FAIL! Obama didn't ride his $2.2 million Canadian bus on 3-day bus tour, took Airforce 1 instead. Buses FLOWN too! Carbon footprint bigger than Hurricane Irene

That misery bus tour Obama embarked on cost US taxpayers far more than the $2.2 million for a set of big, black, scary buses. Turns out, that money was spent on expensive props, because those Obama didn't actually ride around in those expensive Canadian-built buses. He took Airforce 1 instead. The buses were purely for show. Via moonbattery: Obama’s Flying Magical Misery Tour Buses

Remember how Comrade Obama reached out to the Heartland he so clearly despises with a Midwestern bus tour? He blew $2.2 million on twin Canadian-made buses for the tour. But spending our money on sinister-looking buses is one thing; actually riding them is another. The Manchurian Moonbat actually flew from point to point, then rode a bus from the airport for show:

 

Oh but it gets even better. Or worse as the case may be. The big, bad buses WERE FLOWN from location to location. From RedState: President Obama has Tour Buses Flown to Stump Speeches

According to some sources he hasn’t really been riding these buses much at all.  They say, he’s been flying them.

Apparently President Obama only rode the buses for a couple of miles at a time, spending the rest of the time flying from community to community in Air Force One. What’s more, the buses were flown from stop to stop as well. It’s normal practice for the President’s entire motorcade to be loaded up on cargo planes and flown from destination to destination. The buses were just a new part of that motorcade.

But why wouldn’t the presidential limousine have sufficed? Or one of the other armored vehicles that routinely travel with the President? Apparently because the President wanted the imagery of a bus. And buses are what he got.

So good news America! If these reports are true, then not only do you get the pleasure of having a $1.1 million dollar bus carting the President around to “enlist” voters to fight for his reelection, but you get to marvel at the hypocrisy of an administration hell bent on destroying industries with carbon footprints too large for comfort, while they themselves are flying entire caravans of SUVs and buses in giant 747s flanked by fighter jets.

All so the president can travel a couple of miles per stop with the image that he’s on the ground with the people when in reality, he couldn’t be more detached from them, their problems, or this continually declining economy.  You couldn’t ask for a better metaphor.

Indeed. And here conservatives like myself have been opining that the misery bus tour never seemed to quite get off the ground. How wrong we were but in the literal sense...