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 ...
Bubba Clinton could loan Obama the bus from his relection tour.
Article a while back said SS had acquired two buses and yes they are fitted out similar to the Beast. Buy your eggs now; they need some time to cure before they are thrown.
Just how many jobs will be created or saved by this 72 hour extravaganza?
“His focus is on jobs.”
Driving a bus is now considered a “Green Job!”
The SS has already bought two armored buses for this campaign trip.
The tour later this month will be run by the White House, not Obama’s re-election campaign, a White House official said.
Like they are two different entities? LOL
Maybe it runs on evil french fry grease? Ingenious!
how much are those buses costing the taxpayer?
Given the high level of security this idiot requires, I hope that bus causes traffic jams everywhere it goes. That should piss off more voters and that’s a good thing.
Every comment and question about the bus should call it the president’s campaign bus. Example: How many miles per gallon does the president’s campaign bus get? And then laugh hysterically if anyone claims that it isn’t a campaign bus.
It’s gonna piss off voters that he’s out campaigning instead of doing his job.
Since they claim this isn’t a political tour, does that mean they can’t screen out all of the tea party patriots from attending the town halls (I assume there will be townhalls) like they did in the past?
Unless there is a Baskin Robbins on the bus, there is no way this guy is going to spend three days rolling thru the countryside where the “Hills Have Eyes”. No way.
How exactly does rolling accross expansive red-state land for three days in a bus convert to creating jobs? I mean unless that is you empty bus toilets for a living.?
This needs to be investigated. If one syllable aboout his 2012 campaign comes out while on the bus, his campaign ought to be responsible for the costs. Simple as that.
I sure do wish Hunter S. Thompson was still around for this one!
Can't wait to see the campaign stops they will show us. Hand-selected crowds of glassy-eyed worshipers, with the camera lens zoomed in real close, so you can't see the size of the crowd.
-PJ
The first lady’s bus will be calleed the “Millenium Greyhound”
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