And We’re Off: Obama Boards The Magical Misery Tour Bus — Update: Secret Service Buys Two New $1.1 Million Buses For Three-Day Trip…
Beep! Beep!
US President Barack Obama (C) walks to his bus as he arrives in Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Minnesota, August 15, 2011, where he is to begin his three-day bus tour in the Midwest centering on ways to grow the economy. (AFP PHOTO/Jim WATSON)
UPDATE: Cha-ching!
(CBS News) — The U.S. Secret Service has two new buses in its fleet for President Obama to use on his 3-day Midwest bus trip starting today.
An official tells CBS News the buses were purchased in recent months and will serve as part of the fleet of vehicles the Secret Service uses for all of its protectees.
In the past, the Secret Service would lease buses as needed and outfit them with the security and communications equipment as needed.
“We have not been satisfied with the level of protection offered by leased buses,” said a Secret Service official.
Another official said the buses cost the service $1.1-million and are of a size and make the Secret Service finds most suitable for its equipment and protective requirements.
For the record: Romney came up with the name “Magical Misery bus tour.”
Posted by ZIP on Monday, August 15, 2011, at 12:18 pm | 
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That bus is the proper color. Reflects the deep dark malaise that has enveloped this country since he’s been in office..
I have one idea Obama hasn’t tried to grow the economy – Resign!
As Rush just said…’Debt Man Driving’…ya gotta love that.
Today’s misery index 12.76
http://www.miseryindex.us/
That looks like the bus a vampire would travel in…
That morbid black bus should lift everybody’s spirits…..the death of America bus tour? Now I hear they have 3 buses that cost 1 million a piece,unbelievable we are paying for this BS!
The Welfare Wagon!
Yep, just as I suspected. He will fly to the nearest AP to board the armored Greyhound 1 to travel to rally, then back to the AP. And the fact he has 3 of them tells me they will all be decoy going from place to place without any knowledge of where he will show up next, but rest assurred he will show up where there is a crowd of hungry entitlement junkies. Gimmee, gimmee……gimmee!
That bus looks like it’s sitting too low to throw anybody under, he better get it jacked up in time for the campaign.
Has anyone ever drained the inside of an egg out using a nail & then used a turkey baster to replace the contents with Toxic Green paint???
I’m just saying…
He will be spreading the discontent, along with other objects that may become airborne.
One has to wonder how much that bus/tank cost the taxpayers, whose only purpose is to provide for any White House Whim.
A hearse is of what it reminds me.
A little masking tape over the hole & presto! Paint Bomb…
The Stimubus!
(liked that, stole that, don’t recall where)
And shouldn’t all those vehicles be white to save on energy? Then they wouldn’t need so much AC.
There was someone else on a bus tour… But she doesn’t steal from the public coffer to fund it. Maybe he’s jealous? Maybe he sees the response?
Copy-cat-in-chief once again has zero individuality.
Sarah had ” One Nation” the American flag, the liberty bell and the Constitution painted on both sides of her bus and Zero has zilch.
Pretty much reflects the job he’s done.
@John Difool, that’s not nothing, that’s his empty suit.
Let me get this right. He flies into an airport, hops in a bus for a “bus tour” ‘around the midwest’, gets driven back to the airport for another flight, lands at another airport where another black bus is waiting for him… and repeats all that until his ‘tour’ is done? Oh, well, at least it keeps him out of the WH for a day or two.
This guys carbon footprint is probably the size of some medium sized cities by now, but you won’t hear a peep out of the left.
Perhaps some Midwest TEA Party folks could rent a couple of those rolling billboards & then drive in front & behind the Pres’ Convoy with some of the Economic Stats on them
Misery Index
GDP Growth
Unemployment
etc…
@PatriotLady
Yep, you’ve got it. The SS (stormtroopers) will minimize his “on the ground time” out here in flyover land lest someone shouts something disparaging at his bus clipping along at 70 mph. He’ll stick to the preplanned routing where garlands are cast before his chariot.
Tragical History Tour.
and the cost of this is????
Hey nothing but the best for Bamster using our money!!!
That this bus shit can even be considered shows how fucked us poor peons really are.
Does the Mooch get her own bus as well?
$1 mil each – what an asshole. No flag, no nothing “America” on the side. If the argument is that he wants to be discreet, he’s full of shit. That giant shiny black bus stands out as much as a freakin’ tank. What a FKN asshole.
@kansas
If a Republican president inherits these million dollar buses you can damn well bet the media will conveniently forget Obama had them first.
So he’s going on a bus tour to promote jobs? And how exactly will that happen? If the bus goes though your town everyone will magically have a job?
Obama IS the biggest impediment for job creation. Lowering the tax rate, getting rid of binding and reckless regulations HE instituted is a better idea than running around in a stupid bus.
How idiotic.
The shit mobile …
Just who approves the waste of money for this shit??
Can’t Congress put an immediate end to this wasteful piece of monkey feces misery tour?
Molon Labe says:
August 15, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Does the Mooch get her own bus as well?
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She gets a flat-bed with a cage behind a Kenworth.
John Difool says:
August 15, 2011 at 12:26 pm
That bus looks like it’s sitting too low to throw anybody under, he better get it jacked up in time for the campaign.
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And put some spinners on it!
The imperial presidency guarded by a thoroughly corrupted praetorian guard in action. Everything wrong about this non-representative government is epitomized by the Secret Service going out and buying 2 buses at 1.1 million each just for this horseshit publicity stunt. Any respect I once had for the Secret Service has just gone down the toilet.
Another big Fuck You to the taxpayers from our beloved by the Prophet Mohammad, Sultan Barack Hussein bin Obama. By the way could there ever be a name so alien to our country as Barack Hussein Obama? Un-American in every way that’s our Obuttma!
Our new bus looks like a hearse.
Roll up
Roll up for the misery tour
Roll up
Roll up for the misery tour
Roll up (that’s a proclamation)
Roll up for the misery tour
Roll up (to make a subjugation)
Roll up for the misery tour
The magical misery tour is
Waiting to fake you away
Waiting to fake you away
Roll up
Roll up for the misery tour
Roll up
Roll up for the misery tour
Roll up (we’ve taken everything you need)
Roll up for the misery tour
Roll up (satisfaction, you don’t need)
Roll up for the misery tour
The magical misery tour is
Hoping to take yours away
Hoping to take yours away
Ah the magical misery tour
Roll up
Roll up for the misery tour
Roll up (NOT an invitation)
Roll up for the misery tour
Roll up (to our new plantation)
Roll up for the misery tour
The magical misery tour is
Coming to take yours away
Coming to take yours away
The magical misery tour is
Dying to take yours away
Dying to take yours away
Take all yours today
@John Difool.
LMFAO… thank you
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I have this mental image of Obama, kneeling over a pile of burning money at the Monterey Pop Festival.
Can one of you photoshop experts work on this?
Shameful !!!!!!!!!
Get this Commie bastard out of the WH !
This shit has got to STOP !
Remember, those three buses aren’t driven to the location. Those buses are, most likely, loaded up on one or more C-17s. Then, they are flown to the destination ahead of AF-1.
Repeat for every campaign stop.
So we’re looking at a min of 4 huge airliners and three armored bus/tanks to make this tour happen.
How about Debt Man Riding Tour? Romney is the Miserable Man Walking, he’ll never get elected because of Romneycare. Bammy only goes “first class” along with his mooch wife.
Million dollar monolith of malaise.
Watch for the purple buses with all the SEIU members they are bussing around to make up the Town Hall crowds. They will all get big box lunches and fall asleep during barry’s lecture. All paid for by people who actually work!
Hey, don’t complain – at least he’s not making AF1 do the ten-minute hop thing between podunk airports.
My initial impression upon seeing these big, slick, shiny black buses was that these are the perfect representation and symbol of oppressive, dirty-tricks government. Instead of black helicopters, Bamster’s arriving in a BIG BLACK BUS.
Yeah, that’s friendly and approachable. Bet it’ll play just super in the Midwest.
Dining on ribs & watermelon – Holding tanks a dumping – Treatment facility a plugging – Shove ready beginning
So it cost the taxpayer 1.1 million for the buses for a THREE DAY FUCKING TOUR!!!!!!!! What and then the buses get sold at a flea market or garage sale????? Oh yeah this POS really cares about saving money……see that SHIT EATING GRIN ON HIS FACE as he saw his POS bus?? The roof..the roof…the roof is on fire….let the MF burn!!!!
Does the Bamster get to sit in the front?
But seriously now, is this the same guy who told that family man to buy a hybrid van when he said he couldn’t afford to fill up his truck?
A tour bus!!!! Is he frickin kidding us? Next he’ll get himself a dwarf with a broom and tell us “he’s lookin’ out for the little guy” and he’s “sweeping DC clean”. h/t O Brother Where Art Thou?
So it cost the taxpayer 1.1 million for the buses for a THREE DAY FUCKING TOUR!!!!!!!!
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The buses themselves cost the taxpayers $2.2 million.
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$2.2 million for Secret Service’s new armored buses
http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0411/22_million_pricetag_for_Obamas_new_armored_buses.html#ixzz1V7P6eeaL
Look at the bright side, the mfm will not be subjected to those wild chases down the freeway trying to keep up with da bus.
More proof that he doesn’t care a whit what we think – otherwise, he’d just visit those cities and travel fom place to palce in a car – rather than the sham of a “bus tour”.
At a pretty penny to the tax payers and inside are the golden troughs from which the demacratic hawgs will be sloped from and the gold dust stys where they can wallow
Well, you know, he probably had to have a couple of miniguns installed in each of them.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/01/motorcade-suvs/
Lest we forget how much this is going to cost the Service in personnel costs, advances, OT, per diem and hotel rooms, etc., other equipment costs, special purpose vehicles, agents cars, etc., other Federal agency costs, dogs, etc., State and Local Police support.
The first number will be questionable but it will be followed by at least SIX (6) zero’s…
Why is that parasite allowed to use taxdollars to campaign why is that legal???
Does that bus look like it belongs to the grim reaper?
God bless America, our troops, Israel, and fellow humans.
Can I buy your Magic Bus? Hell, give me two of them!
Y’all just kick ass here folks. Much better than TAS. (Although there are some fine folks there, there are also Paulbots.)
EMP proof?
I have seen a few buses & THOSE are not uses.
They are sinister.
And of the genial mid westerners they(these buses ) say to them -’F*ck F&ck F*ck we hate you more than your simple prairie flat heads will ever know.
BTW he is beginning to stoop.
The extreme thing here is that secret Servce must have had significant input & they are at least misreading America or at worst not on your side.
When the President of the United States of America rolls into town in a 80 foot long mega Hearse it’s kind of hard to put a smiley face on the visit. It’s the Dark Knight Greyhound to hell. Or something.
These professional politicians are all about ‘optics’. What sort of message is this supposed to send? It’s eery. It’s intimidating. It isn’t it painted like Air Force One. It’s an up-armored MadMax command center.
Adolph Hitler had an armored train that was the same color….
PARK IT IN THE JUNKYARD WITH YOU PRESIDENCY OBAMA and GO AWAY
Debt man walking, no sorry, driving in a …hearse!
Grafitti them!