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'Air Force One' photo: Coming this week
Chicago Tribune ^ | May 6, 2009 | Mark Silva

Posted on 05/06/2009 2:43:36 PM PDT by Plutarch

The White House says it will indeed release a photograph from the $329,000 "photo shoot'' of one of the Air Force jumbo jets that serve as Air Force One when the president is aboard but mainly served to scare a lot of New Yorkers in that recent flyover.

President Barack Obama voiced outrage over the incident, as did the mayor of New York, the senior senator from New York and many street-level New Yorkers who didn't know what to make of the presidential aircraft trailed by an F-16 fighter making low arcs over the Hudson River. It was a "photo-op,'' the Federal Aviation Administration explained at the time -- freshening up the photo gallery for Air Force One...

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911; af1; airfarceone; bho44; bhoairforceone; georgelucas; obama; photoop; redtails; second100days; tuskegeeairmen
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To: Hildy

A good point. I think that even the passenger list has not been released and that should be quite revealing of purpose and intent. Maybe just a joy ride for all concerned. Or O surveying his kingdom. So many possibilities and probabilities.


41 posted on 05/06/2009 5:07:35 PM PDT by mountainfolk (God Bless The United States of America)
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To: sitkaspruce

Government photoshoppers work very slowly


42 posted on 05/06/2009 5:58:43 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Obama in Office for 100 days: Wall Street panics.)
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To: mountainfolk
I think that even the passenger list has not been released...

Given the timing of this and Specter's defection, I wouldn't doubt that he was on the plane.

OK, it's a long shot, but these are democRATs after all. Anything stupid is possible!

43 posted on 05/06/2009 6:22:48 PM PDT by meyer (Obama is to the USA as Mugabe is to Zimbabwe.)
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To: odin2008; pandoraou812

ROTFL Excellent job!


44 posted on 05/06/2009 7:28:35 PM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TigersEye

That was great!


45 posted on 05/06/2009 7:30:25 PM PDT by pandoraou812 (elected officials should be required to pass drug, alcohol & dementia testing)
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