Wow, check out Kerry's Plane

[Null Pointer]

How the hell can he afford that thing?

[physioex]

1. My guess is it is leased.....Plus we DU'ers pitched in soo much money..EOM

:evilgrin:

[Cannikin]

2. Wow! A very beautiful Boeing 757.

[NMDemDist2]

3. it's a charter

hopefully some Dem gave him a good price for the 6 month contract

[gristy]

10. I hope not.

He's probably required to pay fair market value. Otherwise it's a donation to his campaign.

[trogdor]

4. He has to spend all that primary money on something...

I would also put it to you that he can't afford NOT TO have it. Bush has Air Farce One. Besides, this is one thing he can spend that primary money on that benefits him after the convention, when the ways he can use it become sharply limited.

[Ready4Change]

25. Good Point.

I hear he's raking money in hand over fist right now. When he gets the official Dem nod isn't all that money no longer available?

Time to convert to hard assets that can be used later.

[madrchsod]

5. big deal.....let`s see-

how does bush afford his plane? aren`t we paying for his?

[Paradise]

15. Wow, you're good! :) nt

[NewYorkerfromMass]

6. $100 million in May alone

I think he (we... heh heh) can afford it.
Rock on John!

[NewHampshireDem]

7. Rainless Blur ... what are you going to post next?

Pictures of Kerry's houses? Questions about his "$1,000 haircut"? A link to Kerry-opoly?

Give me a goddam break. We all know Kerry is loaded thanks to his wife. If you wanna make a point about that, have the sack to do it straight up.

[physioex]

9. Not so simple....

I don't think he will put up his entire fortune, Shrub is also loaded. Plus he mortgaged his house to pay for his campaign... Anyways in the end Shrub is going to outspend him by a large magnitude..

[Null Pointer]

27. NHDem, You missed the point

I thought his plane was cool and you'd all like to see it. "Wonder how much it costs" was just inane smalltalk. Chill out, ok?

[Paradise]

8. It's a 'Prop'! ;) nt

[RetroLounge]

11. "How the hell can he afford that thing?"

We'll let you know at the great unveiling...

RL

[ShaneGR]

12. Compare the cost of chartering jet....

Probably around a million or so a month, to the cost of transporting everyone by other means.

It actually saves money to do that.

[catmandu57]

13. I've seen it upclose

It's a beautiful plane and very inspiring, especially when the president comes out the door to speak.
How can he afford it?
By people like me giving what we can to get rid of the fucking evil that has our country by the throat, that's how.

[Paradise]

17. Couldn't have said it better! :) nt

[Paradise]

19. Good point! :) nt

[displacedtexan]

14. Funny! An anagram of your screen name is...

"Burns liberals."

LOL! Now I have to enter mine into the anagram generator! This is fun!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

16. You're a sharp one dt

Glad you're on our side! :toast:

[Null Pointer]

29. Am I on the wrong side?

It's actually an anagram of my name. Forget it. Do I need 1000+ posts to be trusted?

[Paradise]

18. Now why didn't I think of that! :) nt

[EstimatedProphet]

20. Kerry's hardly the first one to have a plane for campaigning

Candidates have been finding ways to afford that for quite some time. How else can they campaign in California one day and New York the next? At least it isn't free like AF1.

[Bridget Burke]

21. AF1 isn't free!

We're paying for it.

[EstimatedProphet]

23. Very true

Someone needs to remind Bush of that, because HE thinks it's free.

[lectrobyte]

22. Donated? Same way as in the '00 campaign, Enron supplied one to ...

* -- anyone have a pic of that? Why does Fool and the Gang get such a walk on the whole Enron connnection?

[displacedtexan]

26. Maybe rainless blur has a photo of that one.

We could compare.

I love planes! There are so many cool designs.

[deportivoI]

24. After Wellstone

I would buy or lease my own private plane too. Who can blame Kerry? The man is not an idiot.



:kick:

[dorktv]

30. I thought the Wellstone one was a leased private plane.

[Kid_A]

28. He's got all that ketchup money to spend...

so he might as well buy a kick-ass plane.

[Catherine Vincent]

31. At least it's not Enron's plane.

[enki23]

32. you're right... it doesn't say "enron" anywhere on it...

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