Interesting graf buried in today's LA Times piece on house-gate:
McCain, who huddled with advisors at his desert compound in Sedona, Ariz., said nothing in public. A nine-car motorcade took him to a nearby Starbucks early in the morning, where he ordered a large cappuccino. McCain otherwise avoided reporters.
Nine cars? Gee. It sounds like he's...already trying to act presidential! This was a huge no-no three weeks ago when Obama was supposedly doing it.
This is not a massive political issue, but it is deeply baffling. Why in the world are nine vehicles needed to procure a cappuccino? What could possibly be in all those cars?
I learned a little something about this following Hillary around upstate New York in 2000. But to the best of my memory, she (the alleged self-regarding ice queen etc etc) had a three-car entourage. Her van (dubbed HRC Speedwagon), and two cars of Secret Service people, one mostly laden (we assumed and guessed) with firearms, the other with human agents. It may have been four. But it sure wasn't nine.
