There was an interesting exchange between President Obama and his 2008 rival, Sen. John McBitter, at yesterday's question and answer session following the White House's fiscal responsibility summit. Obama graciously allowed McBitter to pose the first question, and he proceeded to needle Obama on the cost of new helicopters for the White House (ordered, incidentally, by Dumbya). Obama neatly parried by saying that he had already asked his Defense Secretary to look into it, and, to the laughter of the assembled legislators, business and labor leaders, joked that the current helicopters "seem perfectly adequate" since he had never had a helicopter before. "Maybe I've been deprived and I didn't know it," Obama teased as everyone laughed.
An outflanked McBitter could only manage a sheepish look, knowing that, as on November 4 of last year, Obama had his number.
