Obama Is Just Plane Stupid

THE OBAMA FILE ^ | 4/28/2009 | Beckwith

[Fred Nerks]

A perfect storm of idiocy led to a frightening 9/11 flashback for thousands of New Yorkers Monday when a jumbo jet and an F-16 fighter jet buzzed lower Manhattan without warning. (video -- flyby) (video -- panic) (video -- Ground Zero)

A "furious" Mayor Bloomberg denounced the dunces who dreamed up the stunt.

Bloomberg said, "Why the Defense Department wanted to do a photo-op right around the site of the World Trade Center catastrophe defies imagination. Poor judgment would be a nice ways to phrase it, but they did. I also think that once they had told us, we should have done a better job. Had I known about it, I would have called them right away and asked them not to. It is the federal government and they can do in the end what they please, but I would have tried to stop it. I don’t know there’s a lot else to say other than they shouldn’t have done it."

An Obama administration official said the mission was classified "Top Secret." "The mission was to send [the aircraft] up to get a picture of it flying around the Statue of Liberty."

By day's end, an obscure City Hall deputy named Marc Mugnos, took the hit in New York City and Louis Caldera, the director of the White House Military Office, was identified as the White House's scapegoats for the stunt.

The planes appeared on the horizon around 10 a.m. and sent a chill through the city. Flying in as low as 1,000 feet to 1,500 feet above New York City, they circled the Statue of Liberty before flying over Manhattan, Staten Island and New Jersey. Before they vanished, hundreds of frightened people had jammed emergency phone lines, and thousands of terrified people evacuated from buildings in the city and across the river in New Jersey.

"People came pouring out of the buildings, the American Express Building, all the buildings in the financial district by the water," said Edward Acker, a photographer who was at the building, 3 World Financial Center. "And even the construction guys over by 100 North End Avenue area, they all got out of their buildings. Nobody knew about it. Finally some guy showed up with a little megaphone to tell everyone it was a test, but the people were not happy. The people who were here 9/11 were not happy."

Mr. Acker added: "New York City police were standing right there and they had no knowledge of it. The evacuations were spontaneous. Guys from the floor came out, and one guy I talked to was just shaking."

"I was crying and praying to God to forgive me my sins because I thought I was going to get killed," said Kathleen Filandro, who fled from One New York Plaza when she spotted the planes.

"It's like someone coming up to you, sticking a gun to your head for 15 seconds, walking away and hearing 20 minutes later it was an undercover cop posing for a photo," said Wall Street worker Bill Privett. "I am still shaking," he said.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs appeared taken aback as reporters peppered him with questions about the incident.

"I have no information beyond what I saw" on news reports, Gibbs said at his afternoon press conference.

A "Top Secret" photo opportunity using Air Force One and an F-16. This is a laugh riot. Obama has no hesitation unclassifying and releasing the nation's "Top Secret" documents, to the benefit of our enemies during wartime, but keeps secret a photo op for the purpose of making souvenir tie-clasps. Obama proves he is a genius with this stunt -- a first-class commander-in-chief.

One observer suggested that Obama might want to do a photo op with a Ryder rental truck in Oklahoma City next.

And who takes the hit? Some guy nobody has ever heard of. If you believe approval for this idiocy was made by a low-level bureaucrat, I have a bridge to sell you. I'll bet it takes twenty-six pounds of documents to get clearance for Air Force One -- just think about it -- the White House, the Pentagon, the Air Force, Andrews Air Force Base, the flight crew, the ground crew, the tactical fighter support, the Secret Service, the FAA, etc, etc, etc. -- when asked about the stunt, Obama's Press Secretary lied and said, "I did not see that before I came out here." -- The AP's Jennifer Loven shot back, "Well, it's been in all the stories all day."

I wonder what the auto CEOs who got their asses chewed out by Obama for using their private jets to fly to Washington think of this stunt -- and then, there's the cost in dollars and cost to the environment. For souvenirs, the cost was enormous. It costs $60,000 per hour to operate Air Force One, plus the operating costs for an F-16 escort -- we're looking at a quarter-of-a-million dollars, and up -- for a photo!

Wouldn't PhotoShop have been cheaper? It's not like Obama isn't familiar with the popular graphics editing program.

[freebird5850]

He wants to strike fear and then come on tv and save the world...such sheep!

[Lady Jag]

[Fred Nerks]

Military Flyover Manhattan Yesterday Cost $328,835.00
FOX NEWS | 4/28/2009 | Bret Baier

Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:00:54 AM by kellynla

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239913/posts

[Cicero]

"It's like someone coming up to you, sticking a gun to your head for 15 seconds, walking away and hearing 20 minutes later it was an undercover cop posing for a photo," said Wall Street worker Bill Privett. "I am still shaking," he said.

I was a few blocks from Ground Zero when the second plane flew right past my apartment window while I was finishing breakfast, maybe a couple of hundred yards to the side. I coped just fine, I thought, but I was actually in shock for maybe a couple of months afterward. I saw the two plane shaped holes in the towers, with the flames coming out of them, I heard the stories. One of my sons had been scheduled to give a breakfast talk there but, Thank God, couldn't make it at the last minute because his plane came in late the night before.

A lot of New Yorkers lived through it, saw the towering clouds of smoke from up town or from across the harbor, and walked past the site to honor the dead or leave flowers or a prayer.

It doesn't mean anything to Obama, of course. And most of the press have entirely wiped it from their pea-sized minds.

A lot of New Yorkers lost a relative or a friend there, or they know somebody who did. After it happened, even the muggers and the drug dealers lined up to donate blood. One of my friends actually saw that, and I heard about it. Peoplel on buses and subways opened their hearts to each other as they would never do normally.

But now we're back to business as usual among the leftist elite. "What's all the fuss about?" says Obama. "I never heard about it," says his Press Secretary. "Sorry, I can't answer that question," says Obama.

[Lady Jag]

The cost of yesterday’s moronic flyover would have heated my house for 274 years.

[Freedom2specul8]

That was funny~!

[al baby]

[Fred Nerks]

"What's all the fuss about?" says Obama. "I never heard about it," says his Press Secretary. "Sorry, I can't answer that question," says Obama.

Dictatorspeak.

[Gummi Bear]

Somehow the Rahm is involved is my guess.

Axelrod gets my vote as the sponsor/requestor. He's the publicity/media guy, but Rahmbo, as Chief of Staff was definitely in on it.

Maybe they're trying to raise money to pay for the new socialized health care system by doing their own version of that Muslim calendar showing a jetliner running into the Statue of Liberty that someone discovered after 9/11. I don't know how to place a photo or I would include it here.

But seriously, the whole thing seems like much more than a photo op to me, perhaps to gage reactions if this were to really occur again. They specifically didn't want the public to be informed ahead of time.

[Yosemitest]

Take a look at
Order JO 7110.65S
Air Traffic Control
February 14, 2008.

2-4-20. AIRCRAFT IDENTIFICATION (page 2-4-8 thru 2-4-10

Use the full identification in reply to aircraft with similar sounding identifications. For other aircraft, the same identification may be used in reply that the pilot used in his/her initial callup except use the correct identification after communications:


...

6. U.S. military. State one of the following:


(a) The service name, followed by the word “copter,” when appropriate, and the last 5 digits of the serial number.
EXAMPLE- “Navy Five Six Seven One Three.”
“Coast Guard Six One Three Two Seven.”
“Air Guard One Three Five Eight Six.”
“Army Copter Three Two One Seven Six.”
NOTE-
If aircraft identification becomes a problem, the procedures reflected in FAAO JO 7210.3, Facility Operation and Administration, para 2-1-13, Aircraft Identification Problems, will apply.
(b) Special military operations. State one of the following followed by the last 5 digits of the serial number:
(c) Air evacuation flights. “AIR EVAC,” “MARINE AIR EVAC,” or “NAVY AIR EVAC.”
EXAMPLE-
“Air Evac One Seven Six Five Two.”
(d) Rescue flights. (Service name) “RESCUE.”
EXAMPLE-
“Air Force Rescue Six One Five Seven Niner.”
(e) Air Mobility Command. “REACH.”
EXAMPLE-
“Reach Seven Eight Five Six Two.”
(f) Special Air Mission. “SAM.”
EXAMPLE-
“Sam Niner One Five Six Two.”


.....

7. Presidential aircraft and Presidential family aircraft:
(a) When the President is aboard a military aircraft, state the name of the military service, followed by the word “One.”
EXAMPLE-
“Air Force One.”
“Army One.”
“Marine One.”
(b) When the President is aboard a civil aircraft, state the words “Executive One.”
(c) When a member of the President's family is aboard any aircraft, if the U.S. Secret Service or the White House Staff determines it is necessary, state the words “Executive One Foxtrot.”
REFERENCE-
FAAO JO 7110.65, Para 2-1-4, Operational Priority.
8. Vice Presidential aircraft:
(a) When the Vice President is aboard a military aircraft, state the name of the military service, followed by the word “Two.”
EXAMPLE-
“Air Force Two.”
“Army Two.”
“Marine Two.”
(b) When the Vice President is aboard a civil aircraft, state the words “Executive Two.”
(c) When a member of the Vice President's family is aboard any aircraft, if the U.S. Secret Service or the White House Staff determines it is necessary, state the words “Executive Two Foxtrot.”
REFERENCE-
FAAO JO 7110.65, Para 2-1-4, Operational Priority.

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Does this help?

If the call sign is "Air Force One," the President is on board.

[Freedom2specul8]

Rollin here! LoL keepers!

[TheOldLady]

"I think it is in some way connected to the 100 day celebration of the Narcissist in Chief."

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.

[EasySt]

I suspect the plane was full of high level foreign and domestic Obama campaign contributors, out to vicariously re-experience 9/11 from the terrorist’s perspective... The photo-op just being a pretext to celebrate the progress of the currently successful social and economic attack on America.

In any case, I doubt we will ever be told who was on that plane.

[Quix]

There’s a difference between

Evil and stupid.

However, they do tend to go together.

[Fred Nerks]

I suspect the plane was full of high level foreign and domestic Obama campaign contributors, out to vicariously re-experience 9/11 from the terrorist’s perspective...

A one hundredth day celebration of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre. YEP. Commemorating 'their bravery' no less.

It was a TRIBUTE! (IMHO.)

[Fred Nerks]

And there’s a connection between the abuse of a certain substance and irrational, impulsive, dangerous behaviour.

[Quix]

True.

Are you talking about weed or alcohol or sex or what?

[safisoft]

out to vicariously re-experience 9/11 from the terrorist’s perspective

The ultimate joy-ride for these evil people.

[patriot08]

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