Washington Examiner: Plane cost alone $6 million bill for Obama's Africa trip, $22,759 for copiers, $6,026 for 'basic voice phones' - "$206,337 an hour to fly Air Force One" - "Clinton once took over 500 staffers with him on a trip to China, but those costs were never made public."

$6 million bill for Obama's Africa trip, $22,759 for copiers, $6,026 for 'basic voice phones'

President Obama's five-day tour of Kenya and Ethiopia cost taxpayers $5.99 million in airfare alone and ties him for the most traveled president with Bill Clinton, according to a new National Taxpayers Union Foundation analysis.

The report -- "Still Up in the Air: The Uncertain Costs of Presidential Travel Abroad" -- provided to Secrets shows that Obama and Clinton made 41 international trips by their seventh year as president. France and Mexico have been Obama's top destinations, with five visits each -- one more than his four visits to the troops in Afghanistan.

The taxpayer watchdog group determined that Obama's trip from Joint Base Andrews to Nairobi, Kenya, then to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia then home today has a total flight time of 29 hours.

President Obama in Ethiopia. AP Photo

The Air Force recently told Judicial Watch that it cost $206,337 an hour to fly Air Force One, putting the price just for Obama's jet at $5,983,773, said NTUF. ...

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