The sickening part is taxpayers are footing the bill for this three-day campaign tour through battleground states.

US President Barack Obama (C) gets in his bus after speaks at the Asheville Regional Airport in Fletcher, North Carolina, on October 17, 2011 during the first day of his three-day American Jobs Act bus tour to discuss jobs and the economy. (AFP Photo/Jewel Samad)

U.S. President Barack Obama steps aboard his bus upon his arrival in Asheville, North Carolina, October 17, 2011. Obama is traveling to North Carolina and Virginia on a three-day bus tour to push the American Jobs Act. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)