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Secret Service using new $1.1 million buses for Obama Midwest trip (Taxpayer funded campaign buses)
washington post ^
| 8/15/2011
| ap
Posted on 08/15/2011 4:13:59 PM PDT by tobyhill
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 wasnt purchased solely for the president and would be used for other dignitaries in the future. He said the agency has not previously had buses in its fleet and was overdue to get some since its had to protect politicians traveling by bus for decades.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho2012; bustour; ia2012; obama2012; obamabustour; usss
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posted on
08/15/2011 4:14:05 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
This should not be allowed.
2
posted on
08/15/2011 4:17:24 PM PDT
by
TribalPrincess2U
(democRATS—just doing al Qaeda ground work? Obama owns it all now.)
To: tobyhill
This Obama twit thinks he is a rock star. We need to send him back to Chicago next year and make sure he stays there. Keep exposing him for the selfish, arrogant, little man that he is.
To: tobyhill
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posted on
08/15/2011 4:19:27 PM PDT
by
Paperdoll
(NO MORE BUSHS!)
To: TribalPrincess2U
other dignitaries in the futureexcept when Sarah will need it, then the 0media will raise hell.
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posted on
08/15/2011 4:19:39 PM PDT
by
TribalPrincess2U
(democRATS—just doing al Qaeda ground work? Obama owns it all now.)
To: tobyhill
So how'd these buses get out to wherever he went. Did someone drive them out to the midwest, or did we also pay for a special airplane to transport them wherever Obama wants them to be?
ML/NJ
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posted on
08/15/2011 4:19:50 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: tobyhill
Notice no American flag on it, anywhere?
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posted on
08/15/2011 4:20:13 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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posted on
08/15/2011 4:20:49 PM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
To: tobyhill
when is the tactical yacht scheduled for delivery
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posted on
08/15/2011 4:22:13 PM PDT
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: tobyhill
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan emphasized that the bus wasnt purchased solely for the president and would be used for other dignitaries in the future So they are trying to get me to believe this was on the Secret Service shopping list even if he didn't have this bus tour? For dignitaries in the future... yeah sure!
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posted on
08/15/2011 4:23:25 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
To: tobyhill
Right after he got congress to raise the debt limit, Obama then goes on a debt raising deficit tour of the US, which is actually his 2012 presidential camoaign. We are paying for it. We don’t have any say on it. This is his private party funded by us
To: tobyhill
Do those buses fit in a C-17 or do they need a C-5A?
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posted on
08/15/2011 4:23:56 PM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(I'll follow an eloquent Allen West out of hell.)
To: tobyhill
Just to elaborate on these buses: They are also available for the Republican nominee. I would advise, in the strongest terms possible, that they Republican candidate in 2012 not use these buses. Let Obama look like the dark overlord he thinks he is riding around in the Darth Vadar-esque bus.
To: tobyhill
This is BS ,just rent a Circus truck from Ringling Brothers,it would fit this administration much better!
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posted on
08/15/2011 4:26:18 PM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
To: TribalPrincess2U
“This should not be allowed.”
If the Secret Service deems this needed to protect a President; and it will be used in the future; then it's probably ok.
Presidents will always campaign like it or not. Seems silly to send a President out in an unarmored bus. They need to be protected like them or not.
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posted on
08/15/2011 4:27:03 PM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
To: tobyhill
My perception says that a lot of indys and even some Dems are getting p!ssed at Baraq’s regal lifestyle when the US economy has continued to tank.
We should encourage him to keep it up IMHO.
To: NowApproachingMidnight
Infinitely worse than thinking he’s a rock star.
At least a rock star would have to pay for his amenities like a million dollar tour bus with money earned in the marketplace.
Obama’s using OUR money, and throwing it away exactly in the same manner as a tinhorn 3rd World dictator. He’s a “would-be” dictator and America “would be” a 3rd World country if he had his way.He is always busy SHRINKING this country so it finally becomes a perfect fit with him and the role he sees for himself.
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posted on
08/15/2011 4:34:46 PM PDT
by
supremedoctrine
(No need for a tagline, but here it is anyway..........)
To: tobyhill
A million bucks for a bus that will also be used by future non communist non muhammedam Presidents seems like not too bad a deal.
Of course in this climate why the douchebag in chief would even be doing a bus tour on a brand new souped up ghetto bus is incomprehensible, but then this foreign jackass doesn't understand American values and sense of decorum.
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posted on
08/15/2011 4:35:25 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
To: tobyhill
These two Grifters make the Clintons look almost normal.
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posted on
08/15/2011 4:35:42 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(One Trillion seconds = 31,709.79 YEARS / One Trillion dollars = Obama's spending for 3 months)
To: tobyhill
The thing looks like something left over from The Empire Strikes Back. Does it include a Darth Vader helmet?
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posted on
08/15/2011 4:37:06 PM PDT
by
Truth29
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