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President Obama Heads to Disney World to Talk Tourism Jobs (WOW! Obama's big jobs plan. /sarc)
abc ^ | 1/19/2012 | Jake Tapper and Mary Bruce

Posted on 01/19/2012 4:49:11 AM PST by tobyhill

Standing in front of Cindarella Castle at Walt Disney World this afternoon, President Obama will call for a national strategy to make the United States the world’s No. 1 travel and tourism destination.

It may be a small world, but tourism is big bucks. International tourists spent an estimated $140 billion in the U.S. last year. (Full disclosure: Disney is the parent company of ABC News.)

Whether they come here to Disney World to meet Mickey and Minnie Mouse — or elsewhere — tourists from emerging economies such as China, India and Brazil are their own mini stimulus packages — dropping up to $6,000 per tourist.

But for the past decade they’ve been increasingly spending that money elsewhere, as the U.S. share of global tourism plummeted from 17 percent to 11 percent. This is largely because of post-9/11 security proecedures that have made getting a visa an ardous ordeal. One Brazilian tourist we met at Disney World told us it took her three months to get an appointment to apply for her tourist visa.

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To: Eye of Unk
WDW park cast member’s are saying, that the Sleeping Beauty castle is chock full of snipers

That's just plain creepy. What is the point of making yet another telepromptered speech in a place like WDW? Why disrupt the vacations of families visiting there? Everything is does is calculated with evil intentions. It's going to be nothing more than another bogus smear campaign against the republicans. Anything to get a sound byte on the evening news.

41 posted on 01/19/2012 6:09:16 AM PST by jersey117 (Perry 2012)
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To: jersey117

Sorry if I called the castle by its wrong name.


42 posted on 01/19/2012 6:14:17 AM PST by Eye of Unk (Liberals need not reply.)
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To: tobyhill

Why of course... it’s a Goofy Mickey Mouse Plan. Sorry it was just begging to be said.


43 posted on 01/19/2012 6:15:14 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Matchett-PI

Nice graphics!


44 posted on 01/19/2012 6:32:44 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04
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To: tobyhill

The Mickey Mouse President finally went Home. . . . . And Took Goofy with him. (MOOShell)


45 posted on 01/19/2012 6:34:03 AM PST by DeaconRed (Cold War Veteran. . . . US Army Security Agency 1964-1968)
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To: DownInFlames

Exactly!


46 posted on 01/19/2012 6:37:40 AM PST by 556x45
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To: tobyhill

He’s there to get Mickey & Minnie, Donald, Huey, Dewey, Louie, Cinderella, Alice, Perdita, Belle, Goosey Loosey, Scrooge McDuck, Nemo, Ariel, Goofy, Pluto, and Simba registered to vote Dem.

Whoa, silly me. They are already registered Dem in every district in the country.


47 posted on 01/19/2012 6:58:16 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ronnie raygun

“Looking for votes in cartoon land.”

What should a cartoon do?


48 posted on 01/19/2012 7:13:42 AM PST by gnickgnack2 (QUESTION obama's AUTHORITY)
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To: tobyhill
Peanuts Carter got advice from Amy.

Zippo gets advice from Micky Mouse.

What's the difference?

49 posted on 01/19/2012 7:22:57 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: Matchett-PI

LOL...


50 posted on 01/19/2012 7:34:36 AM PST by surfer (To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
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To: Eye of Unk

And I’m most interested in what they may say about the possibility of MORE BRAZILIANS.

Oh joy! More packs of hundreds, line busting and constantly singing like freaks. /s

Hey Brazil! Open your own theme park and ruin everyone’s time there at home.

(Though their dames are stoking hot, so they got that going for them.)


51 posted on 01/19/2012 7:41:42 AM PST by PfromHoGro (RINOs give Rhino a bad name, & Oil = Recycled Solar Power)
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To: tobyhill
I thought he was coming up here to disrupt NYC traffic today.

ML/NJ

52 posted on 01/19/2012 7:56:58 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: tobyhill
So the Won goes to Disney World and proceeds to shut down a huge portion of the parking garage for his entourage, then closes Main Street and a certain amount of feet beyond for security, then the extra magic hours are cancelled, then the entrance and parking garages will need to be cleared for the Won to be escorted back to his vehicles again. And, what do you want to bet that his little tourism speech will take place at noon, one of the busiest hours of the Park? Glad I won't be there to pay full price and get half the time.
53 posted on 01/19/2012 8:30:15 AM PST by Xyz22 (Snakebit again)
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To: Joe Brower

Going for the easy button again. Tourism is not America’s big problem. It’s OBAMA. He will say something very basic and the believers will eat it up.


54 posted on 01/19/2012 9:04:17 AM PST by floriduh voter ( Obamacare is to you as a can of RAID is to a bug. R A I D !)
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To: tobyhill; windcliff

Will he say the jobs are in the pipeline? Will he make his speech from Fantasyland? Will he march in the parade as one of the 7 dwarves?


55 posted on 01/19/2012 12:35:15 PM PST by I Drive Too Fast
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To: tobyhill

Well! Obama is the biggest Fairy of all! And an Arch Enemy of America!
Maybe Disney will hire him to be the Fairy in Chief on Nov. 5, 2012?


56 posted on 01/19/2012 4:14:19 PM PST by True Republican Patriot (May GOD SAVE OUR AMERICA from ALLAH and his Prophet, HUSSEIN OBAMA!!)
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To: Joe Brower
It says Getty images but here's an unlucky batch of 13 obummer photos at the Magic Kingdom - probably worse than gay days for the unlucky visitors today (yesterday) ...

13 Photos Of Barack Obama ...

57 posted on 01/19/2012 9:57:13 PM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Joe Brower
The Orlando NBC TV affilliate ran that very image “...of Obamabi standing in front of the FantasyLand castle”...

It was surprising to also see 0bummer telling his little joke about being glad to be at Disneyworld where “Mickey's ears are bigger than mine”.

58 posted on 01/20/2012 5:12:17 AM PST by shove_it (just undo it)
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To: Joe Brower
Trying again ... I normally preview the link but must not have this time ... sorry ... luckily it wasn't a page3.com link! ;-)

13 Photos Of Barack Obama At Disney That Will Probably Turn Up In Attack Ads

59 posted on 01/20/2012 9:05:19 PM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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