SO IS HIS OWN STAFF COMPARING HIM TO JIHADISTS?:

Officials admit they ordered secrecy on Air Force One's New York flyover (Ed Pilkington, 4/29/09, guardian.co.uk)

The flyover of a member of the president's Air Force One fleet, accompanied by two fighter jets, prompted mass panic on the streets among hundreds of New Yorkers who feared a repeat of 9/11. Many downtown offices were vacated, and the emergency services flooded with distress calls.

The stunt, costing $328,835 of taxpayers' money, was designed as a publicity photo shoot to get a picture of the presidential plane with the Statue of Liberty in the background. But it backfired, forcing President Obama to apologise.

Having film of Air Force One buzzing NYC doesn't seem terribly useful for a campaign ad unless it's along the lines of: "Re-elect me or I 9-11 you."

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 29, 2009 11:52 AM