Under the Bus and Inside the Bus

[Whisp]

Under the Bus and Inside the Bus

The term ‘throwing someone under the bus’ is used here many times and frankly, too many times for my taste of overused phrases. It basically means when one is thrown under the bus, they are made the scapegoat or blamed for something that wasn't their responsibility in the first place and used as a distraction or cover-up for anothers mistakes. Obama has been accused of hurling scores of people under fleets of buses.

Which itself is interesting, if he was successfully scapegoating others to make personal gain, he would be basking in a kind sun with a hero’s cape and not the object of such scorn and disrespect by a certain select and very loud few from the democratic camp that would like the rest of us think they are multiplying like tribbles, when in fact, they are not. All these ill gotten gains would have been achieved at the expense of the Underbus People. But wait, seeing as it’s not working, Obama is tossing these people under the bus in full view of all witnesses – but still hoping to somehow coverup his weaknesses and blame it on others? I don’t get it either.

The bus we should be thinking of is the one that Obama took over as driver for in January of 2008. A bus with more than 300 million people uncertain of their future after being under the rule of a President that has shamed the entire country with his folly and idiotcy and criminal behaviour.

So when Obama gets his keys, he finds out that the bus is in far worse shape than he had imagined. He always knew it would be difficult to get it roadworthy but someone had actually tampered with the safety features of the vehicle. He is driving as best and fast as he can to get to his destination, under harsher circumstances than he had anticipated in the midst of a cacophony of yelling passengers, map readers that think they know a better route, impatient passengers and ones that just sat there and complained about the décor of the bus and had given up before the first mile was reached.

The opposition did everything they could to delay his trip. They blocked roads with broken down GOPbuses, they made up lies that the media kept repeating over and over, they slashed tires and did whatever they could to hinder progress during each hard mile of the journey. Some of Obama’s own people began believing the lies and started to question him in the same tone as the people who left them this broken down bus.

‘’President Obama! Why don’t you show us all how angry you are about all this! Show them some Road Rage! Pound your fists, do something! Why aren’t we there yet? When will we get there? Obama, you let us down, you are driving too slow, you are driving too fast and being reckless. Obama you lied to us, you didn’t say we would have to take detours. Obama you are dishonest, your campaign promise #25 took you 4 days longer than you said! Obama I’m not voting for you I am going to sit you out!. Obama, your wife shouldn’t go on vacations with sleeveless blouses. Obama you should not take any vacations at all and if you do be sure to set up a poll so we can decide where you go and when and for how long. ‘’

So the noise continued to a fevered pitch and the bus windows were rattling and some of the people were all riled up and threatening to threaten, something. But most of the people were smiling and appreciated their driver and trusted he was the best person to get them to safety. The loud ones made it sound otherwise, but quiet doesn’t make noise.

And Obama remained calm and steady at the wheel and stayed concentrated on the road.

He knew it would be like this.

[CakeGrrl]

1. Hee hee - unrecced without comments. k/r

[damntexdem]

2. Well, we could always throw the phrase under the bus.

But Gibbs is still undermining the Party right before the Midterms. His bus is on the wrong road.

[zipplewrath]

3. All the while ignoring the bus mechanic in the front seat

he found people who claimed to know how buses worked because they used to be executives for bus companies. All the while ignoring the bus mechanic in the front seat that knew what was wrong.

[Demeter]

4. "Under the Bus" Also Means

that your hopes and dreams and basic needs and rights are denied, not to mention justice, fairness, and pursuit of happiness...

[Whisp]

6. urban dictionary doesn't quite put it that way

but there are many definitions and I could have missed it. Seems yours is the odd duck tho.

1. throw under the bus
to sacrifice some other person, usually one who is undeserving or at least vulnerable, to make personal gain.
He'd throw his mother under the bus if it'd mean he could beat the rap.

2. throw under the bus
One is thrown under the bus when they are made the scapegoat or blamed for something that wasn't their responsibility in the first place. A coverup for your mistake.
Ruby Red, I didn't have time to do the business report, so I threw you under the bus and told the boss it was your job instead.

3. throw under the bus
You get thrown under the bus when someone (usually a co-worker) reports some wrongdoing or slacking off to a superior or other influential person. Sometimes used with the suffix "Vrooooom!" to simulate the noise the bus would make as it passes by at a high rate of speed.
"Dicky George, I can't believe you just threw me under the bus."

4. throw under the bus
Physically throwing a person under a big, smelly city bus is the perfect metaphor for the act of positioning someone to be ground up under the wheels of the ever rolling omnibus of society in your stead. The bus carries people. The people's weight is what crushes the victim. This setting up of a patsy has an earlier, more agrarian beginning in "throwing him to the wolves." Someone is going down, it's not going to be you, so you select a candidate to feed into the system.
"Throw under the bus"
Every time the president gets in trouble, he'll throw another cabinet member under the bus.


7. throw under the bus 31 up, 64 down
buy throw under the bus mugs, tshirts and magnets
1. To denounce and reject a friend, mentor, relative, colleague, or casual acquaintance for the sake of political expediency.

2. Something that critics demand politicians do to the allegedly toxic people they are allegedly connected to. Only applies to black presidential candidates, who can throw their acquaintances under the bus repeatedly without ever satisfying the media's taste for roadkill. (ROFL)
January: Why doesn't Obama throw his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, under the bus?

May: Why did Obama wait so long to throw Wright under the bus?

June: Who else will Obama need to throw under the bus?
wake up america we are so screwed

[Demeter]

15. Definition 1

[Whisp]

17. yes, I suppose you could add that to the definition.

but it does get cumbersome. you get the same idea from the short versions.

[RandomThoughts]

5. Always is, and I think most of the Democrats are doing pretty good.

Although it is incredible how messed up the system is, although seems there is some movement in a better direction.

Personally I been thinking about beer money mostly today. Really doesn't play into the 300 million people, maybe a couple million people at most.

He has it really tough, how did things get so messed up?

[Whisp]

8. I wasn't sure of the number to use.

so I just went with Obama saying he is everyone's President. I rounded off a bit. haha

[RandomThoughts]

11. Yea, he has to handle issues with 300 million Americans.

And he also has made some great decisions on helping other people, the tragedy in Russia, and Pakistan is terrible, as was Hatti and the Oil spill.

Been a bit rough.

Trying not to think much on politics right now. I figure the problem is around probably less then 5% of the people. Probably true for the world also.

[Steely_Dan]

7. Apparently...

...someone needs to teach Obama how to drive a stick.

[Whisp]

9. would be nice if every new President got a brand new bus.

but they always get hand me downs.

[Steely_Dan]

10. Or Maybe...

...he should not stop to help fix the broken down buses left in his path.

[Whisp]

12. he's not fixing them, he has to go around them or push them out of the way.

You might think that Obama is being a softy on the GOP by talking about nonparitisanship so often and so called giving in to them. But the fact remains he has to get that out into the public, that the GOP is the party of No, they will not contribute anything positive and stand in the way of progress and improvement. He has to say this repeatedly because the damn media sure won't.

To you it looks weak, to me it looks like it's the only way to get the message out that the GOP are obstructionists. And perhaps force to media to cast a short glance at that story where otherwise they would ignore it.

[Steely_Dan]

13. Whisp....I understood your story.

In fact, it is very well written. I just don't agree with it. My point was that he should not be assisting the Republicans in the name of naive "cooperation." They are never going to give him the time of day...or credit when he folds to their will.

Look...I think Mr. Obama is a real nice guy. I think he means well and is sincere. I'm just beginning to think that he really doesn't have the political chops I thought he had. It is one thing to "try" and fail, it is quite another not to try at all.

I still hope that he finds his way...for the sake of our country's future.

-PLA

[Whisp]

14. I look at that 'cooperation' a different way.

Its not weak to me. Its offering to be an adult to a bunch of stubborn children, which the GOP is acting like - in front of the whole country Obama showed them up to be the whiney shits they are. It may have sounded repetitive and ineffective to us that have a larger diet of cable news than the average person, but that repetition I think did it's job in getting that very important message out to a larger audience. I am surprised the news channels played it as often as they did, but I am supposing they looked at it as something that would do bad for Obama, instead of good.

It's important you look like the adult in charge looking to settle matters in a mature way. Obama blustering back in the same way those Orange idiots do would not get the right message out.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

16. Obama is busily converting the bus to an electric one

It gets into the bus depot in 2016

[CTLawGuy]

18. I always thought it meant

when members of a group explicitly reject one of their own, rhetorically casting them out of favor with the group.

[ruggerson]

19. That is exactly what it means n/t