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Obama and Air Force One: It's good to have a 747
Los Angeles Times ^ | January 3, 2011 | Andrew Malcolm

Posted on 01/03/2011 6:12:37 PM PST by george76

Last year Obama flew in Air Force One 172 times, almost every other day. White House officials have been telling reporters in recent days that the Democrat doesn't intend to hang around the White House quite so much in 2011.

They explain he wants to get out more around the country because, as everyone knows, that midterm election shellacking on Nov. 2 had nothing to do with his healthcare bill, over-spending or other policies, and everything to do with Obama's not adequately explaining himself to his countrymen and women...

At an Air Force-estimated cost of $181,757 per flight hour (not to mention the additional travel costs of Marine One, Secret Service, logistics and local police overtime), that's a lot of frequent flier dollars going into the president's carbon footprint.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airforceone; obama

1 posted on 01/03/2011 6:12:38 PM PST by george76
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To: george76

Ground Zer0 until unemployment is below 5%.


2 posted on 01/03/2011 6:15:58 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: george76

Anyone still wondering who this little communists black Muslim Dictator is?

How about a dense playboy that won the lottery.


3 posted on 01/03/2011 6:17:28 PM PST by Logical me
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To: george76
All together now...


"It's good to be the King..."

4 posted on 01/03/2011 6:24:49 PM PST by JRios1968 (This is me, in a nutshell: "Let me out of here...I'm trapped in a nutshell!!!!")
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To: george76

“They explain he wants to get out more around the country because, as everyone knows, that midterm election shellacking on Nov. 2 had nothing to do with his healthcare bill, over-spending or other policies, and everything to do with Obama’s not adequately explaining himself to his countrymen and women”

....surprised that the Times would take a tone of sarcasm concerning “the One”....maybe they’re coming out from under the ether.


5 posted on 01/03/2011 6:25:10 PM PST by STONEWALLS
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6 posted on 01/03/2011 6:26:08 PM PST by Delta 21 (If you cant tell if I'm being sarcastic...maybe I'm not.)
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To: JRios1968

heh


7 posted on 01/03/2011 6:27:20 PM PST by Delta 21 (If you cant tell if I'm being sarcastic...maybe I'm not.)
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To: george76

This is about the worst damned hypocrite that has ever lived in the White House.

The arrogance astounds me.

HOPE my ass !!!!!!


8 posted on 01/03/2011 6:30:26 PM PST by Mears
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To: george76

Remember last year when the Prime Minister David Cameron flew to the U.S. on British Airways (commercial).

How about we take up that part from Europe?


9 posted on 01/03/2011 6:39:05 PM PST by cruise_missile (Fox: Swap Shepard Smith time slot with Glenn Beck)
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To: george76

Remember last year when the Prime Minister David Cameron flew to the U.S. on British Airways (commercial).

How about we take up that part from Europe?


10 posted on 01/03/2011 6:39:20 PM PST by cruise_missile (Fox: Swap Shepard Smith time slot with Glenn Beck)
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To: george76
At an Air Force-estimated cost of $181,757 per flight hour

He's pretty expensive when he sits at that desk in the Oval Office, too. How much per hour there?

11 posted on 01/03/2011 6:45:43 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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To: Mears

He is just another liberal thief and since he is the king of the thieves, he plans to steal as much of the people’s money as possible. If he can’t take it with him, he’ll just waste it. He spent over $100 MILLION taxpayer dollars on flying around in AF-1 alone and probably another hundred million on his entourage. Pissing away YOUR money while pretending to give a shit about the economy and the people who actually work and pay taxes seems to be his biggest talent.


12 posted on 01/03/2011 6:54:54 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: Mears
arrogance

As Grocho would say, you hit the magic word.

ARROGANCE

13 posted on 01/03/2011 7:00:18 PM PST by AGreatPer (Voting for the crazy conservative gave us Ronald Reagan....Ann Coulter)
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OBAMA PLANE PHOTO OP STARTLES NEW YORKERS
By DAVID SEIFMAN, MURRAY WEISS and JEREMY OLSHAN
April 27, 2009

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Story:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04272009/news/regionalnews/obama_plane_photo_op_startles_new_yorker_166470.htm

14 posted on 01/03/2011 7:08:30 PM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: george76

America will never be the same again.

There’s no erasing the stain this POS is on the nation.


15 posted on 01/03/2011 7:36:58 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares ( Refusing to kneel before the "messiah".)
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To: george76

Zero is another Tinpot Dictator living lavishly at the expense of his subjects.


16 posted on 01/03/2011 7:57:15 PM PST by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: george76

“$181,757 per flight hour”

Sounds like reparations.


17 posted on 01/03/2011 8:58:43 PM PST by garjog
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