Correct me if I'm mistaken, but doesn't that describe any USAF plane?

As a technical matter, yes. But there are two luxury planes specifically outfitted for regular presidential use and this was one of them.

One of the PBS shows did an inside look at a Presidential trip aboard airforce one. I remember a room full of uniforms in planning sessions.

You almost make it sound James like ol' Joe Biden dusts off his pilot's license and throws a white scarf around his neck.

I'm with you here. They could have gotten much nicer images if they'd just posted a "photoshop this" thread on Fark.

That was my first thought too..

I don't know, I thought you had it. You don't have it??

No, I don't got it. Well, who who signed it out?

I dunno. I mean, Obama's sayin' they heard about this flyover thing when everybody else did.

What?

Yeah, they didn't no nuthin' about it.

Well, I didn't just sign it out to some gypsies com'n through.

Really?

No, they was legit.

So who was they? I mean, no one in the Administration knows shixt about this. Obama, Press Secy, Napolito or whatever the b's name is. No one says they knows nuthin'. Maybe some Calderey guy or sumthin' picked it up??

Listen, Louie. You an me gotta stick together on this thing, see? Those suits are gonna pin this shixt on us......

And this would be my burning question. Why in the world do you spend money on a photo op that is completely an totally uneccessary and pointless, when our economy is in the tank and our deficits are going lower?

It also speaks to the fact that those in the administration may have gotten beyond 9/11 and moved on, but the people of NYC haven't. This was about as sensitive as an hour of Jerry Springer.

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but doesn't that describe any USAF plane?

As a technical matter, yes. But there are two luxury planes specifically outfitted for regular presidential use and this was one of them.

An aircraft that would have been “Air Force One” except that President Obama wasn’t on board

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but doesn't that describe any USAF plane?

And, look, haven't these people who wanted this photo-op ever heard of photoshop?

I'm with you here. They could have gotten much nicer images if they'd just posted a "photoshop this" thread on Fark.

But breaking down sobbing is a decided overreaction.

Or PTSD.

Consider how traumatizing 9/11 was for those of us hundreds of miles away and then consider what it must have been like for the people who were actually running for their lives instead of watching it on TV.

It becomes another example of empty attack, from a party without answers to our real problems.

Funny; if you substitute "gesture" for "attack", that's what I was thinking about the photo op.

I wonder if we should tell vets with PTSD to "lighten up"? The Vietnam war was over 30+ years ago.

The jab about NYers needing to lighten up is uncalled for, on the other hand. The trauma that these people experienced on 9/11 should not be underestimated.