Midknight Review -- new and revised: It costs $181,000 pr hr to fly our resident black Liberationist around the world. More importantly, he has spent 85% of his time in talk and travel.

A few months ago, there was speculation that the cost of flying Obama whereever was around $53,000 per hour. We saw that figure in a number of articles. Turns out that this was as wrong as "wrong" could be. Here is a report from FoxNews reporting on numbers released by the government:

The U.S. military has provided an updated estimate on that cost, first published by a taxpayer watchdog group and confirmed by FoxNews.com, and the number is staggering -- $181,757 per hour. That's the price tag for shuttling around President Obama, who, as it turns out, has spent more days abroad in his first two years than any other president.

Estimates over the years based on government reports and independent number-crunching have always reflected a steep cost for presidential travel, but the figure provided by the 89th Airlift Wing appears to be far higher than any previously reported. It was first published in a report this week on presidential travel by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation.

While Obama travels a little more than Bush or Clinton, the cost of travel has nearly doubled. His recent trip to Asia cost nearly 9 million dollars just for flight expenses. Add to this the cost of housing and meals for hundreds of personnel, on-ground security, flight costs for 12 jets, cost for armed forces alerts, plus intra-country travel and you have quite a bill. Foreign travel for a president is expected and even necessary. While Obama has traveled outside the US more than his predecessors, the real news story is the amount of travel and talk this "president" has done within the United States. He has given more than 1,600 talks and personal appearances since becoming the Novice President and now, it turns out that in-Nation travel cost is double the original estimates.

The fact of the matter is this: we have a president who has spent well over 85% of his time in office either traveling somewhere or giving talks. Of course he is working as president as he travels, but no previous president has been "out of the office" nearly as much as this fellow. Before his first term is completed, he will have traveled within the boundaries of the US more than all previous presidents combined.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

It costs $181,000 pr hr to fly our resident black Liberationist around the world. More importantly, he has spent 85% of his time in talk and travel.

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