Obama bus catches buzz on the Web

[Bluebear]

Not your average Airstream!

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Pull over, Sarah Palin: President Obama's bus is about to run yours off the road.

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.

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.

The Secret Service won't reveal specifics on the high-tech monster buses but said that they have similar features to "the Beast," a tricked-out limo and the president's regular ride. That official Cadillac comes with thick, reinforced doors and reportedly is equipped with bulletproof glass that can withstand a rocket-propelled grenade or a chemical attack.

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

[Tx4obama]

1. Saw the bus in a clip on the news today. I think it looks classy.

Much better than the flashy buses the republicans are using.

[OKDem08]

2. doesn't he have something better to do. jesus christ

[bhikkhu]

14. getting out of DC and talking and listening to people is good

especially since congress is out of session anyway.

[MilesColtrane]

20. Yeah, he's probably just doing what Harry Truman was doing on his...

1948 whistle stop tour; playing video games, pounding forties, and running up his cell phone minutes.

Jesus Christ, indeed.

[Skidmore]

31. Perhaps you would rather he just sat so DUers could

take ceaseless pot shots at him.

[Skip Intro]

3. Look at this thing - looks like something from a freeper Fema nightmare...

They couldn't wrap some campaign logos on it or something?

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/pXJZmG4ZsbI58B4NsqZ9JA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MDg7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/

[Tx4obama]

4. No, you can't put campaign advertising on federal government vehicles.

[Skip Intro]

7. I guess you're right, but man, it just looks so...menacing or post-apocalyptic or something...

He's going to tour the country in this thing?

Maybe it's just me...

:shrug:

[Bluebear]

5. 'a freeper Fema nightmare'

Well, yes that describes it lol!

[Tx4obama]

10. Here's a better photo :)

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/hr52wXTykqx.iHL.zpOZHQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00NDA7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/

[Tx4obama]

6. Direct link to the bus slideshow

Slideshow: http://tinyurl.com/426rb4n

[sad sally]

8. Must be a green machine, right? No? More like one mile to the gallon?

[Tx4obama]

9. As long as it keeps The President 'safe' that is all that matters. n/t

" ... reinforced doors and reportedly is equipped with bulletproof glass that can withstand a rocket-propelled grenade or a chemical attack." ...

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Sounds good to me :)

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[inna]

17. what an absurd and utterly despicable personal attack

[cliffordu]

24. You mean the OP??? Precisely!!!!

[inna]

27. *obviously*, i was not referring to the OP

but you knew it anyway

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[inna]

28. alerting on this absolutely outrageous crap, and hope others do the same

:wtf:

REALLY???

[Obamanaut]

33. Why not just press the alert link and move on? It's here

"Do not say that you are hitting the alert link to report another member...."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/forums/rules_detailed.html

[Erose999]

12. How fitting that the graph for the fund drive is the Obama bus and the posts from the DU donors

under it. Pretty much a prefect analogy innit?

[scarletwoman]

13. I'm glad there are pictures of it,

because all I've seen up to now is the underside. ;)

[Jackpine Radical]

21. Aw, Jeez. I was just gonna ask if it has an automated

trapdoor for dropping people underneath it.

[inna]

25. lol

[cliffordu]

26. Bada BIng!!!! Well played, Ma'am, Well played!!!!

:rofl:

[dionysus]

15. lord forbid. the humanity.

:eyes:

[thereismore]

16. OMG it's sooo black! nt

[inna]

18. really fucked up comment

[thereismore]

29. Not really. It was sarcastic, but the repigs are complaining about the "Darth Vader bus". So there.

[Odin2005]

19. Obama is too busy running over his base with it.

[Jackpine Radical]

22. The thing oughtta have crawler treads like a tank.

Much more effective for flattening professional leftists.

[sad sally]

30. Can just imagine the excitement if it's parked overnight in the WalMart

lot.

Oh, and one more pathetic question (mine, that is) - why do people, who we know would never in their wildest dreams want to travel on or sleep in a bus (unlike Willie Nelson or Dolly Parton), suddenly get the urge to take to the road in a behemoth vehicle? Just makes 'em look like they're trying to be somebody they're not.

[lewiston]

32. I wish

they had purchased US made busses instead Canadian.