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Whoops, President Obama must have missed the memo on this one.
While the Portuguese prime minister and the Portuguese president of the European Union’s executive commission are tooling around the NATO summit here in no-emission electric vehicles, Mr. Obama is fouling the Lisbon skies with his no-efficiency "Beast," the eight-ton, diesel-fueled behemoth of a limousine the president carts around the world with him.
Obama is expected to discuss climate change and a common US-Europe approach to it when he takes part in a US-European Union (EU) summit after the NATO meeting on Saturday. But in the meantime, the Portuguese capital is being treated to a jarring dichotomy: the polluting "leader of the free world," on one hand, lumbering across town in the Beast with a phalanx of black Secret Service vehicles and Portuguese police motorcycles in tow; and the Europeans zipping around in smart electric vehicles, on the other.
At NATO summit, Obama's ride is talk of the town - CSMonitor.com
Practice what you preach? Certainly not....:lamo
j-mac
You feel the President should drive a moped and have all the security ride bikes to protect him or her?
Isn't he all about 'green energy'? or is that just talk, you know, for OTHER people.....?
j-mac
More empty snidery. Let it go, you lost to a black man. Start working for 2016, you might just have an outside chance by then.
Right so you want all presidents to ride on mopeds then correct, then turn stop using F16 and go back to turboprop Super Turcano's as they are more fuel efficient correct
Sometimes security protocals override environmental wishes
Portuguese media seems fascinated by Obama's limousine, a sleek, armored car they've dubbed Cadillac One.
Newspapers and magazines have run photos and half-page graphics marveling at the vehicle, which also is known in Washington as "The Beast" because of its extra-thick doors and huge tires.
Noticias magazine called it a "bunker on wheels." Sabado, another magazine, calculated that the gas-guzzling Cadillac cost more than three times the Portuguese president's unarmored car.
Socrates, meanwhile, arrived at the NATO summit in an electric car after a short ride across the Atlantic port city from his office in the 19th-century Sao Bento palace.
A major theme of Socrates' government is the shift to renewable energy. The country has been a European pioneer in the development of solar and wind power, and is setting up a national network of charging stations for electric cars.
Obama's limo attracted outsize interest from local media during portions of his recent trip to Asia, as well.
No, but other heads of state at this meeting are driving green vehicles why not Barry? Are you saying that he has a greater risk of harm?
j-mac
Generally yes,
I think more people would like to kill the president of the US then the President of France
But the Portuguese press is more interested in the Beast. Pages in Lisbon newspapers have been dedicated to cutaway renderings of “Cadillac One,” with charts and boxes offering every detail of the vehicle that the Secret Service divulges: the Kevlar tires, the special foam in the gas tank to immediately extinguish any fire from a direct hit, the supply of presidential blood.
Next we'll be hearing that the President's a secret vampire. :lol:
Next we'll be hearing that the President's a secret vampire. :lol:
Next we'll be hearing that the President's a secret vampire. :lol:
He is.
Well, that was fast! :lol:
More empty snidery. Let it go, you lost to a black man. Start working for 2016, you might just have an outside chance by then.
....Let it go, you lost to a black man....
THAT'S HILARIOUS!practice what you preach? Certainly not....:lamo
j-mac
Yay!!! More none news!!!!
Next we'll be hearing that the President's a secret vampire. :lol:
America's first black president was elected in 2008. That was historic. The problem is that the first black president is incompetent. Do you dispute that? If so I would love to debate the question of Obama's incompetence with you. For example, the trip to South Korea where Obama's staff forgot to do the advance work necessary to nail down the KORUS Free Trade Agreement.
This has never happened before in American history. It is proof positive that Obama is an amateur and incompetent. This is what happens when inexperienced people are elected.
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