Thread: Obamas Custom Presidential Tour Bus was Built in CANADA

Obamas Custom Presidential Tour Bus was Built in CANADA

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WASHINGTON -- President Obama is barnstorming the heartland to boost US jobs in a taxpayer-financed luxury bus the government had custom built -- in Canada, The Post has learned.

The $1.1 million vehicle, one of two that Quebec-based Prevost sold the government, has been tricked out by the Secret Service with state-of-the-art security features and creature comforts.

It's a VIP H3-45 model, the company's top of the line, and is used by major traveling rock bands.

"That's the more luxurious model," Christine Garant of Prevost told The Post.

"When we have the Country Music Awards, we sometimes see a lot of them," she said, noting that Kid Rock, David Lee Roth and Kenny Rogers also have owned them.

Obama's new ride is equipped to carry all the baggage a president needs -- including the "football" that allows him to remotely control US nuclear weapons.

There's electronic equipment allowing Obama to communicate and teleconference worldwide.

Like his GM-built limousine, nicknamed "The Beast," the bus has armored doors.

The president also has large flat-screen TV sets and comfortable couches.

There's a bathroom, but unlike on Air Force One, no sleeping area.

The bus was ordered by the Secret Service in July 2010 and delivered two months ago.

The feds bought the two coaches for $2.2 million from Hemphill Brothers Coach, based in Tennessee. It installed custom interior upgrades into the Prevost shell, which accounted for about half the cost.

The contract lists the country of origin as Canada and place of manufacture as "outside U.S. - Trade Agreements," a possible reference to the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Hemphill wouldn't comment on the bus. But an ad on its Web site for a similar bus costing $100,000 less than what has been dubbed "Greyhound One" boasts: "This coach is appointed with the finest materials and the latest in high tech electronics and was built for a top entertainer to travel efficiently without losing the luxuries of home.

"It is the perfect coach for entertainers, sports stars, NASCAR drivers, executive travel, or anyone accustomed to the very best."

Ed Donovan, a Secret Service spokesman, said, "There are certain security and communications equipment that we'll have in there. It's just a better situation for us rather than leasing something and then putting in temporary equipment."

Hemphill Brothers lists Beyoncé, Cher, KISS, Van Halen, Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, and Pope Benedict XVI as clients on its Web site.

The Secret Service says the buses will be available to other protectees who travel by bus, which could include the 2012 GOP presidential nominee.

'He not only likes Canadian health care, but he likes Canadian RV's'...



Posted 8/17/11 9:47 a.m.

CHICAGO (WLS) - Two leading Republican figures joined WLS Radio's Don Wade and Roma Show Wednesday morning where they talked about President Barack Obama's bus tour through western Illinois.

GOP national chairman Reince Priebus called it the "debt-end bus tour."

LISTEN: GOP Chairman Reince Priebus joins Don Wade and Roma http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=2263729&spid=17424

"There's a taxpayer paid campaign type event to create buzz and to create positive vibes for the president, paid for by the taxpayers and we're calling him out on it," Priebus said.

Also on with Don and Roma, Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock (R-18th), who reacted to news that Obama's two buses, worth about $1.1 million each, were built in Canada.

"Well, I guess he not only likes Canadian health care, but he likes Canadian RV's," Schock said.

LISTEN: Ill. Congressman Aaron Schock (R-18th) joins Don Wade and Roma http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=2263677&spid=17424

Schock called the purchase of the two motorcoaches "more liberal duplicity," saying Obama is the same president who included a Made in America provision in his stimulus bill.

Schock slammed Obama for being out of touch with the average American his bus tour is meant to reach out to.

"It is the height of hypocrisy and, more importantly, it shows his disconnect between where the normal average ordinary American is, which is out of work. 9.2 percent unemployment and this guy has the audacity to go and spend $2 million of taxpayer money to buy two of these motorcoaches for a three day trip," Shock said.

The president is holding two town hall meetings Wednesday in the tiny towns of Atkinson and Alpha, Illinois. He'll then return to Washington for the start of a vacation.

http://www.wlsam.com//Article.asp?id=2263832

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Obama bus tour finally stimulates something: More photoshop mockery

By Michelle Malkin • August 18, 2011 09:14 AM

President Obama can head to Martha’s Vineyard flush with pride at the success of his jobs bus tour. It has finally stimulated something: More photoshop mockery!

Doug Powers kicked things off earlier this month with this classic:







And citizenbrad added this one:



Doug Ross obtained the exclusive blueprints of the Tragical Misery Tour express:



Heckuva jobs bus tour, Barry!

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Another one from debsinger2:



http://michellemalkin.com/2011/08/18/ob ... p-mockery/