Obama loves Air Force One

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A voter's question about meeting foreign leaders in a fancy plane inspired a little riff from Sen. Barack Obama about the presidential airplane.

Obama said he has been on Air Force One once - after speaking at the dedication of the Abraham Lincoln presidential library in Illinois. "George Bush offered us a ride back," he said.

The plane was "big spiffy, [and had] all kinds of people in there doing all sorts of stuff," Obama said, laughing at his own joke.

But the best thing, he said, is that the plane passed through a thunderstorm on the way back to Washington.

"We were bumping and shaking and knocking all around and I knew we weren't going down," he said, to laughs from his 100-person audience at a town hall forum. "You feel very confident in there. Turbulence doesn't bother you at all. ... It's got like 8 engines."

— Christina Bellantoni is a national political reporter for The Washington Times.

Comments

[katefranklin]

And the Clintons own their own private Air Force One. Next.

[army193]

Hey link to where this was, so we can here it for ourself

[MPeter]

Why is this news? Does Bush, Hillary, MCcain or Bill hate it? This space could have been used to report on something more newsworthy, like how if Obama was where Hillary has been in this campaign for so long, he would not still be in the race.