by a fleet of 34 warships, including an aircraft carrier, which will patrol the sea lanes off the Mumbai coast during his two-day stay there beginning Saturday. The measure has been taken as Mumbai attack in 2008 took place from the sea.

Arrangements have been put in place for emergency evacuation, if needed.

Obama is expected to fly by a helicopter -- Marine One -- from the city airport to the Indian Navy's helibase INS Shikra at Colaba in south Mumbai.

From there, he will drive down in Lincoln Continental -- the Presidential limousine -- to the nearby the Taj Hotel.

Two jets, armed with advanced communication and security systems, and a fleet of over 40 cars will be part of Obamas convoy.

Around 800 rooms have been booked for the President and his entourage in Taj Hotel and Hyatt.

The President will have a security ring of American elite Secret Service, which are tasked to guard the President, along with National Security Guards (NSG) and personnel from central paramilitary forces and local police in Mumbai and Delhi.

Similar arrangements will be in place in Delhi, with the Air Force One to be kept in all readiness throughout Obama's stay here from Sunday afternoon to Tuesday morning.

Maurya Hotel, where the President will stay, has already been swarmed by American security personnel and protective measures have been put in place.

Security drills are already been carried out at the hotel as well as Rajghat which he will visit.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/34-warships-sent-from-us-for-obama-visit-64459
 

Tam

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This kind of trip right after an earthquake election where the voters were revolting against his Administrations SPENDING HABITS. Proof again the GUY IS BRAINDEAD DEAF. :roll: He is a waste of time money and skin. :x
 

Soapweed

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He reminds me of an ant floating down the river on a leaf, laying on his back with a hard-on, hollering, "Raise the Drawbridge!" :roll: :? :shock:
 

Big Muddy rancher

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Soapweed said:
He reminds me of an ant floating down the river on a leaf, laying on his back with a hard-on, hollering, "Raise the Drawbridge!" :roll: :? :shock:


You've seen this? :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

Soapweed

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Big Muddy rancher said:
Soapweed said:
He reminds me of an ant floating down the river on a leaf, laying on his back with a hard-on, hollering, "Raise the Drawbridge!" :roll: :? :shock:


You've seen this? :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

It was a topic brought up by my tenth grade industrial arts teacher, and the vision has lasted. :wink:
 

katrina

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Soapweed said:
Big Muddy rancher said:
Soapweed said:
He reminds me of an ant floating down the river on a leaf, laying on his back with a hard-on, hollering, "Raise the Drawbridge!" :roll: :? :shock:


You've seen this? :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

It was a topic brought up by my tenth grade industrial arts teacher, and the vision has lasted. :wink:


:shock:
 

Soapweed

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Big Muddy rancher said:
katrina said:
Soapweed said:
It was a topic brought up by my tenth grade industrial arts teacher, and the vision has lasted. :wink:


:shock:

God bless the shop teachers :D

If it wasn't for them many a young man would have gone out into the world unprepared. :wink: :D

:) :) :)

He used it as a definition for someone with an over-estimation of themselves, or for someone with an extremely big ego. :wink:
 

Steve

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Soapweed said:
He reminds me of an ant floating down the river on a leaf, laying on his back with a hard-on, hollering, "Raise the Drawbridge!" :roll: :? :shock:

Soap... what have you got against hard working ants.???? :)
 

hypocritexposer

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Did this ant also have to watch out for coconuts?

Coconuts removed from trees in preparation for Barack Obama's India trip

India is preparing for Barack Obama's first visit to the country by removing coconuts from palm trees in Mumbai to protect the US president.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/8109295/Coconuts-removed-from-trees-in-preparation-for-Barack-Obamas-India-trip.html
 

Big Muddy rancher

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hypocritexposer said:
Did this ant also have to watch out for coconuts?

Coconuts removed from trees in preparation for Barack Obama's India trip

India is preparing for Barack Obama's first visit to the country by removing coconuts from palm trees in Mumbai to protect the US president.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/8109295/Coconuts-removed-from-trees-in-preparation-for-Barack-Obamas-India-trip.html

That's in case of Terrorist Monkeys make bombs out of them. :D

Haven't you ever watched Gilligan's Island. :roll:
 

hypocritexposer

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Big Muddy rancher said:
hypocritexposer said:
Did this ant also have to watch out for coconuts?

Coconuts removed from trees in preparation for Barack Obama's India trip

India is preparing for Barack Obama's first visit to the country by removing coconuts from palm trees in Mumbai to protect the US president.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/8109295/Coconuts-removed-from-trees-in-preparation-for-Barack-Obamas-India-trip.html

That's in case of Terrorist Monkeys make bombs out of them. :D

Haven't you ever watched Gilligan's Island. :roll:

Did you you like Ginger or Maryanne the best. Maryanne was my favorite. :D
 
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Anonymous

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This was copied from The Upshot website. Please read looks like the Republicans have a problem with the truth also.

Nov 5, 9:25 am ET
Republicans take aim at cost of Obama’s trip to India
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Is President Obama's trip to India really going to cost $200 million a day?

That's the number making the rounds among the president's conservative critics, including potential 2012 Obama challenger Mike Huckabee and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), as the president takes off Friday for a 10-day trip to Asia.

Huckabee made the claim to Fox News on Tuesday night (citing "reports") and in the social media sphere. "Reports say that Obama's trip to Mumbai, India tomorrow will cost taxpayers $200 million dollars a day - come to think of it, that's much less than Obama's been spending here," Huckabee wrote in a Facebook message Tuesday night (misstating the day of Obama's departure). "So maybe it's not a bad thing he's leaving."

On Wednesday, Bachmann repeated the claim on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360." "Within a day or so the president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day," Bachmann told Cooper. "He's taking 2,000 people with him. He'll be renting out over 870 rooms in India. And these are five-star hotel rooms at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel. This is the kind of over-the-top spending. It's a very small example, Anderson."

The only problem: The claims appear to be wrong.

The numbers evidently originate with the Press Trust of India, whose report was linked on the Drudge Report and picked up by Fox News host Glenn Beck. The news agency also wrongly said that the White House had blocked off the entire Taj Mahal Palace hotel for Obama's visit and that the U.S. was stationing 34 warships—roughly 10 percent of the naval fleet--off the coast of Mumbai for security reasons.

The agency attributed the $200 million figure to an anonymous Indian government official. It didn't attribute the warships claim to any source.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell called the warship claim "absolutely absurd." "That's just comical," he said at Thursday's Pentagon news briefing. "Nothing close to that is being done."

The White House, meanwhile, issued a blanket statement that the $200 million figure "had no basis in reality" and was "wildly inflated." The press office declined to disclose the trip's actual cost, citing "security concerns."

In a news briefing Thursday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs also refused to release numbers, but he told reporters point-blank, "We are not spending $200 million a day."

The nonpartisan FactCheck.org took up the issue, too, saying that even though the administration won't release a price tag, there is "simply no evidence to support" a claim of $200 million a day. One reason to doubt the report, according to the group: The entire war in Afghanistan costs $190 million a day.

That is not to say that some of the precautions for Obama's first presidential visit to India aren't possibly a tad over the top. As the BBC reports, Indian officials have been removing coconuts from any trees that Obama might walk under, to prevent anything from falling on the presidential head. And as London's Daily Telegraph notes, the country has deployed trained monkey catchers to prevent any "simian invasion" (a measure that Indian officials also took when President Bush visited in 2006).

(Photo of President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Big Muddy rancher

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"And as London's Daily Telegraph notes, the country has deployed trained monkey catchers to prevent any "simian invasion" (a measure that Indian officials also took when President Bush visited in 2006)."


See I was right.
:D :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

Tam

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Ask yourself why the Obama Administration the most "TRANSPARENT" :roll: Administration in history will not release any numbers? Could it be that they know it will NOT GOT TO BE EXCEPTABLE TO THE VOTERS THAT JUST DELT THEM A HISTORICAL BLOW? :mad:

Answer this why does Obama chastize PRIVATE corporations for jet setting to Washington DC only to invite them to jet set AROUND THE WORLD WITH HIM on the Tax payer dime?

The guy is a hypocrite and he needs to get his nose out of PRIVATE business and stop trying to take it over. Let the free market work without his and his governments interference. AND CUT SPENDING. which includes Air Force One's fuel bill. :mad:
 
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