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The Spectacle Blog
As you know, yesterday’s stunt in New York City in which the Air Force One backup plane was flying low as part of an ill-considered photo op created a short panic in the area, resulting in the evacuation of several buildings. If this had happened during the Bush administration, one could have expected universal mockery and condemnation of yet another act of incompetence. Yet this is how the NY Times excuses President Obama:
When President Obama learned of the episode on Monday afternoon, aides said, he, too, was furious. Senior administration officials conveyed the president’s anger in a meeting with Mr. Caldera on Monday afternoon.
In other words, somehow, in the midst of a completely bungled situation, Obama manages to emerge from the Times account as a take charge leader. How many people think that Bush would have gotten off so easy?
You can get a sense of how low the airplane was flying here:
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Pingback| 4.28.09 @ 11:00AM
From the Imagine if Bush Had Done it Department | But As For Me links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Freya| 4.28.09 @ 11:09AM
Not a fair comparison. You're thinking of eight-years-in-office Bush. The incident involved three-months-in-office Obama. Would Bush have gotten flak for the screw-up at this stage of his presidency? From some quarters, undoubtedly. But Obama obviously is too.
Pete| 4.28.09 @ 11:11AM
There would have been cries of "fearmongering" and the like. What I haven't seen is anyone attacking the necessity of even getting new glamour shots of the plane - don't these things cost money and lots of it? I guess when you are force-feeding the nation trillions in ill-directed spending, what's a few more million, but come on. These are hard times and you are flying the corporate jet around to get some nice pictures? Wasteful, arrogant and stupid, like everything else he has done so far.
Pingback| 4.28.09 @ 12:13PM
Obama on Air Force One debacle: Mistake, won’t happen again | csmonitor.com links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Becky| 4.28.09 @ 1:02PM
Anyone in the Pentagon ever heard of photoshop?
Jenn_McC| 4.28.09 @ 2:09PM
I'm with Pete. Haven't all the folks working for President Carbon Footprint heard? Jet fuel is expensive and bad for the planet! The entire incident was wasteful, unnecessary, and bad for the country. Who exactly is clamoring for new shots of the plane? Not me. Someone should get these guys a copy of Photoshop. It works wonders for pennies on the dollar.
Esther | 4.28.09 @ 3:50PM
I propose this is a distraction to divert media attention from the toture memos! I would be willing to cosider the posibility of the military taking orders from Cheney and Obama being unaware of the whole thing...