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Oh please...give me a freaking break. Anything to keep him out of having to actually talk about issues. I also heard his toast was slightly burnt..hrmmm...better get people's tax dollars to work!

iq0

Who cares?

Barack Obama has run an admirable campaign based on HOPE and CHANGE. A campaign that promises the American people a new level of transparency.

So why won't he show the public his birth certificate?

http://www.birthcertificatenow.com/

You gotta be kidding me. So when they find out there was nothing wrong and no foul play, do I get my tax dollars back that they used to investigate this crap?

Uh-your post will probably be deleted soon as the networks love this guy.

I say better safe than sorry, and am glad investigators are on it. We need this candidate safe and sound. We have a country to fix.

I once asked a flight attendant, "what was her favorite plane to fly in." She said it was the MD-80 because of it's smooth operation and quieter cabin for the plane's smaller size (engines affixed near the tail, slightly away from the fueselage.)

Sad to read the article about these planes since they were preferred flying once upon a time.

Posted by: erikiq0 | Jul 7, 2008 4:10:36 PM

Who cares?

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You did.

You've got to be kidding me.. The NTSB is going to "investigate" this..

Who wants to bet that the Obama campaign was screaming to NTSB that Obama's life was in danger because of this.

A very MINOR issue occured in flight..and the pilots took immediate corrective action to resolve the problem..in other words..they did what they were TRAINED to do.

No one was in danger..no lives were threatened.

But now..what you have..is a mountain being made out of a molehill with our tax dollars.

THIS is not what the FEDS should be investigating when it comes to OBAMA.

What issues are you referring to erikiq0? let us know what we ought to know about.

one hour from chicago , Ill to charlot , NC is about the area over indianapolis !!!!! to land in St.louis is 260 Miles west of rout !!!! isnt that strange ?

Was that Hillary servicing tha lane prior to takeoff?

JUST WHAT HE NEEDS SOMETHING ELSE TO BLAME ON RACISM!!!! HIS WHINEY ASS NEEDS TO SHUT UP!

Well its easy to see who is republican and who is democrat.. haha.

Was there an AWACS flying in the vicinity? Maybe it tried to take remote control of Obama's plane?

HMMMMMMMmm there are some smart people here! Is there anything Obama won't do for a soundbite? Ha. And yes, someone needs to be following the money on him as well. His report os 4x the net worth of either Clinton and McCain..so where did he get it? He started out dirt poor and he isn't all that old???

HIlliary! you ol' dog you! How did you manage to do that to poor Obama's plane? ;-)

Here is a site to view Obama's birth certificate:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/birthcert

Here is a site to view Obama's birth certificate:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/birthcert

It's a Karl Rove plot!!!!

With the Obama "money machine" in full swing why doesn't he step up his airplane game from "some of the oldest aircraft that U.S. airlines are flying today." I'm sure campaign contributors would be more than willing to contribute to oh say, their candidate's plane not crashing...

Gosh, that creep will do anything for attention.

That Obama... he's becoming a drama queen! Seems something is happening to him all the time.

Now if ABC News can just investigate LEGITIMATE campaign issues... like Obama's birth records, Obama's sweetheart home loan deal, Obama's voting record, Obama's racism, Obama's ties with racists, Obama's ties with Chicago corruption, etc, etc.

But of course, that's not what ABC does. ABC News would much rather keep the focus off these things.

TexGEOas

Re: Why won't Barack show is Birth Certificate?? Um he has. Please go to the following page:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/birthcert

hmmmmm, if Obama goes would Hilliary be next in line for the nomination @ the DNC. Afterall, she did throw out a few assination references before she crashed and burned.

Matt Hosford, Kate Barrett and Sunlen Miller:

It looks like that you do not have any engineering background whatsoever..

This sentence says it all..."MD-80s series planes are some of the oldest aircraft that U.S. airlines are flying today, and their age means they're more likely than newer planes to require maintenance. "

All items need periodic maintenance. If I had written the above sentence in any engineering and or maintenance report, my instructor or first line manager would have laughed me right out of his presence.

You three may want to stick to what you do best.. promoting leftist propaganda and calling it news.

'My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of
the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it.'

- Barack Obama

WOW! President? Really?

Hey People...

Anytime any airliner makes an unexpected landing or has to divert due to maintenance issues, the NTSB investigates - regardless of who is on the plane. Your tax dollars would be spent either way. You just know about it because there were a gaggle of journalists who were probably having an otherwise boring day.

Why are we talking about this, Obama needs to build a new forty-mile long particle accelerator, before it's too late!!

PS:
If you don't know about Barack Obama being a secret Muslim you is ignorant.

The end??????

Every single comment is borderline insane. From the insanity of the birth certificate to racism and the claim that the Obama people want this investigated. This is standard operating procedure when a plane has to be diverted for possible mechanical problems. It is a commercial jet that will be carrying regular passengers tomorrow. You people are all morons... Waste of tax dollars? I'm sure you would be saying that the government doesn't do enough if that MD-80 fell out of the sky, right? 2 months ago people were up in arms about poor inspection records of AA and DL MD-80s. Now there is an issue, it is investigated and people flip? Idiots...

As a pilot, I beg to disagree with some of the comments. Pressure on the control cables causing difficulty controlling the elevator has the potential for disaster. Thank God Barack is safe. The reason for the deployment of the slide should be investigated to be sure it was not sabotage.

this plane was flown by Bill and Hill's pilot. I guess he had 2nd thoughts and decided to land.

RG:
The birth certificate is irrelevant. The problem with Obama is that he is a hard core leftist and wants to move the US to the left. We all know what that means. The US goes away from their independent spirit and has the nanny government take care of them.

Some of these commenters are incredibly pathetic.
His birth certificate is public record. His net worth isn't a fraction of the McCains or the Clintons. Any current issue you want to ask him about, it's probably there on his website or in his last book. You people are entirely too easy to refute.
Sad sad people.

It was me, the ghost of democrat past.

I wish it crashed.

Why would he show his birth certificate? That's a piece of personal information that can lead to identity theft and fraud. Only an idiot would publicly post their bith certificate.

I see that the partisan hacks here can't see through their own narrow brand of Barack HUSSEIN! (OMFG! HIS NAME IS THE SAME AS THAT GUY FROM IRAK!!! OH NOES!!) Obama hate to take in the larger picture (woah! You mean the haters here don't have a broad well rounded world view? Shocking, I know.)

I would hope that a through investigation be done in the event of any sort of mishap like this involving a person who is one of only two people to be chosen as our next president (of course, I suppose some of you cynical types here are Bob Barr supporters. Good luck with that - you guys would last two weeks in Bob Barr's America - you'd blow you life savings on firearms and colloidal silver supplements before your own neighbors over run your outer defenses and breach your basement fall out shelter looking for cigarettes and beer...)

The fact is if it was any of you on that plane you'd not only be demanding some sort of official investigation, you'd also probably be lawyering up claiming some sort of emotional injury from the whole affair... The whole time you'd be claiming that some airline is just trying to walk all over you, the honest, hard working little guy who pays his bills on time and just wants whats his...

Oh but a presidential candidate - particularly one with a little D beside his name ... then, it's not big a deal, a waste of time, yadda yadda yadda.

Pulllezzz...

NoBama! NoBama! No Rookies In The White House!! NoBama!!

NoBama! NoBama! No Rookies In The White House!! NoBama!!

Anyone who believes that the NTSB should not investigate this matter is out of their mind. Certainly, the government would investigate this event if it occurred on Air Force One. The only difference between Air Force One and Obama's campaign plane is a matter of time.

Barack Obama has run an admirable campaign based on HOPE and CHANGE. A campaign that promises the American people a new level of transparency.

So why won't he show the public his birth certificate?

http://www.birthcertificatenow.com/

Posted by: Bart Hook | Jul 7, 2008 4:13:21 PM

It's a shame that people look for ways to demonaize this man.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/birthcert

Barack has already published his birth certificate a long long time ago:
http://images.dailykos.com/images/user/3/BO_Birth_Certificate.jpg

Has McCain published his yet? Does it really matter? have we become of country of smear addicted?

Folks stay focused on what matters for all of us Americans.

Let's all focus on the issues like: economy, gas preis, Iraq war, War in Afghanistan, health care, mortgage crisis, global warming.

Let's spend our time dicusssing what really matters for this nation.

When you buy cheap or rent cheap then you get cheap. Come on a small MD-80 you would think with all the funds He's getting maybe someting newer or a lot bigger??

Isy,

Obama is the new Nixon... not some radical

http://bannedindc.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/barack-obama-the-new-nixon/

What, Barak has to take an airplane to get somewhere? Why golly, I thought Superman can fly?! Heck, he said the day he secured the nomination that, "Today we stop the waters from rising." (Excuse me while I vomit.) Heck, if Jesus can float (Ascension) surly Barak the Magic Messiah can fly! Why does he need a plane – HE’S GOING TO SAVE THE WORLD!! (And raise your taxes, and make government bigger, and take away your gun rights, and make third trimester abortions legal, and cave in to the environmental lunatics, and ruin our health care system. But by-god it’s time for CHANGE!

one link from Drudge and all the chicken hawks come a' squawkin!

Just as long as you respect the office of the presidency and salute President Obama this january.

And don't worry. You STILL won't have to join the fight in the oil war that you wanted so badly.

Judging from the level of ignorance of some of the comments I would think you'd be the type of degenerates that would be flying Midwest on the ever popular route to Kansas City and would want them to check out your Greyhound with wings...

Zing!

guess his plane wasn't politically expedient.

now he'll have to change planes, just like he's changed so many of his political positions lately...

The problem with the internet is that total morons can post their biased and illconceived views. Just look at most of the above. Its hard to believe that these folks are permitted to vote.

"No rookies in the White House"
-Eric

That didn't bother you when you voted for bush boy, who still acts like a rookie.

Gars Luber | Jul 7, 2008 4:36:37 PM said:
"Just as long as you respect the office of the presidency and salute President Obama this january."

that is the difference between the left and the right - the right will always respect the office of the presidency, whereas the left has proven they can't respect...

Obama's changes are not going to be what you think they are. They will not
be what is best for the United States of
America.

did it ever occur to any of you complaining about our tax dollars being wasted or that Obama is being a cry-baby that the NTSB investigates every single issue that forces a plane to make an unexpected landing? I would think that everyone would be happy about this since most of us have flown in this type of plane - especially considering all the recent groundings of this very same kind of plane.

I am sure that the plane problem will be blamed either on Bush or the whitey pilot who happens to be Republican.

Not all diversions caused by mechanical problems are investigated by the NTSB. I was on a flight out of Atlanta a couple of years ago. We took off, flew about 30 minutes and then returned to Atlanta. The airplane was repaired (a faulty gauge), we re-boarded the same airplane and took off again. No investigation.

The birth certificate you folks are posting is a certifiable fraud. The guy who put it up in the first place has already admitted as much. The Obama campaign ought to produce the PAPER version of his birth certificate and submit it to an independent, non-partisan expert. This is a serious question because the Constitution requires that all presidents be natural-born citizens, no exceptions.

Obama in a landslide!

My friends, 'twas I! John Sidney McCain. I was taking a casual stroll on the runway, when the wind snatched up my favorite fedora (I purchased it two weeks before the Great Depression).

As I made my way onto the fuselage of that magnifficent plane, I slipped off my cane and lost my dentures in the gears of the tail wing. Dag nabbit!

The mechanic working on that plane should be fired immediately and potentially brought up on charges. When the stakes are this high, things like this (I hesitate to say 'mistakes') should NOT happen.

the McCain chicken hawks are pushing the 'Obama Birth certificate' as a preemptive strike as John McCain was not born in any of the United States.

It's not a bad strategy. Kinda like when the chicken hawks went after Kerry's military service because bush boy was a daddy's-boy draft dodger.

Has anyone seen McCain's birth certificate?

Does Panama issue American birth certificates? McCrazy has a lot to answer for.

We should also investigate that Columbia hostage rescue over the weekend. McCain was in country during the raid and the same people who covertly arranged for that successful operation probably also rigged Barry Obama's plane to crash and for Reverend Wright to speak out against white people! OBAMA IS THE MESSIAH, FOLKS - - HAS THE MEDIA GIVEN YOU THAT MESSAGE YET?

this is sick. we need a fast track system for americans of european background to emigrate to the european union. we would assimilate much better than the third worlders.

why the heck should obama produce his birth certificate? he was born in HAWAII, which is a state in this country morons. where's john mccain's birth certificate? mccain was born in PANAMA for crying out loud. and what do birth certificates have to do with this article? you people are STUPID.

why would a plane going from Chicago to Charlotte make a emergency landing in St. Louis?

Dude, maybe someone should investigate where Obama got those ridiculously big ears. Campaign contribution?

justathinker,

so that is why you went after Bill Clinton.. calling him a drug dealer, etc.

I believe that you respect the office of the presidency when you salute Obama this January.

Until then (and probably afterwards), you are just another garden-variety republican chicken hawk.

bok bok

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/06/obama-birth.html

Here is Obama's Birth Cert you conspiracy freak

Obama has shown his. Astrologers have his time of birth and have already been working on his chart details. Ask for McCain's he was the one NOT born in the USA, proper. He is the one NOT carefully researched or vetted. He is the one helped all along the way by his dad and grandfather (to stay in the Naval Academy), his 2nd wife's millionaire daddy (to get into politics) with his political career (see keating 5 affair) etc. I agree, I'll be a happy americans if we just stick to the issues, we all vote, then as citizens make the efforts necessary to solve our problems. This is my hope regardless if your guy or my guys wins the presidency. That seems fair, doesn't it? But, faireness, I would admit, has been sort of an alien concept the last few years in the politcal mainstream. Your guy's party or my guy's party is not the enemy. The real enemy is despair and apathy and greed. My two cents...and a $5 bill and you can buy yerself a gallon of gas

Let's see Grandpa McCain's Panamanian birth certificate. Oh he's white, its ok...

Besides he was born right after the French broke ground in 1880 on the the canal so it was practically American territory...

You people are rediculous. You can't just read a story, you have to throw your stupid political slant on EVERYTHING? If something happend in mid-air you would be scared too. He landed and because he's a high profile figure it will be investigated. This would have been investigated if it was a Democrat, Republican, Independent or even just a stupid celebrity. Stop reading into things so much.

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The MSM just can't stop talking about OBAMA! EVERYDAY! ALL THE TIME! NO MATTER WHAT THE STORY! HE IS THE MESSIAH!

For all of you morons questioning McCain's citizenship:

He was born on a military base in Panama. American bases anywhere (for all intents and purposes) are considered American soil. Would any patriotic person actually question the citizenship of the child born to someone in our military on a military base? If so, you really have a screw loose.

Obama the phony -- why does he need to lie that he supported the very successfull Welfare Reform Bill... he and every other liberal in America was against it at the time.

Clinton signed the bill after he vetoed twice before in order to win re-election in 1996.

Don't be left behind.

Thank GOD for the most powerful Democracy on Earth.

Bush single handed destroyed this nation:
Dollar down
Gas preis to highest ever
4000+ innocent Americans and hundred thousands of Iraqis died in an unjust war
Mortgage crisis
Unemployment rate going up
47+ Million Americans without Health Care
....

Join the change train and be part of the transformation of this country.

CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN.

McCain was born in Panama on an American military installation. Both his parents were Americans. There is no precedent that would deny McCain his citizenship. Many thousands of Americans were born to military parents stationed overseas. Obama is an entirely different situation. There is a clear question as to Obama's status.

I heard Obama is a gay muslim. Is that true?

McCain is gay???

I could care less.

I could care less.

Were either of the "I'll do anything to win" Clintons ever near the plane?

President Hussein Osama? I thought we were winning the war on terror?

hey guys not everyone owns their own private jets like the mccains

talk about elitist...

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one hour from chicago , Ill to charlot , NC is about the area over indianapolis !!!!! to land in St.louis is 260 Miles west of rout !!!! isnt that strange ?

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Could have to do with a number of things:

What direction did they take off in and where were they when the problem was discovered.

What was the weather and would they have had to head a bit to the west to avoid storms.

Perhaps Midwest has staff that is certified to work on an MD-80 at STL and not IND.

Perhaps they were too heavy to land in IND and needed to burn fuel.

Or perhaps it's all just a crock and he was looking to get some tasty ribs.

Clear question on his status? Obama's mother was born in Kansas and he was born in Hawaii... You people are all morons... The sad part is that when you ask to see Grandpa McCain’s birth certificate from Panama it is a little friendly sarcasm... but you people are actually serious.

Midwest is based out of Milwaukee (not Kansas City) and offers a quite high-end service, including serving freshly baked cookies on each flight (they might have done away with this to save weight and fuel costs). It was one of the first "all business class" airlines and is still the most successful or its type. It's far from the "Greyhound with wings."

As for Barack Obama, I believe that he is the wrong choice for this country, but the airplane issue is apolitical.

If you think the government is wasting money with this investigation, just wait and see how much more money will be wasted if he becomes president.

The birth certificate on his site is NOT the original! It is a 2001 form - check the rev date. Let's see the original!!

Check for Cheney's fingerprints.

Check for Cheney's fingerprints.

Funny... you'd think the guy would at least rate a 737 :).

Bush and McCain already sold the USA to the Arab wolrd:
Iran is stronger
Gas preis to highest financing terror

We need OBAMA to fix the mess

Joe, I second your illustrious opinion. I would like to raise your suggestion with