The Daily Background
| Report: McCain can’t afford “Straight Talk Express” anymore; Now flies coach on budget airline
by Arlen Parsa
ABC News aired an uncharacteristically blunt report on John McCain’s campaign last night. The Senator, they reported, could no longer afford to travel in his trademark “Straight Talk Express” bus, and that he instead opted to fly coach on US Air, which is described by Wikipedia as “the sixth largest airline in the United States, and the largest low cost/low fare carrier in the United States.”
Partial transcript:
He’s trying to reinvent himself yet again here in New Hampshire, with nearly no money in the bank and positions on issues that aren’t very popular with the voters. Just to illustrate some of the problems here: John McCain? No bus. No straight-talk express today or tomorrow in New Hampshire– they simply can’t afford it. He travelled up here on coach, he flew coach on US Air, no campaign plane for John McCain, and he’s travelling around the state with relatively few aides. The man doesn’t have a lot of money to spend, but he says he has enough to stay in the race, he’s going to stick to his unpopular issues on Iraq and immigration, and he says he’s in the race for good.
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