Los Angeles Times:
Reporting from Washington -- Airplane control problems last summer could have led to disaster for then-Sen. Barack Obama and his presidential campaign, according to a report released Friday by the National Transportation Safety Board.
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Shoulda, woulda, coulda and a buck twenty-five will get you a cup of coffee at Denney's
This may be the most complete story published.
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Somebody called me a Rep tro// for stating this as fact. After Hillary's comments which seemed to relate the possibility of Obama's mortality with that of Robert F. Kennedy and conceding the election, Hillary made a deal with Obama for him to use her plane. Supposedly, it was because her plane was better and because she could not afford it anymore. She offered Obama her plane to get out of her contract. Then this happened.
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It's certainly creative, but I'm not sure the world is entirely ready for hypothetical news.
Did the LA Times run of of things that DID happen to talk about, that they had to start writing stories about things that might happened, but didn't?
Almost accidents of air craft don't happen that often.
Here is the proof.
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By your logic, I should be able to loan your car to someone.
The plane was (and is) owned by Midwest Airlines. Unless you can prove that Hillary Clinton has significant pull with Midwest, you can't prove "she" loaned it to Obama. Given her financial issues during the campaign, it's unlikely she continued paying for the plane after she no longer needed it, so it's virtually certain that the Obama campaign was leasing the plane from Midwest.
It was a "loaner" because his regular campaign plane was in being upgraded. People ignore punctuation far too often these days.
Although, if you really want to go in for conspiracy theories, it could have just as easily been an attempt to get rid of Hillary Clinton.
I never said that Hillary tried to do away with Obama. That is for you to connect the dots. I believe the Wall St. Underground publication and their reporting of the the downing of the plane that Ron brown was in. http://wha
I believe that there was foul play with Vince foster
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and his lawyer Mark Levy
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and then an accident that has only been reported twice in aviation history happens to Obama after Hillary had access to it and spoke about the a sass in nation of Robert Kennedy as her way of holding on hope to become president? There are 28,000 commercial flights a day with nary an incident as serious or as rare as this. Are you kidding me?
I read that she could not afford it and that she offered it to him. It is not unusual for people to take over other people's contracts.
Thankfully, a good crew made the right decisions.
Someone was just trying to get Obama's crash total up towards his opponent's mighty score
thank god, thank god, thank god, thank god the situation was resolved with no injuries.
It's scary how much is resting on the life of that one man. Maybe we're wrong to think that the country is entering a new era. What would happen if Obama died? A lot of the progress that's been made in the last few months happened because of Obama's charisma rather than because the country has become better educated or more globally aware.
Huh? I certainly don't want him to die but I am not silly enough to think the world would spin off it's axis if he did.
If you don't think Obama's "star qualities" have helped Democrats get their foot in the door you have a much less cynical view of America than I do.
Agreed. The hyperbole around BO is often astounding and downright ludicrous. Good man, good politician, some good policies, some bad decisions as well. I never believed how a large % of the populace could fall for cult figures, but after this election, I know how desparate and rudderless so many people are. As Dostoevsky said of the masses, “In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, ‘make us your slaves, but feed us.’”
Our lack of the structured, rigorous public education of old and a lack of holding people accountable for their own choices (among other things) have left so many people unable/unwilling of taking charge of their own lives. Scary and sad. I hope he does not begin to abuse this power he holds over so many.
"What would have happened if Obama died?"
We would see exactly the same kind of conspiracy nonsense we currently see with the death of Paul Wellstone.
I don't think that the thoughts about Wellstone are nonsense. Cheney's little CIA secret probably did it.
We would have President Hillary Clinton.
Which would be much better than McCain Palin.
After the unscheduled landing he joked to reporters: "Just thought we'd spice things up a bit today."
A class act through and through.
The ignorance displayed here is astounding.
Thank GOD he was safe.
Amen to that!!
C'mon everyone, it was BUSH's FAULT. Everyone knows that if ANYTHING goes wrong it's always BUSH's FAULT. Right libs?
Hillary loaned him that plane.
Enough already. Leave Hillary out of this. President Obama is safe that's the important thing.
It was Bush's fault. There, does that make you happy you sorry excuse for a human being.
You have got to be kidding!
Agreed. EVERYTHING is Bush's fault.
Happy?
Big time fail.
The ghost of R on brown came underneath the p lane and saved it.
Funny how there is no mention that this was Hillary's p lane that she loaned to Obama after conceding the election. Funny how the word of the secret service who lied to us so often is just taken for granted.
No, Hillary chartered it from Midwest, just like the Obama campaign did. Apparently it's also frequently chartered by major league sports teams-- perhaps one of the teams was mad at him?
I think there's a leak in your tinfoil.
I read the articles. Hillary couldn't afford it anymore and offered it to him.
I think you're confusing the Secret Service with the CIA. You really ought to pay more attention in your RNC tro//-training sessions, so you don't make embarrassing mistakes like that.
Please. Like they are not connected and don't ever call me a Republican again.
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First Posted: 07-10-09 11:18 PM | Updated: 08-10-09 05:12 AM