Obama Buzzes NYC with an Air Force One Joy-Ride

And the hits just keep on coming.

The administration that has brought you unusable gifts to prime ministers, hugging of queens, bowing to kings, and insults towards special needs kids, has now decided that flying a 747 low over Manhattan would be a fine idea.

A jumbo jet being chased by a F-16 fighter jets buzzed Lower Manhattan this morning, panicking New Yorkers, many of whom were forced to evacuate their office buildings.

Louis Caldera, the director of the White House military office claimed responsibility for the gaffe that sent thousands of New Yorkers fleeing from their offices and into the streets, expecting the worse.

[T]o onlookers Monday all across downtown Manhattan -- where the World Trade Center once stood -- the photo shoot looked like a terrorist attack. People watched in horror as a massive aircraft, trailed closely by an F-16 fighter jet, banked and roared low near the city, in a frightening echo of the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

And why did the White House deem it necessary to panic an entire city?

They wanted a nice picture of Air Force One.

A group of financial services workers, who were gathered outside the same building but declined to give their names, described their reactions. “I saw the landing gear and I was out of here,” one said. Another said: “There were people in my elevator, sweating and shaking. There were women crying. It was not an experience to be taken lightly.”

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg was rightly incensed:

"Had I known about it I would have called them right away and asked them not to," he said. "The good news is it was nothing more than an ill considered, badly conceived, insensitive photo op - with the taxpayers' money."

Oh, but Obama knew nothing about the photo op. The ever-clueless White House spokesman Robert Gibbs needed to look into the matter and promised he would try to get back to reporters with some answers.

Which is worse? That Obama would approve of such a hair-brained scheme, or his administration is so inept that someone could take a joy-ride in the "back up" Air Force One, with two F-18s in tow, without anyone knowing.

This truly is the most clueless administration ever; and we are only been 100 days into this thing. I can't imagine what might come next.

This leaves only one question: Hey, Barack, haven't you heard of Photoshop?