Posted on 04/29/2009 12:15:32 AM PDT by pissant
Come on, who's surprised? The White House-engineered photo-op of low-flying Air Force aircraft that caused terror in New York City this week epitomizes the Age of Obama. What better way to mark 100 days in office than with an appalling exercise in pointless taxpayer-funded stagecraft?
The superficiality, the unseriousness, the hubris, the obliviousness to post-9/11 realities: They were trademarks of the Obama campaign, and they are the tattoos on his governance.
He never leaves home without his teleprompter. All the Obama world's a stage. Or a world ready to be staged.
So is it any wonder he would staff his White House military office with a clueless paper pusher who saw nothing wrong with spending inordinate government resources -- and re-creating 9/11 havoc -- to update Air Force One publicity shots? And who planned, believe it or not, to do the same in Washington, D.C., next month, where the 9/11 jihadists murdered 53 passengers and 6 crewmembers on board American Airlines Flight 77, and 125 military and civilian personnel inside the Pentagon?
All for some publicity shots.
No one should be shocked. Remember: Barack Obama is the frivolous man who concocted his own presidential-looking Great Seal before he was elected. An ego big enough to publicly display a ridiculous "Vero Possumus" ("Yes, we can" in Latin) motto and a regal eagle with the Obama campaign logo emblazoned on its chest is an ego capable of far more reckless things.
Obama orchestrated a grand photo-op in Berlin, Germany, to declare his world citizenship at the Siegessäule -- the Victory Column -- a soaring monument of arrogance championed by Adolf Hitler and Third Reich architect Albert Speer. He manufactured his own Open Temple of The One in Denver for the Democratic National Convention last summer, replete with fake Greek columns.
Since taking office, Obama has remained in perpetual campaign mode, idling in 9/10 gear. The photo album has filled up quickly with megalomaniacal moments. When his massive pork-filled stimulus package was in trouble, he ran to Ft. Myers, Fla., for a carefully choreographed revival meeting with his most ardent supporters. "It is such a blessing to see you. Oh! Gracious God, thank you so much!" one young booster exclaimed.
The president's famous embrace with another questioner -- homeless woman Henrietta Hughes, a perpetually unemployed drifter looking for a handout -- turned up on the White House online retrospective of the stimulus bill victory. (Missing: The photos of hundreds of thousands of Americans who took to the streets in Tea Party protests to oppose this massive act of generational theft and expansion of the entitlement state.) Another Kodak moment from the stimulus campaign exposed Obama's hype of the spending boondoggle's effects. Using a Caterpillar plant and workers as a backdrop, Obama grandly promised that if the stimulus passed, Caterpillar would rehire laid-off workers. It made front-page headlines. After the photo-op: Caterpillar's own CEO refuted the bogus promise and last week posted its first quarterly net loss in 16 years. After the signing, it finally dawned on pliant media outlets that the stimulus money was stupendously wasteful, and the job creation estimates, bogus. No pictures of those epiphanies. Obama's photo-ops abroad have been more unsettling: Bowing and scraping before Saudi King Abdullah, trashing America as "arrogant" (talk about a pot and kettle moment) in front of adoring French and German students, chumming it up with Venezuelan thug-in-chief Hugo Chavez. These are the defining images of a stunt(ed) presidency blind to our enemies and in a perpetual state of (re)pose. Obama appointed Leon Panetta, a chief of intelligence with no intelligence experience. He gave us Hillary Clinton, a secretary of state who cackled about the Somali pirate hijacking and laughed off serious questions about the effectiveness of enhanced interrogation techniques. He installed Rosa Brooks, a radical George Soros-trained ideologue, as a top Pentagon adviser. He came close to embracing Charles Freeman as top U.S. intelligence analyst -- a jihadi-sympathizing conspiracist who blamed America for 9/11. And he appointed Janet Napolitano, the homeland security secretary who can't get her facts straight about the 9/11 terrorists, pooh-poohed our immigration laws, disseminated a hit job on conservatives and veterans as right-wing extremist threats, and redefined acts of terrorism as "man-caused disasters." "Man-caused disaster." That's a perfect description of the Scare Force One torture photo-op that took place this week and an apt summary of the last 100 days. Say cheese. Michelle Malkin is author of "Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild." Her e-mail address is malkinblog@gmail.com.
She’s right though. This whole administration is one big photo op.
Photo ops to distract from his radical marxism
Testing, testing, testing . . .
Or a dry run?
I cannot believe that Louis Cordera did this all on his own.
Doubtful this bizarre flight endagering public safety and sanity was initiated by a middle manager and then without review higher up. Sophomoropic at best; sociopathic more likely. The full story will come out in time.
WHY?
you and I both call BS
http://www.condenast.co.uk/ImageLib/320x480/a_c/carlaBruni_b.jpg
What could have been done with Photoshop.
But let me drop out of Lurk & Link Mode for a brief comment, then another clip below the (HR) strike line--
"Death is so permanent..."
In the Real World, America has real interests- not "friends," and life is not a game you can reboot. It's final. The goofs who voted this Clown Posse in to office are about to learn that words have meaning, and elections have consequences.
That you can't always "reset..."
Happy Hundredth-Day Day, Rookie.
Is there nothing that Obama don't know?
Federal officials knew that sending two fighter jets and Air Force One to buzz ground zero and Lady Liberty might set off nightmarish fears of a 9/11 replay, but they still ordered the photo-op kept secret from the public.
In a memo obtained by CBS 2 HD the Federal Aviation Administration's James Johnston said the agency was aware of "the possibility of public concern regarding DOD (Department of Defense) aircraft flying at low altitudes" in an around New York City. But they demanded total secrecy from the NYPD, the Secret Service, the FBI and even the mayor's office and threatened federal sanctions if the secret got out.
The people who populate the Obama administration really don’t believe in 9/11. They may have read about it, They may know intellectually that it happened. But they view it the same way we may view a lightning strike that hits an isolated golfer: a billion-in-one shot that “just happened.” That’s why the Obama team is renaming the attacks of 9/11 as “man-caused disasters” putting it on the same moral plane as an auto wreck. That’s why the Obama team is not really concerned about revealing what we do to interrogate prisoners with vital information. They don’t believe we haven anything to worry about. Unlike the people who evacuated their buildings during the fly-bys and who ran for their lives, believing that they were under another attack. For Team Obama, it’s always 9/10.
Where It's 9-11 All the Time...Click the picture...
BUMP
I hope the weeny libs in New York were frightened enough to remember WHY we are fighting terrorism. NYC is so full of Obama weeny-wimps that they deserved a little jolt. Maybe they will now start paying attention to the ineptness of the Zero administration.
Photos and busts of Chairman Mao. Photos and busts of Josef Stalin. Photos and busts of Saddam Hussein. Photos and busts of Barack Obama. Anyone see a pattern here?
It's amazing that we've survived the first 100 days of liberal hubris and government takeover.
Let's pray that the country can survive another hundred days of this (or better still that we don't have to put up with it for much longer).
Mayor Bloomberg just became a Republican; last year he was promising Obama one billion dollars for the presidential election....WHAT HAPPENED??? “Economic stimulus.” Bloomberg News is suing the Federal Reserve to get the names of the persons and organizations who got THIRTEEN TRILLION DOLLARS out of the taxpayers. This threat was aimed at Bloomberg, personally-—to show who holds the cards.
A couple of days ago I had a short conversation with an obamanoid. At one point I had occasion to ask her if nearly 3000 innocent people had to make the horrific choice to jump or burn to death on 9/11 because as she pointed out, G.W. was a terrible president? She adamantly posited that the US has done worse things in the world. Like Vietnam, like making our allies wait for us to get into WWII. It was a short conversation.
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