Photo-op Frightens New Yorkers

Air Force One over Ground Zero

This has got to be one of the biggest bone-headed moves ever by a Pres­i­den­tial nomination:

Just before the work­day began on Mon­day, an air­liner and super­sonic fighter jet zoomed past the lower Man­hat­tan sky­line. Within min­utes, star­tled finan­cial work­ers streamed out of their offices, fear­ing a night­mar­ish replay of Sept. 11.

For a half-hour, the Boe­ing 747 and F-16 jet cir­cled the Statue of Lib­erty and the Finan­cial Dis­trict near the World Trade Cen­ter site. Offices evac­u­ated. Dis­patch­ers were inun­dated with calls. Wit­nesses thought the planes were fly­ing dan­ger­ously low.

Air Force One over Ground Zero

Air Force One over Ground Zero

What in the world was White House mil­i­tary office direc­tor Louis Caldera think­ing??  Did they not real­ize that a 747 — fly­ing very low over the city being chased by an air force jet — would scare the liv­ing day­lights out of peo­ple?  Did they not real­ize that peo­ple who suf­fered through the largest tragedy our nation has ever seen could go into shellshock?

Also, appar­ently even the Dear Leader didn’t even know that it was going to hap­pen.   Accord­ing to the arti­cle, Obama was “furi­ous” when he learned of the fly-by.  I don’t know which is worse — him not know­ing some­thing his own admin­is­tra­tion was doing or know­ing about it and approv­ing it.  I agree with floor trader John Leit­ner — heads should roll.  I had been under the impres­sion that Ground Zero was now a no-fly zone.  Heck, I thought all national land­marks were no-fly zones…Apparently not to Caldera. 

This on top of other things that have been hap­pen­ing in the past 98 days just con­firms that the Obama admin­is­tra­tion is one of the most inept admin­is­tra­tions in the his­tory of our country.

Source:  The Asso­ci­ated Press

9/11 — May We Never Forget

The World Trade Center as it used to be.
The World Trade Center as it used to be.

The World Trade Cen­ter as it used to be.

I think in the past few years, most Amer­i­cans have for­got­ten what hap­pened to this Coun­try and our Coun­try­men on Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001.  I — for one — have not.  I never will.  I’ll never for­get the feel­ing of being told, “A plane just flew into the World Trade Cen­ter!”  At first, I thought they were telling a bad joke…Then I real­ized they were seri­ous.  I imme­di­ately thought, as prob­a­bly most Amer­i­cans did, that it was just an acci­dent.  But when some­one in our office yelled, “Another plane just flew into the Trade Cen­ter!”  I — prob­a­bly like you did — real­ized it was a hor­ri­ble attack on our country.

I tried my best to work, to get my mind off of what happened…You see, I had just started in June at the com­pany I was work­ing for.  I wanted to show every­one that I was a hard worker, that I could do my job with­out being dis­tracted by idle con­ver­sa­tion.  But when some­one told me they had the TV in an adja­cent office on, I ran to it.  I had to see for my own eyes what was happening.

Big mis­take.  About 15 of us stood in that office and watched both of the Twin Tow­ers fall.  It was hor­rific.  I was think­ing, “This is just a bad, bad movie…It’s not real.  It can’t be real…”  But it was…way too real.

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