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Ocelot

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15. Does anyone remember when Obama's plane almost crash-landed in 2008?
Tue Aug 27, 2013, 12:14 PM
Aug 2013

His campaign plane suddenly started dropping because an evacuation slide mysteriously inflated inside. An emergency landing was made but no anomalies were found. Only article I can find on it now is from the Daily Beast, but it was throughout the news at the time:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2009/07/11/obama-campaign-plane-almost-crashed.html

And the Bush "pretzel incident".. in the early part of his first term Shrub suddenly appeared looking like someone had smacked him around good. He said it was from choking on a pretzel, which seemed as dumb, unlikely and incongruous as all the lies he normally told:



No one, even Chimpy, would get those kind of injuries from choking on a pretzel and falling off a couch.

And who knows what else has transpired outside the scrutiny of the media. Following these curious events I've wondered if there are people/agencies with the kind of power to do these things and get away with it? Qualifier: I don't have a "conspiracy theory", it's just a point of curiosity.

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