Pic Of The Moment: Romney Kicks Off Six-State Bus Tour

[EarlG]

Mitt Romney's tour bus has wings

[Smilo]

1. Hmmm - may be I could buy one for the family...........

just think how many dogs we can put on the roof................ call up the elevator company and ask them to install an elevator to accommodate this bus thing.

[tclambert]

15. "Minions! Fetch me more dogs!"

[Alcibiades]

2. I think the house in Malibu is going to need

a bigger elevator.

[anon-y-moose]

3. there are 2 kinds of people....

those who buy their food
and
those who don't

[Blue Owl]

4. "And sometimes, the regular people eat a "do-nut" on the way to work

Yes, it's true, Mitt!

[Initech]

5. "And Mr. Romney - there's also this thing people buy lunch at it's called a drive thru."

"That's that thing I see cars parked at occasionally - so that's what regular folks do!"

[Blue Owl]

6. LOL -- one wonders if Romney has ever tasted ketchup?

n/t

[Initech]

7. I'd really like to see Romney at a professional baseball game.

"Some of my best friends are baseball team owners."

[chknltl]

8. Thom Hartmann just talked about this pic and cited us!

T. Jefferson said that democracy requires an enlightened electorate. Thom Hartmann is just one man but he is doing one heck of a job to enlighten the electorate.

Years ago DU held a poll, who was their favorite Senator. Do you suppose it was a Democrat? (We are the Democratic Underground afterall!) No, by an overwhelming majority, Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont won. Senator Sanders spends an hour each Friday on the Thom Hartmann Show chatting with Thom and his callers.

If you do not know Thom Hartmann my fellow DUers, Google his name, check out his shows check out any of his many books. Imo, this man is a hero to American democracy and wanna know something else??? He is a fellow DUer too! nuff said.

[freshwest]

9. +1,000

[90-percent]

16. that damn Thom

Always plagiarizing DU for his progressive material!

JUST KIDDING!

Thom is all over corporate personhood, to the point of writing more than one book about it!

It would be nice to see Thom more often on the MSNBC prime time shows.

Thom is also really good at explaining progressive taxation and it's historical benefits to making a more equal society.

It's going to take generations to repair our current state of economic inequality and it's going to take the likes of many Thom Hartmann's to educate the electorate about how the monied have been gaming the system to benefit themselves at the expense of those in the bottom 99%.

However, this time around economic inequality may have gone past the point of any form of repair at all. The wealthy have purchased our entire Democracy in toto.

BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU'VE GOT!

-90% Jimmy

[chknltl]

18. perhaps the 99% are still in the fight.

First I take courage from Thom Hartmann....he has yet to run up the white flag when it comes to America's democracy. That does not mean imo that we haven't passed the tipping point.....just that Thom hasn't gone there. Many here have and reading their posts can lead one to want to just give up.

An even bigger source of hope regarding the viability of our democracy for me comes from these two interconnected questions:
If our democracy is gone, (if We The People are no longer in control over our government), then why the farce of elections?
If our elections are a farce then why are the corporatists perpetuating election fraud so extensively?

Yes, I can answer those two questions in a way that paints our democracy as gone...that all We The People have left is a second revolutionary war, something along the way of the French Revolution, but I just dont 'feel' that we are there yet.

One of Thom's guests, Dr. Ravi Batra(sp?), gives me further hope. I know verrrry little about economics but things he says 'feel' right. If as he says, enough of our citizenry feel the bite hard enough from the corporatists, this will trigger a pushback, (hopefully peaceful), and usher in a new Golden Age in American economics. History shows us examples so perhaps he has it right.

Sorry for the rant.

[freshwest]

10. Pronounced 'mah-va-lus!'

[underpants]

11. "Romney to bus a move" - CNN

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/11/romney-to-bus-a-move/

[siligut]

12. I have been seeing this all day, but just now I read "Romney Kicked Off Bus Tour", I was so happy. .

Just for a second I was happy Romney somehow got his due for being such a turd. But, alas, it was just my eyes and wishful thinking.

[Overseas]

13. K&R. Well done!

[tclambert]

14. "Ride in one? Can't I just stand in the door and wave for photos?"

"Then the limo can take me to Koch Industries' G5."

[anon-y-moose]

17. Romney's bus

Last edited Sat Jun 16, 2012, 08:25 PM - Edit history (1)

Romney's bus


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$8,500.00 per flight hour



The competition

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$179,750.00 per flight hour



I know why the cost is so high first hand because the secret service used to stay at the hotel where for
a summer job I was driving the airport van/limo and bellman.

This was in the 1980's

The SS would fly in a day before and bring the president's car plus SS vehicles.

The SS was always very courteous and polite to me and they always woulds tip me the same amount.

They didn't hang out at the hotel bar and turned in early.

Now they many times dispatch an airborne tanker from a military base in case of emergency.

With the press and assorted staff in including lodging and meals you can see where $179,750.00 per flight hour adds up.

[James48]

19. Romney bus detours- "WA-WA".prefect place for the cry-baby.

A handful of protesters sends Romney bus tour into panic.

They re-route to another town, and go to a different "WA-WA"

QUAKERTOWN, Pa. - The Romney bus tour hit a speed bump today when more than a hundred protesters showed up at a gas station where the presumptive GOP presidential candidate was scheduled to make a stop, and the candidate's motorcade quickly rerouted to another location just three miles away.

Romney himself acknowledged the change in venue - his fourth scheduled stop on a five-day, six-state bus tour - while shaking hands with voters inside a WaWa gas station.

"I was asked, I think you asked me, why we're at this Wawa, instead of the other WaWa? I understand I had a surrogate over there already, so we decided to pick a different place," said Romney, who when initially asked about the change had joked that he had moved "just to get a good sandwich."

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/romneys-bus-tour-hits-speed-bump-reroutes-due-184104480--abc-news-politics.html