Imagine if a bank had done a flyover like this with their expensive corporate jet. Even if it had been perfectly legal and properly cleared with the FAA, the Left would be howling about the extravagance, the money wasted on fuel, and the abuse of the public airspace. If Obama is the CEO of General Motors and AIG now, why shouldn’t we expect him to behave with the humility and frugality we would demand of the private sector executives he displaced?
I agree with those who say this is a much more important story than a semi-whimsical “oopsie” moment. The stench of absolute incompetence radiating from every aspect of this Administration is becoming overwhelming. The image of Obama filling the sky over New York with a horrendously expensive display of top-shelf luxury jet transport, terrifying a city full of people with good reason to fear low-flying jet planes, is the perfect visual aid to illustrate the childishness, arrogance, and lack of historical awareness that characterizes this presidency.
It’s not like there are any pressing problems we could dedicate the supposedly scarce resources of this government to, right? If Obama’s so keen on flying airplanes over metropolitan skylines, maybe he could try doing it in the skies over Iran, and demand they give up their political hostage and nuclear ambitions. Maybe he could do it over the deep-water ports of Somalia, and frighten pirates instead of hot dog vendors. Maybe he could blow that jet fuel on a flyby of Pakistan, to let the Taliban know they’ve gotten as close to the Pakistani nuclear arsenal as they will ever get. Or maybe we should just demand this overgrown child make a list of a trillion dollars’ worth of state luxuries he can do without, and give that trillion bucks back to the future he stole it from.
Doctor Zero on April 27, 2009 at 8:25 PM
