Spiffy and Nutty.
Posted on 02/05/2009 5:04:47 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Barack Obama takes first ride as US President on Air Force One
From correspiondents in Washington
Agence France-Presse
February 06, 2009 11:31am
BARACK Obama has taken his debut flight as president on his new "spiffy ride" - the blue and white Boeing 747 which serves as Air Force One.
Mr Obama also took his first trip aboard Marine One - the helicopter which ferries the president around on shorter trips - this time from the White House to Andrews air force base outside Washington.
The President walked to the press cabin at the back of his new plane before taking off on the short hop to Virginia, where he was due to speak to Democratic members of the House of Representatives who were holding a retreat.
"I've got my spiffy jacket so I thought I'd come and show it off," he said, modelling his new blue air force souvenir, bearing the presidential seal and the words "Air Force One" and "Barack Obama".
"What do you think about this spiffy ride? It's not bad," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Obama takes the Office of the Presidency down several notches each day in office.
Kenyan?
I thought he was the flyin’ Hawaii’n....
(lyin’ works, too.)
The Little O-boy is having soooo much fun with his new toys.
LOL! That’s the spirit! :)
He is such an Ivy Leaguer. Groan.
Spiffy and Nutty.
And unlike his opponent and his predecessor if something happened Obama couldn’t land Air Force One with help from the controllers.
Both W and McCain could.
Can you imagine the reaction if Bush had used the word spiffy?
There is a lot of immaturity displayed by BHO.
A friggin 747 from DC to Williamsburg. What a joke. Marine 1 would have been just fine. What a waste of Gas.
AF One should now read, AA One.
I’d like to change squirrel and use another pretty critter but would get the thread pulled;)))
150 miles? Seems like it would’ve been just as easy, maybe quicker even, to just take Marine One all the way there.
Yes. MSM would have branded him “stupid”.
Thinking about this from an historical perspective - this can’t be all that new - the idea of a child king. Inevitably someone steps into the power vaccuum - a Richelieu, a Rasputin, etc. How tragically this will all end remains to be seen. I keep being reminded of a movie - was it the Madness of King George where we saw an imbecilic child king? Or is it some other movie that keeps playing in my head?
Worse than that. Any plane carrying the president is designated Air Force One. There are two 747-400 currently in use, and both fly each time they go any where, one as a back up.
LOL...I was going to post a link to the video but thought better of it.
Last Sunday I wore my silk ivory colored Jones of New York suit wih a pale pink sweater.Twice older gentlemen came up to me before the church service and declared I looked spiffy. Their sweet comments made my morning.
He’s more concerned with his trappings than he is being POTUS.
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