Posted on 04/28/2009 9:51:45 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
A photo-op over the Manhattan skyline that sent thousands of New Yorkers running for their lives has officials in Washington, D.C., running for cover.
Many New Yorkers on Tuesday were asking what the Obama administration could have been thinking when it authorized an Air Force One backup plane to fly over the city for photos capturing the presidential plane with the Statue of Liberty in the background.
The 747 plane, with an F-16 escort following close behind, circled the Statue of Liberty and the skyline near the World Trade Center site for about a half-hour. Offices were evacuated. Emergency call centers were inundated. Witnesses reported that the planes were flying dangerously low
The site evoked memories of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and left White House Military Office Director Louis Caldera accepting responsibility and apologizing late Monday for permitting the exercise that infuriated New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who had not been alerted to the flyover.
President Obama, who was meeting with FBI Director Robert Mueller and other senior officials at the FBI on Tuesday, called the photo-op "a mistake."
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lol...there you go again!;-)
What were they thinking? They weren’t thinking anything. That’s the trouble.
Please put the adults back in charge!
Loving every minute of it!
How long can he last?
Run peasants,flee peasants for I am the mighty Obama!
They once again stop before the big question: What was the Photo Op about? An Air Force ad? n Obama re-election ad? DNC? Maybe to push one of his mega-trillion stimulus ads?
Who set up the photo op and why?
I’m waiting to see which Hollypuke movie this will be used in, to know who had the pull in the Obama Admin to get this done.
Austerity and greenhouse effect out the window, obviously.
In flight costs alone, this was what? Upwards of 30K?
Photoshop, dudes. It’s the green way to go.
He certainly is responsible in the professional sense, but it is quite possible he had no idea this was being done. My opinion of him is quite poor, but that doesn’t mean I think he manages pictures for the white house web page.
That is what I was thinking as well...
Like BO and his socialist minions care.
“It was something we found out about along with all of you. And it will not happen again,” he said.
Yeah, riiiiight!
I still say it was a PsyOps drill.
It is hard to believe with all the panic that there weren't some serious injuries.
No, but if I were a Republican running in the area, I'd certainly remind them of it--have the footage on commercials, etc. Will the GOP actually do this? Probably not, unfortunately.
No, but if I were a Republican running in the area, I'd certainly remind them of it--have the footage on commercials, etc. Will the GOP actually do this? Probably not, unfortunately.
I agree! I wonder what the Arab street has to say about this mini-terror attack.
Another incompetent in the 0 ranks or just taking the heat for the bigger incompetent one?
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