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White House terrorizes New Yorkers with flyover photo op

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 | News |

As always, imagine if Bush had done this.

An administration official says the White House wanted to update its file photo of Air Force One near national landmarks. Predictably, Obama claims he had no idea of the plan and is furious at his underling, whom he promptly threw under the bus.

Bonus! Nancy Pelosi, Gulfstream queen.

The San Francisco congresswoman has apparently taken to flying in style. And not just any style but military charter style, according to e-mails released this week.

Pelosi’s staff has allegedly been “berating” military officials to get the best planes possibly for the speaker to fly across country, according to e-mails obtained by the government watchdog group Judicial Watch (you can read all the emails on their site) and first reported by The New York Post.

“Taken together, these documents show that Speaker Pelosi treats the Air Force like her personal airline,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a statement. “Not only does Speaker Pelosi issue unreasonable requests for military travel, but her office seems unconcerned about wasting taxpayer money with last minute cancellations and other demands.”

Tags: barack obama supergenius, pelosi

5 Comments to White House terrorizes New Yorkers with flyover photo op

Lisa
April 28, 2009

I don’t disagree that it was stupid to do (and a similar thing did happen during the Bush administration.) I don’t get why you say “Predictably, Obama…” as if you seriously believe he had personal knowledge of this. He is but one person. Let’s say you run your family of four. Do you know everything that is going to happen with Melissa and the kids throughout the day or do you trust that things you don’t know about will be taken care of by Melissa or someone else? See where I’m going with this?

Lisa
April 28, 2009

Oh, and just to show I’m not against questioning my own party… I think Pelosi is embarrassing. Or drunk. Or embarrassingly drunk.

Les Jones
April 28, 2009

I cop to being cynical. Obama has a long history of blaming mistakes on underlings.

Lisa
April 28, 2009

You know I wasn’t political at all until Obama came along so I’m still learning who does what. This is impressive to me: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/

That’s a lot of people who could potentially make mistakes or exhibit poor judgement and tarnish the administration as a whole.

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