In response to Henry Payne’s item below on the Obamas and their SUV, a number of readers have written in to note, rightly, that the Obamas were most likely crossing the tarmac to get into a private jet, which is slightly less green than the pictured sport ute. But reader Tim Lloyd’s response made me laugh out loud:
I saw the Henry Payne bit about the SUV, but I recall Michelle Obama telling the Boston Globe that while on the trail “she makes a point of fitting her campaigning into daytrips, so she can be home to put their daughters to bed.”
Makes the SUV pretty irrelevant.
I assume, given her schedule, it was a private jet. Daily flights back and forth to all 57 states, four or five times a week, quite a carbon footprint. I wonder if other countries would be OK with that.