Unsatisfied with triggering post-traumatic stress among thousands of Manhattanites, the Obama Administration sets its barnstorming sights on, well, flyover country. This time they conducted an unannounced low-flying, suspiciously orbitting exercise over downtown Memphis:
Granted, it lacked that extra special theatrical touch of a military interceptor screaming after it in hot pursuit, but you know, it's better to keep everyone guessing. DHS having the mysteriously sinister airliner linger like a bird of prey as it hunts for the choice target amps up the panic in its own special way.
The temptation to take a shot at the Administration overpowered that strong belief in the government's responsibility to "provide for the common defence" on this one, didn't it?
Posted by: Chip | May 22, 2009 at 03:04 PM
Sure Chip. We've learned our lessons from the Demcraps.
Get ready for more pal.
Posted by: Stanley Baldwin | May 22, 2009 at 04:45 PM
Clearly there were caterpillars on that plane!
Posted by: FeFe | May 22, 2009 at 04:54 PM
But at dinner, VP Joe Biden said he had the pilot fly low and slow to help point out secret bunker locations to journalists and photogs on board.
Posted by: FeFe | May 22, 2009 at 04:58 PM
So - no heads up to the public about something that, when seen, obviously draws perceptions filled with fear.....
THEN - when interviewed about it, the DHS spokesperson tries to calm the citizens down by saying that there's thousands of unaccounted for Stinger missles out there...
If this was still the Bush Administration, the left would be SKEWERING them for fear mongering and incompetence.
Posted by: John | May 22, 2009 at 05:38 PM
Hey "Chip" that's provide for the common defense, not scare the beJesus out of everyone.
Posted by: Bill M | May 22, 2009 at 06:51 PM
... because this couldn't have been done at an airforce base, out in the desert, etc - no, had to be done circling a large metropolis, without any kind of head's up to the populace at all...
Brilliant!
Posted by: Midas | May 23, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Obama caused this, huh? Man, you conservative pigs get more desperate each day...
53-46
Posted by: DanK | May 23, 2009 at 12:02 PM
So what if that plane got hit by a bird? Or another aircraft? Or someone just shooting at it with a gun, sling shot, arrow from a bow, or it just has a macanical problem, or hit a wind shear, or what ever? After a few hunderd people are dead, then we still call it a simulation?
We have only around 15 years left to have a real missile fired at an aircraft, any guess about whoes religion will be doing this? and about whoes BBFN political party will blame Bush for it.
Posted by: sam | May 23, 2009 at 09:26 PM
"Obama caused this, huh? Man, you conservative pigs get more desperate each day..."
Let me see if I can remember the ever changing rules of the game. Whomever the President is at the time is the one who gets the blame right? Those were the rules for Bush then, they changed. Now it goes back to it is the former guys fault. Hard to keep track when the rules change depending on which party is in charge. If the man had the kahounas to take ANY kind of personal responsibility, the words "It wasn't my fault" wouldn't even be in his vocabulary. Bottom feeder, low class all the way, no matter what party! That comes from his upbringing! The ME generation raising irrisponsible children. Now, they are "in charge" and we see where that is taking us!
Posted by: Navywifeandmom | May 23, 2009 at 09:28 PM