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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

Posted on 05/08/2009 1:18:28 PM PDT by Joiseydude

Edited on 05/08/2009 1:29:52 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: af1; airforceone; bhoairforceone; caldera; gaffemachine; georgelucas; joyride; louiscaldera; obamagaffes; photoops; redtails; resignation; scareforceone; terrforceone; tuskegeeairmen; underthebus
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To: STARWISE

Remember it was the break in that got Nixon....It was the coverup......Let’s keep digging!


121 posted on 05/08/2009 1:58:14 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Berg is a liberal democrat. Keyes is a conservative. Obama is bringing us together already!)
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To: Joiseydude

The wheels on the plane go thump, thump, thump,
Thump, thump, thump,
Thump, thump, thump...


123 posted on 05/08/2009 2:00:43 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: BuckeyeTexan
Can't spell 'em all correctly.
124 posted on 05/08/2009 2:01:07 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: aphid

is this real?


125 posted on 05/08/2009 2:01:21 PM PDT by Chickensoup ("Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.")
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To: Joiseydude

Louis!! Don’t worry, unless you are Toot, you’ll climb out from under that bus one day!


126 posted on 05/08/2009 2:02:53 PM PDT by autumnraine (Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson)
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To: aphid
The exposure on this is horrible.

There's no way a professional photographer would accept this, or allow it to be released.

Rather than just a photo, I would think the RAW file should be released, as well as others on the memory card that was used for the series. It's impossible that only one photo was taken.

My guess is that if this is indeed one of the actual photos, it has been adjusted in order to conceal something. Also, the White House should reveal what type of camera equipment was used and what were the settings. A high resolution shot (15M +) would likely show a lot of detail, so much that it should be possible to determine the identity of the ferry boat that is a few hundred yards of the island. Almost certainly, there were people on the ferry who took pictures from the ground, and they can verify the position of the photographer's plane.

My first thought on seeing this photo is that it doesn't match the direction of the F-16- as is always appeared more rearward.

127 posted on 05/08/2009 2:03:03 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment (Is this field required?)
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To: Joiseydude

Can you say “Scapegoat”?


128 posted on 05/08/2009 2:03:11 PM PDT by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: MayflowerMadam

I wonder when we will find out who was on the plane? Shouldn’t be a big secret. Should it? /s


129 posted on 05/08/2009 2:04:20 PM PDT by publiusF27
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To: MayflowerMadam
Wouldn’t it be funny to see, ... Markie Post? Wasn’t she one of the bimbos jumping up and down on the bed in Lincoln Bedroom?


130 posted on 05/08/2009 2:05:35 PM PDT by C210N (A patriot for a Conservative Renaissance!)
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To: Joiseydude

LOL. Join the crowd under the bus, dude.


131 posted on 05/08/2009 2:05:36 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I'm SO glad I no longer belong to the party of Dependence on Government!)
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To: STARWISE; a fool in paradise

If you look closely at the windows, you can see Barbra, Sean (Penn), George (Soros), and the Bruce hisself!


132 posted on 05/08/2009 2:05:40 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: BuckeyeTexan; Joiseydude; All

Here’s his daily schedule. Scroll back the dates to April 27th, a Monday and the flyover date (over to the right). No telling what guests were at the WH over the weekend from Chicago, Kenya, Hawaii, etc.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0409/obama_gets_ahead_of_prompter_3813cbcb-1e4a-44c6-b1e7-26017e7b70c2.html


133 posted on 05/08/2009 2:05:56 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: Joiseydude

Not good enough.

What elite rats were on the plane?

Who cooked this up, Follywood, Osama or 0b0z0?


134 posted on 05/08/2009 2:05:59 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foriegn/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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To: aphid

Lol! Look at the glare on the canopy! What a freaking riot! No doubt, the pilot had his personal camera with him, and he took the opportunity to snap a few photos. My husband’s done that so many times during training and actual missions that I couldn’t even guess close to the number of photos we have laying around here.

That said, who was the supposed “real photographer?” And his career has him normally shooting photos from a military jet? I didn’t think you could take all that gear up with you into an ejection seat.

Nice try Obama. It’s helping us every time you keep insulting us.


135 posted on 05/08/2009 2:07:19 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: Never on my watch

bttt


136 posted on 05/08/2009 2:07:33 PM PDT by hattend (Sarah Palin has run a fishing business, a city, and a state. All Obama has done is run his mouth.)
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To: LdSentinal

Hope and Change people. Hope and Change.
____________________________________

Sorry, there’s No Hope....with this Dope.


137 posted on 05/08/2009 2:08:55 PM PDT by unkus
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To: King Moonracer
A lousy dark shot too, with a canopy reflection. Did the pilot use his cell phone to snap this one?

That would be my guess. A professional photographer would have taken bracketed exposures, and put a polarized filter on the lens to block the reflection.

138 posted on 05/08/2009 2:10:49 PM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.)
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To: Joiseydude

I wonder what they promised Caldera (or threatened him with) to say Rahm Emanuel didn’t know about this.


139 posted on 05/08/2009 2:18:54 PM PDT by FreepShop1 (www.FreepShop.com)
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To: aphid

$300,000? It’s a bit dark, idn’t it?


140 posted on 05/08/2009 2:19:07 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (If Liberals are so upset over torture, why did they mock John McCains stiff arms during the campaign)
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