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Obama traveling Midwest on new $1.1 million bus
Associated Press ^ | Monday, August 15, 2011 5:01 PM EDT

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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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bus; campaign; obama; obama2012; obamabustour; secretservice; tour
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The oversized, reinforced tires and other equipment needed to roll over all the folks to be thrown under it have gotta be pricey.
1 posted on 08/15/2011 3:19:21 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
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To: Hunton Peck
Short Bus One.

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2 posted on 08/15/2011 3:21:38 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin)
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To: Hunton Peck; maggief; Roscoe Karns; NautiNurse

3 posted on 08/15/2011 3:21:45 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Hunton Peck

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.


4 posted on 08/15/2011 3:22:00 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Hunton Peck

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.


5 posted on 08/15/2011 3:22:15 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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. . . would be used for other dignitaries in the future.

I'm trying to imagine which "other dignitaries" would want to undertake a campaign trip by bus.

6 posted on 08/15/2011 3:22:54 PM PDT by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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To: quantim

the teleprompter is a nice touch.


7 posted on 08/15/2011 3:23:37 PM PDT by KC Burke
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To: quantim

I see a dog(that is a dog right) in the picture ,but where’s the pony ?


8 posted on 08/15/2011 3:24:07 PM PDT by molson209
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To: madprof98

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.


9 posted on 08/15/2011 3:26:00 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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Ah... nothing says how much you care about the little people like cruising into down on an all-black, tinted windows, mobile mechanical behemoth of a BUS?

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.

10 posted on 08/15/2011 3:26:37 PM PDT by Ronin (Obamanation has replaced Bizarroworld as the most twisted place in the universe.)
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To: Hunton Peck

The ultimate Pimp-mobile.


11 posted on 08/15/2011 3:27:03 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: molson209

That is a groundhog, I believe.


12 posted on 08/15/2011 3:27:22 PM PDT by Argus
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To: Hunton Peck

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!


13 posted on 08/15/2011 3:29:01 PM PDT by presently no screen name ( BHO....the destroyer)
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... not an american flag in sight, i take it.


14 posted on 08/15/2011 3:29:30 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: Hunton Peck

Obama has AF 1, Marine 1 and now Downgrade 1.


15 posted on 08/15/2011 3:29:37 PM PDT by engrpat (A village in Kenya is missing their idiot...lets send him back)
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16 posted on 08/15/2011 3:29:55 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: KC Burke

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.


17 posted on 08/15/2011 3:30:07 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: Dilbert San Diego

At significantly less than 54 (narcissistic) miles per gallon, it looks like something Darth Vader would use!


18 posted on 08/15/2011 3:31:45 PM PDT by reg45
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To: Hunton Peck

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.


19 posted on 08/15/2011 3:32:43 PM PDT by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
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Ed Donovan emphasized that the bus wasn't purchased solely for the president and would be used for other dignitaries in the future.

Somebody else may want to travel by bus with flashing lights across the country...but it sure won't be any dignitary.

20 posted on 08/15/2011 3:32:43 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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