Too good to pass up.
Obama’s battle bus no symbol of hope
In British elections we’re used to what we call “battle buses”, cheerfully painted wagons, festooned with party slogans and colours.
US President Barack Obama has embarked on his first bus tour in office.
But his vehicle for the trip through the rural parts of three Midwestern states looks like it really is heading for a battle.
Big, blocky, black, with painted-out windows, it looks more like a police mortuary van than a symbol of hope arriving on your street.
If this doesn't say Hope, nothing does
It is a ponderous business campaigning when you are president, all that need for protection and the weight of office on your shoulders.
Two years in, the problems you inherited are now the problems you own. Part of Obama’s message is that it is not his recession, not his fault. It’s the blame game.
In a nutshell, stripped of rhetoric, this is what he is saying on the campaign trail:
President George Bush caused America’s huge debt by running up the bills for two wars on credit
Growth is returning to the economy but America’s recovery has been damaged by accidents, such as the Japanese earthquake, that no-one could have forseen or prevented
He has plenty of ideas to bring jobs back, but Republicans in Congress who put point-scoring before their country are blocking them.
Obama’s Pity Party bus is missing something………oh yeah…..
These pictures are darkly poetic and metaphorical: In them we see Obama venturing out to the economic battlefield to survey the jobs his policies have killed and observe the recovery that lies bleeding and near death.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.