Magical Misery Tour
Yeah, getting in your foreign-made, $2.1M dollar bus that we pay for and you’ll likely use campaigning, probably not the best way to bring the hope and the change.
Speaking of, he ran on hopenchange. I wonder what the next slogan will be since most have lost hope and there’s not been much change.
August 18th, 2011 at 9:13 am
There are no motor coaches of that caliber made in the US. Prevost has been providing coaches like that for decades.
And it’s not like Canada is really “foreign”…. Those are just undocumented provinces.
August 18th, 2011 at 9:24 am
Any A. Mouse,
In a game of image, hype, and sloganeering, which is what election campaigning is, it was an astoundingly bone-headed gaffe.
August 18th, 2011 at 9:37 am
Oh, there’s been plenty of change. My grocery bill has almost doubled, gas prices have almost doubled, electricity prices are poised to skyrocket when coal-fired plants are shut down due to EPA regs, the National Debt has skyrocketed.
Remember, he promised to “fundamentally change” America. He’s well on his way.
August 18th, 2011 at 9:56 am
Plenty of policy issues to complain about this administration.
The “foreign” bus issue does not fly. The Bachmann campaign coach is a Prevost. The McCain Straight Talk Express was a Prevost.
These motor coaches are substantially different from RVs.
August 18th, 2011 at 10:04 am
Just a side note – that bus, while being built in Canada, was decked out with all the goodies right here in the south. Hemphill Brothers of Nashville, TN did all of the coachwork and special upgrades for Barry on that bus. Not so much of a gaffe, if over half the cost was spent here in Amurica..
http://www.hemphillbrothers.com/
August 18th, 2011 at 10:24 am
It’s kinda like bitching about the Airbus you’re flying or the Camry you’re driving assembled with American made parts in American factories not being American, while the Boeing you’re flying and the Ford you’re driving has just as high a concentration of foreign made parts and such.
A silly political issue.
There’s so much to beat the guy up about, I can’t imagine why people feel the need to pick this low hanging, already rotten fruit.
August 18th, 2011 at 10:29 am
It’s a silly issue. But it’s still gaffe level. I only buy American cars from Ford.
I knew a guy who worked on Kucinich’s campaign who picked him up at the airport. They took a cab because kucinich wouldn’t be seen in an import.
August 18th, 2011 at 10:30 am
Sebastiano Wino,
“A silly political issue.”
Yes, I am not disputing that.
It was also a silly and completely avoidable issue.
Any A. Mouse,
There’s nothing Prevost makes that Thor doesn’t.
August 18th, 2011 at 10:34 am
(And, unlike Prevost, Thor employs voters in a traditionally-red state with eleven electoral votes that Barry only won by 1% last time ’round. This is all about theatricals, and no matter how you slice it, this was bad theater.)
August 18th, 2011 at 10:37 am
I wonder what the code name is for the bus. Bus One? Mobile One?
August 18th, 2011 at 10:52 am
Barack Obama – On Bus. Boob.
August 18th, 2011 at 10:54 am
I wonder what the next slogan will be since most have lost hope and there’s not been much change.
“Stay the Course” hasn’t been used in a while.
August 18th, 2011 at 10:56 am
Funny thing is, those buses had no sleeping Compartments, and as they were rolling down the Highway, they stood out like Sore Thumbs. How many Rock Stars Tour Busses had Heavy Police Escorts, Blacked-Out Suburbans, and Choppers in the Air with F-16’s flying CAP? Sure did fool Al-Queda by painting them Glossy Black, now did it?
About as Smart as putting DuKakaKiss in an Abrams.
August 18th, 2011 at 11:03 am
I think I saw on Drudge that its nickname is “Greyhound One”.
August 18th, 2011 at 11:31 am
And think of the gasoline it burns! (Actually, I think about gasoline occasionally, every time I fill up. The one promise Obama kept — to raise gas prices.)
August 18th, 2011 at 11:32 am
“I wonder what the code name is for the bus. Bus One? Mobile One?”
“I Wish Someone Else Had” Won
August 18th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Thor makes RVs. Prevost makes coach chassis and buses.
The “equivalent” Thor RV is built on a Freightliner chassis. Freightliner is owned by Daimler Trucks North America, LLC.
Prevost makes coach chassis used by numerous US RV manufacturers (converters), including Liberty Coach, Marathon Coach, and Featherlite Coaches. And the Hemphill Brothers…
August 18th, 2011 at 12:27 pm
Any,
He could make a strong argument by saying that he is using the foreign made bus to illustrate the fact that we need to be getting back to making things like busses here in the US.
Then he could point out how he is bringing back the manufacturing jobs by luring businesses to the US with his plan of higher corporate taxes, Obamacare, and “spreading it around a little”.
Surely, that must be his plan!
August 18th, 2011 at 12:43 pm
Any A. Mouse,
You are entirely missing the point. This is about theatrics and soundbites. Who owns Freightliner matters about as much as the fact that Sarah Palin never said she could see Russia from her front porch.
Joe Sofaspud knows that that idiot Sarah thinks she can see Russia from her hows, just like he knows that Barry is going to come preach industrial revitalization from the steps of the closed factory after hopping out of a Canadian-built bus.
August 18th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
(And how the &^%@ did “hows” get in there where “house” is supposed to be? Damn brain-eating amoebae.)
August 18th, 2011 at 12:50 pm
And have no dollars and little change in their pockets..
August 18th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
“I wonder what the code name is for the bus. Bus One? Mobile One?”
“I Wish Someone Else Had” Won
Nope. It’s the “I WON”
August 18th, 2011 at 1:32 pm
I have no love for Obama, but I also doubt that we pay for any of this. If Obama has to pay for his own meals at the White House, then I can’t imagine that the taxpayer provides campaign-related protection and services.
August 18th, 2011 at 1:34 pm
Better start imagining, Jay, because the Secret Service bought the bus.
August 18th, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Of course we paid for it.
August 18th, 2011 at 2:17 pm
And who do you think pays for the overtime of the 6 bajillion cops escorting the thing? And the 4 or 5 press vans following it around?
August 18th, 2011 at 2:20 pm
“Speaking of, he ran on hopenchange. I wonder what the next slogan will be since most have lost hope and there’s not been much change.”
There has been some change, and all of it sucks!
August 18th, 2011 at 5:41 pm
I thought you used Macs, Tam. So sorry to hear about your brain-eating Amiga.
August 18th, 2011 at 9:11 pm
Would y’all stop trying to throw Obama under the bus…
August 18th, 2011 at 9:36 pm
Code name: Getunder 1
August 19th, 2011 at 12:02 am
The first Mr. Bush came right through my neighborhood on a rail tour. All of the consist was vintage rolling stock. There’s nothing saying your campaign convoy has to be brandy-new.
Flatt & Scruggs toured in a Flxible Clipper. Right there is the difference between Martha White and Powdermilk Biscuits.
August 19th, 2011 at 8:50 am
The name of the bus? That’s easy: Das bus.