White House aide Louis Caldera loses job over Manhattan flyover fiasco involving Air Force One

NY Daily News ^ | 5-8-09 | By Kenneth R. Bazinet

[Joiseydude]

WASHINGTON - The White House aide who authorized the controversial Air Force One photo-op flight last week around the Statue of Liberty is out of a job.

President Obama has accepted the resignation of Louis Caldera, the director of the White House Military Office, the Daily News learned Friday.

A secretary of the Army in the Clinton administration, Caldera took the fall for the public relations fiasco arising from the April 27 flyover, which was designed to replace a publicity photo of Air Force One flying past Mount Rushmore with a similar shot of Obama's 747 jumbo jet over the Statue of Liberty.

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[FreepShop1]

"A caldera is a volcanic feature formed by the collapse of a volcano into itself"

How appropriate.

[Arizona Carolyn]

He’ll be back when it blows over, no one stays fired in Obama’s world, remember Susan Rice — fired over her Hillary comments and look at her now.

[NormsRevenge]

1 Adam 12 1 Adam 12

We have a FRiday night debacle in progress..

Please respond to the WH.

[calex59]

Sure, an aide, with virtually no authority, gave the go ahead for a fly by for Airforce 1(maybe Airforce 2)and an F16 fighter to make a photo op flight over NYC. Wow, I guess WH aides have a lot more power and control than they used to have.

The guy took one for the ripper(not about to use the term Gipper in reference to Bozo), I guess he learned something about being liberal. I wonder what his severence package looks like?

[NormsRevenge]

Now he can write a ‘Failed’ book..

‘30 Seconds over Manhattan’

or he could go to work for the DHS

They need good PR folk these days.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[magellan]

Now that Caldera has been canned, the White House response will to further questions will be “Nothing to see here, move along, move along.”

[Doogle]

Hey Obambi. it's 5:30, do you know where your plane is..????

[cripplecreek]

With a single click I can make it a much better photo. This is just the default "auto level" setting.



That'll be $400,000 please.

[Doogle]

I wanna know the passenger lists

[EGPWS]

The White House aide who authorized the controversial Air Force One photo-op flight last week around the Statue of Liberty is out of a job.

So where does the buck stop now?

[Joiseydude]

That'll be $400,000 please.

Obama: "The check is in the mail".

[LibertyRocks]

I wonder how many more will be fired before the year is out?

[pollywog]

do you get the feeling this is a “ in your face” photo-op?
Looks like Air-Force One is making our precious Statue of Liberty look small and insignificant in proportion to the plane!

Sad anyway you look at it.

Polly

[mewzilla]

Did we ever find out who was on board the plane?

[Joiseydude]

Did we ever find out who was on board the plane?

No

[BP2]

On Drudge now: Flight cost as much as $357,000...

      Your tax dollars at work!

[tobyhill]

What did Obama know and when did he know it? A resignation is an admittance of guilt from the whole administration.

[Chode]

OK, he authorized it, but WHO THE HELL REQUESTED IT???

[Typical_Whitey]

This is a sham... Obama administration is Incompetent period. America is screwed.