Time to put on your tinfoil hats and determine if the smartest person EVAH, in the Oval Office, is a machiavellian genius to orchestrate a publicity stunt to test the electorate's collective post- 9/11 response to such a scare, or is he simply a self-aggrandizing, titular stooge out front of a cadre of buffoons??.
April 6, 2009: Canadian steals Cessna 172 and illegally enters U.S. air space. F-16s scrambled to intercept. Madison, WI capital building evacuated on fears of 9-11 style attack.
Suspect captured in Missouri. Awaits psych eval for trial.
April 24, 2009: Two small private planes stray into restricted space over Washington D.C. F-16s scrambled to intercept. The White House and Capitol went on alert. The Pres. & V.P. were moved to more secure locations on fears of 9-11 style attack.
Pilot and instrument errors to blame. Planes land safely.
April 27, 2009: Boeing 747 makes repeated low flights for 30 minutes over lower Manhattan - site of worst attack on U.S. in its history. An F-16 tales the larger aircraft. Startled office workers empty out of high rise buildings. "Witnesses thought the planes were flying dangerously low." Emergency dispatchers inundated with calls on fears of 9-11 style attack.
No worries. Some idiot in the White House is to blame for scheduling a photo op of Air Force One around famous NY landmarks. Are you freekin' kidding me?!
Recriminations fly after NYC jet flyover photo op (video).
"It was carried out by the Defense Department with little warning, infuriating New York officials and putting the White House on the defense. Even Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn't know about it, and he later called it "insensitive" to fly so near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The director of the White House military office, Louis Caldera, took the blame a few hours later. One of the planes was a 747 that is called Air Force One when used by the president."
The NY Police were apprised of the flight, but were instructed not to inform the public, building managers, nor the media. Obama is reported to be "furious", and claims no fore knowledge.
Uh, huh. Then, Mr. President, you employ at least one moron who needs to be fired.
But the real questions should come from Congress: during these turbulent economic times, when the tax payers, and their descendants, are on the hook for trillions of dollars in national debt, how much did this little perpetual campaign stunt cost?? And how big, Mr. i-will-heal-the-planet President, were the carbon emissions, and how will you be punished for such a pretentious assault on our environment??
Machiavellian genius? Hardly. I think ACE said it best: "Another example of Obama's extreme childishness and lack of regard for anyone other than his own self."
These guys have a bunch of videos of 'the smartest person EVAH in the White House's' airplane causing the biggest collective change of shorts in NYC, since 2001.
My conclusion: Pres. Obama is simply a self-aggrandizing, titular stooge out front of a cadre of buffoons.
Is it 2012, yet?