Obama‘s Marine One Forced to Land Due to ’Bad Weather’ in…Good Weather?
- Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:10pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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In a bizarre maneuver, President Obama’s short flight on Marine One to Camp David Friday afternoon was reportedly diverted due to what White House press secretary Jay Carney tells ABC News was a “bad weather call.”
The odd part is that, according to Accuweather.com, there was no precipitation across the entire region, including Camp David.
Light winds blew from the southeast at 10mph with mostly cloudy skies and temperatures in the mid-70′s.
ABC reports that the flight was diverted to an undisclosed landing near Frederick, Maryland and a motorcade drove Obama to nearby Camp David.
Carney claims the weather call was made before Obama and his younger daughter Sasha boarded the aircraft.
ABC adds:
Carney says they have now arrived safely at Camp David. It remains unexplained why the President would be allowed to board Marine One knowing that the landing site on the mountain was experiencing weather making a landing difficult.
The press first learned of the diversion when wire agency still photographers, who traditionally stand by at Camp David for news coverage in case of an emergency, were told by the military at the mountain top Marine base that the President would be motorcading.
The White House press office did not inform the daily travel pool which remains at the White House and does not make the helicopter trip to Camp David. The pool would normally accompany any bad weather motorcade to the retreat.
But CBS News reporter Mark Knoller has a somewhat different account:
White House spokesman Josh Earnest would tell reporters later that “a bad weather call” had been made about 20 minutes before the president and his daughter took off from the South Lawn of the White House.
It had been decided that Marine One could safely fly the president to Frederick, and the Secret Service had motorcade vehicles ready there to drive him the rest of the way.
Interestingly, Earnest said Mr. Obama had not been informed of the plan until he was aboard Marine One.
The arrangement spared Mr. Obama a drive out of Washington in pre-holiday traffic as the nation’s capital began emptying out for the end-of-summer Labor Day Weekend.
Even with a police escort, the ride can take two hours or longer.
Flying to Frederick spared him and Sasha about 90 minutes on the road.
What then, could be the real reason behind the flight’s diversion?
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Comments (237)
Whostolemypig
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:55pmHe thinks a cloudy mind is a weather event.
Report Post »Barb1954
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:49pmSo, what’s in Frederick, Maryland? A HOSPITAL? Maybe he’s FINALLY CRACKED UP!
Report Post »POdinWV
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:19pmMost probable Ft. Detrick as the chosen landing spot. Probably had to make a PX run, perhaps the Commissary. Maybe check in with the spooky scientists in those spooky buildings.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:20pm.
Report Post »Had to land and pick up Kal Penn
Elena2010
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:37pmProbably a golf course he hasn’t played yet…
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:46pmSecret meeting with George Soros?
Report Post »melissa3080
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 12:53amI think he is picking up his long lost drunken uncle that was arrested a few days ago. Today Carey came out and said that the President was not aware of his uncle being here illegally or that he had been arrested. He assured us that he would get no special treatment. Yeah right! If he is estranged as Obama describes him in his book they why did his uncle jokingly ask to call the White House when he was arrested. His uncle also had a valid drivers license and a SS card. Wonder how an illegal alien was able to obtain that.
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 7:12amPicked up RuPaul.
Report Post »fitsgibbons
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:44pmI thought shoniqua and shenene always traveled together:)
Report Post »Marnin
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:44pmAnother vacation? nah, can’t be..no 5 star expensive hotels at Camp David…
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:43pmJust like Perry. His travel is none of our business.
Report Post »LinkedIn G
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:14pmWe’re not paying for Perry to travel … big difference.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:47pmPerry pays his own travel fees?
Report Post »rr8189
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 12:51amIt certainly is our business since he’s not picking up the tab!!!
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 1:11amWe haven’t heard a word about Moochell since before the cancellation of their vacation, may she had to stop in Frederick and and have a lobster claw removed from her butt crack.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:42pmSECRET SERVICE, are any of you guys watching his butt REAL AMERICANS, or have you all all sold out? You do not work for him in case you have forgotten. You work FOR AMERICA.
I pray to GOD IN HEAVEN that at least one of you if not ALL of you are taking notes, making files and backing them up because if he or georgieporgie or hillarybillarysnakeyes find out you are REAL AMERICANS, you probably won’t even have time to call home.
Please, somebody around that man and in OUR HOUSE, THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. be a REAL AMERICAN and stand up! Pretty soon now, or it’s going to be too late.
If you all have sold out, there are no words to express my utter and total disdain for you.
Report Post »UnPlugged Ed
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:48pmWTF are you talking about?….you scare me.
Report Post »squeaker
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:00pm@ kickagrandma — I agree with you… Someone finally said it..!!! Thanks…
Report Post »Tyr
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:06pmHe is saying that the Secret Service need to arrest his Socialist/Marxist ass and all his Communist buddies and deliver them to the nearest West Virgina jailhouse for safe keeping until treason charges can be filed with the new Attorney General (new, because Holder will be with them) What are you ignorant?
Report Post »coloradolifer
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:08pmUnplugged, you must be unplugged from reality if you don’t understand Kickagrandma. Seriously, man. Pay attention!
Report Post »WhoIsTheCoon
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:18pmGet some mental drugs. You crackpot.
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:19pm‘NDHDIUBGUGTRUCG…!‘ Did Televangelist Juanita Bynum ’Type in Tongues’ on Facebook?
For a minute there I thought I was still on this Blaze story….
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:35pm@kickgrandma You’re correct the secret service took an oath to defend the constitution against all enemies foreign & domestic,Obama is an enemy of the constitution and should be impeached,almost everything he‘s done is unconstitutional and harmful to America ie the depression that’s coming soon.
Report Post »Nick84
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 12:53amPROGRESSIVESLAYER
What has he done specifically that is unconstitutional in your opinion?
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 3:41amlike is ignoring congress re Libya and having his PRESS SEC SAYING HE COULD BY PASS CONGRESS IF HE SO WANTED pulease!
Report Post »politicaljules
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 4:00amWhy do you think the wapo is trying their best to discredit the CIA and stir public out rage about them. Obama has gone after the CIA too. They are an intelligence gathering organization and the do their job well.
Your outrage is misguided.
Report Post »Cat
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 6:18amKICKAGRANDMA
Agreed …
Think about this people
Here are your viewing choices for Thursday night, September 8, 2011;
Watch one millionaire the taxpayers are forced to pay for tell you how you will play his game in a stadium the taxpayers are forced to paid for filled with individuals the taxpayers are forced to pay for.
Watch a game played by millionaires on two teams owned by billionaires in a stadium owned by the taxpayers.
Turn the TV off and watch your kids learn something as you teach them about freedom.
Living too close to Cuba is an eye opener …
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:42pmIF this is true, and that’s a BIG IF, then he’s sounding more like the Princess and the Pea with each passing day….
Report Post »geonj
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:37pmis kid probably wanted a burger and fires, since mommy wasn’t there.
Report Post »LinkedIn G
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:18pmIf mommy is around … Nobody gets burgers and fries. Michelle didn’t get those shoulders by sharing food.
Report Post »Devil Dog 7175
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:20pmGetting a DOUBLE order of fries for Moochell, she has to feed that arse….
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:37pmCarney can’t even tell the truth about the weather! How does he get up each day and look himself in the mirror?
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:49pm@GRANDOF5~~~ he has hillary’s picture pasted on his mirror! ; )
Report Post »squeaker
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:02pmHe wears Foggles
Report Post »jackbauer
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 9:16pmYou can’t blame Carney! He went to the Goober Gibbs school of press manipulation. All Carney has to do is say what Gibbs would have said, “I’m not a weatherman.”
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:37pmBS! This sounds like another secret meeting with Soros…just like his daughters ball game he never made it to, which game never happened, in the dark of the night. I can see his shiney white teeth and eyeballs glowing in the dark as he creeps around town with his cloak and daggar.
Report Post »The Divided States of America
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:33pmWhen mother nature is tracking you down ..earthquakes, hurricanes…and now this personally ? .there’s gotta be a message he better pick up on…WAKE UP YOMMAMA AND RESIGN !!!
Report Post »IAMNOTKNOWING
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:47pmFather God is saying, …. “Yo! d*ckhead. You had best not NOT exercise your Veto vote @ the U.N. later this month, denying so-called Palestinians & thus “dividing Israel and Jerusalem,” …. or else the next one’s going straight up your butt!” ;D
Actually.. I apologize for my ‘verbage’ on the paraphrase. not.
Report Post »RedHarley
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:33pmHow did they get the motorcade vehicles to the landing site so quickly ???
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:48pmToo many questions, not enough answers………….EVER with this administration!
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:59pmThey probably just have a couple hundred cruising around “just in case”. You duplicate, double, redundant, spares and a few more just to make sure that we all love mother earth!
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:11pmSecrete Meeting with Puppet Master’s….
Report Post »IAMNOTKNOWING
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:50pmToo easy, Folks.
He didn‘t want to face the camera’s at the regular landing site so he diverted and took the ride in “the back way.”
Even this phony couldn’t fake a smile after all the good news happening this week.
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:16pmWell planned meeting…exchange of information and/or goodies…
and OUR Secret Service knows….just like the bees know….
Report Post »db321
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:32pmHe had to wait for his ass to catch up – it’s been dragging lately.
Report Post »squeaker
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:17pmYou talkin about muchelle…..???? ….:) Yup I heard she’s been in drag lately…:) I mean dragging
Report Post »Oldbutnotsenile
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:25pmIn answer to the question: How did the motorcade get there that fast. It is a fact that he he has doubled the fleet from 218 limos, which he inherited from Bush, added a few making his fleet of limos now totaling 458, so he probably had them there all along, as who is going to miss a few limos here or there.
Report Post »Oldbutnotsenile
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:27pmNone of my replies are being posted this evening.
Report Post »sle
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:30pmwonder who will be blamed for this one, everybody except the fools running this white house. oops, i forgot it must have been bush or the tea party! white house fools!
Report Post »redbone007
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:27pmCamp David, now he on vacation again?
Report Post »sharone
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:36pmI hear he’s NOT at Camp David????
Report Post »fitsgibbons
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:42pmMy first thought,exactly.
Report Post »redbone007
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:51pm‘Carney says they have now arrived safely at Camp David’
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:22pmMeeting with Puppet Master’s….
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:32pmCarney said “he arrived at Camp Davis”. That settles it! He MUST be there(wink, wink).
Report Post »Tundra4x4
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:49pmThe flies (F-15E’s) are circling the pile of Ocrap at Camp David! At least one small aircraft violated the airspace and got to meet some new an exciting folks.
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:10pmAnd WHO did he pick up….
Report Post »at that unannounced diverted landing site?
Susie
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:27pmJust a scheduled Soros stop.
Report Post »Natural Born Citizen
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:26pmAgain Mooschelle refuses to carpool?
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:00pmSokay,
Report Post »They fire up three of them anyway!
squeaker
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:04pmshe has her a$$ transported on a VERY Large Cargo plane
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:16pmBet her Staff of 22 wished she went with hubby, bad weekend fot them..
Report Post »squeaker
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:43pmanother weekend with a DRUNK and ANGRY Muchelle….
Report Post »dal743
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:23pmThis whole administration and their actions are beginning to be almost laughable if it wasn’t so scary!!!!
Report Post »Steverino
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:22pmHe had to pick up a special impromptu guest along the way.
Report Post »His initials are GS, and his name rhymes with Orge Oros.
Steve
eubanksray
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:35pmfunny
Report Post »Infidel49
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:21pmOh BS. the pres needed a pack of smokes while the phony healthnut was out shopping.
Report Post »RedHarley
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:30pmAgreed, Barack needed smokes and a Slurpee, and the local convenience store wouldn’t let them land Marine One in the parking lot.
Report Post »squeaker
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:10pmshopping…..??? Did you mean to say GRAZING…
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:20pmme thinks something is up or is it down. BO says always keep them guessing.
Report Post »go2gym
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:19pmSo Jay Carney lied. Anything new to report?
Report Post »americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:28pmPit stop. Needed some ice cream for Sasha.
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:16pmCould it be that someone came to see him in the limo?
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 11:19pmThat seems about like his modus operandi….”transparency.”
Report Post »EP46
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 4:20amMaybe to pick-up Larry Sinclair…….the Minnesota man who claims he took cocaine in 1999 with obama and participated in homosexual acts with him.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:16pmOh great, must be the Bilderbergs. Or was it the Illuminati?
Report Post »Maxim Crux
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:39pmYep!
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 10:16pmIt was a bad case of the runs. His secret service codename is “Renegade”. I can hear the transmissions “Renegade is running. Repeat. Renegade is running.”
Report Post »olehawk
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:15pmAt first I thought he landed in Cuba,,,,to meet up with his cronies,,,
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