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Subject: private plane for dog?????


July 17, 2010
Noblesse Oblige: Obama's Dog Gets Own Plane on Vacation Trip
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The Morning Sentinel, a small paper from the state of Maine , has a travelogue story of the Obama's vacation (http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/white-house-wanderers-tour-acadia_2010-07-16.html) in and about Maine today. It has a very interesting little tidbit in it that should enrage every American. It is something that really shows Barack Obama's arrogance and his obviously assumed air of noblesse oblige.

Among the exciting details of the Obama's visit to Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor is this tidbit:

Arriving in a small jet before the Obamas was the first dog, Bo, a Portuguese water dog given as a present by the late U.S. Sen Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.

As the rest of us toil on the unemployment line, as millions of Americans find their retirement accounts dwindling, their hours at work cut, and their pay scale trimmed, King Barack and Queen Michelle are flying their little doggie, Bo, on his own special jet airplane for his own little vacation adventure.

Well, it must be nice to be able to afford to fly your doggie about the country whenever you feel like it. It must be nice to hire people to act as your dog's escort. It must be comforting to know that you have the power to arrange such luxury for a dog.

As America lurches toward depression our leader is wasting millions on constant vacationing -- 16 vehicles were used to drive the Obama's around North Carolina -- and affording his dog, his *#@%$^ dog, his owns special jet airplane.

Air traffic at the small Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airportin Trenton was shut down for the presidential arrival. A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter patrolled the air in anticipation of the first family's touchdown, and a pair of local fire and rescue trucks stood ready on an otherwise empty tarmac at the private air hangar.

The Obamas then traveled onto Mount Desert Island in a motorcade of at least 16 vehicles. It was led by two Maine State Police cruisers and included five black Chevrolet Suburbans.

And all this on OUR dime, folks. We are paying for our monarch to fly his pets around the country on their own special jets, folks.

Perhaps Barack Obama isn't like a king. Perhaps he's more like an emperor? An emperor like the fiddling Nero.

Folks -- please, please pass this on to all!!!! It's this kind of entitlement that MUST incite the GOP and Independent base, so we can throw the bums out on November 2nd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come On Eddie!

Obama has more than enough faults to legitimately take issue with without spreading a totally exaggerated and distorted story.

For Example:

One of his campaign pledges was to drastically alter the influence of lobbyists in Washington.

Not only has this not happened but the opposite is true. More money was spent on lobbying congress in 2009 than ever before.


http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/bo.asp

By reading several items that came up on a Google search, I see that the smaller plane was filled by staffers who never fly on Air Force 1. It appears that the dog is relegated to traveling with the staffers--or maybe it is the other way around. In any event, the plane would have flown even if the dog didn't.

I am not an apologist for either side of this story, but there is usually more information involved than is implied in emotionally charged reporting--we saw it going on about George W. by one wing of reporting, and it goes on about Obama by another wing. Never the twain shall meet.

I think the point is the excess of this administration (I think it is 16 vacations in less than two years) a do as I say, not as I do mentality. Everyone is supposed to tighten the belt a few notches except for this jerk-off. He does think he is the emperor as he totally ignores the will of the people.

You are mistaken Larry relative to the reporting. Every mainstream media oulet (save one) from all of the major network 'news' organizations to include NBC, CBS, and ABC, major newspapers to include NY Times, LA Times, Atlanta Constitution, and periodicals to onclude Time and Newsweek, lambasted W for anything he did perceived as right or wrong. To suggest otherwise is disingenuous. Hell, they are still trying to blame him for any ills in this country as well as the rest of the world.

The only major news organization that gave W a fair shake and gives Barry a fair shake - not slanted in his favor but fair - is FOX. That is a fact.