President Obama will be back on his well-publicized bus this week on a tour of battleground states North Carolina and Virginia. (Jason Reed / Reuters)
Posted on 10/17/2011 8:39:52 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
President Obama climbs back on board his big, black armored bus this week to shore up his popularity in a couple of battleground states and revert to Plan B in his campaign to pass a $447-billion jobs package, focusing on specific elements of the bill that he wants Congress to approve right away.
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In a bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia, Obama will zero in on a part of the jobs plan that would provide $35 billion to states, cities and towns aimed at keeping public employees on the job.
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Obama’s three-day bus tour, which begins Monday, will take him to schools, firehouses and airports in two states that will be fiercely contested by the parties in 2012. ..
It doesn’t seem coincidental that Obama is concentrating on a part of the map that was central to his commanding electoral college victory in 2008.
Obama won North Carolina by the slimmest of margins. Still, he was the first Democratic presidential candidate to capture the state since Jimmy Carter in 1976. And he put Virginia back in the Democratic column for the first time since Lyndon Johnson’s landslide victory in 1964.
Pulling that off again won’t be easy. Obama’s poll numbers are dropping, largely because of the weak economy. His jobs bill represents the last, best chance he’ll get before the election to put the economy on a more promising track.
The White House says the trip has no connection to the campaign and will be paid for by taxpayer funds.
Asked why the president chose two battleground states for the tour, Earnest said Obama had traveled widely in making the case for his jobs package.
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President Obama will be back on his well-publicized bus this week on a tour of battleground states North Carolina and Virginia. (Jason Reed / Reuters)
The White House says the trip has no connection to the campaign and will be paid for by taxpayer funds.
Not only YOU LIE!
You F$#%ING LIE!
One potential downside for the White House is that as a multi-wheeled object of public curiosity, the bus is that rare presidential vehicle that has the potential to overshadow its passenger.
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but has lots of room for multiple czars to be tossed under it along with other campaign advisors and staff as the election nears and O melts down.
Where’s the American flag?
The bus is just a prop. You don’t think the won would ride in it from stop to stop do you? That’s for little people. He takes marine one or af 1.
Uhmmmmmm, why would anyone with a brain borrow money to continue to maintain or guarantee an expense, both immediate and in perpetuity? That is what public employees are. The need for them has to be weighed with the best of planning and the sharpest of pencils.
Why doesn't the press and media ask him about the soundness of padding payrolls with borrowed monies to sustain public employees?
Canadian would be more like it. I used to drive for Trailways and that is a Prevost, built by Canadians.
Where’s the American flag?
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You mean where’s the Canadian flag. This bus was made in Canada, just like the Martin Luther King sculpture was made in China by a Chinese artist. Do you see a pattern here?
The jobs act just died in the Senate last week.
Isn’t his effort like trying to find a blind date for an alzheimers-afflicted mother in law?
The Bill is dead. Obama is just using tax dollars to visit colleges.
The flag?
underneath the bus.
0800 - Arrive at Richmond International Airport aboard Air Force One.
0830 - Board helicopter for flight to bus rendezvous point.
0845 - Arrive at bus rendezvous point 3 miles outside Emporia aboard Marine One.Meet Bus #1, which was flown in from North Carolina and driven to rendezvous's point earlier in the day.
0900 - “Obama Bus Tour” makes triumphant entrance (by bus) at Emporia, Virginia. Give speech - tell lies. Tell more lies.
1000 - Depart Emporia aboard bus.
1015 - Board helicopter at bus rendezvous point 3 miles outside Emporia, VA.
1030 - Arrive at Richmond International Airport aboard Marine One.
1045 - Depart Richmond International Airport aboard Air Force One.
1115 - Arrive at Norfolk International Airport aboard Air Force One.
1130 - Lunch on the tarmac aboard Air Force One.
1230 - Board helicopter for flight to bus rendezvous point.
1245 - Arrive at bus rendezvous point 3 miles outside Hampton, Virginia, aboard Marine One. Meet Bus #2, flown in from North Carolina and driven to rendezvous point earlier in the day.
1300 - “Obama Bus Tour” makes triumphant arrival (by bus) at Hampton, Virginia.
1400 - Depart Hampton aboard bus.
1415 - Board helicopter at bus rendezvous point 3 miles outside Emporia, VA.
1430 - Arrive at Norfolk International Airport aboard Marine One.
1445 - Depart Norfolk International Airport aboard Air Force One... ...etc., etc., etc.
Dear ObaMao:
Make sure that you continue to focus on Swing States as you continue your “This is Not About Campaiging It’s About Jobs” bus tour.
There......fixed it.
He is going to be ‘visiting’ Firehouse #9 which is literally within spitting distance from me!
Well .. You know what they say .. “If he were on FIRE .. “
traveling in a Canadian made bus to wonder where all the American jobs went? Okay. Should have brought jobs czar Jeff Immelt with him....(snicker)
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