Thomas Swick for President
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 09.17.04 | 11:24 PM ET
That’s right. Forget Bush and Kerry and even Nader. They aren’t talking about improving the lives of ordinary American travelers, or the experiences of visitors to the U.S. They aren’t worried about creating more leg room in coach. And finding a cure for jet lag? They couldn’t care less. They’d rather talk about more “important” issues, like the Vietnam War. But South Florida Sun-Sentinel Travel Editor Thomas Swick is hip to the voting-traveling public’s hopes and fears. In a groundbreaking recent column reprinted in Sunday’s San Diego Union-Tribune, Swick details his course of action if he were to wake up in the Oval Office. Among his solemn vows, he’d lift the ban on travel to Cuba—proof he’s not kowtowing to the Miami Cuban crowd. Also, he writes, he’d “see to it that every foreign visitor to this country, after getting photographed and fingerprinted, is given a Toll House cookie.” Now that’s vision. One tip for Swick: Beware of the latest 527 group, Retired American Airlines Pilots for Truth. They’re a prickly bunch, and we hear they have an anti-Swick commercial in the works. Something about the legitimacy of his “editor of the year” award.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
