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Barack Obama’s Air Force One has successfully landed in England for the G-20 conference, where leaders from China, Russia, France, etc., are expected to be annoying. A tribe of local knickered hobbits swarmed the country airport and captured this disturbing footage. [YouTube]
Do you think he takes the in-flight magazine with him when he deplanes, so he can finish the crossword puzzle? They always say “Enjoy your complimentary copy of Buttplug Airlines Monthly. It is yours to keep.” How about the peanuts his seatmate didn’t want? Does he take those with him in case he is hungry later?
Wait, what?
why is our leader using his private jet during a time like this?
“Welcome to England, Mr. President. Cake or death?”
Stansted airport?! The rest of us have to crowd into Heathrow or Gatwick, but Obama gets to land at Stansted, which is reserved for the upper-crust of society. Well done, my former “community organizer”.
Were the terrorists with the rocket launchers behind the guy holding the camera or off to the side?
This is going to be such a treat for the Brits after George Bush. I imagine all the little princes, dukes, boils, sterlings, etc. will all want to meet him.
Min: To which Barry replied, “I am a doughnut.”
Lets just hope he doesn’t have to mingle with the Ryanair passengers about to fly to Malaga for some cheap booze in the sun.
Incidentally, is plane-spotting an American pastime or is it purely British, like train spotting? I’d imagine if you stood outside JFK writing down plane registration numbers as they landed, you’d be soon being questioned by the FBI. Some Brits have already found out the Greeks certainly didn’t appreciate it.
The Lucky Republican: The guy filming had them himself. He was using an iPhone and it had the new RocketLauncher app (TM) (available on iTunes for only $1.2M).
BillyClubb: Well, to be fair, if he landed at Heathrow, he would have missed the G-20 conference altogether. At least, every time I have to take a connecting flight through Heathrow, I get trapped for days in a dystopian nightmare hellscape with thousands of other hungry, filthy, lost travelers sleeping on the floor.
“Hey, where the white women at?”
He’s not allowed back into the country without a passport, right? So the wingnuts will shut up abuot that birth thing from here on out…
BillyClubb: Heathrow got so annoyed with the havoc that the security surrounding Bush caused last time, that Obama isn’t allowed to land there. And Stansted? Upper-class airport? Haha… it’s in Essex!
Doglessliberal: Damnit, and here in the so-called “land of the free”, I couldn’t even take my iPhone gun on my White House tour:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10186185-233.html
“Stansted, which is reserved for the upper-crust of society. ”
That’s a joke, right? Look out for the giant RYANAIR sign in the background after the plane taxis to a halt…
Stansted is also the airport where hijacked planes get sent when they ask to go to London, so maybe the air traffic controllers heard that some Muslin guy called Hussein was demanding to be flown to Britain and got the wrong impression.
iwillsavethispatient: there is an area right off the GW Parkway between DC and Alexandria called Gravelly POint where planes from Washington National (I will not call it Reagan) practically buzz you landing and taking off. There are always people there, along with the fishermen and rugby players who play on the field there, with radios listening to the pilots. It is incredibly cool, actually, to see a plane go right over your head so close it ruffles your hair.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/misc-locations/gravelly-point-park,1028013.html
Bearbloke: Bwah!
iwillsavethispatient: Ha, I remember the “plane spotters.” Have they been executed yet for spying for Turkey, or whatever it was?
I’m sure he’ll be greeted by people bearing gifts of DVDs of Masterpiece Theatre.
Hobbits? Sounded like the lollipop guild to me.
jagorev: oh dear, who will the first person shot by police be after this thing is sold all over the place? Just holding a cell gets you shot; now add in gun sound effects, and (if you are black and male), kiss your butt goodbye.
iwillsavethispatient: Hello Sunshine: Actually, there were a couple of upper-crust luxury airlines (EOS?) which flew from New York to Stansted, so that the investment bankers who flew on them wouldn’t have to mingle with the crowds in between getting off their all-business-class jet and getting into their limo. So Stansted has an upper-crust reputation Stateside.
Of course, EOS went bankrupt sometime last year right around the time the market crashed and the investment banks cut off lavish expense budgets (Goldman bankers now have to stay at the Embassy Suites in New York! Which charges only $250 a night! IT’S A TRAVESTY). These upper crust airlines were just another victim of Barney Frank, the UAW, the ACORN, and the socialism imposed by Barack Lenin Hussein Noobama.
TGY: He’s going to see Russell Brand at the local Live Nation theater tonight, followed by a Guy Ritchie movie.
SayItWithWookies:
Speaking of which Oily Titz and her cavity creeps are trying to tidy up her petition. I am busily adding comments as fast as they can remove the earlier ones. I suggest everyone else do the same like the good little obots we are.
Barry is selling Airforce One rides on Ryanair (the airline that wants to make you pay to use the toilet):
http://blingee.com/blingee/view/87366566-Barry-Selling-Out-AF1-for-5-Quid
From today’s “LondonLite”
But is there room on this plane for all his teleprompters?
jagorev: Obviously your visit coincided with the last presidential trip to our shores.
Mrs O looked very sexy getting off that plane
and so did president O
that Mrs O got some sexy legs
What, no shoe throwing? I’m disappointed in the blokes; of course don’t most British men throw like girls anyway?
My sources tell me that this time Obama will be giving Gordon Brown the Liberty Bell, whereas Brown will be giving Obama the “Monty Python” DVD box-set.
comradepaulson: I bet he uses some of them SOCIALISTS ENGLANDER MUSLIN TELIEPROMPTERS!11!!111!!!
Hello Sunshine: Actually, I got caught in the Christmas 2006 debacle. Then there was the new terminal opening, and that time that they lost everyone’s bags. Honestly, I read the headline “Heathrow Descends Into Utter Chaos, Passengers Rioting and Looting” at least twice a year.
Worst. Airport. Ever.
TGY: Maybe Barry will bring Gordon a Region One DVD Player so he can finally watch those Region One DVDs he gifted. (Next time, he should just send Gordon the rapidshare link and let him download the movies himself.)
jagorev: LOL.
jagorev: “that time that they lost everyone’s bags”
We call those “weekdays”.
chascates: They just want to see what DVD Obama’s gonna give them.
Did he get into the country on his Kenyan-British Birth Certificate or his forged American Certificate of Live Birth (even though Hawaii is not a Natrul-bourne state)
Doglessliberal:
Oh I know Gravelly Point. It’s a popular hangout with the local aviation aficionados/rapists. There’s quite a bit of overlap.
\limey accent
“Oy! ‘e flies in a plane? I thought this bloke could just fly! Why, ‘e’s just like me!”
\limey accent
-From the BBC:
“A man dressed as Gandalf the Grey was waving his magic staff in blessing the landing…and was promptly arrested for indecent exposure.”
If BHO wanted to give the Queen a nice gift, he could give her back the Southern colonies.
jagorev: iwillsavethispatient: Heathrow is the scariest, most disorienting, ugliest place I’ve ever been where people speak something like English. Have the Brits ever heard of these modern technology called “signs”? Or how about “maps of the terminal”?
TGY: +1
chascates: Urchins
comradepaulson: The first plane was for the teleprompters.
Is he taking in the Hammers’ game this weekend?
Colander: Is that a British idiom for something dirty? Kind of like a reverse version of the whole fag=cigarette thing?
sdrandomsausage: Is that a British idiom for something dirty? Kind of like a reverse version of the whole fag=cigarette thing?
V572625694: Well, you’ve never been in the Port Authority Bus Terminal, then (although, admittely, very few people there speak a recognizable human language of any kind)
jagorev: That was odd
jagorev: No, Barry revealed himself as a West Ham United FC fan during a trip for his half-sister’s wedding a while back. He left when the stipper arrived at the bachelor party but went to a West Ham soccer game with the groom…..or some such. “I’m forever blowing bubbles” is the the club song….make of that what you will…
I hope Hopey and Michelle had sex in Air Force One, unless of course W. and Laura did, in which case … gross.
Serolf Divad: I got given that (the Python) for Christmas, and, really, once you get past the dead parrot, Spam, the cheese shop, and a few others, it really is much of a muchness.
loudmouthredhead: jagorev: How did you do that?
The coverage is kind of ridiculous:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1165669/Welcome-Mr-President-Obama-lands-Stansted-Airport-ahead-G20-talks-world-leaders.html
Oh handy. That Stansted connection should make his backpacking tour of the rest of Europe a breeze with Easyjet. Mind that gap, Barry!
All wrong- he is going there to finalize his plans for canceling the month of June to save 11 billion to fund ACORN for the next 11 years!!
http://www.jonchristianryter.com/2008/Obama_tailfin.jpg
He also has repainted aurrrr furce unnn-
http://www.jonchristianryter.com/2008/Obama_tailfin.jpg
(Random google search image results, not my website)
I really don’t understand why they have to take the freaking helicopter with them. A 747 is not enough?
I hear a Cocteau Twins song playing in the background of that video.
MarSF: What if they want to pop down the block for some arugula? You can’t do that in a plane.
MarSF: Somewhat difficult to land a 747 at the U.S. Embassy. And this way, he doesn’t make London traffic worse than it already is by taking a motorcade from the airport.
And no, he’s not riding on no Limey helicopter.
loquaciousmusic: They don’t want to trash the Buckingham gardens landing the 747 there.
thatonegirlsays: That page has a ton of interesting factoids unknown to me:
“Unlike George W Bush, he will not take a food taster with him during the visit. He is not a fussy eater… he’s been known to eat dog and snake in the past.”
Who knew? And what ever happened to that poor puppy?
Lazy Media: Whatever. I just never know it was normal to carry Marine One all over the place. I never paid attention to Bush when he went anywhere because I just couldn’t stand looking at him.
“KNEW”.
I am not a moran.
Min: Excellent Izard reference.
TGY: And they’ll all be in PAL, so he can’t play them when he comes back home. Paybacks are hell, Mister President.
Ah yes, plane spotters!
Crazy Brits who spend their entire vacations camping at Costa Del Gatwick!
I’ve seen amazing things in my life time. Man walking on the Moon. The Civil Rights Act. The Carter Administration. A B-movie actor becoming president of the US, and accidentally prophecying the fall of the Iron Curtain. But my life on this earth is now complete–I’ve seen it all, there’s nothing new–now that I’ve see a Youtube video of an airplane, landing. Bravo, intrepid air sailors!
WadISay: They wouldn’t take them back. Britain’s cotton consumption is way down now that the wogs are all making things–clothes, steel, cars–better and cheaper.
He stole from the rich and upsmacked his bitch.
Thank Goodness none of them had rocket launchers. A few Bobbies…that’s security? Those Limeys are fucking close.
Thank goodness none of them had rocket launchers. Nice security!