Discussion: Air Force Announces Boeing 747-8 Will Be Next Air Force One

system1 · January 28, 2015, 9:55pm

Discussion for article #232611

austin_dave · January 28, 2015, 10:03pm

Marine One is cooler, to me.
http://s14.postimg.org/61tg7t3ep/Presidential_Helicopter_Marine_one.jpg

antisachetdethe · January 28, 2015, 10:07pm

They should go retro. Bring back the Columbine II

fargo116 · January 28, 2015, 10:23pm

Actually here’s what the House budgeted money for:

“What’s that ni(CLANG!) got to fly for?”

robertbrk · January 28, 2015, 10:24pm

Actually, that looks like the House GOP caucus.

twowolves · January 28, 2015, 10:31pm

220 tons of aircraft [at takeoff weight]. One very large bird.

ncsteve · January 28, 2015, 10:34pm

Missionized?

The MIC: verbizing our nation’s nouns for freedom since 1947.

doremus_jessup · January 28, 2015, 10:36pm

when fully missionized, meets the necessary capabilities established to execute the presidential support mission

<snicker>

doremus_jessup · January 28, 2015, 10:38pm

This will drive the right wingers further towards insanity.

ncsteve · January 28, 2015, 10:42pm

I’m convinced they started developing their own language as a defensive mechanism intended to stun Congressional committees into a torpid state of baffled agreement and now they worry that anyone who speaks clearly will end up being the one who always gets summoned to testify.

bdtex · January 28, 2015, 10:47pm

That’s some funny Shiite right there.

sniffit · January 28, 2015, 10:48pm

Can’t wait for one of the Teatrolls to try to weaponize this into Obama looking for a new pimpin’ AF1 for going on expensive vacations over the next two years (no doubt completely ignoring that it’s probably gong to take at least two years to build the thing). I mean, we all know that the only mode of transportation the GOP/Teatrolls think Obama should have is this:

fargo116 · January 28, 2015, 10:51pm

Last try

At last. The Republican Air Force One

antisachetdethe · January 28, 2015, 11:41pm

Palin’s “Teabagger One”

antisachetdethe · January 28, 2015, 11:57pm

Huckabee’s Redneck One, “The Frying Squirrel”

lestatdelc · January 29, 2015, 12:18am

Hey, at least they didn’t ‘synergies’ something in that mess.

lestatdelc · January 29, 2015, 12:20am

I think it started when they changed the name of the Department form “War Department” to"Department of Defense".

My favorite govspeak is the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions adoption of the term for a nuclear power plant exploding as an “energetic disassembly”.

bradbennett · January 29, 2015, 12:23am

Well, it is a short trip. Shouldn’t take long at all!

sonsofares · January 29, 2015, 1:04am

I was just about to say, I’m sure we’ll start seeing “Michelle Obama demands new plane be covered in diamonds!” or some such thing.

Diogenes67 · January 29, 2015, 1:28am

I’ve heard that she wants a vegetable garden in the lower cargo bay, behind the commo gear.