Memo to PE Obama: Do not let shrub fly home to Texas on Air Force One.

[totodeinhere]

He will fly to Texas after Obama's inauguration most likely on the same jet but it will no longer be designated as Air Force One, which is reserved for a plane carrying the president.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5091V020090110?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true

He does not deserve the honor of riding home on Air Force One. (It won't be called that when he flies to Texas after the inauguration, but it will be the same plane.) You Mr. Obama will have the authority to deny him that honor. shrub deserves no honors. Make him slink back to Texas aboard a commercial airliner. Let him be humiliated. He deserves it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. It would be good payback for the Blair House bullshit.

[Pierre.Smooth]

32. I agree.

If I were a member, and not a lurker, I would have posted the same post. Minus the profanity. But good post.

[ret5hd]

2. A Southwest flight into Love Field...make him empty his pockets, remove his belt and shoes, etc.

[AyanEva]

41. ...

And PLEASE let someone have a camera handy when this happens! XDDD

I would LOL for years.

[yy4me]

46. How about a full body scan? It would show no brain, and

probably a small flask-oops, never mind the flask, that would have to be emptied into the basket with the shoes.

[SoCalDem]

3. Maybe he already got them some $49-$99 tickets from Southwest

There's that 14-day advance purchase, but he may have gotten them last week :evilgrin:

[lonestarnot]

4. He was not supposed to set ass on it again. WTF!

[Pirate Smile]

9. It wont be Air Force One at that time because the President wont be on it.

Obama will be the President by that time.

[totodeinhere]

13. Yes, I mentioned that in my OP. But it will probably be the same plane. n/t

[Turbineguy]

5. It would be a small and

pointless gesture if Obama does and the RW will have a field day with it.

[totodeinhere]

8. Small gesture, yes. Pointless gesture, no. n/t

[wndycty]

6. For the love of God!

Give it up already.

[Pirate Smile]

10. More made-up hoops for Obama to jump through.

I thought we were supposed to be "reality based". Sometimes it doesn't seem like it on DU anymore.

[high density]

53. No kidding

Even Nixon flew home on one of the presidential jets, and the call sign was changed mid-flight after Ford was sworn in.

[Pirate Smile]

7. You know Obama isn't going to do that, right?

[totodeinhere]

11. Probably not, but I can ask him to. After all, he has solicited input from the American people.

I'm one of the people. That's my input.

[Pirate Smile]

15. OK

:)

[onenote]

30. yep he has. And I'm sure he gets all sort of stupid suggestions.

Yours is probably just one of many bad ideas being offered up to him.

[Bake]

49. Yep. He's keepin' it cool.

Bake

[BattyDem]

12. Book him on JetBlue

What? JetBlue doesn't fly to Dallas? Oops! :evilgrin:



edited: typo :blush:

[totodeinhere]

16. Book him on JetBlue anyway.

If we're lucky it might be one of those JetBlue flights that sits on the runway for nine hours.

[BattyDem]

17. They fly to Houston.

He can drive the rest of the way.

[opihimoimoi]

14. GREYHOUND BUS for Bush......let him use the BUS....the GOP can throw him under it as they near Texas

[madamesilverspurs]

23. Back of the bus,

next to the nasty bathroom with the door that doesn't latch. And his window is stuck shut. And the air conditioner is broken. And the guy sitting in front of him had chili and onion rings for lunch.

[opihimoimoi]

25. OHHHH How WE WISH.....what a picture...LOL...chili for lunch...I love it

:beer:

[MaineDem]

18. This is ridiculous

I detest Bush as much as anyone but stopping this tradition would be petty and vindictive.

[totodeinhere]

19. Ok, if he must take Air Force One, divert it to The Hague.

That's where he belongs, in the same cell that Milosevic had.

[MaineDem]

21. I can't argue with that. n/t

[Sebastian Doyle]

28. Now if only we had Captain Ray Steele of the "Left Behind" book/movie series.

That guy can fly the fucking Antichrist all over the planet with out old 666 ever realizing his pilot's working for the other team. And Nicolae Carpathia is a hell of a lot smarter of a Satanic dictator than Chimpy. There must be a pilot somewhere who can pull this off.

[Franks Wild Years]

26. Not to mention it guarantees a GOP 2012 win...

...over an Obama they could immediately tag as a petty, vindictive partisan, effectively castrating him politically in the embryonic stages of his Presidency, offering the perfect excuse to filibuster every single bill he sets forward.

[rucky]

20. Or just toss him out over Crawford.

With a lead parachute

[windbreeze]

29. you were reading my mind....

when I read the thread title I thought...sure, let him take it...then when it gets over Texas, chuck him out...let him walk home from wherever he happens to land...wb

[elocs]

22. Wouldn't it be nice if everyone in life got what they deserved

since so many get what they do not deserve? I think that Obama has way too much class to ever take your suggestion.

[RamboLiberal]

24. Would be petty and give the RW bloviators a talking point

I for one will be glad to see that 747 hauling Chimpy's butt back to Crawford. Good riddance.

[Arkana]

27. Or perhaps Obama could devote himself to less petty shit, you know,

like FIXING THE FUCKING MESS BUSH MADE.

Seriously, what else do we do? Burn down his new Dallas house to prove a point?

[moriah]

31. While I can definitely see the appeal of ...

... letting Bush get a taste of what his department of Homeland Stupidity has turned air travel into for the rest of us, I don't think Obama would go for this idea.

Why not?

Because he is trying to show that he is a different kind of person, and will have a different kind of administration. When he leaves office, there will be no missing W key incidents, or other conduct unbecoming of a President -- nor will there be when he enters office.

[Skip Intro]

33. Prosecute him for his crimes! I could give a fuck about what plane he uses to fly home. nt

[Adelante]

34. Obama is not known to be an ill-mannered boor

I am most certain what you wish will never happen.

[Political Tiger]

35. Shrub will leave in the helicopter

Like Nixon did....and I think all departing presidents do.

[Arkansas Granny]

36. You can take vindictiveness too far. Even Nixon was allowed to fly Air Force One back

to California after his resignation. Of course, Bush does not deserve the honor, but to deny it to him would show a meanness of spirit and I don't believe Obama wants to start his Presidency in that way.

09-Aug-74: Flew Nixon on his last flight as president from Andrews AFB to El Toro Maine Air Station near Los Angeles. Took off from as Air Force One and changed its call sign to SAM 27000 over Jefferson City, Missouri after Ford was sworn in to office.

http://www.707sim.com/air-force-one.html

[whistler162]

37. Corrected memo to PE Obama... Be petty and vindictive

to the former President just like he was!

[ecstatic]

38. Maybe he can say the plane is booked?

:shrug: Just like the Blair House allegedly was...

[salguine]

39. I think a Greyhound ticket would be better.

[Beacool]

40. some of you need to learn about protocol.

Bush will be accorded the respect the office deserves, just like any other president who left office. Asking for Obama to change the process is petty and immature.

:eyes:

[totodeinhere]

43. So protocol even applies to war criminals?

Due to his actions over the past eight years, there is no respect left in that office. Therefore shrub does not deserve to be treated with respect.

One of Obama's biggest tasks will be restoring respect to that office, and I believe he will.

[Beacool]

44. He hasn't, nor will he, be indicted on anything.

Bush and Cheney will not be indicted. It'll be just like after Watergate, deemed not to be good for the nation, etc., etc.

:eyes:

[yy4me]

47. We all know about protocol, tradition and all that but these

comments are fun. A little wishful thinking. Obama has far too much class to do any of it.
We're just having some fun.

[Beacool]

52. Yeah, I know about wishful thinking...........

:7

[Jennicut]

42. Obama is above this crap. Only Rethugs are petty, vindictive, and immature.

[scheming daemons]

45. Obama is not as petty and immature as you are.....

...he's a leader.

Thanks g-d.

[WI_DEM]

48. He won't do it. It's not Obama's style and besides no other president who could use AA 1

was deprived it to carry them home after leaving office.

[lies and propaganda]

50. No Blair House - no big airplaine rides for Junior

wahhhhhh, later dbag!

[leftynyc]

51. I remember the right wingers

saying the same crap about Bill Clinton because he was impeached. I doubt PE Obama is that petty.

[ieoeja]

54. Wonder what happened to the jet he flew into Washington on?

I assume once Enron went belly-up, their jet was sold off. Anyone know who bought it?

[Hawkowl]

55. Can we at least lose his luggage?

Good manners may demand we send off shrub in a govt. plane but can't we at least lose his luggage? Maybe send him in one of the smallest 8 passenger Beech jets instead of the giganticus 747? Perhaps even take his toothpaste and mouthwash away?

[TheKentuckian]

56. To this OP, I can only say to pick your battles

This is an unwise thing to go to burn political capital on.