Posted on 09/09/2009 10:29:42 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
The Van Jones story isn't about another radical federal employee or even about President Obama's addiction to executive authority (he has appointed over 30 czars with whom he meets regularly, but he has held just one cabinet meeting since his inauguration). The Van Jones story is about our president: a man who fills the void in his emotional past with "authentic" black men who have no interior struggle for definition. President Obama has incessantly injected himself into racial matters that require no clarification (see Henry Louis Gates Jr.); he has turned every debate into a racial debate (see his 2008 campaign, which repeatedly referenced his "funny name" and the fact that he does not look like the "other presidents on the dollar bills"). He does so out of convenience -- few will argue openly about race with a prominent black man, no matter how extreme. More than that, however, he obsesses about race out of insecurity.
http://townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2009/09/09/what_van_jones_tells_us_about_president_obama
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Speaking of dates .... found this email in a blog. Have NOT verified it, nor had I heard of it before, but please let me know if this makes any sense and if anyone knows if it’s true.
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From a former Air Force Colonel….
Subject: The Date
First, let me say that I’ve moved three presidents up to now and I’ve seen incredible waste. But, the “new” guy really takes the cake.
I don’t have an issue with the President promising his wife dinner and a show or that he even takes his wife out.
But, when I saw the news say that the date cost $24,000, here’s what you DON’T know.
Three days before “dinner” a C-17 flew Marines and the helicopter maintenance equipment to JFK Airport .
The day before “dinner” I flew the USSS and the motorcade to JFK Airport
Our crew of 5 spent two days and nights at the Hilton in Times Square . My hotel bill: $621.66 plus $64 a day in per diem. The USSS guys were at a different Hilton in NYC, so figure that cost another $14,000 (or so) plus per diem.
The Marines had to have cost as much and were there four days, so figure another $55,000 plus per diem (for 44 Marines).
We were supposed to fly the motorcade back and go home, but the Air Force was so short of C-17’s that we were re-tasked to take the motorcade back, return to JFK and take the helicopter back to Quantico.
When we got back to JFK, while the pilot was turning the plane around to park, he noticed a rotor blade sticking out of the hangar where the helicopter was parked and informed me that either it wasn’t ready to transport or it was flying home.
After shutting down I walked over to the hangar and to my surprise I find FIVE helicopters, not ONE.
We’re obviously not transporting five big helicopters. I went and talked to the Marines guarding the “fleet” and found that they were flying all five helicopters home and we were only transporting the Marines and the maintenance equipment.
After talking to the Marine(s) in charge, I was told that the White House requested FIVE helicopters.
The Marines told me that they spent all morning trying to figure out how much it cost them to come and said they figured it cost them $140,000 to stay there (I don’t know where they came up with that)and the trip’s total had to be about $1,000,000.
We heard that the President didn’t use Air Force One (the 747) so I asked if he came in on one of the 757’s. I was told that he came in on THREE Air Force Lear jets.
So, date night consisted of:
2 C-17’s flying three missions, 3 Lear jets, 5 Helicopters,
Presidential Motorcade, 44 Marines, more than 20 USSS personnel on our plane.
Who knows what it cost the NYPD and NY Port Authority (at the airport) in overtime.
These are the same people that chastised the automobile CEO’s for using their aircraft. It further proves that the media only use the facts that make the President look good and hide any facts that will detract from his persona..
Is this the ‘change’ we expected?
Talk with friends and those who are not blinded by charisma. Many folks I know who voted for Obama are very disappointed and sorry they did so.
The Emperor’s clothes on a grand scale. “Transparency”? Remember, 2010 is just around the corner. All we have to do is survive long enough.
All I can say is...
BTTT
This really pisses me off and it’s not the first time I have seen this. I saw it on a military forum a couple of months ago, they were discussing it. I didn’t realize it wasn’t common knowledge, wasn’t this also posted in the news somewhere?
I hadn’t seen it before this. Did the military
forum posters indicate it was true ?
I don’t remember. They were just discussing it and I just assumed that it was in the news. Now that you saw it, and I saw it in more than one place, I am going to assume it’s true unless proved otherwise. We are never going to know the truth about the flight over NYC that scared half of NY and they are never going to admit this either. They are users, usurpers and greedy pigs, get them out of our WH. ICK!
This is a Christian nation.
Hussein is NOT a Christian.
Any light bulbs going off yet?
I find it distressing that you have to ping us everytime you find some apparent flaw, some inconsequential detail about how our pResident works. Mr. Obama has been quite busy. Give him a break. We are but mere putty in his hands. I for one, stand ready to join Mr. Obama in all his endeavors to help us save ourselves from ourselves.
This is the obligatory sarcasm off tag for non-careful readers.
Hot Air posted a rumor that Hillary is thinking of resigning as Sec of State and running for governor of NY. It’s not hard to see why, is it? I think he only appointed her so he could humiliate her. He is making a lot of enemies. So far it seems to be sort of working, but it’s an unsustainable model. The US is not Chicago.
BTTT
“The Cabinet doesn’t know squat, the Secret Service is in the dark, the CIA is on the hot seat and the American public is clueless.”
Not to worry and never fear, 0b0z0theLiar has his unvetted Czars to take care of America!
This is proof that he is going around the Departments that have long time employees who might give a damn about the constitution and corruption.
No whistle blowers if you bring down the Republic via a small circle of loyal czars within the White House.
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