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Come, now, TD. Since when has the American citizen ever cared about how much it cost any sitting President to be flown anywhere be it domestically or internationally? This only became a concern with President Obama. But the Conservative right didn't care when Reagan fly hither and yawn. They didn't care when Bush-41 flew to Saudi Arabia or Kuwait and they didn't care about how much was being spent when GWB flew internationally for any reason either. But all of a sudden, they care about travel cost associated with AF-1 under President Obama? Give me a break, man!
You know, the absordity of this entire issue is Conservatives are quick to claim that President Obama is anti-American, but the moment he goes out to lobby for America on an global scale suddenly you all denounce his efforts. Such hypercrits!!!
You can't have it both ways.
Frankly, I don't think he could have won for losing in this matter. Had he stayed home while the leaders of the other three leading candidate cities went and lobbied for their nation city, the opposition would have hounded him for not going and continued to laud these anti-American rants. But since he did go and lost the Olympic bid, now the opposition is calling his lobbying efforts a monumental failure.
I really don't think you people know what you want except to continue to stir the pot and :spin: everything way out of control. It's ridiculous to say the least!
As to where I got the comments from in my last post? They were comments posted by people internationally from the very Times online article you post on page 3 to this thread. Like this one...
Perhaps you should read more of how the world views this President and how he's changing the image of the United States for the better internationally instead of seeing things through partician glasses.
Oh please, the average American citizen has always cared about how often or how much it costs to have their president do PR tours. Liberals did plenty of complaining about Bush's lack of being on 'his ground' when serious matters at home or abroad were happening. People like to pick the petty things to complain about, regardless of who it is. The American people get caught up in silly stuff all the time.