[mewzilla]

Memo to NewsMax: The photo was never controversial.

[Blueflag]

For those of us late to the story, is there a photo of the stamp available?

[sneakers]

The scene of the three firemen raising the flag is probably the most appropriate. Good choice President Bush!

[Always Right]

President Bush personally selected a controversial photo of three white firefighters

What a bigot. A real man would have created a new picture with a black man, a hispanic man, and a female....

[Corporate Law]

Thank you President Bush for doing what is right and honoring the men who actually did that act.

[LoneGOPinCT]

Is it just me or is there a lack of controversy here? I guess because the firefighters are all white or is it because they are going to put living people on the stamp? (rhetorical of course)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

To me, it would have been showing prejudice to have changed the men in the picture..... this is the real story, this is how it happened.... to show otherwise would be to pander to the very thing the jessejackson's of the world scream about...

[Right_in_Virginia]

Note to Newsmax:

The proposed statue of the photo was controversial, not the photo itself or this stamp.

[vrwinger]

...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...

[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.

[kapn kuek]

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.

[Sabertooth]

"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.

[Revolting cat!]

The USPS is pissed because with a photograph they haven't been given an opportunity to do their usual adjustments, such as removing the cigarette from James Dean's, Bogie's and Robert Johnson's mouths (that in addition to the politically correct stuff.) They haven't been allowed to "design" the stamp. Scandalous, just scandalous!

[Revolting cat!]

The 30% tax on the stamp is rather obscene, don't you think? Sure, you can use it on international mail and on the wrapped bricks that you send to the junkmailers (actually, the bricks are best sent using the junkmailers' prepaid envelopes, so scratch that,) but a more dignified, meaningful and symbolic way, I think, would be to say add a cent or two to the current 34 cent first class stamp. This just looks like another opportunistic government grab even if it isn't one!

[Don Joe]

"President Bush personally selected a controversial photo of three white firefighters raising the American flag at Ground Zero"

There are only two guys raising the flag in that photograph.

[ppaul]

Here's the real 9/11 stamp:

[Squantos]

He picked the actual photograph - which is unusual, because we don't put live people on stamps," Ackerman said. .................along with the fact we don't make Elvis look like MLK either do we.

Lick this Ackerman (.)

Stay Safe Kattracks !

[aruanan]

"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.

That's because they prefer to alter the images to fit in with politically correct sensibilities, such as famous images that have had cigarettes erased from the hands of smokers.

[steve-b]

Get a load of the conniption fit the DUmbbells are having....