I don't understansd why Obama is on a 3 state bus tour

I truly believe it's because President Obama know's that he's not a shoe in for re-election. His popularity has dropped alot in some polls that I saw. He also took alot of heat for going on vacation down Cape Cod while the stock market and economy is crumbling. All I hear mentioned is that we could be heading for another recession, then I ask myself 'when did the recession ever end?

He wants people to think he really understands the common people. Sort of like when Queen Catherine the Great took a tour of Russia. And she was a great ruler unlike Obama. The thing is that it will not work. And besides he did not listen to them only to those who agreed with him. He is out of touch with the American people and it does not look right especially then before that he was flying around in jets. If he wanted to show his bond with the American people he should have started going on a bus or on train stops before he was elected and made train or bus tours a common occurrence. Not to try to get the glory from the Republicans.

It is campaign time and the competition is on. I only wish there was law preventing acting officials from running for office at taxpayers' expense. Use your own money and we will deduct money for hours not spent in office working for taxpayers.

It is so characteristic of him. He loves bus tours and golf tours and "dates" at home and abroad with Michelle, and month long vacations at Martha's Vineyard, but real responsibility and problem solving he shies away from. I'm beginning to think the presidency has been just a big party for Obama, and he is thoroughly content to fiddle while Rome burns, so to speak.

O@@ma has always been a puppet and in order to play President first rule has always been do what your told to do.

What's not to understand? It shouldn't seem strange and it's not "almost if" he's trying to grab attention from the GOP. He most definitely is trying to get the focus back on him and possible plans for putting people back to work. The biggest problem is he is talking about the importance of getting the job market cranking without actually proposing, let alone doing, anything to help. It's one thing to hear promises from a candidate who cannot yet do anything, but quite another to hear a sitting President saying what we should be doing and then not actually doing anything. Whoever proposed this bus tour right now should be fired from his staff. It's making him look worse.

He is doing just what he did with the Stimulus Package and the Health Care Bill - his people told him he had to do something so he did. With the Stimulus Package he did all the talking and making all the promises but let a few members of congress and a few senators put the thing together. He was told to get Health care reform and again he let others put it together and he was the promoter. He has no plan for this bus tour other than his people told him to do go out and meet the people. He was to do what he does best make speeches and say nothing. I think his people don't want him around to mess things up. Maybe that is the reason he golf so much and is on vacation or traveling or now on a bus tour.

It's simple. It's an illegal use of government resources for campaigning.