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Post by Elvado on May 5, 2009 11:04:55 GMT -5
Seems our president willnot allow the release of the recent photos of Air Force One flying over Ground Zero. I find this odd as the official explanation for this crass stunt was that they needed "publicity" photos of the new jet.
Can anyone help me out?
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Post by kchoya on May 5, 2009 11:09:32 GMT -5
Seems our president willnot allow the release of the recent photos of Air Force One flying over Ground Zero. I find this odd as the official explanation for this crass stunt was that they needed "publicity" photos of the new jet. Can anyone help me out? They're saving them to use in campaign 2012. |
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Post by strummer8526 on May 5, 2009 11:29:07 GMT -5
Maybe he's going to wait until several days after one of the worst natural disasters in this country's history, provide no leadership or relief, and then get some shots flying over the rubble.
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Post by Elvado on May 5, 2009 11:29:33 GMT -5
Sadly, that sounds like it could be true...
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Post by Elvado on May 5, 2009 11:50:32 GMT -5
Strummer: That pithy little answer would be funny if our new President were not the agent of change and hope. We all have to trust and believe that he is different, better, anointed...
So why the hold up on these photos, the taking of which scared the hell out of several thousand New Yorkers?
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Post by strummer8526 on May 5, 2009 12:04:54 GMT -5
Honestly, it seems like it was a pretty dumb and insensitive stunt. I don't disagree with you there. Really, there's no need to harass New Yorkers with planes anymore. But I would like to see some evidence that this was in any way run by Obama before blaming him for the decision. Someone in some White House PR office fouled up. It doesn't mean the President personally gave the order to go zipping around NYC in Air Force One.
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Post by Elvado on May 5, 2009 12:15:39 GMT -5
Fair enough. However, I firmly believe that the current refusal to release said photos comes right from Mr. Obama. If nothing else, it has to be on his radar, no?
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Post by jgalt on May 5, 2009 12:50:53 GMT -5
the government wasting money? wake me up when you get some new material
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Post by Bando on May 5, 2009 12:53:43 GMT -5
I mean, they're just for stock footage of Air Force 1, right? So they should show up soon enough. Do you have any evidence that they're specifically being withheld?
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Post by AustinHoya03 on May 5, 2009 12:54:48 GMT -5
Really, there's no need to harass New Yorkers with planes anymore. Yes, things were much more fun in the 1980s, when there was a huge need to harass New Yorkers with DC-9s. |
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Post by Elvado on May 5, 2009 12:56:25 GMT -5
Only if one can believe the New York Post which details the withholding of same in today's edition.
it's really not that big a deal, but given the outcry in New York, perhaps could be handled a little better.
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Post by Boz on May 5, 2009 12:57:15 GMT -5
The White House is not paying attention to these photos. They are too busy being enchanted and celebrating Cinco de Cuatro.
(bad things happen when TOTUS isn't around).
;D
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Post by Elvado on May 5, 2009 13:00:33 GMT -5
He didn't, did he?
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Post by Bando on May 5, 2009 14:00:20 GMT -5
The White House is not paying attention to these photos. They are too busy being enchanted and celebrating Cinco de Cuatro. (bad things happen when TOTUS isn't around). ;D I know you're just joshing, but that TOTUS line of attack is perhaps the stupidest thing I've ever heard. It's pretty much saying "we have nothing else". |
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Post by Boz on May 5, 2009 14:25:30 GMT -5
The TOTUS blog is hilarious, unless you have no sense of humor whatsoever (and it's only rarely mean-spirited).
I am not calling it a serious attack, but it is damn funny.
You can bet that whenever I refer to TOTUS, I am almost certainly kidding. But, I will say that it's funny, in part, because there is a kernel of truth in it, that Obama is nowhere near the smooth talker people like to make him out to be unless he is reading from a script. (I've never heard a president say "uh" so much in my life.)
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Post by Elvado on May 5, 2009 14:41:30 GMT -5
I believe if you go back the original Aramaic, Christ often used "uh" for dramatic effect and gravitas, just like the second coming in D.C.
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Post by strummer8526 on May 5, 2009 15:10:41 GMT -5
I believe if you go back the original Aramaic, Christ often used "uh" for dramatic effect and gravitas, just like the second coming in D.C. I think Christ also once buzzed Nazareth with his jumbo jet. (Hey, Son of God, we're talking about. It's possible!) |
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on May 8, 2009 16:10:58 GMT -5
Seems our president willnot allow the release of the recent photos of Air Force One flying over Ground Zero. I find this odd as the official explanation for this crass stunt was that they needed "publicity" photos of the new jet. Can anyone help me out? Here they are: www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/08/air.force.one.flyover/index.htmlAnd the low-rank officer that failed to alert the Communications office and other White House offices about the fly-over has resigned (as he should have, in my opinion). Happy now? |
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Post by jgalt on May 8, 2009 16:53:50 GMT -5
The photoshops i saw on the Huffingtonpost were better than that
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