Posted on 05/08/2009 1:18:28 PM PDT by Joiseydude
Edited on 05/08/2009 1:29:52 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON - The White House aide who authorized the controversial Air Force One photo-op flight last week around the Statue of Liberty is out of a job.
President Obama has accepted the resignation of Louis Caldera, the director of the White House Military Office, the Daily News learned Friday.
A secretary of the Army in the Clinton administration, Caldera took the fall for the public relations fiasco arising from the April 27 flyover, which was designed to replace a publicity photo of Air Force One flying past Mount Rushmore with a similar shot of Obama's 747 jumbo jet over the Statue of Liberty.
We are to believe a three hour Mission with Two Fighters for a rotten single picture over Miss Liberty? NO WAY!!
If this was truly a photo-op, ZERO would have demanded AIR FORCE ONE photographed over The biggest amd Best MOSQUE in the United States! Bets are that Michelle was On Board with some of their Favorite Donors touring NYC and dining on Caviar, Wagyu Beef, Lobster and Dom Perignon Champaigne catered byThe Waldorf Astoria:-)
The official photo on Drudge and Fox looks nothing like the one the NYT is putting out. I think the NYT is trying ‘improve’ it!! The official one has nothing in focus (not even the logo on the side of AF1) and the SOL looks very far off. The one the NYT is using has been tampered with! Everything is in focus and the SOL looks closer to the plane.
“Another one bites the dust hey hey, another one bites the dust.....”
Hey 0bama...You’re Gonna Need a BIGGER BUS!
So, that statement and a quarter might open a dirty restroom door for You:-) A Five Dollar Bill gets One a Clean Toilet! Thank you, Mr. Gates for a thoroughly untrustworthy statement!
Does this remind anyone of a shot taken with a cell phone?
or is it just super compressed and shitty?
Gee, why did they announce this and release the picture on a Friday afternoon?
I think it’s an awful photo .... muddy, little clarity.
Waste of a lot of our $$$$$ ...
Oh Poop. You know, that is exactly where it should be. Yes, the rear of the island is darker.
(Crumpling up the Reynolds Wrap in dejection!)
They make it sound as if he wasn't.
And as for 0-zero repaying the Government for the flight . . . he doesn't even give his half-brother in Nairobi any assistance, you think he'd repay the USofA?
He's on WELFARE!!! He is a TAKER not a giver.
Total BS.
Caldera did not “loose” his job. He resigned. Go read his letter.
http://www.kansascity.com/444/story/1186397.html
Doesn’t look like a professional photo to me. Over on the right side, near the top corner, you can see the reflection from a regular airplane window. Like the person in the Jet was shooting the photo.
There probably was an orgy going on in the airplane . . . 0-zero and . . . Oprah?
SecDef Gates said in his letter to Sen. McCain 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.”
I doubt an experienced bureaucrat like Gates would lie about a high profile public case. If it’s true, the issue ends with the resignation of Caldera.
Doesn’t it seem a little bit odd that there are no shadows on the island - considering how the sun is reflected off the plane.
He did sorta reveal something. He said that the idea originated some time ago while flying in Air Force 1.
Yep. And that’s Linda Bloodworth Thomason right alongside her.
Which photo? The one the NYT ‘worked on’ or the official one on Drudge?
There is a beam of light at the top right. Remember too, that these ‘shots’ were supposedly taken between 10:00 and 10:30 am.
I find it really odd that the “sun” which wasn’t really very visible that day reflects down almost the entire length of the fuselage as a long stripe of light. Wouldn’t it be more of a spot like it is on the engines? I am thinking this is a model with a very large soft light overhead.
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