Quote Originally Posted by JSE
Re-read this again,

"I guess you did not get the point of my last post. Go figure? It's about timing. The flag drapped coffin in the President's add is clearly past tense and the families have laid the dead to rest. Should we ban all photos where coffins are present from this date forward? No, that would be stupid. But, we can have a little tact. In the case of the photo of the coffins on the plane, the families have just heard that there loved ones have been killed and they see a plane full of coffins that may very well indeed contain their son, daughter, brother, sister, whoever. Is that not a little insensitive? I don't really care who proposed the photo ban or for what reasons. I just think it makes sense. Simple as that."

And now read it again. I am not going to keep explaining it to you. If you don't get it. Too bad! It's not my job to make you understand things.

JSE

You didn't answer his question—you answered a question he did not pose. He asked how you FELT about Bush's use of the flag draped coffin for political gain and you gaven an EXPLICATION of the difference between the image in the political ad and the images coming off the plane (a quite compentent explication I might add). But the fact remains, you have yet to state how you FEEL about it, not that you are required to. I just thought I, myself, should explicate the difference between what was being asked of you and what you actually wrote. Personally, I felt disappointed that our commander in chief feels so politically bankrupt that he must turn to the cheapest emotionally charged resource to position himself politically. And don't forget this: Political gain may not be monetary profit, but it is a type of profit nonetheless and you shouldn't dismiss the fact that if you're disgusted by others trying to profit on the pictures of the dead coming home, you should be equally disgusted that a candidate would appropriate similar images for political profit.