[TWP guy]

By the way, I'm now writing under my name Blaine Fallis, and not Typical White Person, and American Sentinel has moved over to news-political.com - Annuit Coeptis.

[Diogenesis]

Obama laughed at the 911 Atrocities, released those
that wrought them.

The AF(not1) plane ride was for laughs, probably
by terrorists over Ground Zero, with great amusement
at the havoc they had created, and were creating.

[cripplecreek]

The photo appears to be real but there’s still something very wrong about the whole thing. That has to be about the lowest quality “PR” photo I’ve ever seen for over $300,000.

We still need to know everything about the mess. Who was on the plane, Who asked for it, where are the rest of the photos?

[edzo4]

something stills smells fishy yesterday two more new tidbits made the story more puzzling

one:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30638151/

The announcement was as dramatic as the setting. Speaking live from the crown of the Statue of Liberty, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced exclusively Friday morning on the TODAY show that the statue will reopen to the public on Independence Day.

and two:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/05/08/costs_for_that_air_force_one_f.html

The final report on the late April incident came on the same day the Interior Department announced plans to reopen the Statue of Liberty’s crown to visitors for the first time since before the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The Air Force jets appeared to use the statue as a backdrop during the flyover.

The flight was conducted to take publicity photos of Air Force One, flying low over Manhattan’s skyscrapers, for promotional material. Gates said in his letter that the flight also included a training component for pilots to practice instruments approaches and landings at Atlantic City Airport. He said that “with the exception of one combat photographer, a standard crew complement performed the mission...There were no non-duty personnel or passengers on board.”

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So we are to believe that the fly over photo op and the re- opening of the Statues crown are un-related and Obama knew nothing about it, and that no one was on board and that it is just coincidence that they landed at the casinos in Atlantic city, and that no one was on board but a photographer to take a picture of the statue FROM INSIDE AIR FORCE ONE? how would this picture be different from any other picture taken of the statue from a plane and how would you even know what plane the picture was taken from?

Something does not add up...

[fishnuts2]

The irony of this photo shoot is that is DOES portray another attack on America, this time by the occupant of AF1. They have been attacking our Country and our way of life since Jan. 20, 09.

I heard once that both AF1s went up together, one as a decoy. Now, we are told that O Boner was not aware of it. BS.

[mirkwood]

Who was on the plane? Find that little piece of info out and it all comes tumbling down.

[Fireone]

Hopefully, the flight was to give Al Franken his only brush
with D.C. politics.

[visualops]

What experienced or professional photographer would take a photo with a huge shadow in it?
This photo is terrible.

I’d be interested in a “reconstruction” of the flight path based on witness footage to try and ascertain camera angle(s) and potential photos because this photo is not good at all.

[PowderMonkey]

This was the best they could do? $300K gets you this amateurish shot? I've seen better sense of composition by the local highschool photography club. Sorry, folks. I'm not buying any of it. I'm still betting "joyride," with members of the Saudi Royal family sipping champagne.

[Conan the Conservative]

Who are they kidding? That picture is a throw-away at best. It could have been taken by a 10 year old. As others have said professional photogs take hundreds of pics to get the correct lighting, background, perspective, etc. Perhaps Obama fired the old white house photog and replaced him with an affirmative action guy like David Patterson did.

[Tax Government]

Pictures of the president’s jet over New York and the Statue of Liberty are meant to convey these messages:

1) solidarity with the terrorists

2) an implicit threat to America

3) superiority to America’s liberty

[Brilliant]

I still don’t buy that this was a photo shoot. Aside from the fact that they could have achieved the same thing with photo shop, why did they need the fighter jets? And if ou look at the photo, it’s not like it was done by an expert photographer. They use a wide angle lens, which is shown by the fact that the Statue of Liberty was so small in the photo. This was obviously done by amatuers, which suggests to me that the photo was just something that someone decided to take, or possibly the photo was itself a fake, in order to cover up the real purpose of the mission. What I want to know is what was the real purpose of the mission? In order to know that, you’ve got to know who was on the plane and what were they doing during the flight? So far, no word on that.

[MinuteGal]

Where's Buckhead when we need him?

Leni

[adorno]

That’s when it dawned on me: this President is the most photographed man in America.

Okay, it's dawning on me too that, the photoshoot over NYC was not just to photograph the Statue of Liberty or NYC. The photoshoot was for Obama's ego-trip.

So, okay, we've had enough photos of him, from all angles and from many different situations. But, has anybody seen a statue of "The One".

"The One" believes that he's larger than life and larger than anyone that came before him. So, he believes that, a larger than life statue that captures his essence would be the most appropriate tribute to himself. So, he's looking over the possibility of replacing the statue of liberty with one of himself. But, instead of him holding up a torch, he'll be holding up a hammer and sickle.

[visualops]

For comparison- real file photos of AF1, without window sills and window glare.
http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/021126-O-9999G-024.jpg
http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/021126-O-9999G-023.jpg

[Steve Van Doorn]