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I’m curious to hear what people think of this post at the CBSNews website comparing the Obama and McCain campaign planes. Let me know.

Late Update: For those of you who haven’t had a chance to check out the post, it goes to great length detailing the luxurious accommodations of Obama’s plane, down to photographs of seats in the first class cabin. The author even has The Politico’s Mike Allen pop in for a bit of nonsensical snark: “Air Force One may seem a tad claustrophobic.” Then down at the bottom we have a terse description of McCain’s plane which, if you read the actual words, and disregard the lack of luxe adjectives, disco music and twangy baseline, seems to be virtually identical to Obama’s. Perhaps needless to say TPM AL’s few minutes of research found this 2004 USAToday article which notes that Kerry’s 2004 plane was virtually identical. And President Bush, before he got the government plane, “used a similarly configured Boeing 757 during the 2000 campaign.”

The piece then notes: “Now [President Bush] commands the much grander Air Force One.”

Not exactly claustrophobic.

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