So here's the question:How many planes has Barack Obama had on this campaign?
I've seen a number of stories about his different planes, but generally candidates fly on chartered birds, I believe. And I think this is the first one with its own Lord Utmost Obama X logo on the tail.
So what have I been able to find in ten minutes of seaching the inter-web thingy?
In January, the Chicago Tribune reported the campaign's acquisition of a new 737-800. But in July, when his plane was diverted due to mechanical trouble, he was on a chartered MD-80 according to the New York Times.
The biggest story here, I think, is the relevancy. Political blogs are abuzz with people (supporters, mostly) who wonder what's so gosh-darn important about Obama having a new plane that it has to be reported by three mainstream reporters. But the way I see it, it goes to the character issue.
Like Al "Alpha-Male" Gore before him, the Lord Utmost Obama X has announced his intention for the federal government to require sweeping changes in the way virtually every American business operates, in order to appease the hardcore environmentalist lobby. Forced carbon emission reduction, Cap-and-Trade, and other expensive and unproven programs like Carbon Sequestration, will allow both the US federal government and foreign-run "environmental courts" to tax, fine, limit and alter fundamental business practices, based on still-unproven environmental theory. It's impossible to add up the moneys spent in the various environmental programs on his website, but the first number is $150 BILLION.
So I think it's only fair to ask about the carbon emissions from this latest 757 - evidently his (at least) third upgrade in seven months.
Also, in the beginning days of this campaign, I remember hearing a lot from the mainstream media about health care. At the core of the issue was the notion that so many Americans couldn't afford to have adequate health care insurance. Lord Utmost Obama X's solution was to increase taxes on private companies, limit some companies' profits, and spend billions of dollars establishing at least six different federal agencies to oversee the forced allowance of the uninsurable into government-administered (but still privately funded?!) insurance policies.
So I think it's only fair to ask how many Americans could have paid for their own health care insurance with the $300,000 that his new plane's paint job is reported to have cost.
And this is the part that really kills me - Our Friend Barry has made a political career out of convincing grassroots supporters, poor people who really can't afford health care, don't have jobs, can't pay their rent, etc, that he understands them. He feels them. He's po' like they is. After all, he's only a community organizer at heart, right? Somehow, people are turning out in droves to ignore the hundred-million-dollar incomes, the fancy millionaire mansions, the limousines and private Gulfstreams that surround the Holy Freshman and his entourage. But when this multi-million-dollar Boeing 757 arrives in Jordan with Obama's personal, focus-group-approved logo plastered on the tail, this bold new statement in the politics of American elitism won't go unnoticed.
He was right about one thing: He's not pursuing politics as usual. What he's doing is far, far worse.
