Obama trip to Africa June 26 could cost $60 to $100 million

[Geaux4it]

It's a family vacation. That is going to cost the taxpayers millions of dollars. At least they had the decency to cancel their safari plans.

After the paper questioned the costs of a planned family safari, the White House nixed the plan.

"The president and first lady had also planned to take a Tanzanian safari as part of the trip, which would have required the president’s special counter-assault team to carry sniper rifles with high-caliber rounds that could neutralize cheetahs, lions or other animals if they became a threat, according to the planning document.

But the White House canceled the safari on Wednesday following inquiries from The Washington Post about the trip’s purpose and expense, according to a person familiar with the decision."

The paper adds, "Obama’s trip could cost the federal government $60 million to $100 million based on the costs of similar African trips in recent years, according to one person familiar with the journey who was not authorized to speak for attribution.

The Secret Service planning document, which was provided to The Post by a person who is concerned about the amount of resources necessary for the trip, does not specify costs."

The Obama Family Trip to Africa to Cost $60 to $100 Million | The Weekly Standard

It's a shame Obama had to cancel the Safari. Obama could have shot him some Lions or Elephants. Maybe a nice Giraffe.

That would have impressed the right wing voters........it works with Palin

Palin?

What a lamo retort.

Some of these leftist have the hots for her I think.

-Geaux

 

[Stephanie]

rightwhiner is becoming quite the troll...he infects every thread, especially if it's about his Dear hero, obama..I think he like to see himself talk and believes the BS he spews...

then he ends like this...

 

[rightwinger]

well of course not..when he speaks of people having SKIN in the game he doesn't mean his or living by example...

for the Obama's it's do as I say, and we can just what the hell we want no matter the cost..

But I'm sure they fweeel our pain...

Isn't he living by the example set by Bush and Clinton?

Once again........double standard from the right when it comes to a black man out representing us to the rest of the world

Race Card? Yup.......own it

But you see RW- He does not need to hit the road to show his failure as Commander in Chief.

It's the digital age.. The words already out

Obama Presidency A Disappointment Around The World

President Obama: There Is No Debt Crisis - ABC News

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/osama-bin-laden-dead.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

-Geaux

Evidently the people of the United States disagreed with the constant right wing screams of failure.

. But the Democrat still enjoys broad international support. In large part, it's because of unfavorable memories of his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush, and many people would still prefer Obama over his presumptive Republican challenger Mitt Romney

 

[squeeze berry]

Sequester is an artificial crisis created because our politicians can't do their jobs. What makes you think a visit to Africa is no value? Was it non value when the Bush family visited? How about when Clinton visited?

Oh yes.....I forgot

This is Obama. He is supposed to stay in his nice white house like a good little boy. Any time he ventures out, the wing nuts will go crazy on command

It's a family vacation. That is going to cost the taxpayers millions of dollars. At least they had the decency to cancel their safari plans.

After the paper questioned the costs of a planned family safari, the White House nixed the plan.

"The president and first lady had also planned to take a Tanzanian safari as part of the trip, which would have required the president’s special counter-assault team to carry sniper rifles with high-caliber rounds that could neutralize cheetahs, lions or other animals if they became a threat, according to the planning document.

But the White House canceled the safari on Wednesday following inquiries from The Washington Post about the trip’s purpose and expense, according to a person familiar with the decision."

The paper adds, "Obama’s trip could cost the federal government $60 million to $100 million based on the costs of similar African trips in recent years, according to one person familiar with the journey who was not authorized to speak for attribution.

The Secret Service planning document, which was provided to The Post by a person who is concerned about the amount of resources necessary for the trip, does not specify costs."

The Obama Family Trip to Africa to Cost $60 to $100 Million | The Weekly Standard

It's a shame Obama had to cancel the Safari. Obama could have shot him some Lions or Elephants. Maybe a nice Giraffe.

That would have impressed the right wing voters........it works with Palin

more likely shoot his mouthy mouth off

 

[Geaux4it]

Isn't he living by the example set by Bush and Clinton?

Once again........double standard from the right when it comes to a black man out representing us to the rest of the world

Race Card? Yup.......own it

But you see RW- He does not need to hit the road to show his failure as Commander in Chief.

It's the digital age.. The words already out

Obama Presidency A Disappointment Around The World

President Obama: There Is No Debt Crisis - ABC News

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/osama-bin-laden-dead.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

-Geaux

Evidently the people of the United States disagreed with the constant right wing screams of failure.

Thank you for identifying the issue at hand, the American/Illegal Alien people

-Geaux

 

[squeeze berry]

Sequester is an artificial crisis created because our politicians can't do their jobs. What makes you think a visit to Africa is no value? Was it non value when the Bush family visited? How about when Clinton visited?

Oh yes.....I forgot

This is Obama. He is supposed to stay in his nice white house like a good little boy. Any time he ventures out, the wing nuts will go crazy on command

well of course not..when he speaks of people having SKIN in the game he doesn't mean his or living by example...

for the Obama's it's do as I say, and we can just what the hell we want no matter the cost..

But I'm sure they fweeel our pain...

Isn't he living by the example set by Bush and Clinton?

Once again........double standard from the right when it comes to a black man out representing us to the rest of the world

Race Card? Yup.......own it

you are the one playing the race card

how dare the black man be criticized

 

[rightwinger]

But you see RW- He does not need to hit the road to show his failure as Commander in Chief.

It's the digital age.. The words already out

Obama Presidency A Disappointment Around The World

President Obama: There Is No Debt Crisis - ABC News

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/osama-bin-laden-dead.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

-Geaux

Evidently the people of the United States disagreed with the constant right wing screams of failure.

Thank you for identifying the issue at hand, the American/Illegal Alien people

-Geaux

?

 

[Redfish]

Isn't he living by the example set by Bush and Clinton?

Once again........double standard from the right when it comes to a black man out representing us to the rest of the world

Race Card? Yup.......own it

But you see RW- He does not need to hit the road to show his failure as Commander in Chief.

It's the digital age.. The words already out

Obama Presidency A Disappointment Around The World

President Obama: There Is No Debt Crisis - ABC News

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/osama-bin-laden-dead.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

-Geaux

Evidently the people of the United States disagreed with the constant right wing screams of failure.

. But the Democrat still enjoys broad international support. In large part, it's because of unfavorable memories of his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush, and many people would still prefer Obama over his presumptive Republican challenger Mitt Romney

if only that were true. The truth is that roughly half of the voters were afraid that their flow of free govt stuff might end.

liberalism is destroying this great country day by day, and you obama worshipers refuse to see the truth...... it is truly a sad state of affairs.

 

[NoNukes]

Remind me again, what the downside to the United States would be, if Obama simply cancelled the trip due to excessive cost?

How, exactly, would our country be worse off?

Alternatively, could we save some money if we made the trip one-way? The article mentions long-term accommodations available on Robben Island.

That alone might make the expenditure worth it.

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Document: Major resources needed for Obama Africa trip - The Washington Post

Document: Major resources needed for Obama Africa trip

By Carol D. Leonnig and David Nakamura
Published: June 13

When President Obama makes his first extended trip to sub-Saharan Africa this month, the federal agencies charged with keeping him safe won’t be taking any chances.

Hundreds of U.S. Secret Service agents will be dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. A Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship, with a fully staffed medical trauma center, will be stationed offshore in case of an emergency.

Military cargo planes will airlift in 56 support vehicles, including 14 limousines and three trucks loaded with sheets of bullet*proof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where the first family will stay. Fighter jets will fly in shifts, giving 24-hour coverage over the president’s airspace, so they can intervene quickly if an errant plane gets too close.

The elaborate security provisions — which will cost the government tens of millions of dollars — are outlined in a confidential internal planning document obtained by The Washington Post. While the preparations appear to be in line with similar travels in the past, the document offers an unusual glimpse into the colossal efforts to protect the U.S. commander in chief on trips abroad.

The first family is making back-to-back stops from June 26 to July 3 in three countries where U.S. officials are providing nearly all the resources, rather than depending heavily on local police forces, military authorities or hospitals for assistance.

The president and first lady had also planned to take a Tanzanian safari as part of the trip, which would have required the president’s special counterassault team to carry sniper rifles with high-caliber rounds that could neutralize cheetahs, lions or other animals if they became a threat, according to the planning document.

But officials said Thursday that the safari had been canceled in favor of a trip to Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela was held as a political prisoner.

Internal administration documents circulated in April show that the Obama family was scheduled to go to both Robben Island and the safari park, according to a person familiar with the plans.

Many details about foreign presidential trips are classified for national security reasons, and there is little public information about overall costs. A report from the Government Accountability Office found that Clinton’s 1998 trip to six African nations cost the U.S. government at least $42.7 million.

Obama’s trip could cost the federal government $60 million to $100 million based on the costs of similar African trips in recent years, according to one person familiar with the journey, who was not authorized to speak for attribution.

Is this one of your 60 to 100 million a day claims.

 

[Stephanie]

Can you picture Obama hunting big game?

 

[Redfish]

Remind me again, what the downside to the United States would be, if Obama simply cancelled the trip due to excessive cost?

How, exactly, would our country be worse off?

Alternatively, could we save some money if we made the trip one-way? The article mentions long-term accommodations available on Robben Island.

That alone might make the expenditure worth it.

-----------------------------------------

Document: Major resources needed for Obama Africa trip - The Washington Post

Document: Major resources needed for Obama Africa trip

By Carol D. Leonnig and David Nakamura
Published: June 13

When President Obama makes his first extended trip to sub-Saharan Africa this month, the federal agencies charged with keeping him safe won’t be taking any chances.

Hundreds of U.S. Secret Service agents will be dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. A Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship, with a fully staffed medical trauma center, will be stationed offshore in case of an emergency.

Military cargo planes will airlift in 56 support vehicles, including 14 limousines and three trucks loaded with sheets of bullet*proof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where the first family will stay. Fighter jets will fly in shifts, giving 24-hour coverage over the president’s airspace, so they can intervene quickly if an errant plane gets too close.

The elaborate security provisions — which will cost the government tens of millions of dollars — are outlined in a confidential internal planning document obtained by The Washington Post. While the preparations appear to be in line with similar travels in the past, the document offers an unusual glimpse into the colossal efforts to protect the U.S. commander in chief on trips abroad.

The first family is making back-to-back stops from June 26 to July 3 in three countries where U.S. officials are providing nearly all the resources, rather than depending heavily on local police forces, military authorities or hospitals for assistance.

The president and first lady had also planned to take a Tanzanian safari as part of the trip, which would have required the president’s special counterassault team to carry sniper rifles with high-caliber rounds that could neutralize cheetahs, lions or other animals if they became a threat, according to the planning document.

But officials said Thursday that the safari had been canceled in favor of a trip to Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela was held as a political prisoner.

Internal administration documents circulated in April show that the Obama family was scheduled to go to both Robben Island and the safari park, according to a person familiar with the plans.

Many details about foreign presidential trips are classified for national security reasons, and there is little public information about overall costs. A report from the Government Accountability Office found that Clinton’s 1998 trip to six African nations cost the U.S. government at least $42.7 million.

Obama’s trip could cost the federal government $60 million to $100 million based on the costs of similar African trips in recent years, according to one person familiar with the journey, who was not authorized to speak for attribution.

Is this one of your 60 to 100 million a day claims.

this trip could pay back the sequester money times 3. You remember, the sequester that Biden said was going to kill women and children and put millions out of work.

Damn! wouldn't it be more important to save those lives and jobs than for the obama's to visit their ancestral home?

 

[Stephanie]

Isn't he living by the example set by Bush and Clinton?

Once again........double standard from the right when it comes to a black man out representing us to the rest of the world

Race Card? Yup.......own it

But you see RW- He does not need to hit the road to show his failure as Commander in Chief.

It's the digital age.. The words already out

Obama Presidency A Disappointment Around The World

President Obama: There Is No Debt Crisis - ABC News

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/osama-bin-laden-dead.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

-Geaux

Evidently the people of the United States disagreed with the constant right wing screams of failure.

. But the Democrat still enjoys broad international support. In large part, it's because of unfavorable memories of his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush, and many people would still prefer Obama over his presumptive Republican challenger Mitt Romney

and you lap that up and swallow it don't you?
my gawd

 

[Stephanie]

Obama could take Kerry along on his big game hunt

 

[Sarah G]

Obama could take Kerry along on his big game hunt

Well we know for sure he won't take Cheney.

 

[rightwinger]

Remind me again, what the downside to the United States would be, if Obama simply cancelled the trip due to excessive cost?

How, exactly, would our country be worse off?

Alternatively, could we save some money if we made the trip one-way? The article mentions long-term accommodations available on Robben Island.

That alone might make the expenditure worth it.

-----------------------------------------

Document: Major resources needed for Obama Africa trip - The Washington Post

Document: Major resources needed for Obama Africa trip

By Carol D. Leonnig and David Nakamura
Published: June 13

When President Obama makes his first extended trip to sub-Saharan Africa this month, the federal agencies charged with keeping him safe won’t be taking any chances.

Hundreds of U.S. Secret Service agents will be dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. A Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship, with a fully staffed medical trauma center, will be stationed offshore in case of an emergency.

Military cargo planes will airlift in 56 support vehicles, including 14 limousines and three trucks loaded with sheets of bullet*proof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where the first family will stay. Fighter jets will fly in shifts, giving 24-hour coverage over the president’s airspace, so they can intervene quickly if an errant plane gets too close.

The elaborate security provisions — which will cost the government tens of millions of dollars — are outlined in a confidential internal planning document obtained by The Washington Post. While the preparations appear to be in line with similar travels in the past, the document offers an unusual glimpse into the colossal efforts to protect the U.S. commander in chief on trips abroad.

The first family is making back-to-back stops from June 26 to July 3 in three countries where U.S. officials are providing nearly all the resources, rather than depending heavily on local police forces, military authorities or hospitals for assistance.

The president and first lady had also planned to take a Tanzanian safari as part of the trip, which would have required the president’s special counterassault team to carry sniper rifles with high-caliber rounds that could neutralize cheetahs, lions or other animals if they became a threat, according to the planning document.

But officials said Thursday that the safari had been canceled in favor of a trip to Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela was held as a political prisoner.

Internal administration documents circulated in April show that the Obama family was scheduled to go to both Robben Island and the safari park, according to a person familiar with the plans.

Many details about foreign presidential trips are classified for national security reasons, and there is little public information about overall costs. A report from the Government Accountability Office found that Clinton’s 1998 trip to six African nations cost the U.S. government at least $42.7 million.

Obama’s trip could cost the federal government $60 million to $100 million based on the costs of similar African trips in recent years, according to one person familiar with the journey, who was not authorized to speak for attribution.

Is this one of your 60 to 100 million a day claims.

this trip could pay back the sequester money times 3. You remember, the sequester that Biden said was going to kill women and children and put millions out of work.

Damn! wouldn't it be more important to save those lives and jobs than for the obama's to visit their ancestral home?

You don't understand the difference between millions and billions?

 

[Redfish]

Is this one of your 60 to 100 million a day claims.

this trip could pay back the sequester money times 3. You remember, the sequester that Biden said was going to kill women and children and put millions out of work.

Damn! wouldn't it be more important to save those lives and jobs than for the obama's to visit their ancestral home?

You don't understand the difference between millions and billions?

how much did the sequester block from the increase in govt spending? Do you know?

 

[Geaux4it]

this trip could pay back the sequester money times 3. You remember, the sequester that Biden said was going to kill women and children and put millions out of work.

Damn! wouldn't it be more important to save those lives and jobs than for the obama's to visit their ancestral home?

You don't understand the difference between millions and billions?

how much did the sequester block from the increase in govt spending? Do you know?

He must be off reading the communist manifesto.

Please, expound

-Geaux

 

[rightwinger]

this trip could pay back the sequester money times 3. You remember, the sequester that Biden said was going to kill women and children and put millions out of work.

Damn! wouldn't it be more important to save those lives and jobs than for the obama's to visit their ancestral home?

You don't understand the difference between millions and billions?

how much did the sequester block from the increase in govt spending? Do you know?

Math lesson for Conservatives. You guys throw so many numbers about, you need to learn what they mean.

Now....lesson number one
A billion is a thousand million

Sequester is $85 BILLION just this year. 85 BILLION is not three times 60 MILLION

 

[Redfish]

You don't understand the difference between millions and billions?

how much did the sequester block from the increase in govt spending? Do you know?

Math lesson for Conservatives. You guys throw so many numbers about, you need to learn what they mean.

Now....lesson number one
A billion is a thousand million

Sequester is $85 BILLION just this year. 85 BILLION is not three times 60 MILLION

only thing you have ever been right about.

But the sequester did not CUT anything, it merely reduced the rate of growth---do you agree with that?

 

[rightwinger]

how much did the sequester block from the increase in govt spending? Do you know?

Math lesson for Conservatives. You guys throw so many numbers about, you need to learn what they mean.

Now....lesson number one
A billion is a thousand million

Sequester is $85 BILLION just this year. 85 BILLION is not three times 60 MILLION

only thing you have ever been right about.

But the sequester did not CUT anything, it merely reduced the rate of growth---do you agree with that?

Millions of federal employees are having their pay cut 20%........I'm sure they would beg to differ