'It's hard to believe that CBS actually said something that wasn't flattering to this
so-called President!

Air Force One:

This is from Mark Knoller of CBS.
The pilots and crew of Air Force One are flying more hours than a rookie on a beer
run.

They are tired of it too, and are adding more crew to Air Force-1, - I know this for a fact because I'm one of the instructors that trains the crews. Our company (Atlas Air)
has had the Air Force-1 and E-4 contract for over two years and I've been doing it for
about 8 months now.

Last year (2010) Obama flew in Air Force One 172 times, almost every other day.
White House officials have been telling reporters in recent days that the Democrat
doesn't intend to hang around the White House quite so much in 2011.They explain
he wants to get out more around the country because, as everyone knows, that
midterm election shellacking on Nov. 2 had nothing to do with his health care bill,
over-spending or other policies, and everything to do with Obama's not adequately
explaining himself to his countrymen and women.

And with only 673 days remaining in Obama's never ending presidential campaign,
the incumbent's travel pace will not likely slacken. At an Air Force-estimated cost of
$181,757 per flight HOUR (not to mention the additional travel costs of Marine One,
Secret Service, logistics and local police overtime), that's a lot of frequent flier dollars going into Obama's carbon footprint.

$80 Million every time it lands & takes off.

We are privy to some of these numbers thanks to CBS' Mark Knoller, a bearded
national treasure trove of presidential stats. According to Knoller's copious notes,
during the last year, Obama made 65 domestic trips over 104 days, and six trips to
eight countries over 22 days. Not counting six vacation trips over 32 days. He took
196 helicopter trips, signed 203 pieces of legislation and squeezed in 29 rounds of
left-handed golf.

Obama last year gave 491 speeches, remarks or statements. That's more talking than
goes on in some entire families, at least from fatherly mouths. In fact, even including
the 24 days of 2010 that we never saw Obama in public, his speaking works out to
about one official utterance every 11 waking hours. Aides indicate the "Real Good
Talker" believes we need more.

Related: Obama spends nearly half his presidency outside Washington, plans to
travel more.

Related: Vacationer-in-Chief Spends $1.75 Million to Visit Hawaiian Chums.
Obama has spent over $100 million taxpayer dollars flying around in Air Force One,
and probably another $100 million on his entourage.

Keep in mind there are always two AF-1's. For example when he comes to Tucson there is an AF-1 stationed at the ready at Luke AFB in PHX and when he goes to PHX there is one at Davis Monthan AFB. and this occurs everywhere the president goes.

"...At an Air Force-estimated cost of $181,757 per flight HOUR..."
Does that figure refect the cost of the decoy or back up AF1? I think not, so...I guess what...We double it!!

Solution, take the freaking keys away from him then tell him they're waiting on back ordered Chinese mfg.Turbin intake filters, shouldn't have a hard time thanks to G.E. outsourcing to China.

And don't forget his SuperDuper limo, and all the attack SUV's his entourage requires for protecting his goat smelling behind.

oh yeah, THIS president is just so much more extravagent than our past,,,,,,wait a minute,,, I seem to recall similar grief under the very last president we had,,,,


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/17/politics/main4731488.shtml



but maybe this is more exceptional because the FUEL costs more,,,

Contrary to what the e-mail about Obama's use of Air Force One suggests, Mark Knoller of CBS News is not the author of this e-mail. The portion of the e-mail beginning with the line, "Last year Obama flew in Air Force One 172 times, almost every other day," through the line, "Aides indicate the 'Real Good Talker' believes we need more," was written by Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times. Malcolm plucked several figures from Knoller's piece, which was titled "Obama's 2010: By the Numbers," for his own blog post titled "Obama and Air Force One: It's good to have a 747." Everything else about the Atlas Air training crew and the costs to taxpayers, which we'll get to later, was added by the anonymous author of this e-mail, who lifted Malcolm's piece.

It is true that Knoller originally reported in his 2010 year-end article that Obama took 172 flights on Air Force One in the second year of his presidency. And that does work out to be almost one flight every other day, as Malcolm wrote in his own blog post.

We checked with the U.S. Air Force's 89th Airlift Wing, which oversees the president's travel on Air Force One, to see what it had for the number of flights taken by Obama last year. The statistics the 89th Airlift Wing provided to us show that the president took 72 total "missions" and 177 total "sorties" in 2010. Missions are the number of trips the president took from Andrews Air Force Base and back, whereas sorties represent the number of individual flights in a mission.



from factcheck.org

I wouldnn't expect anything less from the vacationer in chief.

Not to mention the cargo planes that follow AF1 and the fighter escorts.