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Recriminations after NYC jet flyover photo op
AP ^ | 4/28/09 | ULA ILNYTZKY and SARA KUGLER

Posted on 04/28/2009 3:28:35 AM PDT by Upstate NY Guy

NEW YORK (AP) — It was supposed to be a photo op that captured images of an Air Force One plane with a majestic Statue of Liberty in the background. Instead, it turned into a public relations nightmare that led to recriminations from the president and mayor and prompted thousands other to ask, "What were they thinking?"

Just before the workday began on Monday, an airliner and supersonic fighter jet zoomed past the lower Manhattan skyline. Within minutes, startled financial workers streamed out of their offices, fearing a nightmarish replay of Sept. 11....

An Air Force combat photographer took pictures from one of the fighter jets, administration officials said.

The photo op was combined with a training exercise to save money, according to another administration official who also spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak publicly about the behind-the-scenes discussions about the flight....

It had a classified footnote that said, "Information in this document shall not be released to the public or the media."

(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: airforceone; bho44; bhoairforceone; bhonyc; flyover; jet; nyc; photogate
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To: anoldafvet

........You can’t fix STUPID.....

Of course you can. You change the rules and eliminate it from the current events


41 posted on 04/28/2009 4:08:59 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Crucify ! Crucify ! Crucify him!!)
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To: Upstate NY Guy
The photo op was combined with a training exercise to save money...

for the children.

42 posted on 04/28/2009 4:09:13 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Upstate NY Guy
Operating cost for Prezidenshul plane = $100,000.00
Two F-16 fighter jets = $37,600,000.00

Showing New Yorkers how thoughtful we are = Priceless

43 posted on 04/28/2009 4:09:22 AM PDT by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 163)
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To: bitterohiogunclinger

i dont think its photo op. Why the secrecy of it? They could give a few days warning about it happening and made it public.

Me think White House want to scare ppl


44 posted on 04/28/2009 4:11:15 AM PDT by 4rcane
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Lying liars lying again and again and again and again and again... rinse and repeat.

LLS


45 posted on 04/28/2009 4:11:51 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: All

"It's Rahm, Mr President. He says keep laughing. We know nothing about the flyover."

" Some guy named Louis is gonna take the blame."

"Rahm had five doctors, an EMT crew, three paramedics and an
ambulance ready to go to NYC just in case the plane accidentally dropped
a bomb or something."

46 posted on 04/28/2009 4:12:44 AM PDT by Liz (I was like Snow White, then I drifted. Mae West (on liberalism.)
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To: boycott
Ain't no “former” to it... the boy bows to the king of the house of saud and mecca.

LLS

47 posted on 04/28/2009 4:13:43 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: Upstate NY Guy
...anyone wanna guess what the topic is going to be at the weekly Wednesday dinner party at the White Hut tomorrow night?......the success of Michelle becoming a fashion icon?
Obambi’s golf game?....Getting a new teleprompter set up?...
How fresh is the lobster and pizza at the gathering?
That's your list! now stick to it....any variation, discussion, or whispering about any other subject will be deemed a threat....and you will be banned and ostracized and attacked as Unamerican,a racist,a teabagger,red-necked,and any other term we deem necessary to quiet you
48 posted on 04/28/2009 4:15:34 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: livius

You left out muslim.

LLS


49 posted on 04/28/2009 4:15:51 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: wny

I expect the photographer was in the F-16. I’m not sure how functional the rear seat of an F-16 is when it comes to photography, but at least it could keep up with the 747. I also suspect the term ‘training mission’ is used to describe any flight that is not directly associated with transporting the TOTUS.

Of course after all is said and done the justification is being provided by an administration that has absolutely NO respect for reality or the truth.

I am appalled at the inability, and the unwillingness, of so many Americans to appreciate the difference in professionalism and abilities between the current pretender and his predecessor. Or any other who has ever held the office, excepting Carter and one or two of those guys years and years ago.


50 posted on 04/28/2009 4:16:39 AM PDT by jwparkerjr (God Bless America!)
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To: Upstate NY Guy
Yeah, I'm sure the DOD though of this “training exercise” all by themselves, because they have little experience in fighter escorts, and the fact that it would deliver a Photo Op of Air Force One with the Statue of Liberty as backdrop for The Dummy in Chief was pure coincidence.
51 posted on 04/28/2009 4:16:51 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
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To: Upstate NY Guy
Obama's administration does a Photo-Op with Air Force One (that is not carrying Obama), but Bush was not allowed to publish pictures of him actually in AF1 on 911.

Obama's people really do LOVE to stage fake events.

52 posted on 04/28/2009 4:17:12 AM PDT by syriacus (Sign on Obama's desk: "THE BUCK STOPS elsewHERE.")
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To: Upstate NY Guy

We all know what the reaction would have been if this had happened under Bush’s watch.
But instead we get breathless coverage of the first “100 days”.


53 posted on 04/28/2009 4:18:16 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I agree with Rick..)
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To: Upstate NY Guy
Well, the buck never stops at the Obama desk....another one thrown under the Obama bus, another fall guy, all because Mr. O.....

"did not know of the elaborate plans for the photos. "When he found out, he was absolutely furious,"

yes, and he didn't know the church he attended for 20 years was filled with bigots too. You can't believe a word this man says.

54 posted on 04/28/2009 4:18:21 AM PDT by never4get (We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid)
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To: Upstate NY Guy





55 posted on 04/28/2009 4:20:17 AM PDT by Miss Didi ( "After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Upstate NY Guy
..... It had a classified footnote that said,"Information in this document shall not be released to the public or the media."

I've never seen a document where a description of its security classification status is itself classified.

The only possible legimate reason I can think of for classifying the document was because someone might have thought that terrorists would use it as an opportunity to attack AF1 with a shoulder fired missile.

56 posted on 04/28/2009 4:21:41 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The age of 0bama: the transient ischemic delusions of adequacy decade.)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Ain’t no “former” to it... the boy bows to the king of the house of saud and mecca.
LLS


Agree. You don’t become a former muslim.

Also, if people researched the people that put together the letter writing campaign to get him into harvard law school they’d know his backing came from muslims.

The muslim over here that helped him get in gets his money from a saudi prince. We’d never heard the name, hussein obama, if it wasn’t for muslims pushing him into harvard law school. Not many other high school “B” students get into Ivy League schools and then harvard law school.

Obama had what schools like harvard like — muslim name, hussein obama, and he’s half black. That’s two diversity scores for them right there.


57 posted on 04/28/2009 4:22:15 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Upstate NY Guy

And why not do it on a weekend with most the office buildings empty.


58 posted on 04/28/2009 4:22:50 AM PDT by DB
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To: utahagen

I hope a copy of that email surfaces soon.


59 posted on 04/28/2009 4:22:53 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Pravious
“...The Government by the people, for the people....”

From the Gettysburg address, not "Rules for Radicals". Now we have government of the riff-raff, by the riff-raff for the riff-raff.

60 posted on 04/28/2009 4:23:27 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The age of 0bama: the transient ischemic delusions of adequacy decade.)
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