Posted on 06/02/2012 10:12:05 AM PDT by BO Stinkss
As if their candidate needed to further alienate the veteran voting bloc, Obama's clueless handlers have done it again. There were emails circulating on Memorial Day that the presidential security detail had locked down the Vietnam Memorial site early that morning, shooing off veterans and their families so that the locale could be used for a photo op. While I was never able to verify the accuracy of those emails, perhaps this ill-conceived campaign photo posted over at Hot Air where Ed Morrissey has it up as his Obamateurism of the Day, lends them some credence. It no doubt took the president's photogs some time to set up such an artsy pic with the light just so, so as to provide the requisite halo round the One's consecrated cranium. Surely the pros and the pols couldn't be bothered by the plebian presence of actual rank and file Vietnam vets and their families while such an important campaign event was underway.
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Good catch. I breezed on by it disgusted that it was done, but you’re right. There’s several impossibilities in that photo.
I think that’s a photo light behind The Head. It’s too dim to be the sun.
If this could have been done entirely in Photoshop with a snapshot of the wall, then it stinks worse that Barack had to chase the vets off for this.
You're probably more correct than you'd like to be.
I wonder if we could find out who that knucklehead is. It seems to be the same guy. The mistakes are consistent with what I call a visual illiterate.
He can work the levers, but he can’t keep to the row.
Obama and Fife, off prompter, have something else in common.
http://www.yourememberthat.com/media/2377/Barney_Fife_Recites_the_Preamble/
My dad’s best friend was killed in Vietnam and a few years ago my younger kid went to DC on a school trip and got to see the Wall. She located my dad’s friend’s name and had to stand on the soulders of her teacher to do a pencil rubbing of his name, then made a shadow box of it and presented it to her grampa after she got home. It was a hugely moving experience that a shallow, soulless cretin like 0bama could never understand.
0bama is so loathesome that he actually makes Clinton look good in comparison. And that’s saying a lot because Clinton was a dirtbag.
The photog is a guy named Pete Souza— at least he’s the one credited. Here’s his resume:
http://www.viscom.ohiou.edu/faculty_souza.phtml
Here's another pic showing light conditions. Note direction of shadows.
Yes, both are actors. Only one of them was any good, however.
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