Louis Caldera fell on his sword for King Obama needlessly. Everyone knows it was George Bush's fault. Early on in their defense, Obama blamed the flyover on Bush's FAA.
Poor Louis... now he has to find honest work!
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Should this man have resigned or should the blame be on Mr. Obama?
Bill - Buffalo Soldier May 08, 2009 20:57:45
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White House Aide Loses Job Over Flyover Fiasco
White House aide Louis Caldera loses job over Manhattan flyover fiasco involving Air Force One
By Kenneth R. Bazinet
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - The White House aide who authorized the controversial Air Force One photo-op flight last week around the Statue of Liberty is out of a job.
President Obama has accepted the resignation of Louis Caldera, the director of the White House Military Office, the Daily News learned Friday.
A secretary of the Army in the Clinton administration, Caldera took the fall for the public relations fiasco arising from the April 27 flyover, which was designed to replace a publicity photo of Air Force One flying past Mount Rushmore with a similar shot of Obama's 747 jumbo jet over the Statue of Liberty.
Caldera's office insisted the flyover was a "classified" mission and should not be disclosed to the public, ensuring that thousands of New Yorkers would be blindsided by an event eerily reminiscent of the 9/11 terror attacks against the Twin Towers.
Federal officials notified Mayor Bloomberg's office and NYPD officials in advance, but Bloomberg was not informed, infuriating the mayor.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/05/08/2009-05-0...
White House aide Louis Caldera loses job over Manhattan flyover fiasco involving Air Force One
By Kenneth R. Bazinet
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - The White House aide who authorized the controversial Air Force One photo-op flight last week around the Statue of Liberty is out of a job.
President Obama has accepted the resignation of Louis Caldera, the director of the White House Military Office, the Daily News learned Friday.
A secretary of the Army in the Clinton administration, Caldera took the fall for the public relations fiasco arising from the April 27 flyover, which was designed to replace a publicity photo of Air Force One flying past Mount Rushmore with a similar shot of Obama's 747 jumbo jet over the Statue of Liberty.
Caldera's office insisted the flyover was a "classified" mission and should not be disclosed to the public, ensuring that thousands of New Yorkers would be blindsided by an event eerily reminiscent of the 9/11 terror attacks against the Twin Towers.
Federal officials notified Mayor Bloomberg's office and NYPD officials in advance, but Bloomberg was not informed, infuriating the mayor.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/05/08/2009-05-0...
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No. he is a sacrificial lamb for Mr Obama, I think
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I wish he would take that grandstanding pimp with him! God knows I wish the First Black President had been a person of Honor and Honesty. So many better could have been there instead of him .. .. .. but, what can you do? He's there now, and we all have to live with it.
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A fish stinks at its head. Mr. Presiprompter needs to go.
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SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
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The people who were informed were instructed to not tell the public. I can see why, because a terrorist with a shoulder launching missile could have easily shot it down like a sitting duck. The real question is why would they do such a dumb trick in the first place? Greta Van Susteren had a much better picture of Air Force I flying over the Statue of Liberty which was photo-chopped.......so why did the White House risk the safety of the whole of NYC to do this $328,800+ stunt?
Anyway you slice it, it was really a costly, dumb, insensitive, immature stunt with no regard for cost or the people in NYC.
Could it have just been some kind of political payback for someone
to get a thrilling flight over NYC in Air Force I. For the life of me, I can not think of any reason to justify this stupidity on the part of the White House.
I agree. In fact this whole thing stinks of a lack of military training or perspective, (Obama), a lack of political insight or sophistication, (Obama), a big fat overdose of hubris to even consider such a stupid stunt, (Obama), and an absence of accountability that goes with wielding irresponsible power, (Obama).
Nobody else could possibly have ordered this but Obama, and Caldera gets to bite the bullet. Everybody else is too experienced and too well trained at their jobs to have made such an irresponsible decision. And who, besides President Obama, has the clout necessary to be able to tell all those agencies to shut up. The order would have to have been given in his name and I refuse to believe he's given anybody that kind of authority without knowing about it ahead of time.
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