Taxpayers Will Pay for Obama Bus Tour of Battleground States, Says White House

Was what paid for with taxpayer funds? The bus tour? Probably. It does not look like it is classed as a campaign event.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/...us-tour-ignores-bushs-political-travel-costs/

 

Obama is being bused around to campaign with tax money. fail

 

Amazingly, just because you decide something is a campaign event, doesn't make it so.


So what makes GWBs taxpayer bus tour acceptable, but Obama's not?

 

Do you not understand what it means by taxpayer funded?

 

I now know why these buses were so expensive. They are custom built so that the Republican House can easily be thrown under them.

Don't come cheap, that.

 

What part of this is nothing new don't you understand? Did you even read the article TFM posted?

Here's another one

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_08/taxpayerfinanced_campaigning031544.php



Its not official campaigning, he's doing nada wrong. Most of what I have seen so far is exactly what he said it was going to be, a series of town halls and the like focusing on jobs and the economy.

This seems to me to be yet another instance where Obama does something that previous president's have been doing for years, but all of a sudden its horribly wrong and there is
Something sinister is going on because Obama is the one doing it

 

ok, so its a campaign tour, but not an official one, so its ok. lmao

 

Its flat out not a campaign tour, otherwise it wouldn't be funded by taxpayers. Simple as that.

 

I think because you deem something campaigning does not necessarily make it so.

 

So going to Iowa, a day after the GOP had their straw poll is not a campaign event. right.

 

What do you call it when the president goes to the same state the gop held a big polling event?

 

Here's a list of things I would call it.

Hilarious irony.
GOP outsmarted by the president again.
Mewling about Bachmann and Palin not getting the spotlight for a moment.
Petty GOP jealousy.
GOP manufactured outrage.
Inability by posters to take the president to task on real issues.

 

I would call it the president going to the state where the gop held a "big" polling event.

That does not equal campaign.

 

If Palin can clammor around battleground states in her gaudy constitution draped bus and crash state fairs without it being campaigning, why can Obama roll around for three days and have townhall meetings that aren't campaiging?

 

yes, it does.

 

And amazingly, just because you say so still doesn't make it so.

 

Don't y'all tire of making ultra lame excuses for unethical behavior and policy fail?

And you want 5 more years of it?

 

Obama's motorcade of the gas-guzzlers...

Obama's Motorcade hits Minnesota

How hypocritical can one get?

 

That is an odd way to view things...something becomes a campaign event not by what it is or what is said but by who pays for it...convenient for Obama

 

And amazingly just because you say it isn't, still doesn't make your point so.

 

That is not a motorcade, its overkill. you would think he was driving through the streets of Baghdad.

 

Bush's was a campaign bus tour! Not a lets take these stupid taxpayers for every dime they have bus tour as Obama is on.

 

Simply said, it was a campaign event.

 

Actually yes it does. Unlike you, I have facts on my side. See you can (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) and whine and. Moan all you want, but his bus tour still wont be considered campaigning