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...
Because a waste is a terrible thing to mind.