Posted on 08/15/2011 3:19:17 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is traveling the Midwest on a new $1.1 million bus purchased by the Secret Service, an impenetrable-looking conveyance the size of a cross-country Greyhound, painted all in black, with dark tinted windows and flashing red and blue lights.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan emphasized that the bus wasn't purchased solely for the president and would be used for other dignitaries in the future.
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I want to know the carbon footprint of that bus.
I want to know the carbon footprint of all the secret service and other presidential hangers-on who go on trips like this.
And, I want to know if the White House has bought their carbon credits for this trip.
Lie in the very first sentence. The Secret Service didn’t purchase the bus—taxpayers did. Unless the agents shelled out a million plus from their own wallets/paychecks, anyway. Which I highly doubt.
I'm trying to imagine which "other dignitaries" would want to undertake a campaign trip by bus.
the teleprompter is a nice touch.
I see a dog(that is a dog right) in the picture ,but where’s the pony ?
I’m trying to imagine which “other dignitaries” would want to undertake a campaign trip by bus.
Well, let’s say there’s no large airport to land the 747 known as Air Force One, so take the big armored Greyhound Bus around those areas, at least that’s theoretically speaking, but let’s see what happens.
Either way, I doubt making that bus produced all that many lasting jobs.
Dang! I shouldn't complain because anything that makes Obama look bad is fine with me, but whoever came up with this thing should be fired.
Almost any color would have been better than all black, with its sinister and gloomy connotations. This thing is the "Death Star" of buses.
All we need to do is get some people out there with Darth Vader suits and maybe some of those Imperial Stormtrooper costumes.
The jokes will write themselves.
The ultimate Pimp-mobile.
That is a groundhog, I believe.
He has full access to America through the media whenever he wants - this is totally unnecessary and we are paying for this.
Barry, the usurper following the leader, Sarah!
... not an american flag in sight, i take it.
Obama has AF 1, Marine 1 and now Downgrade 1.
Yeah, he looks like the regular “folks” as he loves to say in that stupid bus. Hopefully protesters will line the streets when he shows up. BO and the Moose love their bling.
At significantly less than 54 (narcissistic) miles per gallon, it looks like something Darth Vader would use!
That right there is bullet point in a debate about spending. They don’t get it, and never will. They will keep on spending till we’re all eating dandelions out of our yards. This is an expense entirely for campaign purposes that no prior president ever had. A million bucks toast. That’s 20 years of labor to the average person in this country, so fathead can campaign.
Somebody else may want to travel by bus with flashing lights across the country...but it sure won't be any dignitary.
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