Posted by
Always To The Right on Sunday, May 31, 2009 2:21:54 PM
Why use Gulfstream planes at all? Why not just use Air Force One,
which would likely have kept at least one of the other planes on the
ground, instead? Perhaps the White House wanted to emphasize the
non-official nature of the visit; I suspect they didn’t want AF1 to
return to New York City’s skies so soon after the Scare Force One
fiasco. However, AF1 is built to keep the President in close touch
with the government in times of crisis. It exists for precisely that
reason, and is meticulously maintained to ensure the safest possible
flight.
But the real foolishness was the Gulfstream and helicopters for the media. Are we to believe that the national news media has no reporters in New York City?
The BIg Apple isn’t exactly the Badlands of the Dakotas, or the remote
peaks of the Rockies, in terms of media saturation. It looks like
Obama wanted to make this a media event and didn’t mind using three
planeloads of taxpayer money to stage it.
And can anyone calculate the carbon footprint of three Gulfstream
jets, three helicopters, and all the stalled traffic in New York City?
I’d say that it reaches Goracle-like levels.