The Obama administration: Still not ready on Day 98.
Plane stupid: Mayor Bloomberg outraged over military photo-op involving low-flying presidential jet
By Frank Lombardi and Corky Siemaszko
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Updated Monday, April 27th 2009, 2:54 PM
Mayor Bloomberg went ballistic Monday after the U.S. military – without any warning to the public – buzzed New York City with one of the presidential planes trailed by an F-16 fighter jet.
Flying in as low as 1000 feet to 150 feet above New York City and taking photographs along the way, the planes circled the Statue of Liberty and flew over Manhattan, Staten Island, and New Jersey – then vanished.
Before they were gone, hundreds of frightened people had jammed the emergency lines, thousands of terrified people evacuated from buildings in the city and across the river in Jersey, and many New Yorkers had flashbacks to the 9/11 attacks.
Obama and his boyz and girlz have done stupid things before this, but this takes the bleedin’ cake. It was stupid even if it had all kinds of FAA and military approvals. It shows absolutely no consideration for Jane and Joe Citizen on the ground, many of whom have good reason to fear low-flying jumbo jets in their skies.
Heads need to roll as far up as possible in the Executive Branch.
Obama has stated the buck stops with him — he is in charge of everything.
Unless it goes wrong then he is like Clinton — not my fault.