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Obama’s Limo ‘The Beast’ Bottoms Out & Gets Stuck in Ireland

May. 23, 2011 12:43pm Jonathon M. Seidl

President Obama loves to use the analogy of how he and Democrats are digging the economic “car” out of the ditch. So I wonder if the Republicans will soon fire back with a bunch of jokes about Obama’s limo “The Beast” bottoming out and getting stuck today while on a trip in Ireland.

The AFP reports the incident — which was loud — occurred while the Obamas were leaving the U.S. Embassy in Dublin:

The first cars in the presidential motorcade emerged up the ramp from the car park beneath the complex in Ballsbridge and passed through the gates without incident, but The Beast quickly ran into trouble and got beached.

“The Beast was coming along and suddenly there was a loud kind of bang, metal-on-metal, grinding, crunching noise and the car was stuck,” an RTE reporter said.

The reporter said that as it drove out, the car appeared to have got its low underbelly caught on a piece of metal sticking up that a gate might lock into.

RTE said Obama and his wife Michelle stayed in the car while security officials and police officers went running over to the stranded vehicle.

After a while, the Obamas switched to another car to drive to the Marine Force One helicopter waiting to whisk them to the village of Moneygall, where one of Obama’s great-great-great-grandfathers came from.

Update: Later reports indicated that Obama was not in the vehicle that bottomed out. He was in the second car right behind. The first “Beast” served as the back-up vehicle.

Here’s the short version of the incident:

And here’s the two-minute version:

And for those who can’t get enough and want to see everything, this is a six-minute clip from over on the blog:

I guess Irish eyes weren’t smiling on Obama’s motorcade today.

Still, it’s likely “The Beast” will roll away without much damage. As the Daily Mail shows in the graphic below, its name is appropriate considering its construction:

The Mail reports “The Beast” was flown overseas for Obama’s European visit at the insistence of the Secret Service, which is cramping down on security even more in the aftermath of Osama bin Laden’s death.

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Comments (592)

cold_beer839
Posted on May 25, 2011 at 6:31pm
CaptainKook says:
“The limo was built by GM in 2008 – and was ordered by the Bush Administration”

Them liberals blame every damn thing on Bush, even this. LOL

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mdalton_5117
Posted on May 25, 2011 at 5:58pm
Laugh out loud funny!!!

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KABAR2
Posted on May 25, 2011 at 5:12pm
So Barak you told us that YOU WON and WE get to sit in the back and let you do the driving……….
We see how that’s working out……….

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popemahonrimoriancomer
Posted on May 25, 2011 at 2:58pm
Thats the story of his presidency, half way through and completely inept & useless, going nowhere.

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nelan72
Posted on May 25, 2011 at 12:38pm
They need to put up a sign here to show people the mark of “The Beast”.

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jebclark
Posted on May 25, 2011 at 12:07pm
I was listening to the folks in the background and they do not seem to like him that much either and think he is an embarrassment to the US, I did hear one say , this fool is gonna start another world war and I ain’t going !! another replied back Aye Hes a danger to all. There was one remark about in Ireland he is liked by the Republicans and Hated by the Democrats

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jebclark
Posted on May 25, 2011 at 11:53am
I guess being a great dozy git is a communicable disease ! airbourne I suspect, all they needed was to get that great dollop of a Misses of His out of the chariot and have her packed into a Lorrie. I know why he went to Ireland, !!!! He is going to announce that the Brits release all of ireland restarting riots, bombings and outright war to the Greene hills
Someone needs to let the uni bomber out and tell him Obama is creating an army of robots to run the security of the USA, Let out the other guy who will be pissed if he finds out Obama has been banging
Jodie Foster, forget hinkley he cant shoot straight, lucky for us or we would not have won the Cold War, on second thought take away his meds and tell him Obama took that benefit away because he doesn’t like him.

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nomorelawyers
Posted on May 25, 2011 at 5:17am
boozo fill the trunk full of watermelons and beer for the trip

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Steev
Posted on May 25, 2011 at 1:03am
All he had to do was to momentarily
step out of the vehicle and the car would have risen a couple of inches. Sheeesh, with a brain as big as his is – you’d think he would know how heavy egos are.

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WeRunDCnotThem
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 11:14pm
Eventually the village that has been missing Mr.O for all these years will be visited.

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JUSTCAUSE
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 11:13pm
I really enjoyed reading all the comments. I still find it hard to believe
that people still defend this president. Between canceling the National
Day of Prayer and trying to dictate to Isreal on it’s own borders I find
shameful. Who really is this man we call president ? Who groomed him for the job ? Did he really graduate from the colleges no one seen him at ?? Also, I just have to mention GWB worked at home and at Camp David.(compare the cost of vacations.) did GWB have weekly parties and invites such as the king of rappers that promote cop killing?
President Obama is not presidential he is an embarrassment to me.
What happened to the law license, both licenses?
Of course the Muslim Brotherhood is not a terrorist organization.
Shame shame shame. Remember it is all GWB’S fault.That is all you have to fall back on.

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