100 Days of Reckless Photo-Op Hubris

michellemalkin.com ^ | 4/28/09 | Michelle Malkin

[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.

[Beckwith]

I cannot believe that Louis Cordera did this all on his own.

Cordera "approved" the flight.

What we need to know is WHO "requested" the flight?

Cordera's role was only administrative.

[sergeantdave]

I fully expect to see the ghetto thug appear one day in Medieval chain mail, with medals as big as manhole covers hanging from his chest and dark sunglasses. Then he’ll call for his phantom Sun Tzu army to rise up and protest the president’s policies.

By this time next year, obuma will be touring insane asylums and Venezuala to look for cheering crowds.

[backhoe]

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.

I'm afraid that's all too common- the elevation of Ner0!, err, Zer0!, err, Duh!1® to our highest office is living proof of that.

[Spok]

It’s good to be king.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

A couple of days ago I had a short conversation with an obamanoid... 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.

Want to make a leftie speechless? Ask her why she hates America. ("I do not!") Yes, you do, go ahead, tell me what's so special about America?

They really have a hard time with that, since they really do hate America.

[ex-Texan]

This was not a photo opportunity. Far from it indeed.

This is just part of the Psy-Ops being used on us on a daily basis. If you fell for that lie -- then the $12 Trillion Bailout was far too easy. The bailouts were a piece of cake to pull off because people fell for the easy explanation. In reality they were part of an engineered financial collapse.

Wall Street stole $$$$ Trillions and may get away with it because nobody is investigating. Everybody was drinking the kool aid because the Fed and Treasury told us to drink it.

You may need to study up on the New World Order Corporate Banking Police State and its plans for one world government. The Bilderbergers are coming out of woods.

Please Watch This Video

On the other hand: Zero may have been showing the public the power of government. He may believe that government did it once and he can do it again. Or he may want to keep people living in fear. His primary secret motivations are his own. He is not telling.

Why aren't people demanding a full investigation ________ ? This was not a photo opportunity. It smells to high heaven. Engaging in a stunt like this smacks of arrogance so lofty that it goes a long way to proving the man is unstable.

[Charles Henrickson]

DUmmie FUnnies 04-28-09 (DUmmies join the "One Hundred Days" Obamamania!)

ONE HUNDRED DAYS
Tune: "Five Hundred Miles"

If you turn the TV on, you can watch the networks fawn
They all cheer Obama's gone a hundred days
A hundred days, a hundred days, a hundred days, a hundred days
They all cheer Obama's gone a hundred days

Lord, we're one, Lord, we're two, Lord, we're three, Lord, we're four
Lord, we're five trillion dollars in the hole
We're in the hole, we're in the hole, we're in the hole, we're in the hole
Lord, we're nine trillion dollars in the hole

Not a tax we will lack, got a target on my back
Lord, I can't afford Obama's kind of change
Keep the change, keep the change, keep the change, keep the change
Lord, I can't afford Obama's kind of change

If you like these hundred days and you sing Obama's praise
Then I fear your feeble brain is in a daze
You're in a daze, you're in a daze, you're in a daze, you're in a daze
Then I fear your feeble brain is in a daze
Then I fear your feeble brain is in a daze

[patriot08]

The REAL thing:
http://attacked911.tripod.com/

This AWESOME video was made by a New Yorker who lived through it.
This video has been viewed by millions and is now in the Smithsonian.
It should be required viewing by every American.

The ‘religion’ of these people commands them to do these things; to KILL so that religion is only for Allah.

These are the people that Obama comes from, protects and promotes.
God help us all.