Comments on: Sarah Palin gets a Brazilian

By: Kimberly Jet Set Life

Kimberly Jet Set Life — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:13:46 +0000

Very funny title…way to make someone look!

By: RedNeck007

RedNeck007 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:25:23 +0000

Well done. Thank you for your site.
Exactly a plane is mosaic of countries, shame on the “buy American”, they don’t know what they are talking about…

By: S A

S A — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:19:50 +0000

Benet, while I agree that it’s silly to look at the origins of airplanes these days, it’s a standard that’s applied to candidates’ cars (name one US politician who drives a “foreign” car?), so why not their planes? If this were Obama’s plane, you’d be hearing about it on Fox News, for sure.

Oh, and Mark, this post should be reported to the FTC for false advertising.

By: D. Sebastian Muller

D. Sebastian Muller — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:48:33 +0000

What you say is doubtlessly true, Benet, but remember: we’re dealing with heartland America, which sees the world in black and white. WHERE it was built is all this mindset cares about; the rest is subtlty beyond its attention span. Good cal, Mark. These are the little bits of hypocrisy that the Obama campaign has to mercilessly nail the Republican smear machine on…

By: Benet Wilson

Benet Wilson — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:27:18 +0000

No one is going to touch the “Buy American” argument, since no aircraft is 100% American built anymore, not even good old Boeing. Aircraft components are built all over the world, so no one can make the American Built claim. The Embraer E190 has components from GE Engines, Honeywell, Rockwell Collins, Goodrich, Hamilton Sundstrand, Parker Aerospace and Alcoa, among others. And I thought the Palin stuff was relevant, since we covered it in Aviation Week too. Keep up the great work, Mark.

By: jennifer rose

jennifer rose — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:21:39 +0000

Best headline yet! Keep up the good work.

By: rico

rico — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Love how this turns from a travel blog into a quasi-palin-wanna-be-pundit blog. Can you just stick to the travel info? Please? It’s normally informative.

By: So What?

So What? — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:41:18 +0000

Well, can’t say that I blame her. The 190 is much more fuel efficient than the next best Boeing model.

But I do have to say…I saw the title and you got me all excited, seriously, don’t do that to me, I was expecting pictures.

By: Ethan Shapiro

Ethan Shapiro — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:10:12 +0000

Great catch…this is sad.