Posted on 08/30/2011 9:55:40 AM PDT by Hunton Peck
President Obama has been touring all over the midwest these past few weeks, giving speeches to crowds of fans, anxious to hear what’s next on his agenda. One could be forgiven for believing that these are less about pushing the president’s current agenda, and more about launching the reelection campaign, however this is a charge that the administration adamantly denies.
But there is a very simple reason that this is viewed as more of a campaign effort. Boasting bulletproof windows, five inch thick doors, and it’s own oxygen supply, the President has made the rounds for these speeches in a multi-million dollar bus, dubbed “The Beast” by it’s critics. There’s been no shortage of opinions from people and pundits on this bus and how having the President tour around the midwest in a caravan of cars and seated on a tour bus sends the message that he is on the campaign trail and using taxpayer dollars to do it.
It appears however, that this might not be the case. According to some sources he hasn’t really been riding these buses much at all. They say, he’s been flying them.
Apparently President Obama only rode the buses for a couple of miles at a time, spending the rest of the time flying from community to community in Air Force One. What’s more, the buses were flown from stop to stop as well. It’s normal practice for the President’s entire motorcade to be loaded up on cargo planes and flown from destination to destination. The buses were just a new part of that motorcade.
But why wouldn’t the presidential limousine have sufficed? Or one of the other armored vehicles that routinely travel with the President? Apparently because the President wanted the imagery of a bus. And buses are what he got.
So good news America! If these reports are true, then not only do you get the pleasure of having a $1.1 million dollar bus carting the President around to “enlist” voters to fight for his reelection, but you get to marvel at the hypocrisy of an administration hell bent on destroying industries with carbon footprints too large for comfort, while they themselves are flying entire caravans of SUVs and buses in giant 747s flanked by fighter jets.
All so the president can travel a couple of miles per stop with the image that he’s on the ground with the people when in reality, he couldn’t be more detached from them, their problems, or this continually declining economy. You couldn’t ask for a better metaphor.
Obama does not care. Anything he can do to destroy the country from within should not surprise anyone. The man is doing the devil’s work.
Everything about Democrats and leftists, their entire program, is imagery and impression - with no reality involved whatsoever. That is why they make problems worse while the media constantly trumpets “jobs and recovery” right around the corner. The media is everything to them...that’s one reason (just one) that the media loves them so deeply...when Democrats rule, the media is the most important thing in the universe, for the purpose of creating imagery, which is the entire program for the left.
A Potemkin Puppet
Perfect! LOL
Don’t forget NObama’s photo op at Dover where the caskets WERE NOT!!!! And he was explicitly requested by the families NOT to go there.
All Hat——No Cattle
“Rolling Blunder” isn’t original with me. I don’t know which FReeper coined it, but I think it’s great.
>>> And he was explicitly requested by the families NOT to go there.
I thought I read the families requested “absolutely” no photograghers present, but Obama brought his own WH photographer anyway.
I didn’t know the families specifically requested that Obama not go there.
In America, we have a Potemkin President -- he's fake, but the people can look at him. The media says, "Look! Your leader! Your leader cares! He is just like you!"
All in an attempt to keep up with Sarah Palin. lol
Obamah's Flying Bus Tour!
Just want to see a picture of the buses being loaded on a *heavy lifter*, there should be one somewhere.
I think that would drop his pole numbers by another 10%......at least.
Does this constitute a “wag the bus” moment?
The king must have his way. Obama is the worst thing to happen to freedom.
-22Bama is apparently showing Economic Genius here! Don't you see... he bought two of these buses to do bus activity with tax dollars. If you do the appropriate fiscal multiplier math, you'll see that this generates $4.048 million dollars of bus GDP, with the equivalent of 3.68 buses.
Note: Uses the $1 to $1.84 Keynesian multiplier
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