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Air Force One Flyover: Time Amused by White House Lack of Transparency
Newsbusters ^ | May 2, 2009 - 04:59 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 05/02/2009 6:41:12 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out

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To: bergmeid

GROUND AIR FORCE ONE FOR TWO MONTHS FOR TERRORIZING THE CITIZENS OF NEW YORK !!!


21 posted on 05/02/2009 9:12:55 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Looks like you forgot to copy your quote from this thread and pasted one from the gay nazi thread, lol. Not that observations regarding the affinity of gays and Nazis for environmentalism, anti-smoking and vegetarianism are necessarily inappropriate here.


22 posted on 05/02/2009 9:16:48 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

I’d like to waterboard Gibbs, but he probably doesn’t have any high value intel.


23 posted on 05/02/2009 9:41:31 AM PDT by sportutegrl (If liberals could do math, they would be conservatives.)
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To: penelopesire

This was obviously an updating of the handout photo that previously showed lower Manhattan before the GW Bush years—at least before 9-11-01. We can be sure that AF-1 did not buzz NYC during the Bush presidency after 911.

So Obambi, or someone in his chain of command, wanted the images of the twin towers removed. Why and who?


24 posted on 05/02/2009 9:52:51 AM PDT by Poincare
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To: bergmeid

...”too many questions”...definitely but who is asking them? One question - Obama said “It was a mistake; it won’t happen again.” Well, if he knew it was a mistake then he knew something about it...Come on,Hussein, share with us. Where’s the ‘transparency’?


25 posted on 05/02/2009 10:14:14 AM PDT by smartymarty (When you know why you believe what you believe, leadership is inevitable.)
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To: nikos1121

I saw that figure also but I bet lost productivity totals of the people bailing out of various buildings during muslim boy’s little stunt were not added in, if it were even possible to total those costs up. who was on that plane is the number one question as far as I am concerned. where was fat ass Blackie O. herself during the time that flight was up....?


26 posted on 05/02/2009 12:38:58 PM PDT by bobby.223
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To: The Duke
the USS Greenville, and given the enormity of the scandal it represented, it was pretty quickly swept under the rug.

I remember the Greenville incident (rammed a Japanese fishing boat killing 9 while showing off a manuever to on-board VIPs). The commanding officer took full responsibility. Are you saying that was a coverup for a White House confabulation? I think it would be a mistake to compare the two incidents.

27 posted on 05/02/2009 1:34:01 PM PDT by no-s
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I remember the Greenville incident (rammed a Japanese fishing boat killing 9 while showing off a manuever to on-board VIPs). The commanding officer took full responsibility. Are you saying that was a coverup for a White House confabulation? I think it would be a mistake to compare the two incidents.

Well, the Greenville incident was more than just showing off a maneuver - a civilian political donor/crony had been put at the controls of a nuclear submarine. The incidents are alike in that they involve gross misuse of military equipment and in that, in both cases, the buck did not stop in the oval office (as it should have).

Both cases also demonstrated a most profoundly cavalier attitude towards the most serious matters.

28 posted on 05/02/2009 1:49:55 PM PDT by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: bobby.223

Do you think Obama was in the plane?


29 posted on 05/03/2009 5:02:23 AM PDT by nikos1121 (We can thank Jimmy Carter for the world as it is today............)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

New York to White House: Are You %$#&*^& Nuts?
April 27, 2009
By Paul Bertorelli

No, make that the entire country to the White House.

Monday’s flyover of New York for a photo op of the 747 that serves as Air Force One was the most stunningly stupid decision by a group of adults authorized to use government airplanes that it’s possible to imagine. On a scale of 10 for utter idiocy, it’s a 13. It makes those clueless guys who busted the Washington ADIZ in a Cessna 150 a couple of years ago look like Lindbergh finding Paris with a compass and a watch.

The most disgusting part of it—it’s damn near evil—is that the FAA and the White House notified the NYPD of the flyover ahead of time but classified it, preventing its release to the public. There is no other way to described it than this: These agencies engaged in negligent terrorizing of a public still traumatized by the September 11, 2001 attacks. While we’re talking about resetting relations with Cuba and Venezuela, what we really need to be doing is resetting our own government, or at least the part of it that deals with the highly charged relationship between airplanes and the national security apparatus. And surprise!...it applies to Air Force One, too.

Somewhere, I’m sure a few people are saying, “Oh, New York, get over it.” I wasn’t in New York on September 11th, but I know many people who were. I can’t look deep enough to get over it. When I saw the pictures of Monday’s fiasco, I had the same gut wrenching dread that we all had on that awful day almost eight years ago. It still seems like yesterday to me. I don’t think the country is anywhere near being able to tough it out when an airplane as big as a 747 flies that low over New York or any other major city. Nor should anybody be testing the premise.

And this was done by the same people who have the unmitigated gall to frisk the citizenry before boarding airliners, to bar general aviation aircraft from ever more airspace and to generally make life miserable for the rest of us while they do they very thing that scares the hell out of all of us.

It’s hard to know how even to respond to this sort of lunacy. I for one expect President Obama on the tube today explaining himself and illuminating us on who he has fired. I don’t care if he knew about it or not. It’s his watch. We just loaned him the airplane.

Meanwhile, to whomever originated this stunt, how about this: A 12-year-old with a copy of Photoshop could have gotten your photo op with a lot less grief than this mess will create.

http://www.avweb.com/blogs/insider/AvWebInsider_WhiteHouseAirForceNewYorkFlyover_200270-1.html


30 posted on 05/03/2009 6:52:38 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

ping


31 posted on 05/05/2009 10:56:24 AM PDT by lmr
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