With all the contingency plans needed every time Air force one is used, how could it possible be that President Obama didn’t know that the photo-op took place. It just doesn’t make any sense.
As a reminder of what happened, the NY Post said: “Air Farce One” played out over lower Manhattan yesterday — in a terrifyingly bizarre military photo op that sent office workers fleeing from their buildings fearing a new 9/11-type attack.
But it turned out that the backup Air Force One jet and the fighter that appeared to be pursuing it only 1,000 feet above Ground Zero were staging the spectacle to get publicity shots of the presidential plane with a New York backdrop. “
He is the presidet and he must know where his plane is at all times. Rush Limbaugh asks, “There are two Boeing 747s that suffice as Air Force One, and every time Obama goes someplace, both of them fly. These travel schedules are worked out days, weeks in advance. It takes a major movement to get Air Force One in the air on a presidential trip. So, they had to go through the schedule, and they had to say we want to do the photo-op. Now, maybe not to Obama personally, but he had to be told at some point, “You can’t travel on Monday, the 27th. Are you traveling on the 27th, are we going to go anywhere on the 27th?” It might go through Rahm Emanuel, but eventually somebody is going to go to Obama, and he’s going to say, “Why?” “Well, that’s the day we scheduled a photo-op up there. We’re going to get new pictures of Air Force One flying by the Statue of Liberty.” Just like our guy Victor from Boca Raton called, Obama doesn’t know, he doesn’t know any of these things are happening, he’s just totally unaware, he’s furious. I’ll guarantee you, if Bush were president when this had happened, only Bush would have made the decision, we wouldn’t have heard of this Caldera guy or anybody else in the FAA or the White House office of military planning. (interruption) Yeah, of course they wanted to keep it quiet. Their notion of security is crazy.
Now, they did tell the New York PD, and they told an assistant to Mayor Bloomberg, who forgot to tell Bloomberg, so Bloomberg, the mayor, was also furious. The cops knew and the fire department knew, but nobody else knew. And the reason they didn’t want anybody else knowing is because I guess they were afraid somebody is going to try to shoot the plane down. If they’re given advance notice it’s going to be flying that low. So it’s a security thing. But to do this at that altitude over any part of Manhattan, but particularly down there, over Ground Zero, it has to mean that you are in a 9/10 mentality. It has to mean that this is not even on your mind. It means if you’re a member of the Obama administration, that that’s a Bush problem, that happened, we weren’t here, we have nothing whatsoever to do with that. Whatever it is, it was profoundly stupid not to tell the general public about this, and, number two, it was terribly insensitive. It scared these people left and right in New York City, running out of their office buildings, running for cover. “
What do you mean he didn’t know?
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