The Insomniac Coder

The rise of 'we' : "Why modern-day US presidents love the word" I hereby declare today a slow news day. I was ready to say it was the " Royal We " but then it became obvious (as in blinding migraine): that's the first word in the United States Constitution . Wouldn't that render the word as statistically flawed for this study? Just try to visualize President Obama saying the following and tell me it is fair to clump them all together: "We need to get our act together..." "We are going on vacation again, so long, suckers..." "We the People of the United States ..." "We can't decide between Chinese and Indian takeout for lunch, want to weigh in?" "We are living in yellow submarine ..."

 Marine helicopter carrying White House staff lands near Air Force One at LAX on Tuesday. President Obama attended a fundraiser Monday in Hancock Park.  ( Mark Boster, Los Angeles Times  / August  16 , 2010 ) "No matter their politics, Los Angeles residents found themselves united. 'It was a beautiful thing,' said Brentwood resident Myles Berkowitz, commiserating with his neighbors on Montana Avenue. 'Young, old, black, white — everyone was pissed off.'" If *I* had a job that included a chopper flown by the best USMC helicopter pilots in the country , with a couple of spares full of Secret Service agents armed to the teeth, and the FAA closing down the local airspace so MY chopper is the only one around, why would I ever want to ride a damn car? Even a cool car like the President's limo (I heard it referred to as both "Cadillac One" and " The Beast ") and a motorcade of Secret Agent SUVs simply can't compete with the sheer badass...