Come on, who's surprised? The White House-engineered photo-op of low-flying Air Force aircraft that caused terror in New York City this week epitomizes the Age of Obama. What better way to mark 100 days in office than with an appalling exercise in pointless taxpayer-funded stagecraft?The superficiality, the unseriousness, the hubris, the obliviousness to post-9/11 realities: They were trademarks of the Obama campaign, and they are the tattoos on his governance.
He never leaves home without his teleprompter. All the Obama world's a stage. Or a world ready to be staged.
So is it any wonder he would staff his White House military office with a clueless paper pusher who saw nothing wrong with spending inordinate government resources -- and re-creating 9/11 havoc -- to update Air Force One publicity shots? And who planned, believe it or not, to do the same in Washington, D.C., next month, where the 9/11 jihadists murdered 53 passengers and 6 crewmembers on board American Airlines Flight 77, and 125 military and civilian personnel inside the Pentagon?
All for some publicity shots.
The more I think about it the more this ranks up there with the "Mission Accomplished" stunt of Bush.
Can you imagine the media salivating if the Bush administration had pulled this one off.
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Oh man, if you start down the "imagine if Bush had done this" path, you'll never finish. The hits just keep on coming.
Apropos the title of this post, did you hear that his kids' school is fundraising, and all they donated for the fundraiser were an issue of Rolling Stone that covered Obama and an issue of Vogue that covered Michelle? Oh, but they autographed those issues. Gee. How generous.
Bill Clinton donated a round of golf with himself, which was (a) somewhat less egocentric and (b) raised a LOT of money for the school.
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