Campaign Update

Sen. Hillary Clinton has been regaling audiences at campaign stops with a story about a scary landing at the Nashville airport when she was first lady.

“They used to say if an airport was too scary for the president, send the first lady,” she jokes. “I remember landing in Nashville and walking out and the whole thing seemed to be under construction. You couldn’t find your way around, everything was torn up like a war zone. We had to duck under scaffolding and basically run to our car. We couldn’t have a welcoming ceremony at the airport because of the construction noise.”

Video taken at the time shows that Clinton’s memory of the incident is pretty much correct.

Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain offered few surprises in what was billed as a major address on race last week. “I watch a little bit of all of it, but I think it’s accurate to say I prefer NASCAR to Formula One racing,” he said. “I know you might be able to produce a tape of some acquaintance talking about my liking truck racing or funny cars, but I reject that kind of talk as divisive.”

And Sen. Barack Obama last week recalled seeing a preacher make some “pretty crazy” remarks. “This was years ago,” Obama says. “I was at a hotel somewhere and when I turned on the TV, this little guy in a powder-blue suit and helmet hair was slapping people on the head and yelling ‘Heal!’ The people would stagger around and he would smile and move on to the next person. I’d never seen anything like it.

“It was wild. That sure was one crazy preacher.”