If Obama is so bad, why the lies?

Because that's all they got. Pretty pathetic.

The trip is estimated to cost between 1 and 1.5 billion dollars due to excessive security measures they must take because of the threats of violence throughout Asia. The misconception is that this is a "vacation". It is a series of economic meetings in India, South Korea, Japan and Indonesia that aims to expand the Chinese dollar thus expanding US influence in Asia due to our hefty trade agreement with China. It also aims to expand our trade with those nations and all told could bring us hundreds of billions of dollars in global revenue over the next few years. But once again the White House lets these rumors run wild and never corrects them, so eventually everyone thinks Obama is taking a one billion dollar vacation to the Taj Mahal.

You mean lies like " I'll close Guantanamo, Shovel Ready jobs, I'll repeal Stop Loss Prevention " the fact that the CBO now tells us Obama's numbers on health care reform were completely out of wack ?

The fact Obama said there would be no lobbyists on his staff and yet it's loaded with them ? The fact Obama said he'd end no bid contracts, and earmarks but rolls right along with it ?

Or how about the fact he was against the Patriot Act BEFORE he was President and enacted legislation to expand it even further ??

Which lie ??

It is not much of an exaggeration, when you take all costs associated with the trip into account. Considering that he is taking hundreds of people, renting the entire Taj Mahal while he is there, taking multiple jets, feeding everyone, entertaining everyone, etc. It might not be $200 million/day, but it will cost outlandish taxpayer dollars.

first of all the claims came from an Indian news agency not conservatives.(though they ran with it) when asked the White House would not discuss the cost figures about presidential trips.

but think about it,

the count is that about (3,000 people Secret Service agents, US government officials etc) will be going with him. it's not going to be an inexpensive trip.

So what's a slight exaggeration. It does cost a ton of money to provide security for the president regardless of what party he belongs to. The only way to save this is to lock the president up in the White House and not let him out until his term expires. We didn't do it for Bush, we aren't doing it for Obama and won't do it for whoever replaces him.

There have been many sources that have stated that number. Whether they are all accurate is up to debate. But it's not a number that has just been randomly pulled out of the air.

Because arguing reality involves substantiating your claims and there just isn't enough brains in the Republican party to be used for that kind of thought process.

After all, they share the same brain and have to take turns using it...

Lies are all the republitards have.