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SCALP NO. 1 IN FLYOVER FLAP (sicko-megalos in a power-mad WH)
NY POST ^ | 5/11/09 | EDITORIAL

Posted on 05/11/2009 3:31:16 AM PDT by Liz

....in the wake of the incredibly stupid photo op flyover Lower Manhattan, Obama accepted the resignation of Louis Caldera, WH Military Office director (former secy of the Army). As government foul-ups go, this one was pretty monumental. ....the incident cost taxpayers $357,00 and panicked 1000's of New Yorkers haunted by 9/11.......but who came up with the nutty idea? The Pentagon is undertaking a review -- Deputy White House COS Jim Messina says he didn't know until the flyover had taken place......where should the buck stop? Alas, that remains a mystery.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: airforce1; newyorkflyover; obama
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To: Travis McGee
The key to understanding this fiasco is the red tail on the F-16, and the movie "Red Tails" now being filmed by mega-Obama fan George Lucas.

You know now that will never been shown and Lucas is scrambling to rewrite the script.

21 posted on 05/11/2009 5:35:43 AM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: Liz

They should carve more of that mountain, it’s really ugly. Looks like a section of the Elephant Man.


22 posted on 05/11/2009 5:37:11 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (It's all resistance...and it's all good.)
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To: Liz

“....in the wake of the incredibly stupid photo op flyover Lower Manhattan, Obama accepted the resignation of Louis Caldera”

This dude is taking one for the team, he’s a sacrificial lamb and will be taken care of. There’s more to this story.


23 posted on 05/11/2009 5:44:39 AM PDT by kenmcg (cOMMBYAH)
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To: Travis McGee

If what you say is true, and I have no real idea, where were all the movie cameras?


24 posted on 05/11/2009 5:45:18 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
They should carve more of that mountain, it’s really ugly.

I guess you haven't been there. There's nothing ugly about it (leaving aside an honoree or two maybe).

ML//NJ

25 posted on 05/11/2009 5:53:05 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Liz

Air Force One is the equivalent of a national military command post, The POTUS could conduct a nuclear war from on board. If the primary was disabled the POTUS is supposed to be able to rapidly get aboard the backup to ensure US leadership survival.

Now

Who had (has?) the authority to order this strategic military asset into the air for a joyride?


26 posted on 05/11/2009 5:54:28 AM PDT by silverleaf ("Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal ( Martin Luther King))
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To: Liz
where should the buck stop?
This is obviously .. BUSH'S Fault!

When Dubya handed over the keys to Barry, Bush told the Kenyan that as POTUS he could use Air Force One for 'anything' he wants. So we can't blame Obama that Bush didn't clarify what 'anything' meant.

After all, Obama is new on the job and has a lot of important stuff on his mind like 'healtcare' and 'middle class tax cuts'. So this has to be Bush-hitler's fault, he should have told Obama the "Do's and Don'ts' of being president.

The above will likely appear on DU, Kos or the Huffie Post later today.

27 posted on 05/11/2009 5:56:58 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: Liz
"Figures that the clown Caldera cleaning out his desk did not bother to apologize. "

Maybe if you had to take the fall for your boss like that, you wouldn't want to apologize either.

It will be interesting to see where Caldera gets his next employment and who "arranges" it.

28 posted on 05/11/2009 6:08:04 AM PDT by cookcounty (Late-term abortion advocate Barack Obama preaching about torture. How stupid can you get?)
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To: Condor51
.....this has to be Bush-hitler's fault, he should have told Obama the "Do's and Don'ts' of being president....

Those @#@#&&***%% "judgemental" Republicans.

29 posted on 05/11/2009 6:12:34 AM PDT by Liz (Everything Obama says comes with an expiration date.)
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To: SlowBoat407

LOL-—good one.


30 posted on 05/11/2009 6:14:03 AM PDT by Liz (Everything Obama says comes with an expiration date.)
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To: bgill

My guess is that the AF1/F-16 Red Tail flyby was meant to be shown at the end of the movie.

Voiceover: “In 1944, the brave Tuskegee Airmen of the Red Tail Squadron broke one color barrier. 65 years later, with the election of President Barack Obama, the final color line was broken.”

Something like that. That’s why Obama was so pissed by this fiasco. Now they can’t use it.


31 posted on 05/11/2009 6:33:27 AM PDT by Travis McGee ("Foreign Enemies And Traitors" is being shipped from the printer.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

The red tail F-16 in the picture was part OF the picture. It was too close and not positioned to film AF1.

The filming platform was further out, probably just a dot in the sky. Predators, for example, film the ground close up from above 4 miles of altitude.

I’m not sure about the filming platform, I’m just guessing. But it might have been more than a mile away, to catch both planes and the NYC panorama.


32 posted on 05/11/2009 6:35:55 AM PDT by Travis McGee ("Foreign Enemies And Traitors" is being shipped from the printer.)
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To: Travis McGee
The red tail F-16 in the picture was part OF the picture. It was too close and not positioned to film AF1.

You're right. Just as the movie "Red Tails" will be about the Tuskegee Airmen flying close protective support for the WW2 bombers, this shot of Red Tails flying close support of AF1 would have blended into the movie's theme. Now that can't use the shot, because too many questions will be raised over whether the producers adequately paid for use of government resources for commercial gain.

33 posted on 05/11/2009 7:21:45 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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To: Travis McGee

I’d be willing to bet a couple pints of Guinness that there were Hollywood donors on board. Where was Michelle Obama that day? Will we ever hear????


34 posted on 05/11/2009 8:08:55 AM PDT by astounded (The democrat party is a clear and present danger to America.)
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To: Travis McGee

Spot on Analysis!


35 posted on 05/11/2009 9:06:28 AM PDT by Issaquahking (Keep your change obummer, I STILL support Sarah!)
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To: missnry

“Obama joked that his kids were on it. How about telling us who was really on it.”

That probably was the truth.


36 posted on 05/11/2009 1:05:37 PM PDT by PsyOp (Put government in charge of tire pressure, and we'll soon have a shortage of air. - PsyOp.)
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To: Travis McGee; Liz; Squantos; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; Grampa Dave; MeekOneGOP; BOBTHENAILER; ...

37 posted on 05/11/2009 10:14:01 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: PhilDragoo

ha!

Give ‘im he!!, Phil !!


38 posted on 05/11/2009 10:23:58 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Pick any of. 100 rows of the 747. Windows and the back seats of both F16D ‘s ......silly question.


39 posted on 05/12/2009 4:32:36 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: PhilDragoo

Perfect !!!


40 posted on 05/12/2009 4:36:15 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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