A report from the New York Daily News claims that children were caught directing air traffic at JFK Airport in New York City. Wow! Is this for real? Does this mean the last time I flew, a fifth grader might have been all there was between me and an incoming 747 at 10,000 feet and 400 mph?
According to the report, “Employees at the Kennedy Airport air-traffic control tower are under federal investigation for apparently allowing a school-age kid to give directions to pilots.”
This doesn’t seem like a good idea to me. I love children. And I know my ten-year-old son is pretty smart. I think he just finished memorizing his multiplication table and he may have finally mastered what a pronoun is, but directing air traffic? I think someone should at least be able to drive a car first.
Maybe this is really a sample of what’s going on in our country. At every level people who don’t know what they are doing, are directing the “air traffic” of national policy. You think I’m being partisan? Our president was the least experienced viable candidate of the election season. He has appointed a large number of academic types who lack real world experience. He, personally, has accomplished nothing outside of the political world.
Just consider the following statements (taken from About.com) made by our President over the last couple of years:
Obama told a Portland crowd that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us”–cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm– and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”
“The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.” –Tampa, Fla., Jan. 28, 2010
“UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.” –attempting to make the case for government-run health care, while simultaneously undercutting his own argument, Portsmouth, N.H., Aug. 11, 2009
“Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions.” –exasperated by reporters after a news conference
“What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith…” –in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, who jumped in to correct Obama by saying “your Christian faith,” which Obama quickly clarified (Watch video clip)
“I’ve now been in 57 states — I think one left to go.” –at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon (Watch video clip)
If there are kids flying planes at giant airports, it may be just a sign of the times and may just be a great example of what we’re doing as a nation.
How old is our president, again? Can we get the FAA to investigate him?
(By the way if you want to see some more funny things said by our president, visit http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obama-isms.htm). They’d be even funnier, if he wasn’t running our country.
