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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-09-09 09:50 PM
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36. Exactly. I think it might be more difficult for people
Edited on Sat May-09-09 09:51 PM by JerseygirlCT
not from the area to understand the depth of the feelings from that day. And especially the fear. New Yorkers are not a naturally fearsome lot; you can't be timid to succeed there! (Try driving in that city!) But after living through something like 9/11, those people never, ever should have been made to experience that all again - for a photo op.

What if there had been an unannounced building implosion in Oklahoma City a few years after that attack? Do you think there might have been a bit of an uproar about that? And I don't know that anyone from Oklahoma City has been accused of thinking they live in the center of the universe.

(Besides, in a lot of ways, NYC IS the center of the known universe!) ;)
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  -Here it is, the photo everyone is having a conniption over liberal N proud  May-09-09 05:56 PM   #0 
  - man, that SO could've been photoshopped. n/t  pepperbear   May-09-09 05:57 PM   #1 
  - Agreed -- needless expense and panic  LostinVA   May-09-09 05:57 PM   #2 
  - Well, actually it was. The F16 pilot forgot to put film in his camera.  konnichi wa   May-09-09 05:58 PM   #3 
  - Yeah, and it was a digital camera..  Fumesucker   May-09-09 06:04 PM   #9 
  - That's what I said when I heard about this-- a fucking airplane?  Marr   May-09-09 06:04 PM   #10 
  - I'll be there were other issues involved in this decision--not necessarily smart issues, but issues.  MADem   May-09-09 06:47 PM   #23 
  - Is that a challenge!? n/t  ColbertWatcher   May-09-09 06:19 PM   #15 
  - I agree that it could have and should have been  unpossibles   May-09-09 06:42 PM   #22 
  - WE here on DU would have made a big deal of a photoshopped photo op  uncle ray   May-09-09 09:41 PM   #32 
     - good point. And we did.  unpossibles   May-10-09 08:33 AM   #39 
  - That's what I was thinking...  JerseygirlCT   May-09-09 09:47 PM   #35 
  - the whole thing could have been easily avoided by proper notification  Lerkfish   May-09-09 06:00 PM   #4 
  - No doubt  liberal N proud   May-09-09 06:00 PM   #5 
  - Cool photo though  Chemisse   May-09-09 06:01 PM   #6 
  - Whose thumb is blocking the bottom right corner? n/t  ColbertWatcher   May-09-09 06:02 PM   #7 
  - NOT a thumb. One of these  konnichi wa   May-09-09 06:23 PM   #17 
     - No wonder they didn't want anyone to say anything.  ColbertWatcher   May-09-09 06:33 PM   #20 
  - thought you meant this one:  Gabi Hayes   May-09-09 06:02 PM   #8 
  - If this had happened in Albuquerque, the national news media would have scarcely noticed.  bluestateguy   May-09-09 06:08 PM   #11 
  - It had little to do with being "the center of the universe".  TwilightZone   May-09-09 06:15 PM   #13 
  - Albuquerque didn't have the twin towers which were the symbols of Amercican capitalism.  CTyankee   May-09-09 06:21 PM   #16 
  - That was my point.  TwilightZone   May-09-09 09:39 PM   #31 
  - Exactly. I think it might be more difficult for people  JerseygirlCT   May-09-09 09:50 PM   #36 
  - It was a low-flying  Golden Raisin   May-09-09 08:45 PM   #30 
  - Stupid concept and composition anyway.  begin_within   May-09-09 06:13 PM   #12 
  - I agree with respect to the composition. It looks like Air Force One is taking  Mike 03   May-09-09 06:31 PM   #18 
  - Who resigned over lying us into a war? n/t  sandnsea   May-09-09 06:17 PM   #14 
  - well, at least it's a nice photo ... nt  shireen   May-09-09 06:31 PM   #19 
  - I think some are more upset at the cost of it than anything else now  The Straight Story   May-09-09 06:35 PM   #21 
  - Fuel costs for training--you don't even wanna know.  MADem   May-09-09 06:49 PM   #25 
  - I had my NY Times open to that picture at breakfast this morning.  mwb970   May-09-09 06:48 PM   #24 
  - I need a 1280 x 854 for my wallpaper.  pinniped   May-09-09 06:52 PM   #26 
  - It's not even a good photographic composition, IMHO.  kestrel91316   May-09-09 07:29 PM   #27 
  - And the conditions could be better. There's a lot of haze.  Canuckistanian   May-10-09 02:31 PM   #41 
  - They could have shot the plane from a helicopter while it was on the ground  Speck Tater   May-09-09 07:32 PM   #28 
  - Sigh, why couldn't that have been done with photoshop  tammywammy   May-09-09 07:35 PM   #29 
  - I think it's a cool photo, but not a particularly good photo.  Atman   May-09-09 09:45 PM   #33 
  - Cost was $300,000.00  MadMaddie   May-09-09 09:46 PM   #34 
  - How many meals could that have paid for in NYC? nt  JerseygirlCT   May-09-09 09:51 PM   #37 
     - Exactly...That's why Obama fired the guy.....  MadMaddie   May-10-09 02:19 PM   #40 
        - Right! Worlds away from "heckuva job, Brownie!" nt  JerseygirlCT   May-10-09 03:27 PM   #42 
  - Obama admitted tonight that is was Sasha and Malia taking  alfredo   May-09-09 09:52 PM   #38 
 

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