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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 3:08 pm
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Originally Posted by fbrown627
Wanna bet this was for a movie......and someone (politician) made a mint of money getting it approved. Proves to me the government thinks of us as numbers, not people.

BTW--the plane used was the back-up Presidential 747.....?????

The fact that it was a VC-25 and not a smaller aircraft makes the whole "taking pictures" line completely BS in my eyes. Yes, they were taking pictures. Moving pictures. For a MOVIE in which the President is aboard Air Force One and is being escorted by fighter jets.

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