Nero fiddles...uh, I mean Obama Buses, while....

[LogGrad98]

https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/obama-bus-catches-buzz-233029764.html

The $1.1 million (yep, you read that right) Obamamobile is, according to the Associated Press, "an impenetrable-looking conveyance the size of a cross-country Greyhound, painted all in black, with dark tinted windows and flashing red and blue lights." The rubber is hitting the road for the president's current trip to Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois.

Nero fiddled, Obama toured. In both cases while everything fell to ruin around them. Glad we had the extra million lying around to buy this thing. It's not like it could have been better spent elsewhere after all.

 

[PearlWatson]

Lyre!

 

[LogGrad98]

Nero lyred doesn't sound as good.

 

[bat]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...midwest-trip/2011/08/15/gIQA85EXHJ_story.html

Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan emphasized that the bus wasn’t purchased solely for the president and would be used for other dignitaries in the future. He said the agency has not previously had buses in its fleet and was overdue to get some since it’s had to protect politicians traveling by bus for decades.

...

Donovan declined to comment on the buses’ design or capability. He said the decision to purchase the buses was made about a year ago but had been under discussion longer, and that the money was taken from a fund for transportation and armored vehicles.

You're trying to make it sound like Obama dipped into medicare to pay for this thing, in fact it doesn't even sound like it was his decision.

https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/obama-bus-catches-buzz-233029764.html

Two of these superbuses were commissioned by the Secret Service to chauffeur the commander-in-chief around the country -- along with the eventual Republican presidential candidate and visiting dignitaries. While these babies don't come cheap, the protection service decided the buses, normally leased and retrofitted to provide presidential protection, would pay for themselves over their projected 10-year lifespan

So it's for the republicans also, and it will save money in the long run. Sounds like money well spent.

 

[babe]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...midwest-trip/2011/08/15/gIQA85EXHJ_story.html



You're trying to make it sound like Obama dipped into medicare to pay for this thing, in fact it doesn't even sound like it was his decision.

https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/obama-bus-catches-buzz-233029764.html



So it's for the republicans also, and it will save money in the long run. Sounds like money well spent.

OK, but what of that. The Republicans have been taking their turns burning our expectations for a hundred and fifty years, too.

 

[sirkickyass]

*yawn*

Obama could personally come to Millsapa's house, mow her lawn, cook her breakfast, give her a 100% tax refund for the last 20 years, and tell her she's pretty and she'd still hate him because he's a Muslim who was born in Kenya.

 

[PearlWatson]

*yawn*

Obama could personally come to Millsapa's house, mow her lawn, cook her breakfast, give her a 100% tax refund for the last 20 years, and tell her she's pretty and she'd still hate him because he's a Muslim who was born in Kenya.

Please don't obsess over me. I know I'm awesome but I have too many internet boyfriends as it is.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

Barry and his Bus....I feel a new PBS cartoon coming soon.

 

[Mission Accomplished]

Obama is just trying to create jobs. A new bus driving job and two buses from the local armored bus factor.

 

[PearlWatson]

Barry and his Bus....I feel a new PBS cartoon coming soon.

I'm liking the "magical misery bus tour."

 

[Mission Accomplished]

Hopefully Palin and Obama can have a destruction derby bus on bus game of chicken. I think the Pres bus is going to win.

 

[DutchJazzer]

Does it have spinners?

 

[The-Joker]

Please don't obsess over me. I know I'm awesome but I have too many internet boyfriends as it is.

Let me guess... you're the "my webcam is broken" or "my roommate is asleep" partner in the cyber "relationshi"