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Obama’s Limo Breaks Down in Tel Aviv After Reported Gas SNAFU: See the Pictures!

Mar. 20, 2013 9:48am Sharona Schwartz

Shortly Before He Landed, Obamas Limo Broke Down in Tel Aviv and Had to Be Replaced (Can You Guess Why?)

“The Beast” being towed by “Motti’s Towers” (Photo courtesy: Avi Mayer via Twitter)

Despite all its high-tech gadgetry, communications onboard, and defensive armored plating, the White House limo, known as “The Beast” failed to start this morning shortly before President Barack Obama landed in Tel Aviv.

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With such a heavy payload – a full eight tons – it’s no wonder its fuel efficiency is only eight miles a gallon. But that point was made moot when the driver apparently filled it with the wrong fuel.

Israel’s Channel Two reported, “The Americans filled it up with diesel, rather than petrol,” suggesting a diplomatic incident was averted because it was the Americans’ fault, not Israel’s.

But Haaretz Correspondent Chemi Shalev reported it was actually the other way around, that the White House driver filled ‘er up with gasoline instead of diesel.

The Israeli site 2424.co.il has more pictures:

(Source: 2424.co.il)

TheBlaze’s Liz Klimas wrote in January about some of the impressive specifications of “The Beast” including:

…a gas tank that won’t explode even upon a direct hit; it has night vision gear; and is so controlled an environment it can keep out a biochemical attack. There are even bottles containing blood matching that of the president’s type in the trunk.

In this graphic from The Daily Mail, it appears the vehicle indeed runs on diesel.

Israeli and Jordanian officials coordinated the swift transfer of a replacement limousine that was already in place at a storage facility in Jordan for Obama’s visit there, according to the Times of Israel.

That replacement was loaded onto a transport plane and flown to Israel.

The New York Times’ Mark Landler who filed the White House travel pool report wrote:

One of the presidential limousines had mechanical trouble and had to be replaced before President Obama’s arrival in Tel Aviv, according to the Secret Service.

“We experienced mechanical trouble with one of the cars,” said Edwin Donovan, a spokesman for the Secret Service. “We don’t know the cause.”

There have been media reports that the vehicle had been filled with diesel fuel rather than gasoline.

Donovan said the Secret Service “did not have a read on what the specific issue is at this point.”

POTUS was driven in a different vehicle, he said. “That’s why we bring different multiple vehicles,” Mr. Donovan said.

Landler added that the White House will release a statement later.

One Twitter user quipped: The sequester caused Israel to stop selling diesel fuel. (New White House job posting: Limousine driver / $175K per year).

The sequester caused Israel to stop selling diesel fuel. (New White House job posting: Limousine driver / $175K per year) #ObamaInIsrael

March 20, 2013 8:54am via Twitter for Android ReplyRetweetFavorite

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Jokes aside, how much will this morning’s major logistical production cost? Wasted: flying in the original limo from DC, flying the replacement limo in from Jordan, and shortly flying out the broken down vehicle. Whatever the price, you can be sure it’s all courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.

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bannedfromCNN
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:31am
The Israelis mut be having a good laugh right about now!

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- spirited
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 11:01am
  Barack bamboozeld by the Beast
  
  Oil-faced,
  THECommunity Organizer
  > dictates 1968 is where to draw the line the sand.
  
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- spirited
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 11:25am
  Does insurance cover
  
  ~>man made disaster?
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:39pm
  What’s sickening about this whole thing is that instead of having a country that is proud of our leader, and stick together, we have a nation divided, ready to kill each other. This attitude comes from the top down people. Obama and his little commie goons that think they are entitled to free money are responsible for this powder keg. And it IS gonna’ blow. That is truly disgusting. The politicians must pay for their lies.
  
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Samwise636
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:31am
The perfect metaphor for Obama’s relations with Israel.

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- Soul Leister
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:43am
  Maybe they will deliver it back in boxes (like we gave that MIG back to Russia when one of its pilots defected back during the cold war).
  
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TexasDad
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:30am
Maybe it was a Chinese wrecker and they are repo’ing the Prez’s ride.

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bannedfromCNN
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:27am
And this, from the smartest, most enlightened administration in history.

Liberals are fundamentally stupid and lack any common sense.

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starman70
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:27am
Well, let’s see how much that will cost the taxpayers. Flushing and repairing the entire fuel and injector system at government rates – - – Between $ 5,000 and $ 10,000. Flying another limo in for today using a C-130 aircraft – - – $50,000 to $100,000 then add the return trip to Jordan and make sure it gets there before his majesty’s arrival.

WOW, what pre planning. The thing gets stuck in the driveway to the palace in England and now stalls because of the wrong fuel.

This administration is running its field trips (Elementary school terminology) exactly in the same manner as it is running economy and the whole country.

I wonder what clown # 2 Jay Carney (By the way clown # 1is Joe Biden) will have to say about this booboo.

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minnfinn
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:27am
“Taxi, Taxi!”

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- Soul Leister
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:37am
  Maybe some terrorists will want to give him a ride (so they can negotiate face to face instead of reading between the lines in his speeches).
  
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- DZ-015
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:42am
  Instead of “Tax’em, Tax’em?”
  
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maggiepie
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:26am
Maybe Barry should have thought twice before dissing GOD’S chosen people.

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:30pm
  You will never convince a closet muslim Jew hater that they are the chosen ones.
  
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Amazingoly
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:25am
Just like all of his policies – screwed up and wrong.

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Soul Leister
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:25am
Why does the blaze delete my comments with the word “mulatto” in them… its not a slang word and can be found in Webster’s or Random House and/or other dictionaries as “the offspring of one white parent and one ***** parent.”

Grow up… words mean things… and when you ignore them or change the meaning of them then you are no better than Nazis.

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- Soul Leister
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:31am
  The dictionary actual spells that word you blanked out… its N–E–G–R–O… as in:
  
  Caucasian for Caucasoid
  Mongolian for Mongoloid
  ***** for Negroid
  
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- Soul Leister
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:33am
  Now
  Everybody
  Get it
  Right
  Only actually spellings will do…
  
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- Soul Leister
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:35am
  Didn’t Glen Beck and Stu spend a couple hours today on being taken out of context… and here their editors are doing exactly what they railed about.
  
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- Soul Leister
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:39am
  Oddly, the police use “Caucasian” all the time but not “N–e–g–r–o or Negroid”… why do you suppose that is? Why the discrimination?? Why is it okay for one group but not another??? That is not FAIR or EQUAL treatment.
  
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- Soul Leister
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:42am
  Why is it we (as a society) can say black or white (despite both races having albino) but only one is referred to by its higher learning name and the other cannot be? Are they inferior?? Seems so, if language used is to be believed.
  
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- spirited
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 11:08am
  @SOUL LEISTER
  
  Mandated hyphe~nation
  
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eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:23am
How approapriate the “BEAST” arrives in Israel- just as the Bible predicts.

The “little horn” makes his appearance 5 days before PassOver.

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toledofan
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:21am
It just is amazing, maybe we should say unbelieveable, that the driver wouldn’t know the difference between diesel and regular gas. This kind of stuff makes us look really stupid. It’s like this Presidency is like a comedy of errors. I sure hope the teleprompter doesn’rt break, that will cause an international incident.

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- barber2
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:34am
  TOLEDO: Bet the driver is one of Obama’s Chicago radical buddies….
  
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Thighmaster
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:21am
A diesel will start on gasoline, then it melts down and has to be replaced.

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eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:20am
But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,)
then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains.
Mark 13;14

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MisterSarcastic
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:19am
If it’s a slow news day I suppose this will lead just about every news show on TV today.

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djeffcoat
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:19am
Give the SOB a golf cart!

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bo1921
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:18am
That darn sequester!

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vorpal
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:17am
was that a Prius limo?

It was an omen none the less….

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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:16am
4 1/2 years in, this administration is still amateur hour.

And you mean to tell me “The Beast” (how fitting is that?) isn’t all electric!?!?!?!?!

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Soul Leister
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:16am
Obama just wanted to be carried into the city on the literal and figurative “backs” (piggy back in this case) of the minions who rely on him for their very existence… the air they breath, the food they eat, the water in their glass, the taste in their mouth, etc… his whorey holier than thou mulatto must be paraded through the streets in the manner to which he has become accustomed… as high in the air as possible… for all to see.

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- Soul Leister
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:27am
  It was gone and now its back… magic.
  
  I said, “back… magic” not black magic.
  
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- Soul Leister
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:29am
  Like I told my neighbor a couple weeks ago “daylight savings time is for turning your CLOCK BACK not turning your @@@@ BLACK.
  
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POET
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:15am
Oy!

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landman1
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:13am
Perfect time to roll out that windmill driven car, or the presidential Volt. Remember, just this week he said he would like to have all american cars to be off of fossil fuels. Good Start!! Howabout dump some algae in the tank. As crafty as the POTUS is he ought to be able to work this out. He said, ” I am the President!”

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65Mustang
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:13am
Is His Highness to good to be escorted in an armored car provided by the Israeli government? I understand his need for protection, the tension/distrust between the countries but damn, give me a break from His Highness…the exalted.

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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:13am
Just like snow at a global warming event, this is a sign from God that Obama is the anti Christ. More to come……….

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beeboop
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:12am
Everything Obama touches turns to ****.

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- bannedfromCNN
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:33am
  …socialism.
  
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- Soul Leister
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:59am
  Ship High In Transit? Oh yeah, that is Socialism.
  
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DawgBreath
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:11am
Due to the sequester – the payments were not kept current and the limo was repossessed.

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- beeboop
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:12am
  LOL Good one…. He got Lizard Licked….
  
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- Soul Leister
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 11:02am
  Lizard Licked? Is that a gay bath house reference? Because according to multiple sources gay bath houses are something our high yellow brother in the white house is familiar with… or so I have heard, wink.
  
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