BF2S Forums Obama scaring the shit out of New Yorkers since 2009.

Diesel_dyk wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

Diesel_dyk wrote:

As far as I know, the president always travels with both planes. The second is both back up and decoy. If the decoy is being used for something else, I'm sure that the secret service doesn't want anyone to know that. They would rather have people think that the president might be on the plane over New York.

And I wouldn't call that hindsight, I would call is contingency planning. and it wouldn't do much good to tell everyone if the plan to protect the president by using a decoy plane depended on subterfuge. I wouldn't doubt there will be a press release saying as much.

IMO some people just want to be angry at PBO for what ever reason.

Hindsight would be if someone passed judgment on reactions after the fact. The flight path is real clear coming in to Macdill AFB too (a wee bit scary). We know when and where his plane is. There really isn't reason for New yorkers to think that the Presidents (2nd) plane was in New York today, decoy or not. Especially when Obama is over 200 miles away.

The point was that if the secret service had to take PBO from DC to some place safe because of an attack, they would have only had one plane available. And if there was a press release telling everyone that the decoy plane was in NYC on that day, then the president would be flying without a decoy and then the attackers would know that and that makes him more vulnerable.  As far a contingency planning, that contingency is way out there, but I think that's the type of stuff those guys in the secret service and the Air Force are paid to think about.

Anyway, they should have used photoshop and saved the tax payers the fuel.
I expect PBO'c office will have press release outlining something like I posted and a little apology.

Deadmonkiefart wrote:

Whoop-a-dee-fricking-doo
He's the president.  If he wants to fly over the statue of liberty, then he can.  It would have been a security risk telling people that he was going to.  When people criticize Obama for stupid things like this, it takes away from the significant things he really is screwing up on.

Last edited by DBBrinson1 (2009-04-28 17:45:35)