Joy-Riding in Air Force One

[guido911]

What could possibly go wrong with a large aircraft flying low-altitude over New York? But I heard Obama was furious, so I guess he's off the hook.

Firing demand:

http://www.businessinsider.com/fire-louis-caldera-white-house-terror-plane-plotter-2009-4

Exit Question: How much did this stupidity cost the American taxpayer?

[Wilbur]

I mean........ how many more pictures of this plane do we really need?  And how much did that cost?  I'm confident Air Force One and an F-18 aren't cheap to fly.

[guido911]

I mean........ how many more pictures of this plane do we really need?  And how much did that cost?  I'm confident Air Force One and an F-18 aren't cheap to fly.

You don't get it. When Obama said "Everybody's going to have to give.  Everybody's going to have to have some skin in the game", he didn't mean him. Didn't that $150M inaugeration tell you anything about this guy?

[joiei]

You don't get it. When Obama said "Everybody's going to have to give.  Everybody's going to have to have some skin in the game", he didn't mean him. Didn't that $150M inaugeration tell you anything about this guy?

Good morning G,  it looks like your starting to take smear lessons from Bill.  First you say he is off the hook then you smear the President with a totally unrelated topic.   It is sort of fun watching you twist and turn.

[Gaspar]

Back on topic. . .

What I don't get is that they did it for a photo.  1,500 gallons of jet fuel for a picture?  Really?
I'm glad we have a new environmentally sensitive administration.
And I wonder what the environmental impact of the evacuations of tens of thousands of people from skyscrapers, the emergency services response, and the cost of handing those injured in the rush. 

Gibbs says that President Obama was furious when he found out.   When he found out?  What?
Who has the authority to say "Ok, we're going to take Airforce One and Buzz skyscrapers in NYC for a PR photo, and not tell the President of the United States, warn the civilian population, or brief the senior staff".

Hey, Mr. President, we are not Chicago, we are not used to token politics.  Either stop all the stupidity and get a handle on things or fess up, but don't act naive to everything around you.  If you continue to act like we're stupid, it's going to catch up with you.  Nay. . . It is catching up with you.

Yelling fire in a crowded movie theater. . . Unbelievable!

[waterboy]

Gas, you and Guido are getting even more boring than I thought was possible. Same song everyday. A new thread with an inflammatory, misleading headline and posts with insipid, mostly unsubstantiated spins. May the circle jerk be unbroken eh?

Tell the truth now. Are you guys both clones of AOX, FB and FOTD? Posting under pseudonyms to increase activity of the forum? You have become what you both decried during the last president's tenure only difference is, they were kicked off for their diatribes.

[brianh]

I mean........ how many more pictures of this plane do we really need?  And how much did that cost?  I'm confident Air Force One and an F-18 aren't cheap to fly.

We would have been better off using the photoshop skills of the North Koreans or the Iranians, one of those scenes could have been done for mere dollars.

[FOTD]

Looks like that appointee from "THAT TORTUOUS ADMINISTRATION" will be terminated for his error in judgment. Lots of these misfits still hanging out in the Federal government. This will take some time to clean up. But stupidity reigns from the top down as of 2002.

What's amazing is how this is a priority with the whiny losers.

And here is an illuminating op-ed: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/25
Of Tea Parties and Teleprompters
by David Michael Green

"Is it possible that the regressive right has, given its electoral unraveling of late, decided to swap the whole politics thing for vaudeville?"

" If the low rent, low IQ, low on laundry detergent (non) masses attending these events looked familiar, it was because we saw them on the campaign trail last year, angrily spouting utter fabrications and fulminating their vaguely anti-government screeds at Sarah Palin rallies. What they lack in quality dental care or concern about the health effects of obesity, they fully make up for in sheer gullibility and lumpen selfishness masquerading as vulgar capitalism."

" you could almost hear the rusty gears in their brains jamming into one another, screeching like a subway train, and ultimately shattering from sheer lack of prior use, as the attendees decided to stick with their advance programming after all, booing the mention of the shifty Negro in the White House despite the fact that he is cutting their taxes, just like they claim to want him to."

" But if they do check out, I only hope that Obama doesn't make the same mistake Lincoln did. Imagine the last several decades without names like Bush, DeLay, Gingrich, McConnell, Armey, Lott and other fine specimens of Southern hospitality running the country into the ground. Let them have their little experiment in trying to form a more perfect union within their breakaway Confederacy"

"Ironically, the explanation for the odd fact that the exact same stuff that seemed so great to Americans in 2002 seemed so awful in 2008 was of course George W. Bush himself."

"All of this is emblematic, of course, of a political movement in utter free fall, and completely lacking any sense whatsoever of what to do about it. This week it was tea parties. Before that, he was Obama bowing to the Saudi king. Before that, it was the president giving the Queen of England an iPod. Or was it the fact that he uses Teleprompters when he speaks? Or was it the connection to Rod Blagojevich that was sure to be exposed any minute now?"


"These antics only prove how deeply sunk into it regressivism now is. I assure you, if the right had a better way to attack Democrats and the Obama administration then this pathetic garbage, you'd be seeing it."

"The frustration and anger you see among regressive politicians and their cheerleaders comes from fifty years of operant conditioning all of a sudden gone massively awry. It's like they fell into some parallel universe or something. Every step forward leaves them two steps backward. Up is down, down is up. White is black, and black is now president. What the hell is going on?"

"Poor regressives. For half a century they got an entire country full of people to suspend disbelief, and nod their heads in all the right places whenever they were poked with the appropriate stimulus. For half a century, they continued to win elections by fooling people into voting against their own interests."

"The great news is that, as bad as it now is, these are still the golden days of the regressive movement. It's gonna get a lot worse from here. As they continue their antics, they only look more and more foolish, while President Obama looks more and more statesmanlike, less and less like his predecessor, and better and better in the polls."

"Watch and see if the few remaining moderate Republicans don't learn from this experience, and abandon the party. This will leave the GOP in excellent position to succeed everywhere that Jefferson Davis remains a hero, and pretty much nowhere else. Even the governor of Utah, arguably the reddest of red states, has come out in support of gay marriage."

Works for FOTD too!!!!

Your turn Gweedoedoe

[Nik]

What could possibly go wrong with a large aircraft flying low-altitude over New York? But I heard Obama was furious, so I guess he's off the hook.

And I'm sure if Obama had said he was aware of this, you'd be berating him for focusing on PR instead of the economy. Your shtick is old guido.

[we vs us]

Turns out that approval for something like this tops out at the White House Military Office, whose director, Louis Caldera, apologized for the flyovers and took full responsibility.  Not sure exactly how something like this is indicative of something larger in the Obama administration.  Unless you're looking for something larger, that is. 

Every administration, Republican and Democratic, has one of these myopic bureaucrats who does something dumb and tone-deaf.  It just happens. 

If you actually want to get into substantive debate about Obama's Administration, let's talk about whether Tim Geithner's too close to Wall Street to regulate it.  Or that Taliban forces are fighting inside Pakistan, putting their nuclear stockpiles at serious risk, while O's war in Afghanistan languishes.

But talking about how the Travel Office, er, Military Office screwed up is really just a waste of your precious precious conservative ire.

[Cats Cats Cats]

LOL.. Commander in Marketing.  I told you to come up with better stuff Guido, you are letting me down.

[guido911]

Gas, you and Guido are getting even more boring than I thought was possible. Same song everyday. A new thread with an inflammatory, misleading headline and posts with insipid, mostly unsubstantiated spins. May the circle jerk be unbroken eh?

Tell the truth now. Are you guys both clones of AOX, FB and FOTD? Posting under pseudonyms to increase activity of the forum? You have become what you both decried during the last president's tenure only difference is, they were kicked off for their diatribes.

What's boring is your incessant spooning with Obama. Jeez, his airplane is flying low altitude over the city that suffered the most extreme act of terrorism this country has ever seen, with a military plane nearby. And for what, a freakin photo op? And here you and your regular cast of characters are out not only NOT criticizing it but attacking those that do. Get off your knees.

Misleading headline? What possible rationale could there be in spending my tax dollars just to get some photos of a plane? I paid a pilot, co-pilot, ground crew (and gosh knows who else) for AF 1, a pilot and ground crew for the military jet, and fuel for both planes so a picture of Obama's plane could be taken.

Bottom line, if Bush had done this, we would still be hearing about it in the media and folks like you would be up in arms over the degree of insensitivity he showed to New Yorkers and the "working people" in this country paying taxes.

Smear? I guess you mean the $150M for his inaugeration. Am I wrong, or are your panties in a wad because you know its true?

[FOTD]

Turns out that approval for something like this tops out at the White House Military Office, whose director, Louis Caldera, apologized for the flyovers and took full responsibility.  Not sure exactly how something like this is indicative of something larger in the Obama administration.  Unless you're looking for something larger, that is. 

Every administration, Republican and Democratic, has one of these myopic bureaucrats who does something dumb and tone-deaf.  It just happens. 

If you actually want to get into substantive debate about Obama's Administration, let's talk about whether Tim Geithner's too close to Wall Street to regulate it.  Or that Taliban forces are fighting inside Pakistan, putting their nuclear stockpiles at serious risk, while O's war in Afghanistan languishes.

But talking about how the Travel Office, er, Military Office screwed up is really just a waste of your precious precious conservative ire.

Yes. But the notion this is "O"s war is the regressive set up. It was the war we should have fought right instead of being spread too thin by that tortuous administration of the Bushevik Empire in a war for oil in Iraq. Gani is our war, we were grandfathered into it and it is O's inherited mess like everything else fallen on him. Americans know this and for the first time in over 6 years the majority believe the country is headed in the right direction. The one's with courage are not regressive.

[guido911]

Americans know this and for the first time in over 6 years the majority believe the country is headed in the right direction.

Nope. Wrong again.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090423/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama100_days_ap_poll

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/right_direction_wrong_track/right_direction_or_wrong_track

[Gaspar]

Louis Caldera says "oops my bad."

Title: White House Military Office Director

There are things that you can do at your job that will get you fired.  Taking a bath in the sink at McDonnalds, exposing yourself to co-workers, or perhaps driving your bosses car with the company logo on it into a crowd of people while giving them the finger.  I guess Caldera is another one we have to watch.