UPDATED (WITH VIDEO): A Low-Flying Plane Will Do April 27, 2009
Posted by Jehuda in Uncategorized.Tags: News, Politics
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OK, if the White House-caused low-flying plane panic is not emblematic of the Obama administration’s weaknesses the way the Swamp Rabbit attack was emblematic of the Carter administration’s shortcomings, I don’t know what is.
For starters, it screams of a bunch of people who live in a 9/10 world. It also speaks volumes about aloofness. For an administration so apt at manipulating popular sentiment and emotions in all areas, it’s just incredibly insensitive towards not just New Yorkers, but all Americans who remember 9/11 with any measure of solemnity.
The most ironic part of it all is that Team O – which ran a campaign of “Hope” – just didn’t give a rat’s ass in this instance about – for several terrifying minutes – fostering a chilling sense of despair among so many:
In terms of pure politics, it’s also clumsy on the same level as the whole torture memo debacle, because this whole episode just reminded a bunch of people of how nice it was for 7+ years – pre-Obama – not to have to see this sort of crap happening for real.
But as I was trying to build a case for concluding that the Obama White House will some day be remembered as even worse than the Carter one, the only thing that I thought was missing was Obama’s own Killer Rabbit. I think the Low Flying Plane Panic of 2009, which certainly could have been avoided, will do.
UPDATE: WSJ: A Soaring Blunder. That’s putting it mildly. If the publicity shot they wanted was indeed so important to be kept secret they could have easily accomplished it with commonly available software: shoot the pictures of the plane out at sea and have another photographer shoot the Statue of Liberty background discreetly in NYC. Then marry both shots in a computer. Idiots.
MORE: Ed Driscoll links (and has much more). Thanks!
ANOTHER ONE: Obama tortures 9/11 victims (via Insty who has even more here. Most striking of all is the IndyMac connection). haHa! But didn’t the President just ban torture? Oh, right. For terrorists only. U.S. citizens won’t necessarily be so lucky.
