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But the White House said the bus tour was official business with all costs Clip In Hair Extensions covered by taxpayers, not from Obama’s campaign coffers.
Onlookers lined the streets in front of gas stations, fast-food restaurants and shopping malls as Obama’s bus, with dark-tinted windows and red and blue flashing lights, led a long motorcade across the green, rolling hills.
Some cheered and snapped photos with their cellphones but a few turned their thumbs down as the string of vehicles passed, and others held protest signs including one reading: “No more massive government spending programs. They don’t work.”
The bus tour is taking place well over a year before the election, during a period when incumbent presidents generally are spending their campaign time raising money.
Obama’s focus on retail politicking at this stage suggests he realizes he has a tough road in 2012 and has to start early to hammer home his message that Republicans are refusing to join with him in finding ways to fix the U.S. economy.
In Millers Creek, Obama derided the jobs plan Republicans presented last week as an attempt to roll back environmental standards and Wall Street regulations without having the wealthy pay any more taxes to help those struggling.
But Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, said the Republican ideas that would Long Feather earrings require a balanced budget, promote foreign trade and push offshore energy exploration would have a more meaningful jobs impact than the “sugar high” of Obama’s recommended stimulus.
Buck also questioned why Obama was on the road and not working with lawmakers to find compromise. “This bus tour looks a lot like the kind of political game the president has said the American people are tired of,” he said.
At a Southern barbecue restaurant where Obama stopped for lunch, diners expressed mixed views of the Democrat’s record.
“This isn’t ‘Obama Country’ but I voted for him once and I’ll vote for him again,” said Howard Ward, 76, a retired textile manager. “He’s doing the best he can with jobs. But it’s going to be very close in this state in 2012.”
An elderly woman sitting nearby shook her head as she ate a barbecue chicken sandwich. “He hasn’t done anything to fix the economy. He doesn’t deserve a second chance,” she said.
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