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Obama's 'schmoozing' to cause travel havoc
NY Post ^ | August 28, 2014 | Emily Smith

Posted on 08/28/2014 5:24:02 AM PDT by NCjim

President Obama’s plan to schmooze Wall Street honchos at a Westchester fund-raiser Friday is grounding wealthy weekenders who planned to fly to the Hamptons or Nantucket for the Labor Day holiday.

The FAA has issued a no-fly warning that extends for most of Friday and all day Saturday through Sunday, grounding seaplanes to East Hampton, Montauk, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.

On Friday, Obama will be feted at the home of one of his top bundlers, 32 Advisors’ Robert Wolf, in the aptly-named Purchase, NY, with 250 high-rollers paying up to $32,000 each to bend Obama’s ear.

Obama will then fly to Newport, R.I. for an event to benefit House Democrats. Melissa Tomkiel, president of seaplane companies, Fly the Whale (which flies from NYC to the Hamptons and Nantucket) and Tailwind (NYC to Boston and DC), told us, “A flight restriction was issued banning operations in the NYC area due to the president’s visit on Friday for practically the whole weekend, causing major business losses and inconvenience for our passengers on the busiest weekend of the year. It is frustrating. We have had to move at least 10 flights and cancel a number of private charters, costing us thousands of dollars. We count on this weekend to get us through the quieter months of the year. This will create a perfect storm on a holiday Friday, creating air space havoc between New York City and Boston.”

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1 posted on 08/28/2014 5:24:02 AM PDT by NCjim
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To: NCjim

Boohoo. Serves the Swells right for supporting this failure with campaign cash twice, when they must have known he was unfit to be president.


2 posted on 08/28/2014 5:26:51 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: NCjim
President Obama’s plan to schmooze Wall Street honchos at a Westchester fund-raiser Friday is grounding wealthy weekenders who planned to fly to the Hamptons or Nantucket for the Labor Day holiday.

My heart bleeds.

3 posted on 08/28/2014 5:30:04 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: NCjim

Bwahahahahahaha. Let some of the rich and famous eat Obama’s peas.


4 posted on 08/28/2014 5:31:17 AM PDT by ImNotLying
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To: NCjim

Poor bastards...


5 posted on 08/28/2014 5:37:32 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: NCjim

Is Michael, err, Moochelle, going with him?


6 posted on 08/28/2014 5:43:17 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: NCjim

Ha ha, you voted for him, you got him. Could not happen to a nicer bunch.


7 posted on 08/28/2014 5:43:37 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: NCjim

Havoc created by him and the rest of America’s Royal Family applies across the board.


8 posted on 08/28/2014 5:43:45 AM PDT by Sasparilla
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I've been struggling for the past five minutes to feel some sympathy for those identified in the article.

Just can't get there... lol

Schadenfreude!

9 posted on 08/28/2014 5:50:16 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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To: NCjim

Oh no! Here let me break out a box of tissues!


10 posted on 08/28/2014 5:57:04 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: NCjim

I think many of you are missing the point. The author is not one of the rich lib-leaning Wall Street types. He is the owner of a small business who makes his living by selling services to them. He relies on the end of summer income to get him through a lean winter. We’ve allowed an Imperial Presidency (Obama is the worst, but not first) to be able to trample on ordinary citizens at will. There is no national issue causing this trip; it is a fundraiser.


11 posted on 08/28/2014 5:59:43 AM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: PaForBush

Instead of ‘author’ I should have said ‘source of the quote’.


12 posted on 08/28/2014 6:02:06 AM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: PaForBush

Well it’s OK because he didn’t build that. ;)


13 posted on 08/28/2014 6:05:37 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: PaForBush

Additional thoughts...

How many restaurants (chefs, waiters, bus boys, owners), hotels (maids, front counter clerks), stores (clerks) will this hurt? Many here gripe at the Democrat’s politics of social division and class warfare but all of the comments above show the same mentality.


14 posted on 08/28/2014 6:06:45 AM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: defconw

No Elisabeth Warren and her tribe established that airport long before the white man came to these shores.


15 posted on 08/28/2014 6:07:48 AM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: PaForBush
LOL, and the Mohammedans were first in flight! (It's kind of fun just making crap up!).
16 posted on 08/28/2014 6:10:29 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: defconw

To quote Abraham Lincoln “If it is on the internet it must be true!”


17 posted on 08/28/2014 6:15:48 AM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: PaForBush
Has that been run through Snopes?

Seriously though I know that all the little people will be hurt. BUT! Many of these same little people vote Democrat and deride trickle down economics. Sometimes you have to let people suffer and hope they learn.

18 posted on 08/28/2014 6:21:25 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: NCjim
Wow?

Three weeks of vacation followed by a week of campaigning??????

What a joke this guy is?

19 posted on 08/28/2014 6:21:38 AM PDT by eeriegeno (<p>)
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To: NCjim

Obama is so self centered.


20 posted on 08/28/2014 6:41:05 AM PDT by NC Trucker
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