Someone's Not Doing Their Job:

As you can see, someone on Mr Obama's staff didn't do their job and, as a result, our Mr Obama got egg on his face in Ireland, leaving the US Embassy.

Anyone with a good background of 4 X 4'ing knows this is called a "high center," and in the instance here it results from the wheelbase of Mr Obama's limousine (as I documented here) being overly long and its chassis height too short -- for the approach angle, departure angle and height of that concrete rise.

Looking at the wheelbase of the ObamaMobiles (the lead vehicle does not contain Mr Obama) and the peak of that exit rise, someone with a practiced eye could readily have observed that the length and angles would be incompatible.

This video tells me two very, very important things:

1. The USSS failed to do adequate prep in terms of the routes to and from the Embassy;

2. The USSS failed miserably in their response when the vehicle stopped

Had this event occurred on other soil, that is to say, an overtly hostile or moderately hostile or questionable country, this would have been an Epic Fail for the USSS on the above points and placed their principal, Mr Obama, in grave jeopardy. You did note, did you not, the inordinately long amount of time it took agents to even open their doors to examine the situation, and the fact they placed no immediate defensive measures around their charge?

This is poor planning and lazy execution.

Something is going on. This is not customary for the United States Secret Service.

BZ