Bush's "tour bus" for the 2004 campaign made in CANADA!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/05/campaign.buses.ap/index.html

[RobertSeattle]

1. Wow - cnn.com - cool.

I've seen this on a couple blogs - but this is the first link I've seen from the "mainstream" press.

[papau]

11. GOP claim Kerry's bus prior week was same manufacturer in Canada!

But provide no proof!

[Neecy]

2. jeebus

Whoever is running the Bush* campaign certainly hasn't done a very good job, first with the coffin and fake firemen ad and now this (which is only going to remind the industrial upper midwest how nothing is made here anymore).

Be glad, very glad, that Bush* has such incompetent ninnies running his campaign. I just hope that Kerry starts to capitalize on some of this crap --

[Kukesa]

3. What am I missing?

I read the article (your link) and it states that Kerry's leased campaign bus was also made in Canada.

Help me out here, I'm kinda new.

[KensPen]

4. it's a NON issue to me

It's the type of fluff Republican's always make into a big deal,
and I roll my eyes......

the banner I will wave is the deception of the Medicare bill,
and the use of the Afghan money to plan war in Iraq,

these are ISSUES.

[RobertSeattle]

7. It is a non issue

But just think of the "foaming at the mouth" by RW'ers if Drudge had learned about this when Kerry was renting a "French Canadian made Bus" and plastered it on his webpage. Hannity, Rush, et all would have devoted at least an hour to this "issue".

[Kukesa]

8. OK, I think I get it now.

Thanx.

n/t

[papau]

12. A lease of a standard bus - versus a half million on modified luxury bus?

:-)

?????

:-)

[AlCzervik]

5. see this thread

we even photo shopped some pics

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1528957

[iverglas]

6. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1528957&mesg_id=1528957

From the CNN article:

"As President Bush says, 'economic isolationism' would derail our recovery and kill jobs," Stanzel said.

Actually, he's right. And criticism of his choice of bus *is* economic isolationalism, and is neither informed nor effective policy.

Anyone who wants to understand the reality of the Canada-US Auto Pact -- FAIR "free trade" -- is welcome to read my posts in the thread linked above.

Automotive trade between Canada and the US benefits both parties, just like "free trade" is supposed to do. Anyone jumping on this particular bus to derail Bush is engaging in pure demagoguery.

And anyone who abolished the Auto Pact under which the bus was produced and imported -- which is *not* part of FTA or NAFTA -- would probably find jobs becoming even scarcer in the US automotive industry, as Canada closed its borders to US products, and find those jobs becoming a good deal less well-paid, as the industry's security and the pressure on US industry wages from high wages in Canada was removed.

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[workforpower]

9. Oh MY!

How many times has this been posted. And of course who really cares.

[zappaman]

10. big deal

so what?
it's just as "important" and "relevant" as john kerry's haircut.