[Grovenet] Frequent flyer miles

[Steele, Mike]

Hmmmm...for those of us who are afflicted with the usual commuting woes,
we have this:

 

When asked about having a private pilot's license and owning a private
plane, Cindy McCain answered:

"The only way to get around Arizona is by small private plane." 

OK.  Oregon has 98,386 square miles.  Arizona has 114,006 square miles,
perhaps 15% larger than Oregon.  But some of the corner to corner
distances are comparable.  Anyway, leevank's diary website has this
comment:

 

"From the McCains' home (a word I use advisedly for somebody who has 7
or ll or some other big number of them) in Phoenix, it's 235 miles to
Douglas, in the far southeast corner or the state, 185 miles to Yuma in
the far southwest corner of the state, and 144 miles to Flagstaff in the
northern portion of the state.  Even to the tiny community of Many
Farms, on the Navajo Reservation in the northeast corner of the state,
it's only 369 miles.  (And note, all of these distances are by highway,
not direct point-to-point.)

And yet Barack and Michelle Obama are the "elitists?"  Can you imagine
the derision from right-wing talk radio and Faux News if Barack Obama
claimed "the only way to get around Illinois is by small private plane,"
because of the distance from Chicago to Sprinfield (201 miles),
Edwardsville (277 miles), or Cairo (374 miles)?  

Unless McCain is making astoundingly regular trips to the Navajo or Hopi
Reservations, he's not even going to places significantly more distant
than Maryland's Senators need to travel from Baltimore to get to Ocean
City (145 miles), Oakland (195 miles).  

Not only doesn't McCain know the difference between Shiites and Sunnis
and think Iraq borders on Pakistan, he (or at least his wife) have
apparently confused the geography of Arizona with that of Alaska.
Either that, or they're the real elitists and are too ashamed of their
lifestyle to admit that they've got lots of expensive toys and want them
simply because they like them and can well afford them.  I've frankly
got no problem with that, but for the Republicans to then try to paint
the OBAMAS as "elitists" can only be described as breathtakingly
hypocritical."

 

--Mike