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Mad Roy asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Did Obama really take 3000 people with him on this 10 day asian tour?

Who were these people? And why so many?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    The White house won't be transparent about the trip- nobody knows.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    It's common practice for the media to round up to the nearest multiple of 3000 when estimating the size of a presidential entourage.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No and it does not cost 100 million a day.

    That was from a report by the Press Trust of India.

    No one trusts them in India. They tend to make stuff up.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    In any case....they were probably salary employees, which means they get paid no matter what. Any cost projection has been skewed to insanity

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I'm waiting for Drudge, Michele Bachmann, Fox News and Glenn Beck to tell me what to say.

    My RSS feed to those sites must be broken.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes he did

  • 1 decade ago

    more than that if you count all the sailors on the 30 naval ships

    Source(s): s
  • 1 decade ago

    No, it was 3,000,000 people. Seriously man, where do you get your news, that Liberal MSNBC or something?

  • ash
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    nope

  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    No. And don't look for Fox to report this accurately.

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