Today the White House finally released a picture of Air Force One buzzing NYC… To coincide with the release, Barack Obama threw Louis Caldera, the White House official who allegedly approved the flight under the proverbial bus.
First here is the $328,835 picture
Air Force One Over New York City
I don’t know about you, but I think Photoshop and a person with basic knowledge of Photoshop could have created the same picture at 1/328 of the cost, and that’s with about $900 left over…
Either way, former Vice-President Dick Cheney said what we already know, the flight could not have taken off without someone very high up authorizing it, that someone in all likelihood being Obama himself:
Hennen: Our guest, former Vice President Dick Cheney on the Scott Hennen Show and The Common Sense Club today. By the way, there is an incredible double standard here in the media coverage. Is that frustrating to you at all? I look at the recent flap over the photo opportunity for Air Force One above New York City, and I imagine had that happened — not that it ever would — in the Bush administration, how the media would have hyperventilated over that forever! And it’s been forgotten. We’re led to believe somehow the President was mad about it. Is it possible for the White House Military Office now under a political appointee, different from your administration when it was a military officer that held that post, that the White House or some high-level staff didn’t know about that?
Cheney: I would assume that some senior staffer signed off on that. Especially a mission with, with in effect what is the backup for Air Force One, there are two of those planes, big 747’s. Either one can function as Air Force One anytime the President is on it. I used them a couple of times during our administration for special trips. You know, they don’t turn a wheel without a lot of people knowing about it and signing off and approving it. A pilot can’t just go out there and get on board and take it for a spin.
Anyway, here is more on Louis Caldera resignation:
Louis Caldera said the controversy had made it impossible for him to effectively lead the White House Military Office. “Moreover, it has become a distraction in the important work you are doing as president,” Caldera said in his resignation letter to President Barack Obama.
I am so happy he stressed the ‘IMPORTANT WORK’ part of what Obama is doing. I understand the principle of protecting the Chief Executive, but to bite the bullet and kiss butt so blatantly in the proccess is just nauseating…
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