Cadillac One, aka 'the Beast', became stuck on the apex of the exit ramp at the American Embassy in Ballsbridge, Dublin for nearly three hours before a team with two recovery trucks came to the rescue. Secret Service men were left scratching their sharply coiffured heads after one of the gleaming black Cadillacs became wedged on the steel ramp at lunchtime. It was all too much for the R2.1-million vehicle, which, with its reinforced steel plating, is built to withstand bullets, chemical attack and a missile strike. Onlookers craned their necks to see who might emerge from the damaged Cadillac One, known informally as 'the Beast'. The Secret Servicemen may also have been waiting with bated breath as even they are never told which of the three cars the president is using. But eyewitness Euan Plenderleiph, manager of the Herbert Park Hotel, said that Barack Obama was travelling behind the ill-fated car. The presidential vehicle then had to reverse around the US embassy and use an alternative exit in order to get him to Moneygall on time for his creamy pint. "It came up the ramp and there was a loud noise. It dropped in front and the wheels became raised off the ground," Mr Plenderleiph said. "There was a big cheer from the crowd. They reversed the car back around and turned. He was smiling and laughing in the car and the crowd were cheering him. He was definitely in the second car. It looked more like security personnel in the first." Paul Crowley, who works near the embassy <b>...</b>Author: skaiste2007
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Obama's ''Beast'' Cadillac Limo stuck on ramp/speed bump
2 angles of the US Presidential, bullet and bomb proof, motorcade aka "The Beast" haulted by a ramp while attempting to leave the US embassy in Dublin, Ireland. video clips used under US fair use
Barack Obama's cavalcade car caused some drama when it got stuck emerging from the gates of the US embassy in Dublin. The low bottom of the car, nicknamed 'the beast' because of its bomb-proof features, seemed to catch on a ramp crossing over the gateway. It is not clear if Mr Obama was in the car involved as security officials blocked the view of the incident. The US President and First Lady then left by another exit.
Obama in Ireland to reaffirm 'bonds of affection' President to visit family's ancestral home before traveling to Britain, France and Poland. DUBLIN — Beaming before an exultant sea of people, President Barack Obama on Monday reveled in his distant Irish ancestry, offering spirited thanks from tens of millions of Americans who trace their own connections to Ireland. With his wife, Michelle, at his side, the president said: "We feel very much at home." In a speech devoted as much to personal pride than overt politics, Obama told many thousands gathered in central Dublin that he had come to reaffirm the bonds of affection between the United States and Ireland. "There's always been a little green behind the red, white and blue," he said to cheers. 'I've come home to find the apostrophe' Obama spoke in central Dublin shortly after he had downed a pint of Guinness in tiny Moneygall, the small Irish village where his great-great-great grandfather once lived and worked as a shoemaker. It was an improbable and memorable pilgrimage for America's first black president into his Irish past, and Obama soaked it in. "My name is Barack Obama, of the Moneygall Obamas," the president said. Then, playing off the popular Irish spelling of surnames — O'Bama — the president said, "I've come home to find the apostrophe that we lost somewhere along the way." The president struck a more serious tone in marking the adversity of Ireland's history and current times, celebrating a country that shares <b>...</b>
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Barack Obama drinks a pint of the black stuff guinness in his home town of moneygal ireland befor his speech in college green dublin
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