And the moron of the year award goes to....
Meet Mr. Louis Caldera. He is the director of the White House Military Office for the Obama adminstration. Apparently, he is also a bumbling moron.
So lets paint the picture, shall we? This dolt is looking to approve a photo opp. to take a new and more exciting photo of air force one in flight. Well, ok, so technically it’s not air force one until the president is actually on the thing, but you get the idea. They want a pretty new picture of the plane the president flies around in – because, well…. presidential marketing figures so prominently into the economic recovery we so desperately need.
Anyway, folks decide that having the Statue of Liberty and New York in the background would be a good idea. Swell.
So far so good. If I was going to take a new photo of the presidents airplane, I also might like a shot of the Statue of Liberty in the background.
So lets forget for a minute that we live in the age of Photoshop where we could make it appear that the presidents plane was flying through the gap in Theodore Roosevelt’s front teeth without ever even putting the thing into the air. Oh no… this photo must be the real deal.
I am still ok with it. What I am not ok with is that you don’t keep it a secret. For a week leading up to the fly by, there should have been daily reports on the news that this little air show was going to happen. I have a whole lot of faith in New Yorkers. They made it through 9/11 and I have the utmost confidence that they could have handled a flyby…. IF THEY HAD KNOWN ABOUT IT. What happened instead is that our morons in command decided to do this little flyby extravaganza in the spot where the locals have the greatest reason to freak out over unannounced low flying planes – without providing ANY warning. Really? REALLY?!?!
Can someone truly be that mentally deficient to conclude that this is a good idea? Oh, and I don’t want to hear the security argument. The president was never on the plane and frankly, nobody had to say a thing about what plane was going to be doing the flyby. All they had to tell those New Yorkers was that a promotional photo shoot of an aircraft was going to be taking place and that would have been that. Get it on the news, on the radio, in the papers and New Yorkers would not have batted an eye.
Given what they did and did not know, I think that those New Yorkers reacted entirely appropriately. It’s those idiots we have put in charge that dropped the ball here.
