F 16 Photo Op in NYCFollow

And as such, I would imagine that a single Air Force One plane at any given time (either One or Two) would be available for any type of emergency dispatch, as such this would be the only plane the President would need to be aware of or concerned about.

Air Force One (Two) could very well be in the shop for brakes, getting it's upholstery redone, or being retrofitted with a new 52" Plasma. This day it happened to be flying over NYC for a photo op.

Bottom line, someone didn't do their job (on a staff level), and the message didn't get across. Did it scare people? Sure. Should it be news for the next two weeks about how some coffee-pushing moron couldn't deliver a memo and this was the result?

Fire the idiot and move on.

Technically there is no Air Force One unless the President is on board.

Almost as funny as how you understand none of the above?

You don't start a sentence with that. It's like saying "Don't read what I have to say!"

Bah, beat me to it.

I have to agree that this whole issue was caused by a really bad idea coupled with a combination of fear and overreacting. Flying a plane of that size at that low of an altitude was risky imo. Not to mention that NYC is the worst possible place that they could have done this without a large amount of public notice in that district.

Well that's the thing about being a leader. Everything is your fault.

Yeah, the president should. If he wasn't informed of this, someone has definitly made a pretty big mistake. Way I see it, someone's probably getting fired, or at least reprimanded.



Like I said, someone's probably going to get in sh*t for this. It should have been made public before they did it.



Not to change the topic, but what makes that news, is the fact that the mission was clearly NOT accomplished.



There are multiple Air Force One planes. If Obama knew, then he should have tried to make sure that the public was notified. He made a mistake, he's only human. Just because he's the president doesn't mean that he isn't able to make mistakes.

In the end though, this is a pointless topic to be focussing on. It will likely be forgotten by people across the political spectrum quite quickly.

Also, Rush Limbaugh is no more viable a source than Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert when you're trying to make a point. He's just less funny.

Edited, Apr 28th 2009 1:34pm by Driftwood

Um, you can use the word "multiple" for anything higher than 1.

I could have, but I felt like using a bigger word. My bad.

No, I knew there were two. I can't prove this though.

This is Varrus trying to hold onto any last thread of having a point.

Nor should he, as Joph has already intimated. This is a non-issue.

I'm sorry for the collective PTSD of New Yorkers - more sympathetic than you are, surely, since it's a blue city in a blue state - but this is bootless.