How do those grapes taste, Senator?

A little sour, perhaps?

While Mr. Obama took no notice of Mr. McCain at the opening session, by the closing session, he was reaching out to his former opponent. As he ended the day’s summit in front of the cameras, he asked a few participants to share any observations, starting with Mr. McCain.

“I want to see if, John, you’ve got some thoughts,” Mr. Obama said.

Mr. McCain stood and thanked him for holding the summit. “I think it was a fruitful discussion,” he said.

Then he raised the issue of runaway military procurement costs, citing as an example the soaring price tag of the next Marine One presidential helicopter. “Your helicopter is now going to cost as much as Air Force One,” Mr. McCain told him. “I don’t think there is any more graphic demonstration of how good ideas have cost taxpayers enormous amounts of money.”

Mr. Obama agreed. “The helicopter I have now seems perfectly adequate to me,” he said. “Of course, I’ve never had a helicopter before. Maybe I’ve been deprived and I didn’t know it. But I think it is in example of the procurement process gone amok. And we’re going to have to fix it.”

The audience laughed when Mr. Obama noted that he never had a helicopter before. Of course, Mr. McCain would have liked the old helicopter too.

Figures. We're facing an economic crisis of high magnitude, and all McCain can do is grouse that Obama's new helicopter is too shiny. Ten bucks says that if McCain won the election, he'd be all too happy to climb aboard that shiny chopper.

Update: Here's the video. McCain = pwned.