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.
And the sheeple never failed to question...why the He** the president, who is supposed to be such a great communicator...would need to tour at all to inform Americans about his agenda. He gets all the free air time he wants from the media. Why all the cost and all the special arrangements to have him "tour" only a few spots (weren't there just three?) in the U.S. It was a totally unnecessary expenditure.
I remember, in the beginning when this farce of a tour was announced, the release from the WH said that it was so Obama could listen to and talk with people about the job situation. But at every of his stops that I saw covered, all he did was give a campaign type speech, and take a few questions, and he was off again. Hardly did it seem he took any time to really get into an in-depth discussion with and to understand the plight of the Americans who are without jobs.
And, at those locations the crowds were ardent Obama supporters who would cheer him even if they actually saw him committing a criminal act. He has been kept out of touch with anyone who is not infatuated with him. His staffers and string-pullers know not to let him anywhere near people who might challenge him seriously, or injure his frail, narcissistic emotional balance.
Our emotionally dysfunctional president is being protected from hearing the real truth, and from any chance that people will see how incompetent and off-balance he really is. The media, his handlers, and Dems are all covering up for the one sick puppy in the WH while our country is bleeding and suffering in pain from his "bite."
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I’ve typed “it’s” a few times in error.
Still, nothing screams “amateur” like misspellings.
I can’t imagine that those buses would fit into anything but a C5A, the most expensive transport airplane in the country.
If the busses were not airlifted they would never have arrived at the locations the same time as Obama, since, according to the article, he flew to each city on AF One. I am sure he did not sleep over at a Super 8 to wait for the busses to be driven the miles in between stops and catch up to him at each destination.
To be more accurate, the aircraft being used to transport this armored fleet of cars, vans and buses is composed of military C-5A and C-17 aircraft. The kind designed to transport tanks.
Technically speaking, it’s not a misspelling, but a punctuation error.
Friend of mine just sent me another account of this from a different source. This explains why all the reportage you got about this was the initial one of reporting on the buses themselves, carefully attaching the palliative that these ultraexpensive buses were not fabricated just at Obama’s behest and for his use, but were Secret Service necessities. Notice how there was NO coverage involving any reporters following around the bus as they wound their way up and down the Highways of America.
Our side won't forget - and the dems never heard of it because the MSM wasn't fed the story by their elite handlers.
Obama is SOOOOOOOOO OVER~
Obama is SOOOOOOO 2008-——
“The Beast” was the secret service name for the Presidential Limo, I don’t recall the bus being referred to with that title.
Heck, if you want spelling errors, look at my post #14, I meant poll instead of pole..........Big deal!
..................he bought two of these buses to do bus activity with tax dollars.........................
And he saved or created 15,000 Canadian Jobs
..................he bought two of these buses to do bus activity with tax dollars.........................
And he saved or created 15,000 Canadian Jobs
I thought you were suggesting Ner0’s moonlighting job as a male stripper was in jeopardy!
Dat ho looks like she could kick yo ass up around yo ears.
:^)
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