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2008 Candidates Rely on Private Jets
By JIM KUHNHENN
Associated Press Writer

April 26, 2007, 6:44 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- A flock of small jets took flight from Washington Thursday, each carrying a Democratic presidential candidate to South Carolina for the first debate of the political season.

For Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden, it was wheels up shortly after they voted in favor of legislation requiring that U.S. troops begin returning home from Iraq in the fall.

No one jet pooled, no one took commercial flights to save money, fuel or emissions.

All but Biden, who flew on a private jet, chartered their flights -- a campaign expense of between $7,500 and $9,000.


At the same time they are involved in the collective effort to make global warming the Big Scare of the next decade, while Cheryl Crow talks about toilet paper and harangues Karl Rove at a White House correspondents dinner, these fatuous phoneys don't have the presence of mind to consider the rank hypocrisy of this one poignant collective brain cramp.

If I were a salesman of carbon offsets, I'd be cold calling this morning. Oh wait. Al Gore's companies are already lined up.