Posted on 04/27/2009 1:57:42 PM PDT by Mikey_1962
Of course no one is taking responsibility for this. Who would want their name on this public relations fiasco?
Following an astonishing decision to let a Boeing 747 buzz the Manhattan skyline this morning without informing the public, you get what you typically expect from government when a mistake is made: not my fault.
9/11
Bringing back memories of September 11 to New York City residents, entire buildings were evacuated after — what turned out to be one of President Obama’s planes — swooped low over the Statue of Liberty into lower Manhattan on Monday morning. The 747 was escorted by two F-16 fighter jets.
Sounds somewhat similar to the hapless single engine pilot who accidentally strayed into restricted airspace in Washington, DC last Friday. Except that was an accident. This was an “approved activity.” Except no one told the public it was going to happen.
Panic
John Leitner, a floor trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange Building, told the Associated Press that about 1,000 people “went into a total panic” and ran out of the building around 10 a.m. after seeing the planes whiz by their building, near the World Trade Center site.
“Apparently, nobody in the building was informed that this was going to happen,” he said. “Everyone panicked, as you can certainly understand.”
It’s easy to understand why there would be panic. It’s astonishing that nobody thought the public ought to have a heads up.
A what?
So what kind of an approved activity was it? A photo op. A photo op involving one of the planes that serves as Air Force One.
Details on the photo shoot — except that it caused mass panic — aren’t known yet. What is known is that everyone, save the public, knew about it.
(Excerpt) Read more at features.csmonitor.com ...
Yeah, can’t wait to hear the “reason(s)” for this
Obammy hot rodding around increasing global warming before his Certificate of Live Birth become public and he is removed him from the Oval Office.
Bambi can’t blame Bush...
Was obama at the controls? we know what happened the last time muslims flew planes over manhattan.
"It was never as bad as anything BUSH DID!!!!!
And still the people who “voted” for him, feel they have a voice.
If this does not clearly illustrate the utter contempt the current administration has for not only conservatives but for their own base (NYC) we are truly blind.
The media spin on this one will rival a twenty minute ride on a Tilt-A-Whirl…full speed!
Well, just what sort of PR was supposed to be generated from this? Who would ever have thought that someone could make us yearn for the good ol’ days of Jimmuh Cahtuh? Capital DOO and a capital FUSS.
As our pal Bugs would say of barry, "WhaddaMarooon!"
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, I thought that he was “looking” for his birth certificate.
Do you think the media would have left out Bush's name, if one of his Airforce One planes were buzzing Manhattan?
They would have been interviewing crying Manhattan schoolchildren, asking if they were scared by President Bush's plane.
I don’t know whether this guy is just classic narcissist.
(its all about him ya know)
or whether this is part of his “hope n change” propaganda.
(getting people to fear and panic so he can have more “savior” potential?)
Sick stunt—not funny, not professional, not considerate but a great show of what an amateur he is.
Hey doesnt he have to have a copy of his BC to aquire a passport?
Is he planning to go to Canada?
As I understand it you have to have a BC to cross the border.
>Yeah, can’t wait to hear the “[T]reason(s)” for this
Fixed.
Of course he can, his loyal followers are dumber than rocks.
Sources at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey told the Wall Street Journal that they received a memo telling them to keep the mission quiet.
Mayor Bloomberg said he was “furious” that he wasn’t told about it.
The president’s Press Secretary seemed to be taken off-guard when asked about the incident at his press briefing. Stammering through a response where he told reporters to call the FAA, Air Force, or the White House Military Office, MSNBC’s Chuck Todd told him it was “odd that he didn’t have a response as it was the president’s aircraft.”
The pilots will probably be fired or if military get some kind of punishment...authorized or not.
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