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Obama's Presidential Limo Will Be a 'Rolling Tank With Windows'
- whiskeyjack 18y agoAnd here I thought he was a Mac guy.
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- bprater 18y agoHardy har har.
- patio11 18y agoHe's pretty good at giving people the impression that he's culturally identified with them. The funny thing is, I think he manages to give it to just about everybody at once. Then something like "zomg Obama has touched a Zune" comes out and people feel a sense of personal betrayal. (Honestly, I think if Obama ever decided for vi or emacs some people I know would suffer psychotic breaks.)
- bprater 18y agoWhy even have windows? (Especially at 5 inches thick.) A video camera and some monitors might do the trick.
- jm4 18y agoI'm guessing it's because without windows it would look like a tank too. I can think of at least a couple reasons why having the President rolling around in a tank isn't a good idea, and they obviously don't think it's a good idea either since they've gone through so much trouble to make the President's vehicle look like a regular car.
- streety 18y ago"Despite the immense secrecy, reports have leaked that the limo also comes with a 10-CD changer . . ." All that tech in there and he'll only have 10 CDs to choose from? Seems a little dated.
- lallysingh 18y agoI suspect that these things have a long development cycle. OTOH, as long as it'll take line-in from an iPod, no problem.
- AndrewWarner 18y agoI'm glad his administration is using online social tools, because physically, this is going to be one of the most isolated presidents we've ever had. He just has to be protected like this.
- dfranke 18y agoI don't get why people think Obama is in so much danger of assassination. Why a greater chance than any other president? Is it just that he's young and therefore reminds people of Kennedy?
- donw 18y agoObama is the first black President of the United States, and there are a lot of racist idiots who would love to make his tenure as short as possible.
- PieSquared 18y agoIt's slightly sad that racism still has a part in world-wide culture. In some countries, it's even pretty much accepted - I read a Russian newspaper recently saying, "Well, the Americans have finally got themselves what they deserved", implying that nothing is lower than having a black president. And I was just thinking this was the 21st century.
- dchest 18y agoNot defending the newspaper, but there is a certain image of African Americans created by a) Hollywood, b) history, I guess. 95% of Russians haven't seen any black people ever. Racism is a difficult thing to discuss. Not only it's sad that racism still has a part in world-wide culture, it's also sad that crazy political correctness becomes a part of the culture. (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None)
- asdflkj 18y agoWhich newspaper?
- zandorg 18y agoWhat about exploding iPods and mobile phones?
- gills 18y agoHow likely is it there is really any new technology here? If there were new armor technology, wouldn't Bush already be rolling around in the latest? I think they're jawboning to deter the amateurs. Anybody really determined is going to find a way to get their hands on offensive technologies advanced enough to defeat the armor.
- ja2ke 18y agoSome pretty epically horrible blog comments for that article. Wow!
- callahad 18y agoThe second still shot [1] has the Lightbox2 [2] overlay baked in. Looks like Wired took a screenshot of another site. [1]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/images/2009/01/06/car.jpg http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/images/2009/01/06/car.jpg [2]: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/ http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/
- joubert 18y agoThe Pope Mobile seems pretty pretty compared to this monstrosity.
- tudorachim 18y agoThis sounds pretty cool, but it seems like this is a waste of money. I can't remember there ever being an attack on a president while he was in an enclosed limo (but I'm going from memory, haven't looked it up), and the previous one seems to have been enough of a deterrent. Washington, D.C. isn't exactly a warzone that requires a tank.