Raw Video: Michelle Obama Dances in India

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Edited November 7, 2010 by Lord Infamous

[Ban Hammer 13,662]

our tax dollars at work.

[Myopia 93]

That is just awesome. Its great to have a first lady with a sense of self that she does the Bollywood dance with NO problem.

I love her!

PS. 33 very happy young girls are going to sleep with a big smile on their faces and a story to tell for generations.

Edited November 7, 2010 by Myopia

[Obama 2012 1,714]

That is just awesome. Its great to have a first lady with a sense of self that she does the Bollywood dance with NO problem.

I love her!

PS. 33 very happy young girls are going to sleep with a big smile on their faces and a story to tell for generations.

[BishopM 114]

I have to agree...she did a great job.

I have busted a move in India and looked much worse

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our tax dollars at work.

were you upset when Laura bush was vacationing in Africa?

[Ban Hammer 13,662]

were you upset when Laura bush was vacationing in Africa?

and did you report that here in vj? if not, you're slacking!

[Danno 1,228]

She seemed to do a pretty tasteful job, no complaints here.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Looks like she had fun.

[R&V 8]

I don't really understand the problem people have with presidents/first ladies visiting foreign countries. IMO, that's part of their job description.

[luckytxn 2,265]

Shake it baby. It is nice to see that she would even do it. Have to agree that those kids will always remember this their whole lives. Very nice.

[Danno 1,228]

I don't really understand the problem people have with presidents/first ladies visiting foreign countries. IMO, that's part of their job description.

I think you misrepresent the objections of some.

It's not the visit it the extravagance and what some see as unnecessary cost involved.

While security is a huge cost and cannot be avoided..... this huge entourage is quite unnecessary and quit expensive to provide lodging, food, security for them.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Obama danced too.

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$200,000,000.00 per Day.

How do they spend that much money on 3,000 people?

I just returned from China last Tuesday, $3,000 total cost of trip.

our tax dollars at work.

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$200,000,000.00 per Day.

How do they spend that much money on 3,000 people?

I just returned from China last Tuesday, $3,000 total cost of trip.

Critics of President Obama’s are abuzz with the charge that the American government will spend $200 million a day, or a total of $2 billion, to send the president on the 10-day mission to four countries that began today.

Except there is no evidence that it’s true.

Government officials said Friday that the rumored costs — which began from unnamed sources on a TV station Web site in India, the first stop on the president’s trip — are false.

In a posting on the White House blog, Dan Pfeiffer, the communications director, called it “a long trip from reality” and said the rumor so far overstates the amount actually to be spent that “it’s not even close to being true.”

That has not stopped some of Mr. Obama’s critics from repeating the rumor as fact. Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio host, announced simply: “Two hundred million dollars a day this nation will spend on Obama’s trip to India.”

Fox News host Glenn Beck calculated the total 10-day cost as just “$2 billion,” adding, “We have 34 warships — have you seen this?”

In response, Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon spokesman, dismissed as “absolutely absurd this notion that somehow we were deploying 10 percent of the Navy — some 34 ships and an aircraft carrier — in support of the president’s trip to Asia.”

“That’s just comical,” he said. “Nothing close to that is being done.”

In fact, the $200 million-per-day figure would, according to factcheck.org, be higher than the daily cost of the entire Afghanistan war, which the Congressional Research Service puts at about $190 million per day.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/india-on-200-million-a-day-no/