American flag disappears from Obama campaign jet

by Infidelesto on July 22, 2008 · View Comments

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But don’t call him unpatriotic…

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american-flag-obama-planeAs part of a month-long aircraft makeover, a painted American flag was removed from the tail of Sen. Barack Obama’s official campaign airplane and was replaced with the presidential candidate’s trademark “O” symbol.

The refurbished 757 was unveiled to members of the news media today, 41 of whom boarded the craft and took off to meet Obama in Amman, Jordan, where the presidential candidate will stop as part of a Middle Eastern and European tour.

Obama traveled to the Mideast earlier this week on board a separate airplane.

Fox News blogger Bonny Kapp, traveling on Obama’s new airplane, reported:

“The North American jet that flew Obama and his traveling crew around for much of the primary season was refurbished with new seats and power for each passenger a must on the campaign trail. And the plane that once had an American flag on its tail now sports the Obama ‘O.’”

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  • http://infidelsarecool.com Philip Saenz

    Barack Hussein Obama did what any good Muslim would do.  Well, at least Hussein Obama has not burned the American flag.

  • http://alwaysonwatch2.blogspot.com/ Always On Watch

    Is that a moon rising in Obama’s logo?

  • http://www.singlec.com Clark

    McCains plane does not have a flag on the tail.

    <img src=”http://www.singlec.com/images/image8.jpg“>

  • http://infidelsarecool.com Infidelesto

    @clark

    Sure but he never removed the flag in place of his own logo…big difference.

  • jennyjen

    whats up with that? John McCain better win or that logo will replace all American flags I’m afraid. That’s scary as hell!!!

  • http://www.singlec.com Clark

    Infidelesto , you are serious about that?
    Really? Baffling.

    At some point in time McCains plane had a flag on it, and was covered up with paint. The whole thing has been repainted.
    You folks are amazing. Really.

  • http://www.singlec.com Clark

    The whole article was not quoted. Here is another quote:
    “Obama campaign’s redressed airplane, which does not have an American flag or any other U.S. national symbols on the section that sports the airplane door from which Obama and his team will enter and exit.”

    Interesting: McCains plane does not have a flag at the door or section of the plane that people will enter or exit.

    The article is just imflammatory and doesn’t help clarify real issues. It is nonsense.  In order to get McCains cool paint job, they had to repaint the whole thing – that includes whatever flag was there (which is required by law).

    You’ll find a flag on Obama’s plane just about the same size and same place as the new one on McCain’s plane.  Knee Jerk reactions to non events really don’t help the political cause of either party. (I’m not voting for either of them. I’m a Libertarian.)

  • http://infidelsarecool.com Infidelesto

    Clark, can you prove your claim that McCain also removed the large American flag from the tail wing and replaced it with his own name/logo.  You say “by law” there has to be an American flag on their plane…well that doesn’t make much sense if they’re removing it and replacing it with whatever they want.

    Again, show us proof about McCain doing the same…

    If not, take your own advice and don’t throw wild claims without proof…

  • http://www.singlec.com Clark

    Sure.
    Start with the basic law. Every plane has to have an identifying flag. That is aviation law.
    McCain repainted that plane. So whatever flag was there, was painted over.
    He has a new flag painted by his slogan toward the back.

    Abama’s flag is toward the back about the same size.
    Here are the two planes:
    http://www.singlec.com/images/image8.jpg
    http://www.singlec.com/images/image3.jpg

    Just take a look at McCains plane. The whole thing has a new paint job. Now because it was law to have a flag on there, he must have painted over it.

    Now you are griping because the flag on Obamas plane happened to be bigger? Give me a break. My neighor has a bigger flag than me. So what?

    That particular plane happened to have a big flag on it. But planes get repainted all the time. Flags always get painted over, and then a new flag of some kind is always reapainted.

    But, futher: The stupid line about “There is not flag by the exit door” is pure nonsense. There isn’t one on McCain’s plane either. So it is obvious that that article was intended for nothing but inflamatory innuendo.

    And it obviously worked. Look at the people that are concerned about this non-issue.

    It really is a non-issue. It means nothing. Do a google search for campaign planes. Since they started to fly them they have put the campaign logo on the tail of the plane. So what??? Whtaever was there before gets covered up. EH?

    You post some more Obama rumors I can rebuff a whole slew of em – including the nonsense about turning his back on the flag.

    Again man. I aint voting for the guy. I’m voting for Bob Barr.
    I just hate rumor and innuendo, and gossip. People don’t even correct the lies after they discover they are not true. They just keep passing them on anyway.
    If the Republican party is really the “moral” party and superior to the lowly immoral Democrats, then they have to walk on a higher plane and stop sprouting lies, gossip, half-truths and the like. Stand tall and be honest.

  • http://www.singlec.com Clark

    To make sure I’m clear. I type fast and make sure you understand the point.
    First: Take a look at both planes:
    http://www.singlec.com/images/image8.jpg
    http://www.singlec.com/images/image3.jpg

    Now – they BOTH have a small flag on them (required by law to have a flag.)
    They BOTH have been repainted.
    Whatever was under BOTH of them is gone – and that includes the flag that used to be on both planes. One happened to be bigger than the other.

  • http://www.singlec.com Clark

    Sorry to do this (I’ll erase one of my posts if you like – not intending to spam – but I don’t see how to edit)

    Here is a close up of McCain’s flag on his plane.
    This is a McCain flag painted on there. It goes with his slogan.
    http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/images/2008/07/21/campaignplanes.jpg

  • http://www.traveLightgame.com carolyne

    Oh,  The  King -  Obama O – what else is new?  gagwithspoon  He should have just put BO & MO ’s picture on it as well- I’m sure MO would be proud of her “Baby Daddy” then!   Got to make sure MO is proud, to keep her nasty attitude happy, because I’m sure if MO ain’t happy – ain’t NO – body happy! We ain’t happy with BO & MO and that lousy campaign jet - NO NO NO a disgrace to America!   Just another slap in our country’s face, and knife in America’s back!
    Pray tell – what next?
    PERISH THE THOUGHT!  What else does Barack Hussinsane Obama have to do to prove – he will NOT be loyal to America but to Islam and God knows what else!  HELL – OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

  • http://www.singlec.com Clark

    carolyne,

    Have you seen McCain’s plane?

  • http://www.traveLightgame.com carolyne

    YEA, CLARK:
    I LIKE IT – REAL POSITIVE – AND THE FLAG LOOKS GOOD!
    TRUTHFULLY IF OBAMA’S JET HAD THE AMERICAN FLAG PAINTED ALL OVER IT AND HIMSELF AS WELL, IT WOULDN’T CHANGE MY MIND ONE BIT.  NO NO NO OBAMA!  NO BOUNCE - BO HAS NOT EARNED ONE OUNCE OF RESPECT IN REGARD TO HIS EXPERIENCE.  CREAM ALWAYS COMES TO THE TOP.
    Obama has over reached his teleprompter, kind of like Burr Rabbit in the Brier Patch,  McCain kept challenging him to go to Iraq, sure enough he did!  Cool, OUCH!  It worked!  NOW THE WORLD SEES STRAIGHT THROUGH HIM!

  • http://www.traveLightgame.com carolyne

    BOB BARR IS A WASTED VOTE.    WANT NOT WASTE NOT, CLARK!

  • http://www.singlec.com Clark

    Hey carolyne , cool.
    You have a view and an opinion. Cool.
    But, personally I can’t see the big deal about this plane thing. They both have logos on the tails of their planes. :)

  • http://www.traveLightgame.com carolyne

    Like we say Obama’s plane doesn’t matter, along as it stays out of the United States ’no fly zone’ and never trys to lands here. 

  • Krisya

    Ok, the jet Obama has is leased from Northwest Airlines and the paint job that was on it is what Northwest picked. 

    I suppose you could say that because that plane happened to have a big flag on it, Obama was somehow obligated as a patriotic American to leave it there?  And since McCain’s plane didn’t originally have a huge flag on the tail, he can paint it however he wants and it’s just fine and dandy? 

    That’s idiotic.

  • http://infidelsarecool.com Infidelesto

    @Krisya: no, it’s the simple fact that he replaced the flag with HIS OWN logo…disgraceful

  • http://www.chritech.com clark

    Flags get painted over on planes all the time.
    Everytime they get a paint job, a flag gets painted over. And a new one gets painted on.
    This is a really dumb argument. You guys are twisting anything you can scrape together just to make Obama look bad.

  • sub

    with new seats and power for each passenger a must on the campaign trail

    What the hell does that sentence mean?

  • http://infidelsarecool.com Infidelesto

    @ sub
    It means they were outfitted with big nice seats and power to plug their iphones and Macbooks into

  • http://www.traveLightgame.com carolyne

    Best tranlation of the above comments:
    Jesus Christ came to do the will of his father the one true God.

    Obama came to do the will of his father, a Muslim

    So the plane is just one example of what Obama is ALL ABOUT – Not one humble bone in Obama’s body.  “WE ARE WHAT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR”
    Never in my adult life did I ever think I was waiting for Obama!

    I am waiting for Jesus Christ to come in clouds of glory.  Not on a jet plane.

  • Silliness

    Oh, BOY!  I now know how to vote.  Thanks for educating me as I was really concerned about ISSUES  Silly me.  Now I know what to do:   
    1)  Just see who has the bigger flag on their jet.
    2) Wait, I also have to count the number of lapel pins and flags. 
    3) Oh, man. We now have to determine the SIZE of the lapel pins.  
    Hmm….  We just need  ”Concrete & Realistic Assessment of Patriotism Plan” or CRAPP.   What does it do?  It will MEASURE the total area of the candidate’s symbols, multiply by the number, and then we end up with the solution!

    Silly things like lying about firing attorneys, lying about firing anybody who lied about that, outing a CIA agent, lying about that, lying about firing anybody who lied about that, signing statements, ignoring the constitution, having secret meetings with oil companies,  billion dollar no-bid contracts in Iraq while ignoring destruction in New Orleans, starting a war with Iraq, disassembling the clean air act (started by that wacky liberal Nixon!) lying about yellowcake in Niger…   That is all silliness.   We now just use CRAPP!  

    P.S. I read on the internet that Jesus was a Muslim!  It’s GOTTA be true!  And the fact that somebody DENIED it makes it even TRUER!  :)  Damn liberals!

    Luke 19:27 But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. – Jesus

    But as for these enemies of mine who didn’t want me to be their king-bring them here and slaughter them in my presence!’” (NIV)

    “But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence.” (NASB)
    Bring my enemies, who didn’t want me to be their king. Kill them in front of me.’”
    But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. KJV

  • katie

    at that sign is an “O” with red white and blue.  any one notice the stripes on it?.  He took the american flag and personalized it with an “O” for Obama for his campaine.  There is nothing wrong with that.

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