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Bush Hand-Picked Controversial 9/11 Stamp
NewsMax.com ^
| 3/17/02
| Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 03/18/2002 3:28:50 AM PST by kattracks
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To: VA Advogado
Inscription:
First-Class...Heroes USA...2001
The heroes of 9-11 are First Class
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posted on
03/18/2002 4:11:53 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: kattracks
Note to Newsmax:
The proposed statue of the photo was controversial, not the photo itself or this stamp.
To: mewzilla
Oh the humanity......a President who actually selects an accurate representation of one of the most heartwrenching, tragic and historically significant atrocities of our time!
Impeached former president clinton probably would have chosen to airbrush chicom uniforms on the firefighters or put himself in the photo.
A conscious effort on the part of our President to depict an historical fact.......any chance this will catch on with the left............NAH.
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posted on
03/18/2002 4:17:07 AM PST
by
EODGUY
To: kattracks
...The Postal Service sent about four or five designs over to the White House, ... And the president, I think, picked this one. He picked the actual photograph - which is unusual, because we don't put live people on stamps," Ackerman said.
So Bush selected one of the choices offered... Where does the controvery come in?
Based on the headline, I expected to read GWB nixed all of the USPS options and picked the photo on his own...
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posted on
03/18/2002 4:45:14 AM PST
by
vrwinger
To: kattracks
Read the other day that the Post Office officials were grumbling about the choice as they prefer not to have stamps with living people honored! Wouldn't surprise me in the least at their dismay at this particular stamp. They have refused to have a stamp honoring the Purple Heart so we know exactly where they are coming from.
To: Always Right
A real man would have created a new picture with a black man, a hispanic man, and a female....When a black man, a hispanic man, and a female do something as symbolic as these three did - he will.
We are portraying history not changing history. This was done through no planning, captured by a photographer and it captured the whole content of what happened. To change or alter this actual moment in time - takes away the wonder of the incidence and its capture on film.
Amid total destruction, our firemen find a flag and raise it. This represents to the world that we are not destroyed and it shows the calibre of the American people who amid horror take the step to raise the American flag.
If you can't see the significance of the moment and the power - you are blinded by racism.
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posted on
03/18/2002 5:35:23 AM PST
by
ClancyJ
To: mewzilla
Actually 8 cents will go to charity and the other 3 cents goes to the post office. I heard this on the news when they were doing the unvieling.
To: ClancyJ
If you can't see the significance of the moment and the power - you are blinded by racism. Actually, I am blinded by sarcasm.
To: 7SonOfRN
And a homosexual, and a person in a wheel chair, a blind person, a deaf person, a bottle nose dolphin, a giant redwood, an oregon sucker fish... Good idea. And they should be raising a UN flag. The homosexual may be trying to raise something else, but that type of material is better suited for our elementary chidren.
To: OldFriend
Read the other day that the Post Office officials were grumbling about the choice as they prefer not to have stamps with living people honored! Wouldn't surprise me in the least at their dismay at this particular stamp. They have refused to have a stamp honoring the Purple Heart so we know exactly where they are coming from.What a treat for the honored individuals to be able to hand down a living treasure (the stamp) to their children and grandchildren. Too bad they didn't imortalize the famous Iwo Jima vets the same way!
To: Always Right
What a bigot. A real man would have created a new picture with a black man, a hispanic man, and a female.... Shouldn't there be a Muslim-American on the stamp also.
To: ClancyJ
What we really should have done is called Hollywood to audition the perfect mix of people and races and then we could have had them pose for several photos. Besides, if Hollywood had done it, it would have been much more real.
To: kattracks
But it was not known until Sunday that Bush himself, and not the Postal Service, made the final decision on the stamp. One more reason to be proud of our President, George W Bush.
To: kattracks
"And the president, I think, picked this one. He picked the actual photograph - which is unusual, because we don't put live people on stamps," Ackerman said.
Not always true. Here are two examples of live Americans on postage stamps:
President Bush did the right thing.
To: Mike Darancette
Don't forget a woman in a wheelchair!
To: vrwinger
And the president, I think, The key words here are I think. Not that it matters. I'm delighted he chose this design for the stamp. I just wanted to point out that the people who write these things, know absolutely nothing, and yet they speak with authority and their assumptions become truth.
To: Sabertooth
Good catch. I was aware of the Iwo Jima stamp - which had "living" people on it, but I'd forgotten the moon job.
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posted on
03/18/2002 6:07:30 AM PST
by
jackbill
To: Always Right
What a bigot. A real man would have created a new picture with a black man, a hispanic man, and a female....
But it seems to me they did doctor the picture...I think the fireman on the left was a bit paunchier in the real photo.
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posted on
03/18/2002 6:08:27 AM PST
by
LoveUSA
To: Sabertooth
President Bush did the right thing. It best to keep this image as it is. The stamp will be around collectors for decades. Why try to put more into the picture or take away from it? That would be pointless and cheap.
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posted on
03/18/2002 6:10:38 AM PST
by
oyez
To: jackbill
Good catch. I was aware of the Iwo Jima stamp - which had "living" people on it, but I'd forgotten the moon job.
Thanks. Check it out...
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