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Did Obama have his dog flown on own plane for vacation?
Posted: Feb 18, 2017
I see someone is trying to push the story that Bo was flown specially for vacation. I posted the Snopes article link refuting this because I know you all respect Snopes so much, but you can also find it on FactCheck, etc., should you actually want to verify.
Carry on.
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Wrong, MilkBone. He did fly accompanied by a WH staff member. - They later tried to spin it...
[ In Reply To ..]...that the flight was for the staff member and Bo just happened to tag along, but the logistics of the flight plan made it clear the the flight was for the transport of the dog, and they could never explain why the staff member needed her own flight either.
You never give up, - do you?
[ In Reply To ..]Like other talking points, people seem to really believe that if they make a false statement often enough, it will become accepted as true. Just get over yourself, already.
Nope. NEXT SHOOTER TO THE LINE, PLEASE. - 5 shots a dollar. Hit the ducks win a prize.
[ In Reply To ..]I'll quit when the lies and misinformation stop.
They would stop - faster
[ In Reply To ..]if you didn't promote them. The dog did not ride in its own plane! Get it right.
The airport was too small - Resist
[ In Reply To ..]to handle Air Force One and so two smaller planes were used. A number of Obama staff members were on the plane with the dog but hey, at least he didn't make the dog a member of his staff.
I will post this again - OABO
[ In Reply To ..]Obama spent 90 million in 8 years. Trump has already spent 10 million in a month. Do the math.
Ok,I'll bite...what did he spend $10,000,000 on? - document please
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It costs 3 million - Old and burned out
[ In Reply To ..]every time he takes Air Force One to Florida - plus Secret Service, etc. His family also gets protection when they travel. His sons have just gone to Dubai on Trump Corp. business and the taxpayer is paying part of the bill. Do you think the Trump Corp. will share any profits with the taxpayer?
cost - anon
[ In Reply To ..]Plus the estimated half a million a day to keep Melania and son in a separate residence in New York, security, etc.
Yes! Bo was flown on a plane but not alone - Truthhurts
[ In Reply To ..]Truth or Not?
President’s Dog, Bo, and Handler Flew Alone in a Separate Plane to Maine-Fiction!
Bo Flew in an MV-22 Osprey on 2013 Vacation to Martha’s Vineyard-Truth!
Summary of eRumor:
This is a forwarded email that says when President Obama flew to Maine with his family for their July 2010 vacation but there was not enough room on the plane for the family dog, Bo. It alleges that a separate plane had to be chartered for the First Pooch and his handler.
The Truth:
The President’s dog, Bo, and his handler did travel to Maine on a second aircraft when the First Family travelled there in July 2010 for their Summer vacation, but Bo and handler were not alone. This eRumor surfaced a year later, in 2011, while the President and his family vacationing in Martha’s Vineyard, 367 miles south of the airport where they landed a year earlier.
2013 Vacation
Bo prepares for take-off
During the President’s 2013 vacation to Martha’s Vineyard, the first pooch once again travel to the vacation spot but this time travelled in class on a MV-22 Osprey. This according to an August 11, 2013 article by England’s The Telegraph. The article described the Presidential pet’s aircraft as “a hybrid aircraft which takes off like a helicopter but flies like a plane.”
Once again, Bo did not have the aircraft to himself. According to an August 10th article by CBS News, he travelled with White House Staff, media and Secret Service.
2010 Vacation
The Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport in Trenton, Maine is a small airport and can not accommodate large aircraft such as the Boeing 747 that the President uses for Air Force One. For this reason two aircraft were needed for the entire entourage who accompanied the First Family.
Local reporters from the Morning Sentinel of Central Maine were on hand to cover the Obama’s arrival at the Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport but somehow not all the facts made it in it’s first edition of the local paper. The original story reported that the first family arrived at the airport in a plane shortly after Bo and his handler were seen exiting another aircraft and left the impression that the dog and handler traveled alone on their own plane.
Some time after the story was released the newspaper added a clarification saying, “Today’s story about the arrival of the Obama’s said the Obama’s dog and one aide arrived on a small jet before the First Family, but there were other occupants on the plane, including several other staffers. The presidential party took two small jets to the Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport in Trenton because the airport was too small to accommodate the president’s usual jet.”
Doug Powers wrote a commentary on that July 17, 2010 news story that appeared in the Morning Sentinel of Central Maine. It was then posted on the Michelle Malkin website but went viral on the World Wide Web a year later.
It appears Mr. Powers and Ms. Malkin posted the commentary prior to the Sentinel clarification, which resulted in the massive flood of emails on the Internet about the celebrity canine named Bo.
Read more carefully. The point is - sm
[ In Reply To ..]There is someone on this board alleging that the Obama's flew Bo around on a plane for the only purpose of sending the dog on vacation paid for by the tax payers. The above link refutes that. Bo was just a passenger with the regular staff traveling to location. The airport was too small to handle the regular plane so 2 smaller planes had to be taken. And Republicans have been pushing the fake story that Bo was alone on the plane.
The flight was unnecessary and I specifically stated there was a - staff member on the plane.
[ In Reply To ..]What they couldn't explain was why the staff member and the dog were flown separately from the rest of the party, and the flight plan clarifies exactly why, specifically the different departure point.
Now give it up. It happened.
Additional Info to your post - Truthhurts
[ In Reply To ..]Where did the below information come from????? Gee, I do believe it's from the same article link YOU posted! So I guess it's not Republican Fake News. :)
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Bo flew to Maine in a different plane than the rest of the First Family not because he was part of a special canine-only flight, but because the local airport (Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport in Trenton, Maine) was too small to accommodate the Boeing 747-200B in which the President usually travels. Therefore, the Obamas flew to Maine in a Gulfstream GIII/G3 jet (which seats six to nineteen passengers), while Bo was loaded onto an earlier flight which carried a contingent of presidential aides and staff members.
Similar claims were trotted out again during the First Family’s vacation at Martha’s Vineyard in August 2013, when articles (such as a Telegraph piece entitled “First Dog Bo Is Airlifted to Obama Holiday Home”) were misleadingly proffered as proof that Bo was flown from Washington to the Obamas’ Massachusetts vacation spot on his very own Marine helicopter. The truth is that the President’s 747-200B aircraft does not land at Martha’s Vineyard Airport when he travels there; instead, it touches down at nearby Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod, and the presidential party is then flown the short distance to Martha’s Vineyard Airport via helicopter. In August 2013 Bo simply flew the last leg of the trip, from Cape Cod to Martha’s Vineyard (a distance of about six miles), ahead of the Obamas on a helicopter that was already ferrying presidential aides, reporters, and baggage to the latter destination:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/bo.asp
Well, thank you TH for agreeing with my post - Time for a nap
[ In Reply To ..]1. The Obamas flew to Maine in a Gulfstream GIII/G3 jet (which seats six to nineteen passengers), while Bo was loaded onto an earlier flight which carried a contingent of presidential aides and staff members.
2. In August 2013 Bo simply flew the last leg of the trip, from Cape Cod to Martha’s Vineyard (a distance of about six miles), ahead of the Obamas on a helicopter that was already ferrying presidential aides, reporters, and baggage to the latter destination.
I hope the Republican claim that Bo the dog was the sole reason for vacation air flights has been put to rest on the board! If you note, you verified my post by copying the information from the link. Maybe you did not read the entire post.
Yeah, she sometimes took a separate plane. - nm
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