Is it a $2 billion dollar trip?

[Spurminator]

Go for it! Kind of like " My Dad Says," right?

I have neither the talent nor the dedication necessary to create and consistently maintain the kind of persona you've kept in your time here at little Spurstalk. It really wouldn't be the same. Inevitably I'd allow signs of dignity and humanity to sneak into the blog postings and it would ruin the whole creation.

[Yonivore]

I have neither the talent nor the dedication necessary...

Blah, blah, blah...okay, whatever. It was your brain fart to begin with.

[balli]

"What is Yonivore Pretending to Believe Today"

The more I think about it, this would be a great blog. Maybe you could even get advertisers. Does Goldline advertise online?

[Spurminator]

Blah, blah, blah...okay, whatever. It was your brain fart to begin with.

Well damn, you try to give a guy a compliment...

[Spurminator]

But you never did answer the original question... What's the deal with the $2B cost estimate?

[Yonivore]

But you never did answer the original question... What's the deal with the $2B cost estimate?

If I Were a Bad Boy

If I were bent on causing disruption in foreign countries and had unlimited funds to do it (a working definition of the CIA) here's what I would have concocted for President Obama's overseas trip.

What a trip, eh?

[Spurminator]

So you DO have a blog!

[Yonivore]

So you DO have a blog!

Yeah, go with me there!

[ChumpDumper]

Is that an intel blog?

[Wild Cobra]

Anyone get a dollar figure yet on that portable bomb proof tunnel?

I'll bet that was very expensive...

[clambake]

Anyone get a dollar figure yet on that portable bomb proof tunnel?

I'll bet that was very expensive...

cuz its bomb proof?

[scott]

Anyone get a dollar figure yet on that portable bomb proof tunnel?

I'll bet that was very expensive...

$70 trillion

[ChumpDumper]

$70 trillion

Fox News will now cite you as a source.

[Wild Cobra]

$70 trillion

So it makes it unlikely the trip is only $100 million. The $200 million might be right for the trip. Not per day.

Sound right?

[ChumpDumper]

So it makes it unlikely the trip is only $100 million. The $200 million might be right for the trip. Not per day.

Sound right?

No. It doesn't.

[Stringer_Bell]

Fox News will now cite you as a source.

Fox News hasn't cited Scott as a source yet, but WC bit down on that pretty hard.

DId you guys hear that they cut down all the coconuts from the trees cuz they were security threats?

[Wild Cobra]

Fox News hasn't cited Scott as a source yet, but WC bit down on that pretty hard.

I don't know what the numbers are, but I am sure of two things. This trip is costing more than it should. If GWB spent the same on the same trip, he would have been castigated by the media for it.

DId you guys hear that they cut down all the coconuts from the trees cuz they were security threats?

There are statistics out there. More people die from falling coconuts than shark attacks, and other scary deaths that people fear.

I wonder if they are instead, worried about someone tossing a coconut rather than a shoe?

[ChumpDumper]

I don't know what the numbers are, but I am sure of two things. This trip is costing more than it should. If GWB spent the same on the same trip, he would have been castigated by the media for it.

If you don't know what it actually costs, you can't say it costs too much.

There are statistics out there. More people die from falling coconuts than shark attacks, and other scary deaths that people fear.

I wonder if they are instead, worried about someone tossing a coconut rather than a shoe?

More likely they are thinking of bombs planted in or disguised to look like coconuts.

[Winehole23]

And of all these countries, India, which has fought a border war with China, is the most natural anchor for such a U.S. partnership. It’s not just our inherent affinities — democratic, English-speaking, free-market, dedicated to the rule of law. It is also the coincidence of our strategic imperatives: We both face the threat of radical Islam and the longer-term challenge of a rising China.

Which is why Obama’s dramatic call for India to be made a permanent member of the Security Council was so important. However useless and obsolete the U.N. may be, a Security Council seat carries totemic significance. It would elevate India, while helping bind it to us as our most strategic and organic Third World ally.


China is no enemy, but it remains troublingly adversarial. Which is why India must be the center of our Asian diplomacy. And why Obama’s trip — coconuts and all — was worth every penny.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...s-krauthammer#

[SnakeBoy]

http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...s-krauthammer#

Seriously, you post an article from a flaming liberal like Krauthammer defending Obama? What else would you expect from a leftist like him? Obama is the DEVIL!

Charles Krauthammer supports the devil while opposing witches. What a hypocrite!

[RandomGuy]

Seriously, you post an article from a flaming liberal like Krauthammer defending Obama? What else would you expect from a leftist like him? Obama is the DEVIL!

Charles Krauthammer supports the devil while opposing witches. What a hypocrite!

Your spluttering incoherence is amusing.

No offense.

I am seriously not sure I really can decipher your post, but it was funny to read.

[TeyshaBlue]

Your spluttering incoherence is amusing.

No offense.

I am seriously not sure I really can decipher your post, but it was funny to read.

Ima thinking SB is working blue.

[Stringer_Bell]

More likely they are thinking of bombs planted in or disguised to look like coconuts.

That's what I was thinking, but then WC mentioned the much more logical and reality based risk of falling coconuts and suddenly I began to feel like the crazy one.

[ducks]

Well, Yoni brought president Obama's India trip up as a cost of $2 billion. I was skeptical of this till I read he is bringing an entourage of 3,000 people with him, and renting the entire Taj Mahal Palace, and 570 rooms. There are 40 jets involved also. Total cost is $200,000,000 a day. If he stays for the intended 10 days, that is $2 billion.

God... This is getting ridiculous.

[ElNono]