Barack Obama should stick to aircraft where it’s much easier to hide in privacy.
The $1.1 million, made-in-Canada road hog taking Obama on his first bus tour in office may have painted out windows and come with state-of-the art Secret Service added features. But unlike Marine 1, which flew him over more than one million Tea Party members on 9/12, the top-of-the line bus model used by major traveling rock bands, finally brought Barack Obama face-to-face with the people he’s managed to dodge for more than two years.
Dodging the Tea Party ended for Obama on Monday, August 15.
That’s the day when Ryan Rhodes, now a folk hero, ended the big dodge in Decorah, Iowa.
“I’m sure I flustered him a little bit,” Rhodes told radio talk host giant Rush Limbaugh yesterday.
But if you watch the video closely you will see that Tea Party member Stacy Rogers, who stood beside Rhodes, really rattled Obama.
When Obama tried to deny that vice president Joe Biden had referred to Tea Party members as “terrorists”, Rogers reminded Obama that Biden was the “second member of your administration” to call Tea Partiers terrorists. Janet Napolitano was first.
Poor, Obama! Forced to tour Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois on a Quebec, Canada-made vehicle that looks more like a hearse than a bus.
All those cornfields, the miles inching by without even a windmill to break the monotony, and then to be taken by surprise by a ‘domestic terrorist’ who asked significant questions as the cameras whirred.
Only a tinpot dictator would visit the plebes in a pitch-black bus with tinted windows to keep unwanted eyes off the Messiah.
Obama’s Note to Self: shaved ice and ice cream roadway stops along those long, dusty country roads.
Valerie and Michelle must have been seething when Tea Party members got right in their guy’s face for the masses to watch on television networks.
If you watch the video, Obama can be clearly seen touching the shoulder of Stacy Rogers, three times within the first minute.
Was Obama unconsciously pushing Rogers back, or was he trying for charisma?
Meanwhile, why bother painting out the windows on a $1.1 million bus when on the first day out, the Tea Party gets right in your face?
The historic event starring Ryan Rhodes and Stacy Rogers ended for once and for all the question asked at all Tea Party gatherings: “Can you hear us now?”
Borrowing the answer from the other side: “Yes, he can!”
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-- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
Barack Obama should stick to aircraft where it’s much easier to hide in privacy.
The $1.1 million, made-in-Canada road hog taking Obama on his first bus tour in office may have painted out windows and come with state-of-the art Secret Service added features. But unlike Marine 1, which flew him over more than one million Tea Party members on 9/12, the top-of-the line bus model used by major traveling rock bands, finally brought Barack Obama face-to-face with the people he’s managed to dodge for more than two years.
