Weather forces Obama to switch from chopper
The White House says bad weather forced President Barack Obama to switch from his presidential helicopter, Marine One, en route to Camp David and board a motorcade to get to the presidential retreat in Maryland.
It happened Friday afternoon after Obama had already taken off from the South Lawn of the White House aboard Marine One, accompanied by daughter Sasha. The sky was overcast.
White House officials say a last-minute bad weather call was made. So instead of going directly to Camp David about 70 miles northwest of Washington, Marine One diverted to an alternate landing area and the president motorcaded the rest of the way.
This is unprecedented!
Mother Nature would never do that to a white president.
UPDATE:
Tommy Christopher has demanded Mother Nature’s resignation.
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From Hullabaloney:
I suspect slapping the guy with the bad poll numbers in the face might riase his numbers with Independents at this point.
Hey, now that just might work.
Appaling! Almost incomprehensibly so.
This disappearance for a short period smells funny. He was summoned to meet with someone (or plural) that he could not be seen with or known to be talking with. My best guess is he just got his ass chewed. The list is endless over what it may have been about. The argument is breaking down that he is the only choice for voters and that is all he’s got to run on. I would not be surprised if he was told that he is not performing up to his pay grade and he has X number of days to turn it around.
Good observation
Blame it on Marine One. Bad weather can’t be predicted for such a short flight? Riiiiiight.
CNN
From the comments at an ABCnews link:
Looking at the weather for the surrounding area, it doesn’t look THAT bad….not an ideal day for a flight but it should be well within the capabilities of a military pilot and helicopter.
Posted by: RHR | September 2, 2011, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm
ABC:
Another comment:
The fish is rotting in the usual manner- from the head.
Marine 1 could not fly in a little fog? A little rain? Give us a break! That is the aircraft that is tasked with evacuating the President from the WH to Andrews at a moment’s notice. Do they really expect us to believe this BS?
Oh wait- yes they do.
Let’s see.
There was weather so bad that it necessitated
Redirecting the helicopter in the same bad weather
Landing at an alternate site that was likely not prepared
Getting the motorcade to that site
Disembarking the president, which is a security issue in itself
Getting into a motorcade and driving to Camp David (in the same bad weather?)
What happened to the errant plane over Camp David we heard about yesterday?
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