White House Aide resigns over AF1 fly over New york!

[FrenchieCat]

White House aide Louis Caldera loses job over Manhattan flyover fiasco involving Air Force One


Read about it here
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/05/08/2009-05-08_white_house_aide_loses_job_over_manhattan_flyover_fiasco.html


or here
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/after-air-force-one-flyover-military-office-director-resigns/?hp

[Muttocracy]

1. Good. nt

[trumad]

2. Accountability

[Botany]

3. about time

no excuses .... all they had to do was call the NY Media.

[beachmom]

4. The opposite of "heckuva job". Thank God. nt

[DrToast]

9. LOL. Perfect.

Obama is truly the anti-Bush!

[Adelante]

5. Welp

I can't object. It was dumb, dumb, dumb.

[jenmito]

6. PERFECT! That's the difference between Obama's admin. and Bush's...

accountability! (And David Letterman started a new "saying" known now as "Bushin' it up." He said the whole plane thing over NY started to feel like Obama's admin.' really Bushed that one up. At least now there IS a difference besides the fact Obama didn't know).

[HopeOverFear]

7. good. It's bad enough some people think Obama's a terrorist

and he's gonna go do some dumb shit like that????

[Xipe Totec]

8. Mr Checkov! fire Photo Torpedo #1!

[Toucano]

10. Seems appropriate. n-t

[DrToast]

11. Not to excuse it, but it IS a cool photo.*

*

[Diamonique]

13. Yeah it really is.

But I've never understood why they didn't want to let NYers know about this ahead of time. What harm would it have done for people to know? I don't get it.

[hedgehog]

15. If anyone had thought this through ahead of time, the flight over

the statue could have been presented as a celebration of re-opening the crown to visitors!

[HopeOverFear]

16. Exactly! Dumbasses

[FrenchieCat]

17. Yep.....

Too late now, unfortunately! :(

Well, at least the crown is gonna be open! :woohoo:

[JuniperLea]

19. That would have been perfect!

They could have filled the island with people waving!

:hi:

It would have been a very healing celebration on many levels.

[bigwillq]

12. Seems like the right thing to do (nt)

[Jennicut]

14. You mean those who mess up in this administration are not promoted? Blasphemy!

Seriously, good to see the Prez hold people responsible for their actions.

[Berry Cool]

18. Glad to hear it.

Now maybe eventually Obama can get around to punishing Bushco for war crimes, dump DADT, close Gitmo rather than just say he's closing it, and put single payer back on the table.

...Yeah, I know, I know. Baby steps, baby steps.

[Perky]

20. Sad. stupid. regrettable tone deaf mistake. I still feel sorry for the guy

gets a gig to end all gigs and does something boneheaded that ultimately hurt no one.... Sorry that I feel sorry for the guy but I do...:shrug:

[firedupdem]

21. Me too. Dumb, Dumb, on his part but I hate when people lose their

jobs.

[B2G]

22. Why did they have to fly at 1000 feet

If that was the photo they were going for?

Dumb.

[FrenchieCat]

23. Maybe the one at 1000 feet showed the people on the streets running away or something?

:shrug:

[HopeOverFear]

24. lol

[vaberella]

25. FC where have you been? I've missed your posts.

Thanks for the update. I just saw it on KO early this morning. My mum was home and going on this whole Sean Connery kick --- so no news. Although I would have joined my mum since I love that man (despite his wife beating tendencies), if not for school work.