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...With most taxpayers counting pennies and preparing to file tax returns, Obama made clear in an exchange on Monday with his former rival, Republican Senator John McCain, that he finds his aging fleet of Marine One "white-tops" perfectly adequate. Many of the trips they take are short hops, like the 10 minutes between the White House and Andrews Air Force Base. "It is an example of the procurement process gone amok," Obama said after McCain queried him about the new helicopters ("I didn't have as much interest in the presidential helicopter," McCain noted on Tuesday...
...Obama told McCain that he and Gates share the Senator's view that sometimes pushing for too much in a new piece of equipment makes little sense. Gates "recognizes that simply adding more and more does not necessarily mean better and better," Obama said. But for a Pentagon accustomed to having its way with the White House - and it nervously awaits Obama's imprint on its 2010 budget - those are fighting words...
...before his budget speech, the President was positively Clintonesque, interacting easily with a gang of high-powered political and business leaders at his entitlement summit, alternately ribbing Eric Cantor, the House Republican, about GOP intransigence, then wonking out on defense procurement policy with Senators Susan Collins and John McCain. (See the top 10 Bushisms...
...McCain, Sen. John • Sore-loserness...
...played by Peter Parker’s grouchy landlord in the “Spider-Man” movies. 5. Every time you find yourself thinking, “Barack would never do this.” 6. Every time you find yourself thinking, “McCain might have done this in his younger days.” 7. Every time one of the sketchy Soviet terrorists sneaks a peek at a skirted woman climbing a ladder. 8. Every time a decision of Vice President Glenn Close is ignored because she’s a woman. We?...