Raw Video: Michelle Obama Dances in India

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I thought that was cute.

And yeah, the $200 mil a day thing has already been discredited for days now...

Edited November 8, 2010 by chri'stina

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Except there is no evidence that it’s true.

Oh please AJ.

How many times have we asked you not to let the pesky truth get in the way of a nice juicy Interwebz rumor? Especially one fueled by Fox News?

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We spend $190 million every day in Afghanistan? Why?

What a waste.

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/

Edited November 8, 2010 by Lord Infamous