This was at the Olympics in Salt Lake City - during the time in the program when the flag from WTC (all tattered and torn) was carried into the arena.
The President actually shed tears - I have a copy of the photograph - and streams of tears could be seen on his face. The reason he grimaced the way he did was because he was trying to keep from totally losing it - and bursting into tears in front of millions of viewers.
Sorry if this picture offends some people. This shows the true heart of the President and his LOVE FOR AMERICA. Remember .. Kerry said 9/11 didn't change him at all.
It's a terrible picture. He does looks like a constipated child playing dress up in Daddy's clothing. Yuck.
Who owns the copyright? Is is AP, Reuters, Time? Did you have to purchase this picture?
The photo is not offensive. The artwork is not offensive. But it is pulled out of context. It just looks like a man who is bound and determined to impose his faith on others...because it has been pulled out of context out of it's real time and place and given another context.
As an artist who has done commercial work (not much but I have an instinct for these things) I have to say...great artwork, bad interpretation, and probable copyright violation. Inappropriate message. Easily misconstrued.
If it needs to be qualified it doesn't work.