Advantages

Now <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31606-2004Mar4.html">here</a> (free registration required) is another example of how the incumbent President gets a big advantage. Cut price airfare. <br />n<br />n<i>The Republican National Committee has estimated the cost of flying Air Force One at $35,000 or more per hour, but federal rules require the Bush-Cheney campaign to reimburse the government only for the cost of a first-class plane ticket for the president and a handful of political aides who accompany him.</i><br />n<br />nI can remember when President Clinton was campaigning the same type of story ran then. It's just a benefit all President's get. The real kicker is that if he schedules his political trip with an official function he flies for free. Sounds like a hell of a scam to me.<br />n<br />n<b>People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. C. Wright Mills</b>