Exclusive: White House aides insisted F-22 be removed from Obama speech venue

[thundley4]

When President Obama spoke to troops at Alaska's Elmendorf Air Force Base last month, the unit there parked a shiny new F-22 fighter plane in the hanger. But according to multiple sources, White House aides demanded the plane be changed to an older F-15 fighter because they didn't want Obama speaking in front of the F-22, a controversial program he fought hard to end.

"White House aides actually made them remove the F-22-said they would not allow POTUS to be pictured with the F-22 in any way, shape, or form," one source close to the unit relayed.

Stephen Lee, a public affairs officer at Elmendorf, confirmed to The Cable that the F-22 was parked in the hanger and then was replaced by an F-15 at the White House's behest.

The airmen there took offense to the Obama aides' demand, sources told The Cable, seeing it as a slight to the folks who are operating the F-22 proudly every day. They also expressed bewilderment that the White House staff would even care so much as to make an issue out of the fact that the F-22 was placed in the hanger with the president.
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"It's one thing to be against further production; quite another to slight the folks who are flying them in the operational world," one source said, adding that "the F-15 pictured was put into service roughly around the same period when Obama graduated from college. It's vintage."

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Who cares about the military,  the photo op/speech was to stroke Lord Zero's ego.

[RightCoast]

I'll take that '22 if zero don't want it.

[TheSarge]

This WH has control freak issues unlike any administration we've ever seen.  It's a continuation and magnification of what we read about how his press folks controlled and framed what and how the media reported on him during the campaign.

Crap like this is NOT the way to convince folks in the military that he has their best interest at heart or that he has their back.

[JohnnyReb]

This WH has control freak issues unlike any administration we've ever seen.  It's a continuation and magnification of what we read about how his press folks controlled and framed what and how the media reported on him during the campaign.

Crap like this is NOT the way to convince folks in the military that he has their best interest at heart or that he has their back.

Other than the very dumbest of the DUmmies, who has ever had the impression that he gave a sh*t about the military.

[Crazy Horse]

Nothing they do suprises me at all.

I guess that change he talkd about so much was just crap.............here you have a politician that says he something new, yet with this he replaces th newest, unprecedented fighter with the same old fighter that has been around for a long time.

Again he goes with the same ole same ole...........instead of the new breath of fresh air change

[Freeper]

Hell they should have put an old world war one plane in the hanger if Obama has his way that's what he will take the military back too.