Goddam Country Rally, and Obama will send a whole fighter wing over.

This is the kind of dumbsh*t thing that Democratic apparatchiks do when they have The Power. It seeps down into the public conciousness and people think, “oh, well, okay, I’ll show them in November!”

Republicans did their own share of dumb, oafish things when we controlled all the levers. We will again. Look at this kind of thing as a cautionary tale of agnostic, statist ideology trying to trump the traditions of the country.

Let’s remember not to do this kind of thing when we get back on top. After all, stupid is as stupid does.

was shuttling around members of Congress.

Who other than a rabid lefty doesn’t love a flyover?

Never listened to Jeremiah “God D@MN America!!” Wright my asp.

We wasted- what. a few $100k for some snazzy pictures of Air Force One?

This is easy to remedy, just say the FA-18′s are going to escort AF1 for some additional photos. Then just change the waypoints and have them go via Boise.

No. Really.

I still have a few friends in the 7th owe me favors

I am sick and tired of false believers who invoke the name of Jesus, but allow their actions to demonstrate that they wouldn’t know Him if He showed up right in front of them.

Odumba misquotes Jesus too, just like the subject of Saul Alinsky’s book dedication misquotes Jesus.

Can’t they say it’s for recruiting like they do with those?

who just recently appealed to some rabbis to support his health care scheme? Who said “We are God’s partners in matters of life and death”? He tries to appeal to religious leaders to promote his legislation then provides this slap in the face?

I can’t decide who he wants to diss the most, Christians or the military this flyover was supposed to honor. I’ll just compromise and say both, equally.

Most. duplicitous. President. ever!

One category that has not surfaced yet in the comments will come into play if you answer the following questions (and of course references would be helpful, primarily the word of truth correctly handled, or creedal, confessional, catechismal and historical applications subject to the same).

In the light of the last line of The Mission of the God and Country Festival:

Each year, we ensure that the message of the Gospel is presented, and information is provided for those who have heard and want to know more about Jesus Christ.

1) in what ways is the presence of a military display beneficial to the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,

2) in what ways is the presence of a military display detrimental to the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,

3) in what ways is the absence of a military display beneficial to the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and

4) in what ways is the absence of a military display detrimental to the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

I am sure he will okay it at that point.

Erick,

Respectfully you have a few of the facts wrong.

The God and Country Rally is a non-denominational rally that supports American soldiers.

For 42 years the Pentagon has carried out the military fly over.

From a press release on the festival’s site.

“The Pentagon decided to turn down our request for a military flyover to honor our veterans at the 43rd Annual Treasure Valley God and Country Festival that took place on July 1, 2009, even though we have had numerous flyovers in the past. We want to make it clear that although it is unashamedly a Christian event”

This is not a non-denominational event, and they have not had overflights for 43 contiguous years.

In some past years, especially during the Carter administration and probably during the Gulf Wars, overflights were severely restricted due to budget and air crews involved in combat actions. Open houses at AFB have also been canceled under these constraints too and those are major public relations events for and with the local community.

But still, this is a very stupid action on the part of the Obama White House, assuming that the decision reached it, and for sure the Secretary of the Air Force Michael Bruce Donley needs to investigate why this particular overflight was denied and is there a consistent standard for approval of overflights that does not discriminate against any group.

Overflights are as much a recruiting tool as an honor to veterans and the community and last time I checked being a Christian is not a reason to be excluded from service in the US Armed forces. Assuming that this Festival has a sufficiently large turn out, there should have been no reason for denial of this request, heck there are probably pilots who would have been very happy to get some training hours to do the overflight flight.

This was a very dumb move on the part of someone, that much is a fact.

events as well. I thought the end had come last week at Michigan but the flyover was only late. Since a NASCAR race embodies just about everything the communists hate about America, I suspect we won’t see government “support” in the form of color guards and flyovers much longer.

I live just 15 miles from Bristol Motor Speedway. As you know NASCAR is in town this weekend. Now at this time of day before the August night race you can occasionally hear them take off from the airport, which is only 4 miles from me for their practice run, but nothing yet. But they occasionally do fly in directly from another base without a practice run, so I’m not giving up on there being a flyover here yet. In light of what Erick talked about here, though, and the point you made, plus the fact NASCAR’s fan base is made of largely of (gasp!) freedom loving, patriotic, right leaning Americans (some of whom still fly the Confederate flag in the infields and campgrounds) I’m afraid I’m in agreement with you here.

We’ll see.