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Re:Let them eat veggies: Obama has dinner with Steve by gaius on Friday February 18, 2011 @03:44PM (#2237178)
What about 10 more? 40 more? Tanks? Shutting down the city one block either side of the route? Does the Pres really need a Jumbo Jet to himself?

A lot of it is just wanting to be seen to roll with the biggest entourage. Nothing wrong with that per se; diplomacy has been about impressing your counterpart with ostentation since time began. But it is what it is.

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Re:Let them eat veggies: Obama has dinner with Steve by tptacek on Friday February 18, 2011 @03:49PM (#2237200)
This is an easy, cheap, and boring comment. He's the President. He already won. Adding a tank isn't going to make him feel better about himself, and he's not the one who decides what his motorcade looks like.
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Re:Let them eat veggies: Obama has dinner with Steve by gaius on Friday February 18, 2011 @04:27PM (#2237343)
"Won"? Ho ho ho, wonder what Vladimir Putin would say about that? That's who it's calculated to impress, not you.
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Re:Let them eat veggies: Obama has dinner with Steve by gaius on Friday February 18, 2011 @05:39PM (#2237592)
Wow, sorry for insulting the Messiah. But I got 10 million karma, I can say what needs saying.

Do any of you Americans even realize there are other world leaders...?

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Re:Let them eat veggies: Obama has dinner with Steve by bane on Friday February 18, 2011 @10:13PM (#2238240)
Huge swaths of D.C. were shut down and reflagged for President Hu a few weeks agov (red flags and gold stars everywhere!). So yeah, when a big-wig comes into town we notice. The President of Finland? Might make an few lines buried in the local news section....so...it depends.
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Re:Let them eat veggies: Obama has dinner with Steve by mkr-hn on Friday February 18, 2011 @04:02PM (#2237250)
He doesn't have a jumbo jet to himself. He has a jumbo jet to carry a miniature white house--press pool, kitchen, office, and hospital included--wherever he goes.
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