President-elect Barack Obama's Chicago commute--Part II
The Ticket reported last night that it took President-elect Barack Obama's Secret Service motorcade 16 minutes to whisk him from his Loop transition offices to his Hyde Park home on the Windy City's South Side.
Mighty good time for anyone who's envisioned a similar trek even without automatic weapons to discourage anyone cutting you off.
For those political fans keeping track, tonight it took them 17 minutes, fully 6% longer for the same basic trip.
Heads will surely roll.
-- Andrew Malcolm
It sure doesn't take that long to flash alerts of each new Ticket item to your cellphone once you register here.
Photo credit: Reuters
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Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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