WH: Taxpayers Will Fund Obama Bus Tour of Battleground States

Your analogy is awful but absolutely true. We know the Criminal-in-Chief (and his moll) are milking everything they can from "we the people" while on their crime spree.

President Obama in his youth was an organizer of slum dwellers. He can sleep anywhere, even on a bus seat, he is used to that kind of situation. All you need are some warm clothes and blankets and shelter over your head that will keep you from freezing. I don't know though if he will be allowed to do that by his security detail and by the requirement of maintaining the dignity of the Office of President. But he can certainly sleep in hovel-like facilities. I think that's the prospect that's giving his opponents sleepless nights: President Obama returning to his roots, eating, sleeping, inter-acting, meeting with the underprivileged of America regardless of color, gender, race, economic station, and religious persuasion.

RBBantiles Do you honestly believe that Obama would suffer such indignities. He is a narcissistic elitist. If he takes his family along as props there is no way Mrs O would even contemplate such torture for herself and children. So I do not think his opponents have anything to worry about in that respect.

That family isn't a family for long. It's going to soon be a broken shell, either seeking assistance from multiple avenues or homeless out in the streets. For the sake of argument here--with myself only--I will assume that part of the reason this family is in debt is because they have a cousin they support and an aunt they've picked up the tab for. They purchased a house for the cousin and pay the note. They carry the aunt's insurance and help her out because she's disabled. From the compassionate angle, they must keep doing it! Let anything go and people will suffer. Real live people will suffer. But how can they keep going? Nobody wants the family or its dependents to suffer. But if it isn't fixed, every single member of the family suffers to the point they're no longer a family. What about this don't people in America understand? Oh, never mind. I get it. A progressive, social justice type would look at this and simply say it isn't true. They would say the debt is a good thing and that the family should actually buy MORE property, take care of MORE people, and find MORE creditors willing to open a line. No plan to ever bring balance. It's all about keeping the handouts and spending going. You can't make this stuff up. You just can't. Humans have dreamed up some great fiction throughout history, but never anything this outlandish. Time travel novelists and space nuts say "WTF?" when they look at this logic.

You are right. Since he entered the WH it has been nothing but blah, blah, blah he is all mouth and no action helping or supporting the USA just more detrimental garbage.

Very well said! You have described Obama's presidency to a tee. I am so sick of his constant TV speeches intending to intimidate us into allowing him to get his own way. His supercilious, holier than thou way of talking down to the American people makes me physically. Obama is the only living human being that I actually despise. In his FIRST year of his presidency alone he has racked up the following: INTERVIEWS: 158. • This is a striking number of interviews and far more than any of his recent predecessors in their first year. Ninety of the sessions were TV interviews. Eleven were radio. The rest were newspaper and magazine. The number reflects the White House media strategy that Mr. Obama can best respond to questions in an interview setting. DOMESTIC TRAVEL: 46 out-of-town trips to 58 cities and towns in 30 states • Most frequently visited state by Mr. Obama: New York* (excluding Maryland & Virginia, which border DC and to which visits are more local than out-of-town). • President George W. Bush made appearances in 39 states during his 1st year. • President Clinton visited 22 states in 1993, his first year. FOREIGN TRAVEL: 10 foreign trips to 21 nations (4 of them twice). • Mr. Obama made more trips abroad in his first year than has any other U.S. President. • Next most frequent foreign traveler during first year in office was President George H.W. Bush: 7 trips to 14 countries. FLIGHTS ON AIR FORCE ONE: 160 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-6119525-503544.html I shudder to think what these numbers have reached to date as these are only in his first year.

oops should read "physically ILL"

Well, at least you didn't mess up the entire post like I did. As to the interviews and trips, one might argue that his trips were needed to repair America's image. But that one wouldn't be me, because I don't buy it. According to Obama and his water-carriers, America was in a huge crisis, on the brink of disaster, and still really is (at least they say so when they want something). But instead of knuckling up and getting things done, he opts for interviews, fake town halls, trips, entertainment TV spots, etc. This is just who he is. Love him or hate him, agree or disagree with his policies - this is who he is as a person. He takes everything to the public and attempts to get the people on his side. When it comes to rolling his sleeves up literally, he'll throw on the flag pin, take off the suit jacket, wear that same blue shirt his campaign tells him polls well, and he'll show a little blue-collar cuff and talk America's ear off about nothing. When it comes to metaphorically rolling his sleeves up and getting something done, he won't. He'll insult people, walk out of the room, and expect Congress to do every single bit of the dirty work while he waves his dictator pen around, either singing or sending it back. He's not a centrist. He's not a pragmatist. Those terms wouldn't fit. Heck, I wouldn't even call him a progressive these days. He's a pure campaigner. He doesn't know what he's doing in office; he only knows that he needs to keep his image up for election. That's all his entire presidency has been about - reelection.

Thank you an excellent response. I think Obama qualifies for more than just this example of abusing the privilege of office. He has made a very profitable career of milking his presidency for each and every benefit legally or illegally.

The law states that taxpayer money cannot be used to fund campaigns. Yes, the president uses government assets to travel, but traditionally, the campaigns are billed for the use. Obama and his staff feel they are above this law... and his mindless supporters bow to this royalty wannabe attitude.

I think Obama and his entourage will have the most luxurious bus available, make multiple stops to relieve the torture. I think BO is not using Air Force One as another political move to show the people how thrifty he is and not to rub the voters noses into his normal luxurious choices. He will try to impress all the people that are out of work (and all the other problems that his administration has caused) that he too is not over spending. However he would not be able to reach all the rural areas any other way than by bus as I do not think a limo cavalcade would come across too well.

To me, rather than a royal tour, it would seem that the bus tour by President Obama is more like a marathon and torturous travel on the back roads and byroads of America so that he can reach out to the poor citizens. People with pretensions to royalty and their handlers I think will prefer planes for luxury or at least convenience, for speed, isolation, safety, inaccessibility and the like. That would have been Air Force One in the case of President Obama. But a bus tour? The bus is the mode of transport of the poor. It is slow and light years away from the comforts offered by Air Force One, and unkind to the butt as well. But you know, it is also where Rosa Parks sparked the Civil Rights Movement. Infinitely cheaper than Air Force One, it too can enter practically any community by the main roads or the backwoods. Symbolic too, and with a lot of association and identification with ordinary citizens. Very accessible, why, any one can stop it for an ordinary, Jeffersonian type of town hall meeting and/or brainstorming. I think there ought to be more of this kind of sortie into America's byroads, battleground states or not. I think the Obama kids will enjoy it, it's like a picnic. I just don't know how Mrs. Obama will take it. Unfortunately, this will cause a lot of headaches to his political rivals (and his security detail as well). But at least they can say, to his credit, that he is not taking undue advantage of his perquisites in office by using Air Force One in this tour. Don't you think so, Friend ParaTed2k?

That is really good news. I hope other states think the same way as Oklahoma!