Day Two of our non-election year, non-campaign Barry O’Bama Road Show and Big Black Bus Tour rolled through heartland yesterday to mostly rave reviews.
The pies received especially high marks:
Homemade? Really? I’ll take one for Michelle.
Multi-million dollar Winnebago, check. Multi-billion dollar plane, check. All we need now is that multi-zillion dollar high-speed train to nowhere to complete our journey.
The usual bus load of partisan sycophants supporters were present at all scheduled stops. However, someone forgot to check credentials closely enough and we wound up with a few Tea Party terrorists on the rope line asking inappropriate questions.
Butt allow me to start at the top with a recap of yesterday: Cannon Falls, no problem.
Bucolic BO: on the river of tranquility
Can you believe it! That backdrop - it’s real! Not from central casting. Cannon Falls. Who knew there was such a thing in nature?
Then lunch at the local deli: Would you look at the size of that turkey? The sandwich, I mean.
As it turns out, the sighting of wild turkeys yesterday was a bad omen.
Decorah however was not quite as, uh… decorous. Just look at those angry white tea partiers badgering Big Guy! I might have expected such behavior in Wisconsin, butt not Iowa.
Angry White Mob. And they look like racists too. You can tell because they’re wearing jackets. And Big Guy’s not.
Sheesh, Big Guy can’t even work a rope line any more without being accosted by these people. No wonder they keep getting accused of being terrorists. Just because we said this is a non-campaign listening tour doesn’t mean Big Guy actually wants to listen to their nonsense. What he meant was, he talks, you listen.
The rest of the exchange in Decorah, at the Seed Savers, went much smoother. Big Guy was sooo in his element with the hayseeds and the barn.
Big Guy, planting the seeds of CHANGE at the Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, IA
In fact, he even started to look like our American Idol again, don’t you think?
Just a little bit country…
So anyway, Bo took the opportunity to let people know in no uncertain terms that he was going to present an economic plan of his own – sometime in September. After the vacay. And after he gets his economic band back together. And when he has enough time to squeeze in a meeting to brief them on his plans.
Actually, whether you’ve noticed or not, Big Guy’s pretty much completed his economic “blueprint for America.” He’s decided to set up a taxpayer funded infrastructure bank (to build GE’s high-speed train and off-ramp-to-nowhere), extend the payroll tax holiday(one of the “Bush tax cuts”), extend unemployment benefits, and increase taxes on the wealthiest Americans, like him, who can afford to pay a little more.
Since he’s already got his blueprint, his assignment is finished! When BO gets back from the Vineyard all he has to do is hand it off to Congress who naturally won’t pass it so he came blame them for the inevitable cascading depression. It sounds like we’ve got our election strategy wrapped up too: “find someone’s ass to kick.”
At the Cannon Falls meeting, Obama reiterated recent themes blaming economic problems in part on turmoil in the Mideast, debt problems in Europe and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, but he said the biggest problem was intransigence in Washington, particularly among Republicans unwilling to accept any tax increases to help solve the nation's budget problems.Boy, good stuff like that just never gets old.
Today: we’re on to Peosta, Iowa. Big Guy will be meeting with members of the White House Rural Council - that he created in June to report on the economic climate in rural America. That’s bound to be good for a laugh. And maybe another turkey sandwich.
I’m looking forward to more pictures from the road today. Yesterday’s BBBT Map produced a priceless retro-gem for the Big White Big Black Bus Tour scrapbook:
Of course, the Secret Service took the signs down while doing their security sweep. Some people thought it was treasonous.
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