President Bush with members of the Presidential Air Group who worked on refitting one of the presidential aircrafts making its first flight with the president today. Photo by Mandel Ngan, AFP/Getty Images
by Mark Silva
Two Boeing 747s serve the president as Air Force One, and one of them, newly retrofitted inside, carried the president to Florida today, with Bush bound for Texas for the weekend.
Well over 100 members of the Presidential Air Group, the Air Force crew that staffs the presidential aircraft, were on hand early this morning at Andrews Air Force base to greet the president and pose for a photo-op. The White House says most of the changes are not readily apparent to the eye. But inside, some new creature comforts have appeared in the cabin.
In the press cabin, where one video screen once served the traveling press pool, there now are two. Each seat now holds its own touch-pad controls for music or film.
And now, it's Movies on Demand, the traveling pool reports today. Selections on this day included A Fish Called Wanda, O Brother Where Art Thou, Oceans 11, Oceans 13, Napolean Dynamite, Meet the Parents, Blades of Glory and more -- though the selection is made with a switch on the wall. And there are ports for earphones, to tune it all out.
The first arrival: Bush landed at St. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport today for a state party fundraiser at the home of a Republican Party donor, Brent Sembler. This was Bush's first trip aboard the retrofitted Air Force One. Photo by Brian Blanco/Bradenton Herald/MCT
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Comments
Just what Bush needs for a new round of photo-ops in New Orleans.
Posted by: John Chuckman, Toronto, Canada | October 12, 2007 12:14 PM
John Chuckman, what do you care, He's OUR president. Besides, they probably had to replace the towels after Billary stole them all.
Posted by: Anonymous | October 12, 2007 12:28 PM
Mark-
Did they have Animal House as an option? After all he is President Blutarsky.
Posted by: AJF | October 12, 2007 12:57 PM
More wasted tax dollars, we should make the Decider Guy fly around in a two seat Cessna, it's more on par with his job perfomance.
Posted by: John E | October 12, 2007 1:32 PM
Updated remake of "A Fish Called Wanda".
Otto: You know what your problem is, Archie. You don't like winners.
Archie: Winners? Like the terrorists in Iraq?
Otto: Shut up, we did not lose Iraq. It was a tie.
Archie: Oh no, they kicked your behind's real good!!
Posted by: anonymous | October 12, 2007 1:46 PM
Anonymous:
It's been 7 years since Bill Clinton left office - don't you think that the towels that were "allegedly" stolen would be replaced by now?
Or do you have proof that that was done? Or is your post just like the one that says they removed all the W's from the keyboards - another right wing urban legend.
Posted by: BobinATL | October 12, 2007 2:53 PM
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Besides, they probably had to replace the towels after Billary stole them all.
Posted by: Anonymous | October 12, 2007 12:28 PM
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Just like the Repugnicans alleged that all of the White House computer keyboards had the "W" key removed before Shrub took office?
Just another Repugnican lie.
Posted by: BC | October 12, 2007 3:41 PM
A Fish Called Wanda Remake- Part 2
Laura: Aristotle was not Belgian, the principle of Buddhism is not "every man for himself," and the London Underground is not a political movement! Those are all mistakes, George. I looked them up.
Posted by: Anonymous | October 12, 2007 3:44 PM
What ever happened to thier precious cat, "boots"? they sold it to a chinese buffet in New York for $25.00!
Posted by: GWB | October 12, 2007 3:48 PM
BC:
GMTA!!!
Posted by: BobinATL | October 12, 2007 3:49 PM
With their bare faces hanging out for all to see, and with no apparent shame at all, some politicos OK'ed the expenditure of these millions of dollars on this Poosie Palace in the Sky for Bush II and his cronies while our troops in Iraq struggle on and die with inferior armour plating on their Humvees. Reason ? No money in the defense budget.
This administration has shown thru its ineptitude and incompetence that its Republiscum Party is incapable of governing anymore; unable to bear the scrutiny of the citizens of the land.
They will be sounded out en masse come November 2008...every statehouse and our Nation's Capitol will, at long last, be clean of the stink of Republishit "family values."
"Yes Ma'am, Madame President Clinton!"
Posted by: Plowhandle | October 12, 2007 5:44 PM
Alt Caption 1;
'Increase the amperage on the nut sac to five.'
Alt Caption 2;
'Let them drive cars'.
Posted by: C.Morris | October 12, 2007 7:00 PM