Posted on 08/05/2011 10:02:55 AM PDT by Zakeet
Somehow, from somewhere, a bright political strategist on the president's reelection team has come up with the idea of sending Obama out in a bus on Midwestern roads in two weeks, just like real Americans, or real Americans who can still afford a short summer road trip.
The spectacle of a passing politician's bus and waving citizens provides grand visuals for TV during the usually slow summer news days. ... Not so good visuals of the trailing motorcade of press buses, Secret Service SUVs, SWAT team vans and communications cars. Nor the angry motorists stalled nearby because the highway and every on- and off-ramp has been closed by uniformed motorcyclists wearing large guns.
But a presidential bus tour could help refresh the image of this poll-plagued Democrat a year before his renomination for POTUS.
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Qn Aug. 15-17 he'll set out from somewhere and go somewhere else in a bus. You wouldn't announce your itinerary until the last minute either if you had Republicans itching to buy critical billboards along the route. And compute how few miles per gallon your big bus gets.
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According to Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney, the 72-hour bus trip is not political. (Laughter) No, really. Carney told doubting reporters this week, "The air of cynicism is quite thick. The idea that the president of the United States should not venture forth into the country is ridiculous. ... It is absolutely important for the president, whoever that person is, in the past and in the future, to get out and hear from the people in different communities."
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Because the bus trip is so clearly presidential, America's taxpayers will be footing the bill for the non-political, three-day Obama odyssey through politically important Midwestern battleground states.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
If any of you Freepers happen to see the Wee Wee Mobile pass by, please remember that you're paying for his junket because its purpose is presidential ... and he wants to hear your opinion!
Looks like Zero is learning a thing or 2 from Sarah Barracuda.......
LOL.
Nice try Zero, but we have your #.
I thought I saw where he’s driving the ‘CHANGE’ bus. And yep, BEND OVER and pay up!
(1) So now the President if copying Sara Palin?
(2) Let him go, it will just give us more opportunites to protest him.
Nothing about Barry is presidential
so taxpayers will eat it
Makes sense. His focus is on jobs. So he is going to ride around in a bus and wave at the common folk.
Just plain dumb. But really... it is no dumber than any other liberal job-creating “plan” when you think about it.
Probably got an armored version of his ‘throw em under the bus’ ride for this soiree...
DHSand SecretService are already sweeping the route clean, I’m sure.
Will be fun to watch how much traffic gets screwed up to accommodate this rolling farce.
He’ll be flown to airports just outside the towns to meet up with the bus for his appearance. He is not riding in a bus for more than ten minutes.
Good. I guess this means he’ll be taking the bus on his next date with Moochelle.
right, so not only will we be paying for the bus tour, we will be paying for the AF1 flights as he catches up with the bus at each stop. As a taxpayer I find this beyond belief and a crime against the country.
Fine. Let us choose the driver (drunken meth-head) and the route (narrow mountainside road).
It would just about impossible to cover every possible threat that an assassin could dream up.
A few guys with RPGs would have no trouble taking out a few busses (naturally there would be more than one bus so assassins would not know which bus the Usurper in Chief was in).
Check NOTAMS of temporary restricted (closed) airspace just before his departure. That will tell you what he's up to.
I DO hope those thieves steal A/C, wire, engine, anything from that clown bus.
Even if I have to pay for it, it would feel good. [Since I can’t wait for his bus stops to pelt him and the bus with tomatoes or rotten cabbage.]
They bought two armored buses for this trip!
Every day I get in the queue (Too much, the Barry Bus)
To get on the bus that taxes me and you (Too much, the Barry Bus)
I’m so screwed, I just sit and smile (Too much, the Barry Bus)
Next debt ceiling is only another mile (Too much, the Barry Bus)
Thank you, Barry , for getting us here (Too much, the Barry Bus)
More EPA inspectors, have no fear (Too much, the Barry Bus)
Teaparty terrorists cause such a fuss (Too much, the Barry Bus)
Can’t affor your Magic Bus? (Too much, the Barry Bus)
Nooooooooo!
He don’t care how much you pay (Too much, the Barry Bus)
He wanna drive his bus to spend each day (Too much, the Barry Bus)
[Barry Bus, Obama’s Bus, Barry Bus
Barry Bus, Barry Bus, Barry’s Bus
Give me a trillion (Barry Bus)
I won’t take a billion (Barry Bus)
Goes like thunder (Barry Bus)
It’s a jobless wonder (Barry Bus)
apologies to the Who
If it’s not up to at least the same specs, defense wise, as The Beast, the SS won’t let him on it for long. If they do beef up a bus, I imagine it will get about 10gpm.
Our tax dollars at work.
Okay, do something with these.
Get up in the morning, get on the bus
Get up in the morning like the rest of us
Places to go, important people to meet
Better not get up or you might lose your seat
(Bus rider)
Leave the house at six o’clock to be on time
Leave the wife and kids at home to make a dime
Grab your lunch pail, check for mail in your slot
You won’t get your cheque if you don’t punch the clock
(Bus rider)
(Bus rider)
Grab the evening paper, and sit down in your chair
Grab yourself a toupee, cause you’re losing your hair
Doesn’t matter what you do, you’ve nothing to lose
I’m so awful goddamn glad I’m not in your shoes
(Bus rider)
(Bus rider)
You know you’ll ride it every single morning today
(Bus rider)
Ride, ride, little man
(Bus rider)
I don’t want to ride, no I don’t want to ride
(Bus rider)
Get up in the morning, get on the bus
(Bus rider)
Oh, little man riding upside down, yeah
(Bus rider)
Mm, no I don’t want to ride
(Bus rider)
Lyrics © BUG MUSIC
KURT WINTER
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