I am not the least bit surprised the photo op was not annouced to the public. It is after all AIR FORCE ONE.
We have these kind of exercises all the time over Wilmington International Airport. They practice 'touch downs' and emergency procedures and the plane is always accompanied by jet fighters.
Give me a break already. These are necessary exercises and if they decided to take pictures this time, then it was because these costs were already figured into the military budget. The ONLY 'real cost' to the USA was the fuel and that's all.
It is unfortunate people were alarmed, but, with the plane being Air Force One, I am not surprised there was no formal notification of the public. What if the military made the exception of notifying the public 'this time' and there was some kind of error and one day the information was released regarding the airplane when the President was actually in it. I am confident the policy exists that protects the movement of any Air Force One.
Hello, America. Are we still allowoing Osama bin Laden to plague our realities? Who is the real enemy here? It isn't the White House. You mean people weren't ooing and awing at the site of President Obama's plane and wondering if he was making a surprise visit? That is a shame.
An Air Force presidential aircraft, part of the fleet used by U.S. presidents, is pictured above the Statue of Liberty in New York, in this photograph released to Reuters on May 8, 2009. White House military aide Louis Caldera, who authorized an Air Force flyover of New York that caused panic among some New Yorkers there, resigned on Friday.
REUTERS/The White House/Handout
People don't understand what this was all about? The crown to the Statue of Liberty is opening on July 4th. What a beautiful idea for New York to have a new image of its city in the year 2009. A symbol of freedom instead of the nightmare of a terrorist attack. I don't believe that man resigned over this.
I've heard it all now.
This country was falling apart at the seams when President Obama came into office and this is the one pickable incident the Republicans can make a fuss over. Honestly !
This is a new administration simply trying to satisfy the needs of the administration.
...Caldera had approved the mission. His resignation came on the same day Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in a letter to Senator John McCain that the photo shoot cost U.S. taxpayers as much as $357,000....
He has nothing else to do except pick on a Presidential aid that was simply doing his job. It isn't as though this is the 'FIRST' set of photo ops that ever were done. Bush USED the flights over the '9-11 site' as a campaign uptick. This is ridiculous already. Big achievement for John McCann, he harassed a Presidential aid to resign over a photo to uplife the image of New York City.
McCann should join Jeb Bush, the next Republican Presidential hopeful, on his LISTENING TOUR rather than diving into a 'Complaining Campaign.' Not bad, Jeb Bush gets to run a 'exploratory' campaign without paying a dime.
Republicans launch a listening tour in Democratic-leaning suburbs (click here)
By JOSH KRAUSHAAR & PATRICK O'CONNOR
5/4/09 4:16 AM EDT
...Romney and Bush both downplayed their own political ambitions. Bush, who earlier this year declined to run for Florida’s open Senate seat, said he was glad to be out of the political arena and is now focused on brainstorming policy ideas — and he expressed his frustration that most politics in Washington are “defined by a food fight.”...
A food fight. Real nice. The President is trying to find in roads to bring the Republicans out of their grudge match and now ANOTHER Bush calls everything a food fight. We don't need this. We didn't need 'Contract with America' either !
We have these kind of exercises all the time over Wilmington International Airport. They practice 'touch downs' and emergency procedures and the plane is always accompanied by jet fighters.
Give me a break already. These are necessary exercises and if they decided to take pictures this time, then it was because these costs were already figured into the military budget. The ONLY 'real cost' to the USA was the fuel and that's all.
It is unfortunate people were alarmed, but, with the plane being Air Force One, I am not surprised there was no formal notification of the public. What if the military made the exception of notifying the public 'this time' and there was some kind of error and one day the information was released regarding the airplane when the President was actually in it. I am confident the policy exists that protects the movement of any Air Force One.
Hello, America. Are we still allowoing Osama bin Laden to plague our realities? Who is the real enemy here? It isn't the White House. You mean people weren't ooing and awing at the site of President Obama's plane and wondering if he was making a surprise visit? That is a shame.
An Air Force presidential aircraft, part of the fleet used by U.S. presidents, is pictured above the Statue of Liberty in New York, in this photograph released to Reuters on May 8, 2009. White House military aide Louis Caldera, who authorized an Air Force flyover of New York that caused panic among some New Yorkers there, resigned on Friday.
REUTERS/The White House/Handout
People don't understand what this was all about? The crown to the Statue of Liberty is opening on July 4th. What a beautiful idea for New York to have a new image of its city in the year 2009. A symbol of freedom instead of the nightmare of a terrorist attack. I don't believe that man resigned over this.
I've heard it all now.
This country was falling apart at the seams when President Obama came into office and this is the one pickable incident the Republicans can make a fuss over. Honestly !
This is a new administration simply trying to satisfy the needs of the administration.
...Caldera had approved the mission. His resignation came on the same day Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in a letter to Senator John McCain that the photo shoot cost U.S. taxpayers as much as $357,000....
He has nothing else to do except pick on a Presidential aid that was simply doing his job. It isn't as though this is the 'FIRST' set of photo ops that ever were done. Bush USED the flights over the '9-11 site' as a campaign uptick. This is ridiculous already. Big achievement for John McCann, he harassed a Presidential aid to resign over a photo to uplife the image of New York City.
McCann should join Jeb Bush, the next Republican Presidential hopeful, on his LISTENING TOUR rather than diving into a 'Complaining Campaign.' Not bad, Jeb Bush gets to run a 'exploratory' campaign without paying a dime.
Republicans launch a listening tour in Democratic-leaning suburbs (click here)
By JOSH KRAUSHAAR & PATRICK O'CONNOR
5/4/09 4:16 AM EDT
...Romney and Bush both downplayed their own political ambitions. Bush, who earlier this year declined to run for Florida’s open Senate seat, said he was glad to be out of the political arena and is now focused on brainstorming policy ideas — and he expressed his frustration that most politics in Washington are “defined by a food fight.”...
A food fight. Real nice. The President is trying to find in roads to bring the Republicans out of their grudge match and now ANOTHER Bush calls everything a food fight. We don't need this. We didn't need 'Contract with America' either !
