2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBest Line from President Obama's DNC 2016 speech
"Its the painting I keep in my private office, a big-eyed, green owl, made by a seven
year-old girl who was taken from us in Newtown, given to me by her parents so I wouldnt
forget a reminder of all the parents who have turned their grief into action."
http://www4.toledoblade.com/image/2012/12/18/600x600_ca732,922,2839,3725/Grace-McDonnell.JPG
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)stopwastingmymoney
(2,044 posts)PurpleWombat
(2 posts)I wish there was a way for that image to be turned into a "Forever" stamp in honor of the children of Newtown, but it appears that it potentially wouldn't meet the criteria for a stamp design: "The stamp program commemorates positive contributions to American life, history, culture and environment; therefore, negative occurrences and disasters will not be commemorated on U.S. postage stamps or stationery".
MADem
(135,425 posts)That's a "positive" contribution. The backstory is what it is.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)dembotoz
(16,866 posts)much better than some of the dreck stamps they offer....
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)If 1) we could get a good pic of just the owl, 2) could get some folks to pledge the amount, then the USPS will make stamps of the photo. If we can order 51 sheets or more (20 stamps/sheet) then the cost is $19.60. They are not, unfortunately, 'forever' stamps,
See http://photo.stamps.com/Store/learn-more/ for all the details.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)The massacre of those precious children still gets to him. As it should.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,530 posts)Tatiana
(14,167 posts)I am a strong supporter of gun control and common sense regulations. The image of those horrified children marching away, hand-to-shoulder is one I will never forget.
Botany
(70,675 posts)The pictures of him slumped over and being held up by a sofa are
sobering.
Years later the kids at Sandy Hook still bother him.
getagrip_already
(15,002 posts)O disclosed he has a "private office". I'm waiting the the right wing freak out over him keeping secrets from the country. What is he hiding! He might even have a personal computer there!
The horrors!!!!!!
wait for it... wait for it.....
{snark}
Ligyron
(7,648 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)You go through one of those disappearing doors in the wall to get to it.
He's not the first POTUS to use it--it's why the Oval looks so neat all the time--most of the work is not actually done there in recent years.
LBJ used the Oval heavily--but he had a bank of three televisions tuned to the major networks (NBC ABC CBS) in that room and he needed the space. He also had a news wire IN the office! He couldn't google but he could stay on top of breaking news...!
http://www.lbjlibrary.org/exhibits/artifacts-in-the-oval-office
I thought his line comparing the feelings of black mothers when their sons go out and the wives of police officers when they put on the uniform and go out the door was excellent. It painted the picture of the common humanity we possess in very graphic and timely terms.
stopwastingmymoney
(2,044 posts)IamTheNoodle
(98 posts)No matter the push back and defeats by Congress on gun control, the inspiration of that photo to fight on will never cease. It should become a permanent fixture in the White House.