[DoughtyOne]

Obama who? This guy is even less than John Kerry, and he's worthless.

[SquirrelKing]

Osamaobamaosamabama.

[Griptilian]

Obama blasts Bush Amtrak plan

So what.



.....Bush White House is simply opposed to federal subsidies for rail systems.

What's the problem here?

[Paleo Conservative]

Ideologically, Obama says, the Bush White House is simply opposed to federal subsidies for rail systems.

Sounds good to me.

[cubreporter]

Who cares???????

[freddiedavis]

bush can ask for 80 billion dollars to fight the terrorists in iraq and afghanistan but not one dime to fight rush hour terrorists (traffic)...

[papasmurf]

Oh, bite me, Osama-bama. Rail is the most ineffecient, and polluting, mode of transport on the planet. Even the Afghans know that. (source: U.S. Department of Transportation; Journal of Transportation and Statistics)

Think MagLev. Clean, quiet, extremely high efficiency, non-polluting, less footprint, able to leap tall buildings (and hills) in a single, quiet bound.

:O)

P

[antiUNcitizen]

"Ideologically, Obama says, the Bush White House is simply opposed to federal subsidies for rail systems."

Nothing like stating the obvious, and perhaps the Bush Administration is seeing something he doesn't?

Might Amtrack not be a profitable organization?

[ken21]

the democrats are NOT concerned about our dependence on foreign oil.

if they were, they'd not attack american oil and gas development, and they'd support the bush administration's policies in the mideast and caspian sea areas.

[grand old partier]

why should the government have to subsidise a company that has no competitors outside this country...and has plenty of money as it is

[BigSkyFreeper]

Trains that go nowhere should be done away with. I couldn't care less if the hub happens to be in Obama's back yard.

[thepatriot1]

Weren't they calling this guy 'the Messiah' at the DNC - like he alone is going to save them from their biannual buttkicking - what a bunch of sheep

[Gumption]

I don't see any "blasting" in the article.

[Darkwolf377]

I'm thinking back to those who wagged their fingers at me for saying Obama was just another leftydem, and I'm smiling.

[mickie]

He finally found something to 'hang his hat on'.

What a fraud. Calls himself African when he was raised by his white mother after his father fled back to Africa.
But when it became convenient he decided to be black, to further his political career.

[WmDonovan]

The Amtrak cuts, as I understand them, would be the cross country scenic / tourist routes. These routes are tax payer sponsored vacations for those with plenty of money and vacation time. I'm a rail fan, and ride privately owned and operated excursion trains when ever I can, but I would be embarrassed to ask a hard working person to fork over money for my hobby.

Someone give Obama a parka and tell him to scope out the Alaskan waste land. One could actually, you know, get some oil out of it while providing high paying jobs in the process. What does sending middle aged tourists from point no where to point no where on a locomotive have to do with national energy policy?

[VeniVidiVici]

Wow. So that was an Obama-Blast. I'd hate to see him when he was really angry.

[Nick Danger]

So how many times has Senator Osamabama ridden Amtrak between Washington and his home in Chicago?

[Fast1]

What the hell has this POS ever done??

[Muleteam1]

I like the way the "8" is leaning.

Muleteam1