Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Obama and Beverly Eckert.jpg

Obama and Beverly Eckert

Reason: Good EV picture of a chilling and coincidental irony
Articles this image appears in: Continental Connection Flight 3407, Beverly Eckert
Creator: White House (Pete Souza)
Time Requirement: Y Added 15 February 2009. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 05:33, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. President Barack Obama shakes the hand of Beverly Eckert, the wife of a 9/11 victim. Eckert died in the Continental Connection Flight 3407 crash one week after this photo was taken. As a non-American, the many ironies of this image struck me. The obvious airplane collides with building connection. The handshake from the new President Obama immediately prior to her death and the fact that 9/11 happened so early in G.W. Bush's Presidency. The image seems to capture the human fatal tragic reality of 9/11 and links it to this, what I suppose could be termed a comparatively much more minor but nonetheless horrific, incident as well as involving arguably the most important political figure in the world today.

Support as re-nominator This has now met its time requirement and I feel still merits a run here at VPC. Previous !votes can be found in the collapsed box below. This nom is exactly the same as it was during its previous run through here (when it was nominated by Candlewicke). ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 05:33, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thought this was a striking picture when I saw it in the crash article. Fletcher (talk) 11:47, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support as original nominator. For all the reasons I've already given. --can dle •wicke 20:30, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Previous !votes have no weight on this iteration of nomination. If you !voted before, please consider !voting again. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 04:07, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Exceptional, one-off picture Tphi (talk) 19:15, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support I still stand by my origional support !vote :). All the Best, Mifter (talk) 02:03, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support, highly encyclopedic and valuable. J Milburn (talk) 19:50, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - How horrible this circumstance was... on the flip side, highly encyclopedic and striking. VX!^talk 20:01, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Previous Votes

Support as nominator --➨♀♂Candlewicke _S^T_# :) 02:49, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support My God, talk about irony. How terrible. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 19:52, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support per above. Tphi (talk) 21:07, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Mbz1 (talk) 03:55, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support Mifter (talk) 23:18, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - not eligible. For starters both articles this was in are around a week old. The photo itself was taken on February 6, 2009, making it less than two weeks old. So it doesn't jump the first hurdle of having been in an article for at least a month. Honestly, there's been grumbles about the limited extent of the criteria at VPC already, and even those are just being totally ignored. Please! --jjron (talk) 05:10, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Good catch, John!--Mbz1 (talk) 15:53, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - You're right, nice catch. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 03:22, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Actually, I would suggest that exceptional circumstances should be allowed. See my question on the talk page. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 18:57, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Probably should just speedy close it until it is eligible. Noodle snacks (talk) 13:12, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted - not eligible --jjron (talk) 13:17, 27 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Obama and Beverly Eckert.jpg ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 02:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]