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Take a look at this Associated Press story:

Bush Tour Bus Made in Canada

MAUMEE, Ohio - President Bush (news - web sites) rode across Ohio on Monday in a bus emblazoned, "Yes, America can." It turns out the bus was made in Canada.

The front of the bus bore another label: Prevost Car, jointly owned by the Swedish Volvo Bus Corp. and Britain's Henly's Group PLC. Prevost's manufacturing facility is in St. Claire, Quebec.

Foreign-made vehicles are a touchy topic in the job-strapped industrial Midwest -- states like Michigan and Ohio, which Bush has been touring for two days.

"Seeing the president drive around in this Canadian-made luxury bus is just another reminder of George Bush's failed economic policies and underscores that it's time for a change," said Phil Singer, a spokesman for Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites)'s campaign.

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On the Net:

Kerry campaign: http://www.johnkerry.com

Notice anything funny about it? Notice how they only show one side of the story? They note that Bush is riding on a foreign-made bus through the center of America's home of the auto industry. Then they note that the job market in this area isn't doing so well. Then the author rounds off the article with a snarky comment from the Kerry campaign and a link to the Kerry campaign website. All that's missing is a "Donate Now" button.

What's missing is the other side of the story. They don't even have the "The Bush campaign declined to comment" line in the article, which leads me to believe that they didn't even try to get a comment from the campaign on this story. And where's the link to Bush's campaign website? Wasn't bush the subject of the article? Kerry wasn't even mentioned outside of a quote from a member of his campaign site, yet he gets the link? What's that all about?

As far as the bus being from Canada, its not that big of a deal. You see, George Bush is a free-trade candidate. He's all about bringing foreign products into our country and exporting products to other countries. He's about making American companies compete with foreign companies for business. The fact that he chose to ride around in a foreign-made bus shouldn't really come as a surprise.

If this were John Kerry it'd be different. Kerry has complained again and again about the number of jobs being sent overseas, so if he were caught in a foreign-made bus there'd be something to the story.

Here are some photos of the bus(es) in question:







Here's a screen-shot of the AP article as well.