CNN does a Piece on AirForce-1 Pilot who is "moving on" ...Thank God he's not Obama's Pilot

[KoKo]

It all changes with Presidencies. This guy "LOVED President Bush and is sad to leave ...he's retiring but has a new job with a private business.


Anyway...Thank God Obama has a NEW PILOT!

[Ezlivin]

1. God the copilot can take his place

N/T

[Submariner]

2. Give the job to Sully

He sure knows how to land safely.

[jmowreader]

10. No 747 type rating, and he's not in the Air Force

Besides, the rest of us deserve good piloting too.

[Dreamer Tatum]

3. What does your post mean?

What are you trying to say?

[KoKo]

4. That the "Change of Presidents" means that AirForce One's "Captain" is REMOVED..and

an "OBAMA PRESIDENT's PILOT takes OVER! A good thing given the assassination of Presidents.

It's the "TRANSITION of POWER!" It's good for Obama not to have Bush Pilot all sad and crying over how he "loved President Bush" being Obama's Pilot... :shrug:

[Dreamer Tatum]

5. In other words, a trained professional can't be trusted

Got it.

[ColbertWatcher]

6. Many people can be trained, some can be professional. Few can be both. n/t

[Dreamer Tatum]

7. Maybe he should be executed so as to remove all doubt

He's starting to sound like a REALLY dangerous guy.

[ColbertWatcher]

8. Execution might be a tad extreme, maybe he should experience ...

... enhanced interrogation to find out what he knows.

[Dreamer Tatum]

9. He knows how to fly Air Force One, which carried scores of important people

I get the whole Bush thing, but to disregard someone who *flew Air Force One*? They don't advertise for that job in
Soldier of Fortune. To pilot AF1 is to earn one of the most solemn duties there is in this country.

Bully for Obama that he has his own (highly skilled and qualified) pilot, but the innuendo that he would be in danger
with Bush's pilot is puerile and laughable.

Wanna know what would be more dangerous than keeping Bush's AF1 pilot? Keeping Bush's WH chef...

Oh, wait, Obama IS keeping the kitchen help.

Oh, no.

:eyes:

[jmowreader]

11. And the kitchen help is celebrating, I'm here to tell ya

One of the revolving-door presidential chefs that worked in the Bush White House reported that every day Bush was in the White House, he had to cook a can of spaghetti-o's, a grilled cheese sandwich, a hamburger and a hot dog. He would then present one of the four to Dipshit, who would send it back and demand something else be delivered to him instantly.

I have this feeling that our new 47-year-old president will eat more like an adult than the 60-year-old one we are getting rid of.

[KoKo]

12. Well....ROFLMAO at your post...whether true or not...it sounds just like what we know of Chimperor

...so I'm not gonna' quibble with you. :D

And :applause:

[Dreamer Tatum]

13. You know, with unemployment about to eclipse 10% and a deficit my great-grandkids will pay on

...I couldn't give a good shit what Bush ate every day. I'm sorry. I know I'm supposed to wish irradiation upon every
molecule that came under the slightest of influence by GWB, but I don't fucking care. Obama might like more sophisticated food. That's just great. I care more about what he does before and after he eats. Obama belongs on the cover of the Economist, not Food & Wine.

I can't bring myself to wish ill everyone who did their job with courage and honor just because it was in service to someone I don't like. I'm hoping this thread is more tongue-in-cheek than it looks.

[backscatter712]

25. Yeah, I remember hearing that rumor...

though the way I heard it, he always had a BLT, a peanut-butter & honey sandwich, a grilled cheese sandwich or a cheeseburger. And yes, the chef would bring his food out, and Bush would send it back and demand one of the other three.

[ColbertWatcher]

15. I think after 8 years of these people ...

... it's hard to trust them.

Considering the Justice Department hired people based not on qualifications but on their religious affiliations. Oh, and didn't the Air Force have some kind of controversy a few years back with their academy?

I'm not saying the pilot was a partisan hack, but that's where the well-earned distrust for the GOP and everyone associated with them comes from.

[Dreamer Tatum]

18. Quite cunning, those Bushevik pilots

Serving with a perfect safety record, lying in wait for Obama to step on the plane, so they can
crash it into the cornfields. Riiiight.

Come on. I can get behind some dickhead on the White House staff being unqualified to shine Obama's shoes,
but the pilot of AF1? You're stretching realllllllly far, which is shameful. You're smarter than this.

[ColbertWatcher]

21. Yes, very cunning of me as well not to post a disclaimer in my post.

Oh, wait, I did post a disclaimer in my post.

Well, then.

[Dreamer Tatum]

26. Sorry, homes, but you disclaimed your disclaimer. nt

[KoKo]

14. IOWD's.... Does any President feel SAFE using anything a Former President of another Party Used

before him? In THESE TIMES? You gotta be kidding me that you think that any President would trust a "Trained Professional" with LOYALTIES to ANOTHER PRESIDENT.

Would Chimpy have trusted Clinton's "AirForce-One" CAPTAIN? I don't think FOX NEWS FOLKS would have GONE ALONG WITH THAT ONE! :rofl:

[RB TexLa]

16. I think the guy was also Clinton's pilot.

[KoKo]

17. So...he was Pilot for "DLC Corporatists" and Bush Loyalist? Time for him to BE GONE!

[RB TexLa]

19. Guess the maid service needs to be removed as well and all other military

personal who served Bush and DLC corporatists as you call us.

:crazy:

[KoKo]

22. If I was Obama I would certainly think that approprate...for my safety and sanity...

wouldn't you after eight years of Bush? And, BTW ...scrub that plane for "Bugs" phone and internet.

I'd feel better if he was flying a "Fresh Plane" but then the cost of that would be enormous. :-(

[RB TexLa]

24. No I wouldn't, and I find it a very stupid concern.

[KoKo]

27. It's protocol and customary for the New President to have everything replaced...

So whether you like the "former pilot" or not and liked the "clean-up crew" and others who served the plane their time was DONE. It's always a "Clean Sweep."

[cynatnite]

20. Yeah, his 30 years in the Air Force had nothing to do with it...

:eyes:

[KoKo]

23. 30 Years as a Repug? You think that means nothing? Flying with a Repug...

who was broken up with emotion about "serving his great President Bush." :eyes: you gotta' be kidding.

[Raine]

28. Loyalty is a good trait for sure

but he had poor judgement in thinking so highly of chimp. :shrug: