We are paying for the Presidents Bus tour; What should we name it?
Brian D3-PWCM~JLA~POTL
August 07, 2011 13:47:55
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Conservatives howl over the president's government-funded trip through the Midwest, arguing that his campaign should foot the bill
President Obama is planning a three-day bus tour through the Midwest to talk to the public about his new push to create jobs. White House spokesman Jay Carney says the taxpayer-funded trip is part of Obama's day-to-day presidential efforts to implement his policies. But conservative critics say Obama's re-election campaign should pay, noting that the swing will take Obama through battleground states that could help tilt the 2012 election. Is this criticism just a partisan potshot, or is Obama sticking taxpayers with a campaign bill?
This is unfair. Obama's campaign should pay: This "battleground-state bus excursion sounds suspiciously similar to a campaign event," says Alana Goodman at Commentary. Obama has every right to travel around the country, but the president of the United States doesn't hop from town to town by bus unless he's trying to cozy up to voters. It's unconscionable for him to use a government bus for this trip — Obama should rent his own bus, just as his GOP rivals do.
"What will Obama's taxpayer-funded bus tour look like?"
But connecting with Americans is part of Obama's job: After the "grueling debt-ceiling fight," both Obama and Congress have taken a beating in the polls, says Michael A. Memoli in the Los Angeles Times. The "best possible thing" for all of them right now is to get out of Washington and "re-engage with the American people." Between now and his long-planned mid-August trip, Obama will indeed make some campaign appearances, but the bus tour is about making "his case for his vision to boost the economy and job creation."
"Pivoting from debt fight, Obama plans jobs-focused bus tour"
Regardless, this tour won't be easy for Obama: It's telling that the president is trying to reconnect with the people by cruising the Heartland in a "blacked-out, bomb-proof motor coach," says Chris Stirewalt at Fox News. "The natives of the wild territories into which Obama shall venture forth are looking decidedly unfriendly these days." With the economy floundering, Obama will have to express sympathy while also projecting confidence. "But it's very hard to strike the right balance when you are in charge and things are going the wrong way."
"Obama to 'venture forth' in Heartland"
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If he wants to have a smaller deficit, he could probably save tens of billions of dollars easily by just staying in Washington and doing his job instead driving and flying all over the country, having to have locations secured, before and during events, then all the security that goes with the travelling, and travel costs themselves..
People don't see this as a problem? Really? He's done more touring, campaigning, and pandering than any president in history. He never stops trying to smooth talk the populace, and give the appearance of leadership; the appearance of work.
That kind of showing of work instead of actually working has always bothered me, especially at my workplace where other people making it look like their working while doing nothing, actually makes it impossible for others to do their actual jobs. When people up the chain make it look like things are happening, but nothing is being passed down the chain, the people at the bottom have nothing to do. And being just enough down the chain to be affected is pissing me off.
He insisted he'd do away with pork, but he lets it slide every day. He insists that Obamacare is good for everyone, and everyone must partake of it, but then hands out waivers and exemptions. Obviously these things are not good, but does he see the consequences? No, because he's not in his office looking at reports. He doesn't write speeches himself, based on facts, he simply reads what others prepare for him, or makes it up as he goes along. So many jobs created, yet our unemployment is not dropping, and when it does, it only does so because people fall off the unemployment roles after their 99 weeks are up. That's nearly two years that people have gone without a job, and how long has our president been in office? More than two years. He is not getting these peopl...
He insisted he'd do away with pork, but he lets it slide every day. He insists that Obamacare is good for everyone, and everyone must partake of it, but then hands out waivers and exemptions. Obviously these things are not good, but does he see the consequences? No, because he's not in his office looking at reports. He doesn't write speeches himself, based on facts, he simply reads what others prepare for him, or makes it up as he goes along. So many jobs created, yet our unemployment is not dropping, and when it does, it only does so because people fall off the unemployment roles after their 99 weeks are up. That's nearly two years that people have gone without a job, and how long has our president been in office? More than two years. He is not getting these people jobs, he is shrinking the private sector, which is the only place you can really create jobs, he is growing government with no way to pay for it. Our country is collapsing, and he doesn't see it as being anyone's fault but his predecessor, who is not the one making poor decisions right now, but is enjoying sitting back watching the president fail, most likely.
I can just picture him saying, too: "I may have f*d up pretty bad sometimes, but at least I kept the country afloat, rather than running it into the ground"
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