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All That For This: Flyover Photo Released (Pic)
wcbstv.com ^ | 5/8/2009 | Marcia Kramer

Posted on 05/08/2009 1:40:58 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies

President Barack Obama has accepted the resignation of an official who authorized the presidential aircraft flyover in lower Manhattan last month, CBS 2 has learned.

Louis Caldera, the director of the White House Military Office, handed in his resignation Friday. The news comes as Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Air Force flyover that sparked a panic was not adequately reviewed and approved by senior service and department officials.

The flyover was arranged as part of a photo opportunity for White House records. The official photo was released along with Caldera's resignation and the official report on the flyover.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Jersey; US: New York
KEYWORDS: af1; airforceone; bho44; bhoairforceone; flybye; scareforce1; terrforceone; usaf
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

I didn’t buy their story before I saw this crappy picture...I sure ain’t buying it now.


21 posted on 05/08/2009 1:48:36 PM PDT by pgkdan ( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

For the vast number of people that are being thrown under that bus, Nobama better equip the bus with they kinds of wheels and tires that are on the Monster Trucks that tour the country putting on great shows.

The pile of bodies currently there, and apparently will grow in the future, the ground clearance of that “bus” better get jacked up even higher.


22 posted on 05/08/2009 1:50:32 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: socal_parrot

That’s exactly what I see, too.


23 posted on 05/08/2009 1:51:11 PM PDT by Darth Tokarev (Liberalism: Using intellectualism to justify moral cowardice.)
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To: BlueNgold

FoxNews guy said this one is AF2 (2nd plane designated for the Prez) and was so designated because TOTUS was not on board this flight, thusly, not identified as AF1.


24 posted on 05/08/2009 1:51:45 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: weef
Someone’s pulling our leg.

Someone needs to photoshop a similar photo to show Zero how easily and cheaper it could have been done.
25 posted on 05/08/2009 1:52:56 PM PDT by plsvn
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
Who took the photo? I heard a report that said the accompanying aircraft (F-16?) were one-seaters, not the typical pilot/gunner escorts.

Someone correct any above errors.

26 posted on 05/08/2009 1:53:31 PM PDT by infidel29 (BARACkarl OBAmarx)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Can we zoom in close enough to read the tail number? Is it that same “backup” plane that is supposed to have been there?

Anyway, based on the pictures from the ground at about the time the plane was in position for this picture, the only other plane in the area, a Red Tail fighter jet, was not in a position to have taken this picture.

Start the archive searches. This picture is from a different day.


27 posted on 05/08/2009 1:53:51 PM PDT by Tatze (I reject your reality and substitute my own!)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Will the msm ever get tired of being lied to?


28 posted on 05/08/2009 1:54:15 PM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
A picture with perfect symmetry taken from a one-seater fighter jet?

I don't think so.

29 posted on 05/08/2009 1:55:05 PM PDT by tractorman
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To: TomGuy

It’s nether AF1 nor AF2 if the TOTUS is not aboard. Something like special mission 123 or something sans TOTUS


30 posted on 05/08/2009 1:55:07 PM PDT by llevrok (A feral conservative in my own land.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

If this is the real deal, they need a better photographer because this picture is not very good, but then they did take it from an F-16. What a waste of tax dollar money.

Where is the manifest for who was on board because this picture is not worth $300,000+. Also would love to know who needed a training flight to NYC since ZERO and his buffoon VP continually are on the move using these planes and the crews would have to be up to date.


31 posted on 05/08/2009 1:55:38 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( BOOMER SOONER! Mary Fallin for OK Governor in 2010!)
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To: Tatze

The photo file has all that informantion embedded in (were it a digital photo).


32 posted on 05/08/2009 1:56:22 PM PDT by llevrok (A feral conservative in my own land.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Caldera approved the picture, but who proposed it? Also, I thought that they said that it was a photo op for campaign use, now it was just for a record?

Unh, uh, I’m not buying it. Whoever proposed this is just too big to be thrown under the bus.


33 posted on 05/08/2009 1:57:15 PM PDT by Eva (union motto - Aim for mediocrity, it's only fair.)
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To: PhiKapMom

Yep...this was “pay to play” and I want to know who paid.


34 posted on 05/08/2009 1:58:02 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: Eva

My guess Rahm Emmanuel or Mrs. ZERO!


35 posted on 05/08/2009 1:58:08 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( BOOMER SOONER! Mary Fallin for OK Governor in 2010!)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Better question, asked by many here and elsewhere: who was aboard?


36 posted on 05/08/2009 1:58:31 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

So we’re supposed to accept this one crummy picture and then get on with our lives?


37 posted on 05/08/2009 1:59:46 PM PDT by azishot (I just joined the NRA.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
This needs to be enlarged, better detail.

This is tail number 28000. The other plane is tail number 29000. It was specifically stated the plane in question was the backup plane. Is the backup plane 28000 or 29000, and was a specific tail number ever mentioned for the plane in question?

38 posted on 05/08/2009 2:00:04 PM PDT by Tatze (I reject your reality and substitute my own!)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

I get it.

zero wanted a photo to show his plane sh*tting on the Statue of Liberty.


39 posted on 05/08/2009 2:00:44 PM PDT by zeebee
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

someone checking to see that the shadows from the statue of Liberty are correct.


40 posted on 05/08/2009 2:01:00 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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