Late Friday personnel dump: Scare Force One staffer “resigns”
White House Military Office director Louis Caldera tendered his resignation this afternoon. The NY Daily News has the story.
Here’s the official review of the incident. It does not cover DoD or FAA involvement. The report says “Initial planning” began in “March 2009 or earlier” without specifying who exactly initiated the planning and why. Caldera blames “severe back muscle spasms” and his recent return from a trip to Mexico for his failure to read e-mail concerning the mission. Also: He had a grand total of two email accounts. You can’t expect a crony paper-pusher to keep track of all that!
The White House report blamed “organizational” and “structural ambiguities” for the crony paper-pusher’s incompetence.
The White House also released a photo. Your tax dollars at work.
Caldera’s disappearance under the Obama bus does not and should not end questions about the origin of the p.r. photo-op mission’s request, who participated, how it went down, and where protocol failed. And remember: Someone was planning a second flyover photo-op in Washington, D.C.
Late Friday afternoon personnel/document dumps are business as usual in Washington.
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No sane person can possibly believe B.H. Obama didn’t know about this.
Stay tuned for the next Obama horror flick: pRESIDENT EVIL – attack of the Obama Zombies
I’m with you, Paul–he acted all puffed up w/bravado and false outrage. I don’t believe he didn’t know. Caldera just took the fall.
MSM: “Hey get a load of the Palin girl parading around advocating celebacy!”
Hey Rouge,what’s that have to do with the topic at hand?
I put it as my desktop background to remind me that we have a government that is NOT of, by or for the people!
Keep on those FOIA requests Michelle.
Rogue Cheddar…… YEP!
“The wheels on the plane go round and round, round and round, round and round, the wheels on the plane go …..”
Caldera: A last wish, please, please. Please.
Obama: Last wish? I wish you had more time.
*thump thump!*
Another one under the plane ….
Well, the man had TWO email accounts. You CAN’T expect him to look at BOTH ACCOUNTS in the same day! You people are SO UNREASONABLE!
Sorry, too subtle? It means the MSM (main stream media) is/will be, talking about something else, and will not give this issue another thought.
At least Flyoverman gets me.
Thats it? THATS IT??? $325K and all the excitement is for this?
I want anti-missile flares and “lazers” shooting off in all directions, X-Wing and Tie Fighters battling it out in the skies over Gotham, close-ups of Robert Hays and the blow-up auto-pilot flying the plane…
We could have at least gotten a good shot by the Hubble Space Telescope with a macro photo setting for this price.
BHO made it clear somebody was going to fall on their sword. In the BHO administration, he will never accept fault for anything. So Louis Caldera gets broomed.
For those of us old enough to remember:
Louie Louie, oh no
Me gotta go
Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said
Louie Louie, oh baby
Me gotta go
I think the photo op is just a cover. I think Obama had the GM and Chrysler execs up there to get tossed out if they didn’t comply. Kinda like that helicopter ride that undercover DEA agent took in the movie Scarface!
I have a feeling that this is not the first “falling on his sword” that we are going to see. WHO WAS ON THE PLANE?
Oh wait – over here!!!!! Drew Peterson was arrested!!!
They picked the best photo of the bunch to release, too, complete with what appears to be a reflection from the chase aircraft’s canopy in the upper right corner.
I want to see who was onboard. I’m guessing it’s more damning than just a bunch of campaign donors getting a free joyride over the site of a national tragedy.
Sill in pursuit of the spies, however, Curly finally scares them away when he whips out a bomb. The spirit of another being, remains in the house, however, and throws another round of lemon meringue pies at the Stooges. Out of the flashback, the question remains, “Who threw those pies?” The investigator turns to screen answering “Oh, I threw the pies!” Chuckling devilishly, as he’s clobbered with a pie himself.
All I see are the colors of the enemy. Puke blue.
I think the photographer needs to resign, too. I’m really not impressed with the photo.
This is one reason why there has always been a military person in charge of the White House Military Affairs office until this bozo became president.
(DING, DING. DING, DING)
DooooWHEEEEEEEEEEEoooWHEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
“Director, White House Military Office, Departing.”
I love squid references.
Boatswain’s whistle was a nice touch…
And it ain’t for Liberty call!
Yeah, they “piped him ashore” without the benefit of a gangplank.
Watch that last step!!
Broadband Connection – $49.95
Photoshop CS4 – $499.00
1 Google Image Search – “Statue of Liberty” – 10 min @ $120/hr = $20
1 Google Image Search – “Air Force One” – 10 min @ $120/hr = $20
15 minutes on Photoshop @ $120/hr = $30
EQUALS
$620 total investment and ONE HELL of a better looking photo than that piece of trash….
shinola.
Oooh! I feel the need for a Mr. Roberts quote!
Come on everyone! The Elite does whatever they want. If they want photos, they get photos. Get over it!
Besides, updating the President’s plane through Photoshop is just plain dishonest. Sigh.
Is updating her face with Botox dishonest of Nancy?
Doug Roberts: How did you get in the Navy? How did you get on our side? Oh you ignorant, arrogant, ambitious… keeping sixty-two men in prison ’cause you got a palm tree for the work they did. I don’t know which I hate worse, you or that other malignant growth that stands outside the door
Capt. Morton: Why, you stinking little…!
Doug Roberts: How did you ever get command of a ship? I realize in wartime they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel, but where did they ever scrape you up?
Capt. Morton: There’s just one thing left for you, Mister. A general court martial!
Doug Roberts: That suits me fine, court martial me!
Capt. Morton: You’ve got it!
Doug Roberts: I’m asking for it! If I can’t get transferred, I’ll get court martialed off! I’m fed up! But you’ll need a witness. Call your messenger – I’ll say it all over again in front of him. Go on, call him. You want me to call him?
Capt. Morton: No. You’re a smart boy, Roberts. But I know how to take care of smart boys. I hate your guts, you smart college guys! I’ve been seeing your kind around since I was ten years old… working as a busboy. “Oh busboy, it seems my friend has thrown up on the table. Clean up that mess, boy, will’ya?” And then when I went to sea as a steward… people poking at you with umbrellas. “Oh, boy!”, “You, boy!”, “Careful with that luggage, boy!” And I took it. I took it for years! But I don’t have to take it any more. There’s a war on, and I’m captain of this vessel, and now YOU can take it for a change! The worst thing I can do to you… is to keep you right here, Mister, and here is where you’re going to stay. Now, GET OUT!
“Structural ambiguities.” Is that the PC term for having your head up your rectum?
Probably Fonda’s best role, and definitely Cagney’s.
Rougue,
I want you to know that my hero in life is Ensign Frank Thurlo Pulver….
A picture of Air Force One about to leave an extra-large dropping on the Statue of Liberty. It’s certainly an appropriate for Obam…uhhh….
Now you be careful with that fulminate of mercury, there Pulver!
EXACTLY! I was thinking about what you wrote and my previous comment about not being impressed with the photo. It’s actually very amateurish and plain. (Having been a professional photographer, I think I have a decent opinion). Besides “who was on the plane”, I’d like to know who the photographer was. A truly professional photographer would have done a much better job than this. I have very serious doubts about this being merely a photo shoot.
Keep digging Michelle! This isn’t passing the smell test.
That’s not a bad guess, but here’s why..
The ship was 290 feet, 6 officers and 68 enlisted men. Pulver had been on the ship 14 months……He had never met the Captain.
My kinda guy. NEVER get too close to Ground Zero!
I can’t believe it didn’t have one of those long streamer banners flowing along behind it saying, “I Won!”
I definitely think that someone in the Air Force’s head should roll over this whole incident.
Find out who checked the tire pressure on the plane prior to take-off, and Courts-Martial him.
More likely, ‘This space for sale’
Sorry Rouge,just put my ice cream cone into my forehead.
Is that aircraft 28000 or 29000?
What are the chances we will ever find out WHO WAS ON THE PLANE!!
Slim to none…or just “none”?
While this is a relatively trivial incident, compared to some, it is a big deal in the cultural sense.
A lot of liberal New Yorkers felt this.
Comics picked up on it.
That, believe it or not, will be how this guy eventually fails. Drips and drops….
At least New York City got its annual Civil Defense Drill out of the way.
Anyone here who voted for this? If so, do you still think that was a good idea?
oops, meant to say “this guy”. [Curses, forgot to use preview yet again!]
I read an interesting explanation from a Liberal for why waterboarding is torture. He claimed that the cold water used could induce hypothermia, shock, and panic in the subject, which could lead to heart failure in someone of poor health.
Well, the White House flyover of Ground Zero triggered shock and panic among many New Yorkers. It’s easily possible that someone in poor health could have experienced a heart attack as a result. Therefore, according to the Left’s own definition, the flyover was torture.
Come to think of it, every April when the Government forces me to do my taxes, I experience stress, panic, shock, and heart pains. I demand the end of this torture; and I demand the prosecution of all those complicit in this activity, including IRS agents, government lawyers, and the politicians who created the tax laws and pronounced the torture legal!
Our bho has another under the bus for his thinking we Americans would not care what this man did. Well, this man got the bus and bho is ‘so outraged’. Now, I am not into the military, but if someone takes out one of the two presidents planes, who has to say’ go for it guys’? Scare the daylights out of NY city. Sorry bho, it is not going to fly with me, your skinny hinny is responsible.
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What did he say when you told him that the procedure was attended by a physician?
This was probably suppose to be some kind
of surprise for bho. maybe blow up wall size and put up in the oval office.
Momma say’s ” Stupid is as Stupid does”
To me it looks like Obama’s plane is crapping on Lady Liberty.
ROFL – This photo they released looks nothing like the ones private citizens took and makes it seem like it is flying high overhead.
No, I believe that would be “ring around the collar.”
I believe he didn’t know. He’s an idiot. Nothing but a puppet.
When we hear that, we know exactly what follows . . .
The quote below, from Victor Davis Hansen, one of the few good guys over at NRO is applicable any time Obama speaks on any subject imaginable.
You may be correct. However, this is the President’s aircraft and both need to be available on a moment’s notice. These aircraft do not go on missions without his approval.
If he has delegated that approval, the person who authorized the mission is ACCOUNTABLE, but Obama remains RESPONSIBLE.
This one is all on Obama. There is no buck to pass. He’s as responsible for that aircraft as the captain of a ship.
Think duh1 as Captain Kirk and his staff as the infamous “red shirts”. Evil space aliens mean Kirk harm? Phaser a Red Shirt!
Countless Red Shirts died so that Captain Kirk could live to perform another episode.
The buck stops….hmmmm….uhhhh…..over there!
Maybe he didn’t, but I bet the Teleprompter did.
At which time I expect the Israelis to deposit a mid-sized thermonuclear device in downtown Tehran, accompanied by similar treatment for every nuclear facility in Iran. Then tell Syria “You’re next”. The sad part is that a large part of the Iranian population is pro-western. Can’t help that, though. It’s the government that counts.
The A$$hole administration knows no boundaries.
’nuff said.
I not only believe he knew, but that sounds exactly like something he’d request. “Air Force One” over the Statue of Liberty. Fits him to a tee.
He’s above the liberty of Americans, you know…
Even if minutes of a White House meeting were to turn up and prove that Obama was present when the flyover photo shoot was discussed, he will still just pull a Pelosi on us. He will say, “The only discussion that came up in the meeting was whether flyovers of Ground Zero were legal. I didn’t hear anyone say we were actually going to do one.”
Of course, the MSM will have their backs no matter what happens. They would never think to ask obvious questions such as: “Why would such an irrelevant hypothetical even come up in a high-profile meeting UNLESS someone was actually thinking of doing it? And if no one in the meeting expressed any objections, doesn’t that give them the green light to go forward?”
That one more person than lost their job the last time jet terrorized NYC.
Who got fired for 9/11?
I do. Rush had is completely right, Obama is nothing but a turtle on a fence post. He has no clue how he got there, he has no idea how to get down, and no idea what to do in the mean time. While God Jr. is pondering these questions and stuffing waygue beef down his throat the country is being run by Nancy Pelosi, George Soros, and Zbignew Brezezinski.
It wouldn’t even have to be nuclear. I’m quite sure the Isrealis have precision munitions, which would take out the hard targets and leave most of the folks alive.
Now if Iran actaully tried to deploy a nuke, all bets are off and the Iranians would be back to stone axes. It would be time for Isreal to make a point.
Just Der Fuhrer’s usual pilot and co-pilot he brought with him. Turns out he fired the Air Force and uses his own private pilot from “back in the day”.
Let’s think about this …
One of the most populace cities in the world was attacked by small groups of Militant Islamic Jihadi al Qaeda members.
They used commercial aircraft full of jet fuel as air born missiles which they launched into two of the tallest buildings in the world, buildings in which were thousands of living human beings going about their day-to-day business.
Thousands of people were burned alive, crushed to death, suffocated, and so on at this malicious attack by a world wide blood and death cult.
Now, eight years later, we have an extremely left wing, liberal, weak kneed, out of his element, overrated person, a former low level community organizer elected to serve as Commander-in-Chief.
Now we have a large jet, attended by military fighter jet aircraft flying low over Manhattan, at the scene of the sadistic, hate filled, malicious slaughter of thousands of human beings.
The fighter jets did NOT shoot the aircraft down, nor did other jets come to the scene to shoot the aircraft down.
What does that say about improvements in Home Land Security? Did they learn anything from the attack of 9/11/01?
No one should have gotten that close at that low an altitude, yet they did.
Had that been an actual attack, it is clear that no one could have stopped more large aircraft from crashing into more buildings in NYC, killing thousands more.
Thousands, and possibly millions of New Yorkers and commuters who worked in or visited New York City that day were pushed into a stage of terroristic panic, believing that new attacks were underway, and they were helpless to stop it, and the military was not stopping it.
The White House said that the FAA, DOD, the New York Police and other “official” organizations were notified in advance of this PR stunt, and told to remain silent, not to alert the public, thus leaving the public vulnerable to terror and fear.
The only person who is supposed to have the power to tell the military, the DOD, the FAA, and all other agencies to do such as stunt is the President of the United States of America.
If Barrack Hussein Obama (Peace be Unto Him. Blessed be his Holy Name) did not command this debacle, and I believe that he did so, directly and with full intention, then who did?
If someone else did command this action and President Barrack Hussein Obama (Peace be Unto Him. Blessed be his Holy Name) then what does that say about President Barrack Hussein Obama (Peace be Unto Him. Blessed be his Holy Name) and his administration?
Does that make you feel secure? Knowing that our Commander-in-Chief is incompetent and that this kind of frightening miscarriage of justice and poor judgment could go on, affecting millions as this has done?
I don’t like this one bit.
Yes, I think Obama knew about this and approved it, and directly commanded it to take place, and commanded that it be kept hush-hush, thus scaring the pants off the poor people in the NYC area that day.
People, we have a dunderhead in the White House!
Part of the problem is that it never occurred to them that anybody in New York, being the good liberals they are, didn’t believe that the Twin Towers were actually brought down by demolition charges planted by the Bush Administration, so they wouldn’t have even noticed the low-flying aircraft.
In high school I worked at a fast food restaurant that was owned by a retired Chief Petty Officer. He always called me Ensign Pulver. Didnt grasp the full meaning of it until 10 years later when I was assigned to a ship…
I guess he only believes that when there is no one to throw under the bus.
And you thought Bubba was a “photo-op” president.
This guy isn’t even president, and look what he’s doing!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
It has everything to do with it.
The MSM would use a story like that as a diversion from the hypocrisy being thrust upon us by Mr. Obama and his minions, trying to build some BS equivalency into it.
It’s a dead-on accurate portrayal of the tactics of the MSM, and it’s as relevant as anything else that has to do with this “president”.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
You’d think he’d get a complete cabinet together before he started cutting people loose …
RWR
wwwrightwingrocker.com
Please stop bringing up the smell when it comes to these fascists. I’m about to hurl.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Oh and did anyone notice 2 things about the photo?
First is the black mark in the lower right of it that means this is a bad image out of the hundreds they took that was going to be thrown out.
Second is the fact that the view and photo here make it seem like the plane is flying at a lot higher altitude then ones people on the street in NY took.
EXACTLY the very first thought I had when I looked at that photo. Carefully selected so that all those sheeple NOT in NYC during the stunt will say “what’s the big deal?”
Damn stupid move this stunt was, but I feel bad that BO actually accepted the guys resignation instead of manning up. Dirtbag.
The Messiah sure seems to have a lot of problems with the idiots he has appointed. Couldn’t happen to a nicer Marxist.
Maybe, when he flies his new plane over to France to attend the D-Day thing (cover for his lack of respect for fallen Americans on his last trip), he’ll have the foresight to have one of his not-yet-under-the-bussers arrange a photo-op flying over Eiffel’s tower… it should be a nice pairing with the $300,000 shot of ‘Bama’s new plane flying over Eiffel’s other famous structure.
Let us keep our focus on the real threats.
“Taliban forces are pouring down from the mountains and are just miles from the Pakistani capital.”…”Oh look! They released the photo of Air Force Whatever flying over the Statue of Liberty!”
Just distrations upon distrations?
The problem is not always the act but the coverup. Releasing one cherry picked photo is meant as a coverup.
No one is coming clean here. They are hiding something. Mr. Transparency is outed on a daily basis for his conniving, underhanded, and political approach to all issues. We see it so much that it sickens his detractors and even his supportes have to “spin” it in their head and accept irrational thought as truth to keep supporting him at any cost.
Similar to all the Democrats claiming that Bill Clintons problems were only about sex. Perjury? No big deal right? Terrorized citizens? Oh well, we like the guy. No problem.
This is Obamas Mission Accomplished moment. Will the media pursue it as much as they did to Bush for something way less critical?
You know… I am not an overly religious guy, but even in joking form, that just strikes me as just plain wrong…if you know what I mean.
All I can say is “Cinco de quatro…”
You will love this -this is the fruit of the love of your countrymen bears. It is sad warning, Marines sacrificed but left an imprint forever.
http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/05/thankyou_ms_mil.html
AF1 flyover??
http://www.dmsarch.com/posting/af1-10.jpg
Has anyone established that Obama was not on that plane? If he was, that would explain his administration’s insistence that New York officials who knew about the upcoming event were threatened into silence. If some of the photos from that event included interior shots of the plane and Obama himself, that would also explain their weird behavior towards releasing the photos.
The egoist prez obama WAS on the airplane. There is no doubt in my mind. He has threatened, as usual, everyone in the know that if they leak a word he will absolutely destroy their lives.
Hey, Obama, PROVE that you were not on the airplane. And, while you are at it, I want to see the birth certificate.
Prendad, I think Obamachev was actually giving a speech at the time the plane buzzed new york, so there’s already proof.
However, its still up for conjecture who else may have been on the plane for a little joyride at taxpayer expense.
Oh well, thanks for setting me straight. I just hate this guy. Hey folks, something you will never see on a liberal blog, I admit I was wrong.
I still want to see the birth certificate, and not the military one, the official state one. Thank you.
Could have been Hilldog. He probably still owes her for not outing him over the birth certificate.
more then a few new yorkers have photos of this. an “investigative reporter” could offer some $ for the photos and get the real story.
On May 8th, 2009 at 4:51 pm, ThatSamIAm said:
I’m sorta already doing that.
Hive Mind.
Think this happened on a weekday…does anyone know if the ‘girls’ were in school that day?? Maybe even a field day for the whole class.
3rd time…Where’s our leak?!!
He’s been ordered by a court to show it. Makes you wonder why he hasn’t, doesn’t it?
Not me. There’s only one reason he wouldn’t show his vault birth certificate as ordered by the court:
IT DOESN’T EXIST!
Mr. Obama was born on British soil to a British father and a mother who was too young to legally confer American citizenship upon him at the time. Three strikes against any notion of natural-born citizenship.
End of story? I hope not. this needs to be pursued – and as diligently as possible.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com