White House aide Louis Caldera loses job over Manhattan flyover fiasco involving Air Force One

NY Daily News ^ | 5-8-09 | By Kenneth R. Bazinet

[Joiseydude]

WASHINGTON - The White House aide who authorized the controversial Air Force One photo-op flight last week around the Statue of Liberty is out of a job.

President Obama has accepted the resignation of Louis Caldera, the director of the White House Military Office, the Daily News learned Friday.

A secretary of the Army in the Clinton administration, Caldera took the fall for the public relations fiasco arising from the April 27 flyover, which was designed to replace a publicity photo of Air Force One flying past Mount Rushmore with a similar shot of Obama's 747 jumbo jet over the Statue of Liberty.

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[a fool in paradise]

Michael Savage comes on in 90 minutes...

[meyer]

Hussein made the decision and gave the order. Caldera is his fall guy.

Yep. They found a fall guy to take the heat. Clean up the tracks and nobody in the leftwing media will look any further.

[IceAge]

It's racist to blame this guy for it all. Afterall, Isn't he a “Spanish-speaking” American? They are just picking him out as a scapegoat because of his ethnicity

Why didn't the CIC know the whereabouts of his own plane? What if there had been an emergency? Was he going to cower in the WH until his “ride” was back?????blah, blah, blah-Imagine this happening while GW Bush was President!!!
They would have started impeachment proceedings over this.

[a fool in paradise]

Is there a revolving door on this White House?

[Northern Yankee]

From what I understand from the Secret Service, the President still has to approve any of Air Force One or Air Force Two’s flights.

[klimeckg]

I want a list of the names of the people who were on board the plane!

[Electric Graffiti]

Tommorow’s news....Caldera killed in freak accident when bus collides with his car.

[presently no screen name]

Obama’s fall guy. No way do I believe this guy is responsible for the ‘trip over NY’; just, merely, taking orders. And O says he didn’t know. Like his bow wasn’t a bow, and his counterfeit BC is real, etc. Louis went to West Point while BO rolled around the streets of chicago ‘thug style’.

[353FMG]

Hey Caldera—get under the bus.

[STARWISE]

Breaking News White House Military Office Chief Resigns Over NYC Flyover Flap; Photo Released

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Current story has WH saying it was a minimal crew. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!

[Red Dog #1]

Louis,
If you're lurking out there, please let us know what the underside of Obama’s bus looks like.

[AH_LiveRight]

Hey Louis, damn fine job taking one for the team. Lay low for a few months and you just might get a position on the NY Fed. There are a couple of openings, dontcha know.

[Secret Agent Man]

So Obama found a fall guy. He’s been taking responsibility and apologizing for everything else, including things he says he had no part in, why not simply take responsibility for this, apologize and say he’s got to get back to work?

What a little child we have for a president.

[Never on my watch]

The combat photographer who took that picture has to be cringing (these guys are awesome photographers). It is an awful composition. There is something about the good ones that the White House does not want you to see.

[STARWISE]

Another good video from the Wall Street Journal - scroll down to the April 29 date

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/05/white_house_aircraft_photo_op.html

[Son House]

[Let's Roll]

I think New Mexico is waiting for him with open arms ... after all he’s hipsanic and a dim - that’s all that counts in Santa Fe.

[presently no screen name]

I don’t think Louis would want it. I think he has enough going for himself. Hope so, anyway.

[RikaStrom]

Oh you just HAD to know this was coming.