BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PLANET?
Posted by Andrew Roman on November 16, 2009
A short one-question quiz.
What significance does the number 71 have in relation to President Barack H. Obama?
Take your time.
It isn’t a trick question.
No, it’s not the number of “trillions” that will comprise the national debt once he’s done bankrupting the nation’s future. No, it’s not the number of times he used the words “I” or “me” during his recent “Fall of the Berlin Wall” pre-recorded speech. It isn’t the number of people turned in by fellow citizens during President Obama’s “Please Snitch on Anyone Who Talks Bad About My Health Care Plan” initiative earlier this year. It isn’t the amount of apologies he’s issued for the sins of his own country. It isn’t the amount of teleprompters he has in tow whenever he speaks. It isn’t the amount of times he has bowed to foreign heads of state. It isn’t even how many states he thinks make up the United States.
It is, in fact, the number of vehicles that made of Barack Obama’s motorcade as he traveled from Beijing airport.
Seventy-one!
Of course, I’m no climactic virtuoso (like, say, Al Gore or Leonardo DiCaprio), but unless those cars were powered by an army of hamsters under the hood, I’m guessing that motorcade must’ve been a veritable orgy of greenhouse gas emissions.
Not that it matters to me, mind you, but isn’t that one hell of a carbon footprint?
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proof said
71 vehicles? What? He’s making up for missing the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade? Sheesh!
SerinaDruid said
I am against ppl giving him a hard time for taking a jet for a family vacation and all that mess but even *I* think a 71 vehicle motorcade is excessive.
Andrew Roman said
I agree. Personally, it matters not to me how many planes he travels on, how many cars he travels in, or how many cars make up his entourage. It’s his anti-global warming zealotry – his Al Gore-like certitude that the planet is on the brink of destruction due to human ctivity – that makes it noteworthy.
The debate is over, after all.
Andrew Roman