Who Dares

Who reserved an entire 570 Taj Mahal hotel for his trip to India with a total price tag of 2 million dollars? Who dared to take 3000 people at the cost of $200 million dollars a day to see the ‘Festival of Lights’ and the Gandhi museum before moving on to Indonesia? Who would shut down entire sections of cities for his visit? Who will commandeer 34 warships, 40 aircraft, 2 Air Force One’s, 40 armored cars including the Presidential limo? Who needs 30 sniffer dogs, 31 Marine choppers and 2 command posts, one in Delhi and one in Mumbai? Who indeed dares to set a precedent of using the Totus ( his Teleprompter) for the 1st time in the Indian Parliament for his speech? Who? He who flees his country the day after mid-term elections. He who has in 344 days in office, held 42 press conferences, given 158 interviews, held 23 town hall meetings and headlined 7 campaign rallies.

Who does he think he is? The golden idol? Midas? Ra? Zeus? The Sphinx? Alexander, Peter, Frederick, Catherine - the Greats? Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylonia, Cleopatra floating down the Nile, Caesar entering Rome, Saladin in Egypt, Napoleon in Paris, King Henry VIII at England’s court, the Sun King Louis XIV at Versailles, Hitler rallying at the Brandenburg gate in Berlin, Kubla Khan, the Son of Heaven in China, Suleiman in his Turkish palace, a Pharoah on the throne in Egypt, Kim II Sung or Chairman Mao Tse-tung presiding over a May Day parade?

Who dares to sit astride the world? Why the big O, Maharajah, our President, Barack Hussein Obama!