Blah, blah, debt ceiling, economy, taxes, blah.
Who cares about all that when President Obama is riding around in a bus that cost more than a million bucks! No, we're not kidding. The Secret Service purchased a bus to protect the Commander in Chief, and according to the AP, it's the size of a cross-country Greyhound bus. The sleek black vehicle even features red and blue flashing lights so you know exactly who is coming 'round the bend.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan wouldn't dish on the "design or capability" of the bus, but we're going to make some guesses. We think it's probably made of gold, and just painted black so that it doesn't blind other drivers. Surely it features a flux capacitor, moon landing gear, and a Jetson's-style robot to attend to the Obama family's needs. We'd also bet that inside, it's exactly like the bus from the "Spice World" movie.
Who cares about all that when President Obama is riding around in a bus that cost more than a million bucks! No, we're not kidding. The Secret Service purchased a bus to protect the Commander in Chief, and according to the AP, it's the size of a cross-country Greyhound bus. The sleek black vehicle even features red and blue flashing lights so you know exactly who is coming 'round the bend.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan wouldn't dish on the "design or capability" of the bus, but we're going to make some guesses. We think it's probably made of gold, and just painted black so that it doesn't blind other drivers. Surely it features a flux capacitor, moon landing gear, and a Jetson's-style robot to attend to the Obama family's needs. We'd also bet that inside, it's exactly like the bus from the "Spice World" movie.
- 8/17/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
It will be some time yet before Malia and Sasha Obama are old enough to drive, but here's hoping they have more luck than Jenna Bush Hager. The former first daughter's Secret Service van was towed in Baltimore last week for unpaid tickets, The Washington Post's Reliable Source column has been reporting - at the same time raising the question of why the former White House resident still has a security detail two months after her father left office. For that, the paper found out, Hager can thank the current occupant of her former residence, President Obama. "There's a transition...
- 3/24/2009
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
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