Thank you Chelse, for bringing clarity to that sham. I guess that's what happens, when you don't look at anything but the pictures. Actually Snopes added the following comment to that over-spun story.


North America Airlines logo
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Comments: Individual observers will have differing opinions as to how "disgraceful" it really is, but the basic claim that an image of the American flag on the tail of Obama's campaign plane was replaced with the "Obama '08" logo is true.

The painted-over flag (see photo at right) was part of the logo of North America Airlines, which owns and operates the Boeing 757 chartered by the Obama campaign since March 2008. The plane was refurbished inside and out in July.
Obama logo
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The company markings, which included flag symbols on both the fuselage and the tail, were replaced with the Obama campaign logo and the now-familiar slogan "Change We Can Believe In." (John McCain's campaign jet, though supplied by a different airline, has been similarly customized.)

It bears pointing out that a small American flag actually does appear on Obama's refurbished plane -- in the same (and only) location it appears on McCain's -- right next to the tail number. Neither candidate, that is to say, strove particularly hard to convert their official campaign transportation into a symbol of patriotic fervor.