(Energy) Sec. Bodman: But the Cadillac is comfier than Metrorail!

From the Department of Eternal Hypocrisy: http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/UndertheDome/100605.html

...Appearing at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast at the St. Regis Hotel in downtown Washington only days after President Bush exhorted Americans, including all federal employees, to save energy and avoid unnecessary car travel, Bodman confessed that he made the 15-block trip from Department of Energy headquarters in a Cadillac limousine instead of taking the Metro.

“I’d like to have done it, but you know the problems with security,” said Bodman, who was accompanied by an aide and several security officers driving a large SUV.

Had he chosen to, Bodman could have made the trip on the Orange or Blue Line from L’Enfant Plaza to McPherson Square and even gotten some exercise with a two-block walk to the hotel...Or, as one over-65 reporter pointed out to him, the 67-year-old Bodman could have used a senior-citizen pass and gotten a 50 percent discount.

“That’s good to know,” said Bodman, who only two days earlier launched a national campaign to exhort families, government and businesses to conserve energy. The campaign features the Energy Department’s new cartoon mascot, the Energy Hog, a pig wearing blue jeans and a leather jacket, which will appear in media ads and on billboards, à la Smokey Bear.

it's no surprise he's concerned about security ...

there is seemingly no limit to this administration's arrogance of power ...

That doesn't seem that far to me.

a Google image search?

:rofl:

"As long as it doesn't infringe on my predilection for acting like a big shot." Someone who takes the Metrorail is most decidedly NOT a big shot. Someone who travels in a cohort of SUVs with a retinue of security officers is a big shot. And Bodman likes to be known as a big shot.

I can understand all the security officers, though. How many times have we heard Osama bin Laden in video after video talking about what a crucial blow he could strike against America if only he could take out Samuel Bodman?

on the door. He is part of the administration making us safer...he doesn't feel safe in DC?

Was he the model for the energy hog by any chance?

foreign, would recognize him.

What an ego. What an energy HOG.

and be closer to the real people there wouldn't be this grand disconnect. This goes for Democrats as well.

Once upon a time, my dad, who lived in Brooklyn, would take the subway to and from work. Actually it was an elevated rail (the "el"), and sitting beside him were two members of the brooklyn dodgers also on their way to work.

This is how life and public figures once were.

We have now elevated this idiots, both the movie star and the politicians to levels that make them unapproachable and untouchable. This is a sad statement on our society.

P.S.
My dad was a Yankee's fan, lol

5/2/05
Yep, Howard Dean Takes the Subway

Let's just state the obvious: New Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is no Terry McAuliffe . Where the flashy former Clinton fundraiser was a gregarious ringmaster accustomed to the bling-bling of the highest non-publicly elected Democratic job around, Dean is almost a seminarian in his approach to the post. And, oddly, his style seems to fit with the party's bid to build its blue-collar base--just as McAuliffe's meshed with the DNC's need to raise gobs of money and go high tech.
What's so different? McAuliffe would limo around town, dropping in at the Palm to huddle with Washington big shots. The 2004 presidential hopeful, by contrast, takes the bus or subway, buying his own $1.35 ticket. Sometimes he bums rides from staffers or walks the four blocks to the Capitol for meetings. "Please Call Me Howard" never flies first class and always carries his own bags.
Other signs of the ex-guv's modest style: He eats at his desk, stays in a cheap D.C. hotel, and likes oxford shirts and penny loafers. Affectionately dubbed a "geek" by pals, he's often glued to his cellphone and loves E-mail. "His expertise is grass roots and his lifestyle is no different," says an associate. So far, Washington likes what it sees, surprised he's not the oddball that newsies pegged him as last year. Says an aide, smiling: "They're giving him a shot." http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/articles/050502/2whisplead.htm

It's incredible, here is one of us, the common man and yet moron* (the quasi-common man) get's reappointed. Makes me sick.