McCain Blasts Obama for Using a Canadian Bus for American Jobs Tour
EmailSenator John McCain, R-Ariz., today responded to President Obama’s criticism of the recently released Republican jobs plan in the Senate by throwing back a fiery criticism of Obama’s jobs bus tour this week.
“I’ve never seen an uglier bus than the Canadian one he’s traveling around on – a Canadian bus touting American jobs. So — and one of the reasons why Americans and I and my colleagues are a bit skeptical, because we’ve seen this movie before,” McCain said on the Senate floor this afternoon.
McCain questioned whether it is appropriate for Obama to be traveling on the taxpayers dime, saying the president is “clearly campaigning,” because he’s visiting areas of the country “that have a lot to do in the view of many with the upcoming electoral calendar.”
In Asheville, N.C. today, the first stop of a three-day bus tour that will bring the president to Virginia as well, Obama said the Senate Republicans’ jobs plan amounted to little more than a plan to “gut regulations…to let Wall Street do whatever it wants….to drill more…(And) to repeal health care reform. That’s their jobs plan.”
Responded McCain, “I was somewhat taken aback since the president and his spokesperson had billed his trip as a taxpayer paid visit. And in his remarks, the president was very strongly condemning of the plan that we have put forward. In fact, remember, my colleagues and friends, the president made these remarks on a taxpayer-paid-for, riding in a Canadian bus, visit for the next three days.”
McCain defended the Republicans’ plan, released last Thursday, saying it is a “commonsense alternative” to the Democratic plan. He called President Obama’s plan just another stimulus.
“It didn’t work. It added to our debt and deficit, and we lost jobs,” McCain said.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, McCain’s famous “Straight Talk Express” bus also bore the imprint of Prevost, the same Canadian company that designed the shell/chassis of Obama’s government-owned bus.
In August the U.S. Secret Service said it selected Prevost because it’s the only company that made a bus large enough for its security needs. The agency then had it built out and outfitted by the American company Hemphill Bros.
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During the 2008 presidential campaign, McCain’s famous “Straight Talk Express” bus also bore the imprint of Prevost, the same Canadian company that designed the shell/chassis of Obama’s government-owned bus.
McChain running around the country in a bus from the same company and he got the nerve to call the presidents bus ugly, I guess your bus was also ugly!!!
Posted by: myopinionpal | October 17, 2011, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
I guess your bus was also ugly!!!
POSTED BY: MYOPINIONPAL | OCTOBER 17, 2011, 5:46 PM++This one is much uglier since a arrogant condescending jackass is riding in it.
Posted by: wact1 | October 17, 2011, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm
Give me a break, how silly are the republicans getting. McCain is angry because his bill is a joke
Posted by: tmferretti | October 17, 2011, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm
Was McCain’s bus paid for by taxpayers? I doubt it.
Posted by: Jack | October 17, 2011, 7:40 pm 7:40 pm
McCain, as a candidate, would have had to pay for his bus, from his campaign, and NOT from tax payer dollars. I suspect McCain’s was a lot less expensive, as well.
Obama never does anything that isn’t “Royal” class. He does, after all, have delusions of grandeur.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | October 17, 2011, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm
Obama is promoting jobs in a Canadian made bus – McCain was not – Obama is using tax payer dollars to buy foreign goods – McCain used his own money — BIG differences
Posted by: AmericanandProud | October 17, 2011, 9:06 pm 9:06 pm
Everyone keep saying Obama is using taxpayer money for the bus but what I read was that the Secret Servce and not Obama bought the bus and it also said tha they bought two buses the other for the republican nominee.So I guess its ok for the republican nominee to ride in a ugly bus paid for with taxpayer money.
Posted by: myopinionpal | October 17, 2011, 9:50 pm 9:50 pm
McCain is a corrupted RINO . He is up to something fishy, period. Keating Five is on his resume , Is it not ?
Marverick my foot. The man kisses both aisle derriere for his own good.
Posted by: acdc2012 | October 18, 2011, 2:03 am 2:03 am
McCain commenting on a bus show’s his ignorance….he has nothing else to say so he get simple…simple man….so sad. He has a retarded hand…no one is calling that ugly….well his whole attitude is ugly, what a dumbass!!!!
Posted by: Dennis Wooten | October 18, 2011, 7:14 am 7:14 am
Over 70% of the $1.1M for one of these buses comes back to American companies. So calling it a Canadian bus is an insult to American manufacturing.
Tax payer dollars were spent on McCain’s bus in 2008. Within 90 days of the election, the secret service is obligated to provide all security upgrades when the bus is put in service and then they have to do all the work to remove all the security mods when use of the bus is over. That’s tax payer dollars. And whether its campaigning or government work or just a vacation doesn’t matter with the President, they are obligated to provide security in any case.
Posted by: AC Points | October 18, 2011, 7:26 am 7:26 am
McCain you are so two faced. I am so glad I left the Republican Party and voted for President O’Bama….At least he has intergity which is superior to you…. Candian Bus…..Really????? Interesting or did you think the American people would be to dumb that we wouldn’t figure it out your bus was from the same Canadian manufacture….All of you can dish it out all day long but you sure can’t take it..I am so glad you will be gone.You forgot where you came from, and you served our country but that doesn’t make you entitled either. You are no longer for the American people. You should have left while you were on top, because you are not leaving on a high note……So very disappointed in you. You use to be my hero…..
Posted by: Sandra Carnage | October 18, 2011, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm
How pathetic….how misdirectional hypocritical McCain and the GOP has become. But it is obvious that they are only capable of negative distractions, obstructions and ‘soundbites’ because of the ‘level of intelligence’ of the base that they ‘pander’ to.
Posted by: CND FOX | October 18, 2011, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm
As usual, you liberal fruitcakes defending every inept action by this soon-to-be one-termer, totally miss the point being made…taxpayers SHOULD NOT be flipping such a hefty bill for Obama’s campaign that he continues to disguise as some “tour”. It’s a pathetic lie, yet there’s liberal impeciles and soon to be extinct Obamabots falling for his lies once again. Maybe another hi-security bus ought to be manufactured specifically for Obama’s teleprompter that was stolenn in Virginia today. I’m sure you numbnuts can justify that seeing your messiah is useless without one.
Posted by: Gunner_1959 | October 18, 2011, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm
The way we got out of the great depression was though government spending, whether it was by FDR’s alphabet soup of jobs programs or the spending to finance WWII doesn’t matter. It worked then and it would work now if the republicans would get the hell out of the way. It seems a qualification to be a republican is you’re not allowed to read history.
Instead the republicans insist on creating these monuments to stupidity like a balanced budget. A balanced budget is no solace to someone who is out of work, trying to pay the rent and put food on the table. Do they even believe that America is hurting, it seems not? They fiddle while Rome burns. Nero would be a front runner in the republican nomination process.
Posted by: tmferretti | October 18, 2011, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm
Oh give me a break, its 2011 every piece of machinery is made with parts from all over, you really thing all the steel, engine parts, tires and seats were all in canada? get a clue. everytime you see a chrysler 300 drive down the street, thats a canadian built product and ford f150′s have been the best selling vehicle in canada for decades.
Bottomline if your getting angry because the president bought a bus that happened to be built in canada, take your eyes off the new all american chevrolet camaro and the all american lincoln town car amongst many other models, its called free trade for a reason, americans build parts canadians build cars and other stuff and vice versa if your really think that all those flatscreens and satellite technology installed in that vehicle all came from canada you have a screw loose.
Whats next? some lawmaker is gonna get scolded for using an iphone because assembled in china, you have no idea how blatantly immature and idiotic that lawmakers are people to spy on who made your bus they are using YOUR TAX DOLLARS to do it. What do think costs more, politicians investigating the origins of other politicians underwear 24/7 365 days a year or those buses? Time for america to get its priorities straight and stop crying about buses that were probably built with a lot of american made parts anyway.
You guys should be focused on whats important not trying to get the president to rip sony flatscreens off the wall to help create jobs. smfh
Posted by: rinaldo | October 22, 2011, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm
It always gives me a laugh when I hear ‘American’ used as it is these days, and wonder what ever happened to the meaning of words. Does incorrect usage now define our language?
Posted by: warren currier | January 4, 2012, 11:08 am 11:08 am