First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home

[Professor Peabody]

First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home

When President Barack Obama goes on holiday to the seaside things can get complicated.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02641/obama-bo_2641195b.jpg

By Nick Allen

8:07PM BST 11 Aug 2013

Rooms have to be found for dozens of Secret Service agents, someone has to carry a selection of presidential basketballs, and of course the family dog needs his own state-of-the-art aircraft.

Bo, the president's Portuguese Water Dog, arrived separately on one of two MV-22 Ospreys, a hybrid aircraft which takes off like a helicopter but flies like a plane.

More than 70 hotel rooms, each costing up to $345 (£220) a night, have been booked out for Secret Service agents, who took charge of luggage including two large mesh bags full of basketballs.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/10236302/First-dog-Bo-is-airlifted-to-Obama-holiday-home.html

How nice is it to go on vacation on the public's dime, but to have a separate taxpayer funded aircraft to fly your luggage and your dog? How out of touch with the average American and their Obamanomics economy struggle can the Obama's get? Americans are barely scraping by with 77% of the new jobs created in 2013 being part time jobs (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/2/part-timer-nation-77-percent-2013-jobs-were-part-t/). I can only wonder how many of the 77% forced to take part time work can use a separate aircraft to carry their dog and luggage off to a vacation spot? I believe the Obama's don't care what the American taxpayers think.

[Cigar]

http://myteeth.co.za/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/baby-yawn-thumb-350x489-53056.jpg

News at the speed of snails, .... didn't this get debunked days ago.

[Singularity]

You know the guy has to pay most of his personal expenses... right?

I mean, sure, the taxpayers foot the bill for the huge logistics and security train.
It would be madness for them not to. Even so, living in the White House
is not cheap (http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/cost-living-white-house), which is why only the most fabulously rich Presidents have
declined to take the salary associated with the job.

[Mainecoons]

Airlifting your dog isn't a personal expense?

OK. :rofl:

[Beevee]

How nice is it to go on vacation on the public's dime, but to have a separate taxpayer funded aircraft to fly your luggage and your dog? How out of touch with the average American and their Obamanomics economy struggle can the Obama's get? Americans are barely scraping by with 77% of the new jobs created in 2013 being part time jobs (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/2/part-timer-nation-77-percent-2013-jobs-were-part-t/). I can only wonder how many of the 77% forced to take part time work can use a separate aircraft to carry their dog and luggage off to a vacation spot? I believe the Obama's don't care what the American taxpayers think.

Were no other seats taken? Or would you rather not let posters know that the plane was full with human bodies AND THE DOG WAS ADDITIONAL.

[Singularity]

This is really one of those stories where those with blood in
their eyes are going to insist that it's the worst scandal ever
and meanwhile everyone else who doesn't give a shit can
just kick back and enjoy the free entertainment.

[Cigar]

This is really one of those stories where those with blood in
their eyes are going to insist that it's the worst scandal ever
and meanwhile everyone else who doesn't give a shit can
just kick back and enjoy the free entertainment.

:rollseyes: If you read their Bull-Shit, you'd think the V-22 Osprey Flight was created specifically for the transport of the Dog and the 20,000 lb of internal cargo capacity wasn't used for anything else.

[Mainecoons]

As a pair of lapdogs for Obama, I think you two should put in for you own helicopter rides.

[Cigar]

As a pair of lapdogs for Obama, I think you two should put in for you own helicopter rides.

Stop bitching ... your string is showing. :rollseyes:

[Beevee]

As a pair of lapdogs for Obama, I think you two should put in for you own helicopter rides.

Remind these two lapdogs, who is the leader of the GOP this week?

[Professor Peabody]

You know the guy has to pay most of his personal expenses... right?


.........the President, Vice President, and First Lady, and any assistants accompanying them, are required to reimburse the government the comparable airfare they would have paid had they traveled by commercial airline.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS21835.pdf

An $11,000 an hour Ospray for the price of a commercial airline ticket?

[nic34]

Were no other seats taken? Or would you rather not let posters know that the plane was full with human bodies AND THE DOG WAS ADDITIONAL.

They'll just tell you they aren't republicans, then go on and continue to defend their every action..... :laugh:

[Ransom]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/10236302/First-dog-Bo-is-airlifted-to-Obama-holiday-home.html

[GrassrootsConservative]

http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/15558-First-dog-Bo-is-airlifted-to-Obama-holiday-home

[Adelaide]

Meh, same shit different day.

Ransom

Can I merge this with the existing thread?

[Singularity]

An $11,000 an hour Ospray for the price of a commercial airline ticket?Actually, given all of the other personnel who were on board the Osprey,
I would not be surprised if the government paid for the flight cost.

Even so, given the amount of money Obama has to shell out for these trips
and for his day-to-day personal expenses, snookering his dog on a
military flight that was part of his administrative train isn't a big deal.

As I said before, I'm sure it's the biggest deal in the world to you, hence
your creation of this thread. But that's not what's important.

If you're just ranting and raving about this stuff without giving the
more credulous any real reason to care, what is really the point?

[Professor Peabody]

Actually, given all of the other personnel who were on board the Osprey,
I would not be surprised if the government paid for the flight cost.

Even so, given the amount of money Obama has to shell out for these trips
and for his day-to-day personal expenses, snookering his dog on a
military flight that was part of his administrative train isn't a big deal.

As I said before, I'm sure it's the biggest deal in the world to you, hence
your creation of this thread. But that's not what's important.

If you're just ranting and raving about this stuff without giving the
more credulous any real reason to care, what is really the point?

When politicians, including the AG and FBI directors fly on Government jets on personal business, they pay what a commercial flight ticket would cost and the taxpayers pick up the rest.

[Singularity]

When politicians, including the AG and FBI directors fly on Government jets on personal business, they pay what a commercial flight ticket would cost and the taxpayers pick up the rest.Obviously. The administrative and security train that must accompany
the President everywhere, not to mention all the perks to which he and
his family are, frankly, entitled to (though he does pay for the food and
personal service, and many first families have reported being shocked
at just how much that costs) would, if forced onto Obama's wallet,
probably bankrupt him if he kept up his usual schedule.

Turn off your partisan blinders for a bit and use your head.
At least Obama doesn't vacation as much as his predecessors have (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/15/despite-criticisms-of-trips-amid-sequester-obama-is-on-pace-to-set-presidential-travel-record/).