Too bad about the tree. But a pest DID touch it after all.

Every time I go to read a UK paper´s articles,I get sidetracked by lofo celebrity gossip.I mean Taylor swift is dating some sort of beach bum surfer?The only positive news out of that is at least he´s white.Tiger Woods has another white woman that the celebrity cult can´t get enough of.

But anyway,I don´t get this tree thing at all.Somebody had to know an imported plant or tree going into Israel had to go through a rigorous 10 point inspection to make sure it wouldn´t wipe the country out with a contagious disease and now the exam will take months before it can be replanted.

Is this just really a lame excuse to dig the tree up and the real reason was a repudiation of Obama in general.

And what about that sharpie limo driver who didn´t know the car took diesel? Did he miss this in training sessions or has a new level of incompetency hit these people.

Since the tree has to be quarantined for six months to make sure it is disease free and Obama touched the tree he should be quarantined for six months as well.

It´s usually a big deal to move botanical specimens across national borders, possible invasive species and all. We have quite a few locally, including ailanthus altissima fraudulently call the "Tree of Heaven" and imported from China, late 18th cent.

But obama knows best. He is a world class genius, ya know.

Sort of like Arafat.

His shovel-gripping prowess is certainly, shall we say, ladylike.

Now we can look for Obama to return the bust of Ben-Gurion.

What a putz!

Mr. Brilliant´s administration is already a blight on the United States; now he wants to export it to Israel!

Low Info Chauffeur?

Maybe all the competent drives no longer work fpr the president.

It could definitely be a islamic trojan horse.

Maybe I´ve seen too many movies, but I don´t buy the takes-diesel story. Not even an entry level Secret Service agent would not know what fuel to put in the Prezzie´s main limo.

Something else was going on and this fuel mixup nonsense is the cover story. I´m guessing some kind of sabotage or plot found out.

As for the tree, what a stupid thing to do. We all love trees and the symbolism of a living, growing thing - but, really? A tree native to the American Deep South, from Mr. Racism?

I suspect he´s delivering a message, more than a tree. Monkeys and pigs, perhaps?

What ´´gift´´ did he take to Ramallah? (A: Himself! badabing!)

Trojan horse was my first thought, too. I´d damn well check it, considering all the intentional damage inflicted by this guy.

His visit to Israel seems phony on so many levels.

In the U.S. the diesel nozzle is a different the size from the gasoline nozzle, as well as the filler holes on the vehicle. This was done to alert the fool that they are using the wrong fuel. I do not know if this standard is the same in Israel.

It looks like Peres had to show zippy how to use a shovel.

What goes around comes around!

All I can say is ignoramus !

600 people? Who in the heck would they be? I´m guessing we are paying for their flights, hotels, per diem, etc. As for the tree, burn it. I´m willing to bet it has lots of pests. Obama never gives a good gift with a free heart.

Just read this ´Breaking News´ on the Jerusalem Post site: Ministry: Obama´s tree gift to Peres will not be uprooted ~~

http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Ministry-Obamas-tree-gift-to-Peres-will-not-be-uprooted-307249

A Magnolia Tree is a good choice to offer to Israel given the temperature ranges. However, the fact that the POTUS crew did not consider customs clearance and send the tree over in July of 2012 is just pathetic. As for the fuel story, I don´t buy it. Unless you are going to tell me that the White House fired all the drivers from the Secret Service and replaced them with temporary staff from Manpower, this just doesn´t pass the giggle test. Even if the nozzle sizes were the same, diesel has a different smell. The fact that diesel has a higher vapor pressure means that it doesn´t evaporate off the nozzel, consequently it attracts dust making everything look a little dirty. No, something else is afoot here.

Bet there will be hell to pay for gumming up The Beast´s engine.

At least he´s holding the correct end of the shovel but I´ve certainly never seen one held quite that way before.

I don´t buy the diesel fuel story. I think it was a message to B0 that he can be gotten to.

Don´t most newer diesel vehicles have a sticker somewhere near where the nozzle fits saying diesel only?

And don´t they take 2 limos for the president on these trips so they have an emergency backup for things like this?

Somewhere, among the 600 people on this roadshow, there has to be at least one functioning brain.

Incompetence at the top will eventually spread down to all levels. I can’t buy the fuel story either. If the limo buns diesel, why wouldn’t it be fueled up from the git-go? It’s unloaded off the plane and first thing they have to do is re-fuel it? From what? From where. From a local source? Doesn’t make any sense!

Oh this is toooooo delicious!!

Pest or no pest -- it´s still a great symbol for the Israeli people.

You can take your tree and sh@ve it.....

I love it!!

LZK

Just another example of Emperor Zippy´s foreign policy ineptitude. First it was the "Reset" button with Russia, then it was insulting the Dali Lama and Netenyahu at the White House, then all the bowing to foreign dictators and kings, then Benghazi. This one it a twofer. The limo doens´t work and the tree gets uprooted. Our State Department is being run by gross incompetents.

This gaggle of third grade incomptents that attend to the ´Boy King´ are something to behold. Who taught these idiots protocal? Oh no one that´s why the stupid screw ups.

Barry the Boy King gives the Queen an I-pod with his telepromter speeches that doesn´t work on UK power. Lucky Queen and stupid Barry.

Now the ´black panther´ driver of the limo puts gasoling in a desiel car. Put a sticker on the inside of the fuel window ´Diesel Only You Stupid Idiot´.

So Barry the Boy King thinks the simplest easist way to cheap out on a gift is a tree.
An edible arrangement might have been a better choice. It seem Barry skills with that shovel should tell you he didn´t confer with his illegal alien Mexican gardener before the trip.

Next time Barry just give a Hallmark card with a bookmark in it.
This is what happens when a low IQ illiterate who runs with like minded illiterates cruises the world acting like a King.

You can´t even transport some plants across borders in the United States for pete´s sake.

These dumb freakers embarass me every time they leave America. Or actually when they stay home also.

Wrong fuel
Trees
Beast on bump
CD to Queen

What else????

and I thought Larry Curly and Moe had retired.

Looks as if poster #2 seeks a utopian racial "purity."

Lots of posters far more esteemed than I have also abandoned posting on this once-great site because of blatant racism, as crickets chirp inside the editor´s room.

Thanks to the aptly-named #2 and others....

He has obviously never used a shovel in his life. There is a scary picture of his wife with a shovel on the internet. She looks like she could kill someone with it.

The Beast story can´t be true. Everyplace the president goes, they take fuel for AF1 and the other vehicles as a security measure. They are not going to drive up to the nearest gas station and "fill ´er up".
Somebody needs to do some invetigation journalism on this story. Oh, how stupid of me to think that would ever happen.

#30
Photos plastered all over Israeli media of Obama giving his teleprompter speech directly under a giant Arafat sign. As Caroline Glick said, most Israelis have no idea why he is there.

Something is fishy about the gas/diesel story. We may get the real truth after he´s out of the country.

Can the secret service get anything right anymore? Did Obama appoint these guys? They don´t know whether his vehicle uses gas or diesel? "It pays for the secret service to be prepared for such situations" - secret service nincompoot. Really?

I know exactly what you mean,#2. I got distracted reading about the trampy Canadian comedian.

Good analysis #15. This visit is like two country club members who despise each other jockeying back and forth in a cold war. There probably is something secrete & symbolic in Obama giving that variety of tree, there is always some kind of mind game/inference to most everything he does. [That potential modus reminds of how after the Germans invaded Paris in WWII, they found and dragged out an old railway car where the armistice ending WWI was signed as an in your face "take that" measure and obewon is no different.]

Ahhhh the presidential limosine bwoke down: Obama might have to walk. Hope he doesn´t collapse from all that work and shoveling a spoon full of dirt. He looks pretty brittle/frail. What kind of people does he hire who don´t even know what kind of engine his limo has? ha ha ha ha. Obama has the same problem-he´s putting the wrong "gas" into the economy as in oppressive taxes a la ACA and the 2013 payroll tax hike, EPA regulation, etc.

#32, Really?? Name one, just one. Also #2 has been around a long time and has never offended me. Lighten up.

Obama demonstrating his expertise at shoveling organic matter.

Has Reid blamed these latest screw-ups on the sequester and Republicans yet? They probably had to "sequester" their "competent" (an oxymoron, I know) staff who would know the difference between gasoline and diesel.

Like others, I simply don´t believe a single word about putting gasoline in a diesel engined vehicle. Like said before, AF 1 has it´s fuel tested before any flight and put under armed guard. The same is done with "The Beast". All of this is under the guise of security for the president. And I´m not going to believe that the fuel tank is drained prior to transporting it in an airplane. The military transports fully fueld vehicles all the time. And as small a Israel is, you cound drive around it many times on a single tank of fuel. Something here smells to high heaven.

The Israelis should wait until Obama leaves the country and then burn the tree. As far as the "beast" story goes, I think Obama and his entourage remind me more of the Three Stooges every day. How come Obama can afford to take along an entourage of
600 people to Israel, but can´t afford to keep the White House tours for American citizens? This whole trip is sickening on so many levels. Obama is a Schlemiel.

The regime has created exactly one shovel ready job and they screwed that up!

Ha-ha #1.

Aside from the tree´s health prior to arrival in Israel, it wouldn´t live long the way it was planted, which was TOO deep.

There´s a bizarre quality about the entire visit, from before AF1 took off from the USA.

#32, Whaddup?

So what crimes did he commit by smuggling the tree into Israel? If he did that here it would be a serious crime. I wonder who dug the hole because that is above Obama´s pay grade.

I thought that I would never see

Such mass confusion from a tree.