Well, I can agree that Obama isn't above criticism. But if this is all you can criticize him for, you're about to fall over from all that reaching.
As for the controversy over your estimate, you more or less brought that on yourself by pulling numbers out of your keister. If you had just said "that looks expensive," then we could maybe have agreed. But instead you made up an outlandish number with very little prospect of even being close. You made matters worse by using the passive voice, describing the cost as being "estimated at 1-2 million"--which makes it sound like the "estimate" had some sort of official imprimatur, when in fact you were making it up. If you had said "I would estimate the cost at 1-2 million," that might also have been less controversial, though you would still probably have been wrong.
Out of curiosity, do you think it cost 1-2 million dollars to send Bush to the Olympics? I'm guessing it didn't.
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