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It seems like all of the presidential candidates are taking a page out of Sarah Palin’s handbook because this week, everybody is on a bus.

While the GOP’s top tier members ride through early primary states, President Obama is taking his case to the Midwest .

The bus tour gives the “campaigner in chief” a chance to be seen beyond his day-to-day Washington backdrop.

Of course, not everybody is impressed.

The RNC describes the president’s effort to engage in a public dialogue about job growth and the economy at town halls and economic forums as ‘a totally non-political taxpayer-funded administration event that just happens to criss-cross several battleground states critical to the president’s re-election’ in the Obama critique, which is disguised as a briefing book.”

No word yet on their reaction to Rick Perry’s new ride.