Presidential Limo Not As Unstoppable as Previously Reported
**Written by Doug Powers
Barack Obama’s presidential limo was designed to be virtually unstoppable:
The vehicle, referred to by the Secret Service as “the beast,” will reportedly feature heavy armor that is at least 5 inches thick and comes complete with run-flat tires, bulletproof glass and a completely sealed interior to ward off a chemical attack, among many other high-tech security features.
Pretty impressive — but there is one vulnerability that engineers of future presidential limos might want to address: Nothing can stop The Beast… except curbs.
Today in Ireland, Obama’s limo did its best impression of the US economy trying to drive over the stimulus:
The “Moe hits Curly in the head with a ball peen hammer” wacky sound-effect is certainly a bonus.
The delay turned out to be a welcome one, because FLOTUS needed some extra time to fix her hair.
Update: President Obama is leaving Ireland early because of volcanic ash — that is, if Air Force One can make it over that curb to the runway at Dublin airport.
(h/t MRC)
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Teh Won IS the mess-I-ah after all, ya know?
What does any of this have to do with obama?? Nothing. It is his fat-a$$ wife who made that car too heavy. Too “bottom-heavy” if you know what I mean.
Not even Hillary Clinton made the Presidential Limo get stuck like that.
Even if she wasn’t in the car, like the libtard media is saying, her previous occupancy no doubt strained the metal re-inforcing rods and caused them to hit the speed bump.
And CBS is now reporting that due to Obama’s omnipotent brain power he was able to forsee the car getting stuck; therefore he arranged for MO and himself other means of transportation….
/sarc
I hope MO knows how to exit a limo better than Britney or Paris.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Just because you are still stuck cleaning out the unrinals at the “Y” is no reason to be angry at street sweepers in general….
Did you also see where his code word for the security detail is a Punjabi word that means Smart Alec?
And this article – priceless!
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100088971/obama-oh-puh-lease/
Seems the Brits are souring on The Smarmy One Big Useless President of the USA.
Hey Ma! Come and lance this, it’s oozing again!
OT: Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayad suffered a heart attack and is in the hospital in TEXAS! He went to see his son’s graduation….in TEXAS!
Maybe they’ll shoot a cameo of her for Mel’s new movie.
ewww, that just made me throw up in my mouith
Like Ellyk, my first thought on seeing the First Lady’s hair like that was Jim Carrey’s portrayal of the Grinch.
Oh wonderful. No one conducted a route recon. That is pretty stupid. It’s a good way to get a President killed. One in my lifetime was one too many.
It’s an honest job–and not so bad until one has to sweep around your busted ass, face down in the gutter.
Well aren’t you just like Obama? Using ‘I’ all the time in speaches/writings. Now you’re putting “I’s” in the word ‘mouth.’ Geez, he’s starting to rub off on you.
Well, no s#!t Chalaque.
Once, I was in a SUV w/my Dad driving, mrcakes & I in the backseat. My Mom had gotten out to quickly go into a store. A car pulled up next to the passenger side where my husband sat. The woman in the car exited, hiking her skirt up on the way out. Mrcakes exclaimed ‘oh my’–my Dad said ‘Did she show it to you?’. ‘Yes’.
How did dear old Dad know that’s how it went down? I guess you don’t get to be that age being a dummy…LOL
If any homie in South Central can put a kit on his car to raise and lower it by pushing a button on the dash, you would think the Secret Service “Q branch” could equip the Presidential limo the same way.
It would have been funnier if you spelled speeches right.
“Lowrider” wasn’t that by “War”.
Maybe the President, when he said to lower the limo, meant the 76 Olds 98 and not the Presidential limo.
Your right on th mark SDN.
Yeah, I was jamming through that comment and must have been thinking about peaches.
Always fun to point out misspellings on the interwebs, huh?
oh, man, Paratus–you made my mouth water. The 1967 wasn’t bad either.
what else is in the teaches of peaches?
huh
what
I thought it was Gaelic for “mouth.”
My favorite Miss Piggy video!!!
SDN #116,
Air bag suspension will be installed on the upcoming line of “green” stretched-armored Chevy Presidential(re)Volts !
i have a feeling that word will be a part of the future lexicon, i wonder if anybody will tell teh won about it?
Really? Miss Piggy did a Peaches song?
What is the world coming to?
Hangfire,
Back in grade school, we referred to the Britney / Paris upskirt views as “shooting the squirrel”. Don`t ask me why, “it” was never referred to as a “squirrel” !
Does the Presidential Limo’s bar have anything that I would like to drink?
Delicious Malt Duck?
Champipple?
Colt 45?
I guess not.
First, I’m warning you!!!!
Check out YouTube’s “F— the Pain Away” with Miss Piggy.
I’m no fan of the President, but when I saw that video I was shocked at how unprepared the Secret Service was for such an incident. Pretty scary actually. Where’s Biden?
Squirrels never did have much meat on them. In my day, a large semi-aquatic North American rodent with large incisors was the reference mammal.
I know the name of the Peaches song, but I’ll happily abstain from watching a puppet perform it. GAK.
Oh,they have a hydraulic lift…
Aw Kent, you’re so cute when you get all worked up in defense of the O’s… so witty too!
re; the beast high centering – it really doesn’t matter after the fact, if Mrs. or Mr. Thinskin were in the car or not. It’s funny! Actually, all around the planet people are poking fun of it. Just think – alll those people picking fun of the Thinskins – and you can’t do anything to stop it! lolz. Don’t let it keep you up at night.
Actually I never do it. I made an exception in your case because you misspelled in your witty nit pick.
People who love in glass houses and all that…..
You referred to it as a nutria?
Come on, everyone knows that since the Bin Laden raid only Obama knows how to do anything at all. He didn’t have the time to draw up plans for a hydraulic lift system that would take into account the difference in weight ratio’s of the possible passengers….that would have taken too much time out of his golf game.
Hey stop trying to project your Obama fantasies about rubbing off on people….
Not quite the nuisance, but close.
Secret Service’s fault. They checked the route with a Hummer not a low rider.
or capybara?
Well, it’s Monday in May so Mr. and Mrs. President must be on another severely important trip to, uh, where is it this time? Oh, yes, IRELAND. You know we have SOOOOOO MANY important things to tend to in Ireland that Mr. and Mrs. President need to see to personally. YESSSSSSSSSSSS INDEED. So saddle up the big jet, limos, personal staff of hundreds, unlimited cash for incidentals, and away we go again, pissing away millions of $$$$ that we don’t have. But, got no reason, what the heck?
Spend that money, spend it quick
It sure is nice to not give a lick
Let’s go to Ireland, spend lotsa cash
Maybe buy Michelle a nice new sash.
Boy I like this easy life
Shuckin’ and Jivin’ not a bit of strife
Got my friends livin’ all around
Cept for Israel, why the frown?
Soon those elections will come again
Billion $ war chest I’ll have to spend
Gonna pass a law, term limits to end
Then I’ll be KING and we’ll REALLY spend.
South American, I believe. Hangfire said North American. I had a nusiance beaver, chewed down my prettiest dogwood tree. Got several others including a former Christmas tree we planted afterwords. They are protected around here, the poor thing must have had an unfortunate accident, haven’t seen him back.
Um… I think I’ve heard rather enough ODS/BDS analogies. Unlike demented Leftists that walked around in a DAZE for 8 yrs. starting w/ the first re-count in FL, Obama IS screwing with people’s livlihoods!
We don’t have to walk around the pillar ala “Midnight Express” PRETENDING His decisions are impacting our financial and PERSONAL lives..!
‘He’ has been all about Picking Winners & Losers from Day 1. Remember Dealer-gate? Michelle has documented more -direct- dirt and blood on His hands than you can shake a stick at. There’s no imagined oppression going on here. It’s freakin’ real.
Wake up.
Which direction does Barry walk around? Left?
As in ‘low rider‘?
Hang, are you guys talking about beaver pelts again?? I have mental pictures of Beavis & Butthead snickering at each other….
Who would this be? I thought Desirée Rogers quit…or, is this Valerie Jarrett?
“Heh-heh. Heh-heh. He said ‘Beaver.’”
Report: Gaffetastic Joe Biden considering a 2016 run for President
http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2011/05/23/report-gaffetastic-joe-biden-considering-a-2016-run-for-president/
Way off topic, I apologize:
I do not like to veer off topic of the thread but this just stuck in my craw and wants to stay there. Michelle wrote about Chief Floozy McKinney on another thread. She and others should be given the choice of trial for treason or be forever barred from re-entering this country. She would be forbidden to take any of her assets or personal belongings with her other than what she had on her when she left.
Hangfire said:
Undoubtedly! He is a baaaad machine.
I just object to any Left-leaning blogger’s depiction that there’s a parallel in the slightest.
The only people that went to Iraq & Afghanistan were the people that -wanted- to be there! No draft to dodge, no 4-F waiver/basket weaving degree needed.
We hate Obama because there hasn’t been yet a power of the office he isn’t willing to abuse! Forget the War On Drugs or the War in Iraq, this clown has waged all out War On The Economy from the coronation on.
On May 23rd, 2011 at 7:28 pm, Green eyed Lady said:
Would he be the first centennarian to run for president?
Very reasonable offer.
I’ll take ‘What is a beaver?’ for $1000, Alex….
Shuck: To get rid of, ditch, throw away. To try to shed your true image in favor of a false one.
Jive: Trying to adopt a new social status, pretending to be “all that” + a bag of pentium chips.
If you’re trying to relate it to a slavery slur, it won’t work with obama. He isn’t/wasn’t ‘down for the struggle’ as weird Al Sharpton mentioned in a parody by white comedian Paul Shanklin. No slave blood don’t ya know….
Whatever.
Over the years it’s been converted and equally applied to Whites and practically -any- employee doing their level best to shirk their duties all the while telling you what they’re working on is of the utmost importance.
As in: “C’mon guys, knock off that shuckin’ and jivin’ and get back to work!”
But thanks for jumping at the chance to give it a raaaacial spin!
A simple ground clearance issue. Reminds me of jumping my friend’s dad’s ’68 Chrystler Imperial over the railroad grade on Skeet Hill. He got off course a bit and the differential caught on a railroad tie. Pretty spectacular. Thank God no one was hurt…and it wasn’t MY dad’s car – which made the jump sucessfully.
Also known around these parts as “Having your picture taken!”
Also known as “Cthulhu” during certain times of the month.
I’m pretty sure if it had been your dad’s car, you’d STILL have a problem sitting down for a length of time…
If the Irish thought this was funny, they should see the Bamster try to get through a gate doorway with an open umbrella.
Yes, really.
Good one! That was when I realized we were in serious trouble.
On May 23rd, 2011 at 2:31 pm, TripleD said:
It’s the least they could do. The taxpayers deserve that much.
Reminds me of a Spinal Tap concert…
Given it was reported on CeeBS, I’m not surprised it is pure BS, and that you pass it on as fact.
This Irish web site had the story and video long before the rest of the Lame Media reported on it. They clearly reported that both exited the car after a time and took different transportation.
I guess Kool-aid slurping fools will do anything to prop up Duh Won!
Foxnews reported it was a ‘spare’ limo and the Obama’s weren’t in it.
And the link you provided did not show the Obama’s or indicate they were in it.
Why is everything such a conspiracy around here. Goodness.
Why do you always have to be so naive?
The link I provided had text in the earlier story, as linked by Drudge. In the text, they clearly stated Urkel and Moomoo left their low rider for other transportation.
I don’t know why the text is no longer there.
I also don’t know why it took so long for any other media to report on it.
Further, I don’t know what Foxnews or any other media organization used as their source. Perhaps they were using the Irish web site. Perhaps they talked to the WH? Who knows? Certainly not you.
In the end, whoever was driving the limo was an idiot given the first car through the gate, what looked like a normal sedan, also bottomed out…just not as bad.
Urkel must have been urging the driver the go anyway. Maybe he had a tee time.
I also noted from your link that the earliest comment is from 10 hours ago, putting it about 2pm. The link on Drudge was easily on there by 12pm, if not earlier.
2pm is about the time other media decided to not look so stupid and report on it.
And you are just as crazy as they come. Find me ONE non-crazy-person article that indicated he was in the car.
“Oh, that one is no longer online” is not an adequate response.
The link on Drudge to another site’s news was there by 12pm ET or PT? And any proof, or just a great memory?
Bang.
“Ooohh…”
“Tree!”
First thing I thought of. I am also now convinced that being a smart-ass comes from my Irish blood.
From the Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motoringvideo/8531218/The-Beast-Barack-Obamas-bullet-proof-limo-gets-stuck-on-US-embassy-ramp.html
Next time you’ll get a “let me Google that for you” link.
Don’t waste your time with kentroll
Thanks Doug, any chink in the amour is a good chink for U.S.
But, watch out for there to be a U.N. resolution that mandates all curbs, world wide, be no more; or at least no higher than one inch in height.
Saw an old, totally rusty VW bus with hippie grafitti and beads in the windows enroute from FL to CA. We were stopped side by side at a light. I looked at him and gave a thumbs up. He grinned and the VW started going up and down. Hilarious!!!!
Still does not say they were in that car. They apparently were in that motorcade, but not that car.
If you still think they were in that car, I can’t help you any further.
Some a random thought, probably not PC, but, just sayin’:
Uh, he was searching for his Irish roots? I guess that means his MOTHER’s side, so he IS white?
Unless the Irish invaded Africa a long time ago. Or does that mean he is “black Irish”? As I said, just sayin’.
How about Erin Go Bragh and US Go to Hell? Unbelievable.
We’re all ‘woodpile’ Portuguese anyway.
speak for yerself Rogue
heh
They’re watching Fox News for negative stories instead.
Truesoldier
Really? I always figured mommy’s basement. With a race car bed.
It’s visualized karma! That whole “car in the ditch” thing, coming back to haunt them. And too, it’s just a darn funny clip