With all the reporters trailing Barack Obama, it was only a matter of time before someone started taking photos of the Democratic candidate's campaign plane interior. (Interestingly, the photos appear on CBS News' "On The Road" blog, whose logo is that of a coach bus, not the 757 that Obama is running around the country in.) As expected, Obama is traveling in a world of luxury: the front part of the cabin dedicated to Obama is outfitted with La-Z-Boy-esque seating and plenty of space. Chairs are custom-fitted with "Obama '08" logos. There's a table of cheeses already ready.
But all that's for the candidate. What are conditions like for the media, who are paying thousands of dollars for the privilege of stalking Obama?
There are five sections on the 757, the first of which is Obama’s section, which can seat up to eight people at a time, although rarely are all eight seats taken. Depending on the destination or length of trip, Sen. Obama is joined by body man Reggie Love and a few senior staff members or perhaps a key Senate colleague. Recently, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., hitched a ride from Washington, D.C., to her home state for a full day of campaign events.
The next two sections are outfitted with expansive business class seats for senior and junior level staff including Obama’s media team, which films all of the candidate’s events for promotional purposes.
The back two sections are traditional coach seats where the Secret Service, reporters, cameramen and some of the communications staff sit.
That means a pitiful 31-32 inches of legroom, for those keeping track.
[CBS]
You might want to ask your State representative energy conservation? How much gas, oil and electricity we could save, if we sent illegal aliens packing.
We cannot keep up the demand for it right now! Oil! Diversity Alliance for Sustainable America.(earthtimes) stated in it's article that if the U.S. grants amnesty and gives citizenship to 12 to 30 million illegal migrants already here, as McCain, Obama and the majority of Democrats propose. That all those naturalized citizens could possibly add 120 million U.S. and foreign-born relatives to the U.S., in the next 20 years whom all will CONSUME MAJOR ENERGY. Does the American people need to escalate the 315 million plus population, the census estimates we have now? To a new total of 435 million?
The executive director of (DASA) admitted "Proposal to reduce energy costs in the U.S. will not work unless we also simultaneously curb U.S. population growth by reducing immigration and curbing teen pregnancies." Severing the illegal immigration occupation and deporting those already here is a good start, but not the complete solution to this serious energy problem that cannot be reversed. Unless another Nikola Tesla, an underrated genius of the 19th century invents a some new form of energy, we will be reliant on fossil fuels for years to come? Clean coal, geothermal, eco-fuel and of course wind power and solar. The latter is energy that is a perpetual source of unimaginable power that knows no bounds.
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