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WHERE WAS MARK PENN THAT NIGHT? Turns out that no-big-deal little plane emergency on Barack Obama’s charter jet was actually kind of a big deal — hope almost crashed and burned in St. Louis that dark night. [ABC News]
OH NOES!
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…don’t Archangels have wings anyways?
If the president could only just keep on firing air traffic controllers, conservatism could have triumphed that day.
It was Hillary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozW4mmKzcYQ
KEEP HOPEY ALIIIVE!
(but then cut his nuts off)
I suspect it is Hillary as well.
Part of me thinks that she will whack him and say vote for her so his legacy can be carried on.
Then again, I am incredibly cynical about politics and think we would be better picking a name at random out of the phonebook.
This is why I never fly. Or run for president.
Triborough: Wasn’t there a Kurt Vonnegut story where they basically do that? It didn’t turn out so well, as I recall. Best to leave such decisions up to the Supreme Court.
Oh please! Planes crash all the time! Just ask WALNUTS.
*hyperventilating*
You mean… Bear-bear could have died?
Is this a warning from Jehovah to the Anti-Christ?
Just think, if the plane had crashed, he could have cheated on Michelle and Sean Hannity would be OK with it.
Of course, I assume if there had been a real problem, Obama could have saved the plane like Christopher Reeve did in Superman: The Movie.
Well there you go folks. Underestimating the severity of his dangerous airplane flight for political gain. How much lower can you go?
Sounds like Obama is playing the “I don’t need your sympathy” card from the bottom of the deck.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: Did you have to bring that up?
Hanity screaming “5 and 1/2 years” is now as engrained in my mind as Bill-0’s famous “We’ll DO IT LIVE”.
Street Organizer: “(but then cut his nuts off)”
Sorry for being dense, but I just got it!!! Jesse was only trying to help Barry: cut off his nuts and then - like a chicken in every pot, a boy in every congressman’s pocket - every blk person could have truck nutz, too!
Or at least Volvo nuts.
I love this guy!! (And if Kwame can come to the convention, then Jesse should be allowed to speak. Jesse for Queen Hillary’s Veep!)
It was Cindy. Her space lizard robotic control mechanism - that “private plane” she has, it flies 1,200 knots a minute and creates an electronic blackout within two miles….damn Cindy McSame!!!
Jesus Christ, can you imagine how horrible it would have been if his plane went down? Not just the loss of a transformative candidate, but the 9/11 truth type conspiracies out there? On top of a black community that is justifiably suspicious of anything that could happen? It really does terrify me. I’ve done numerous canvasses for Obama in black communities (I’m a brown guy) and I never went a day without someone mentioning assassination as inevitable. It would get fucking ugly, and Hillary would not benefit. These people would make the PUMAs seem as bitter as caramel.
Sorry for the tone, the very idea just freaks me out.
So a secret muslim gets onto an airplane, and nearly careens it into a fiery crash in a major US city. Man, maybe we should’ve listened to Giuliani.
mattbolt: lol. FTW.
I AM JOHN MCCAIN I TURN YOU IBTO FROG WITH FIBGER.
“Wow, I think I really need to fuck a redhead right now. Oh, hi.“
b bab: Not to mention that Hillary would be the nominee.
The loss of elevator control is a VERY serious problem. Pitch can be controlled through power, but it’s extremely difficult at best. They ( we ) are lucky that the railing didn’t cut the cable.
Hope is a thing with feathers, so better start flappin’.
So, ejecting the emergency evacuation slide messes up the controls and makes you crash?
When will charismatic democrats learn not get on small planes?
I would advise him to only use a bus from now on but then I remembered that Lieberman is lurking out there, riding around on the Straight Talk Express of Death with his Flying Cakes of Doom.
Course it was Hillz.
TGY: ooh, nice with the Emily there.
And Mark Penn was no doubt in his underground lair, slimy from dermatological extrusions and coated with a fine dust of Cheet-O (TM) crumbs and doughnut sugar. Occasionally, he would ooze over to his phone and call Frank Corsi, passing him fodder for his slanderfest book. (you know Penn is gloating over this book)
Over the plane intercom system, the pilot told Obama and campaign staff and reporters there was “a little bit of controllability issue in terms of our ability to control the aircraft in the pitch, which is the nose up and nose down mode.”
Which is a nice, circuitous way of saying “We’re gonna auger in, kids! Put your heads between your knees and kiss your asses goodbye!”
“the NTSB said it detected “marks consistent with rubbing of elevator control cables” and a broken railing that “impinged upon elevator control cables.”
They tried to kill Hopey!
These MD-80 series planes are getting to the fringe of acceptable reliability. I used to work for these guys when Flight 261 augered in (Same plane, similar problem) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261