Picture of Barack Obama filling sandbags appear to be missing.

[Tim4319]

I do not want to jump to any conclusions! But, I just tried to Google pictures of Barack Obama filling sandbags with a kid in Quincy, Ill, and I cannot find one picture. As I stated before, I do not want to jump to conclusions. I know at one point, especially immediately following the event, there were tons of photos on Google. Now, all of a sudden I cannot find one. Has anyone else noticed this?

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Nothing is ever missing when you save it.

10-year-old Alvin Borntrager, left, and Noah Borntrager, right, fill sandbags with other volunteers at a sandbag station, Quincy, Illinois, 14 June, 2008.

In the background, center, Barack Hussein Obama talks to reporters as he also fills sandbags.

AP Photo/Seth Perlman, Copyright © 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2008 Yahoo All rights reserved.

[WinkyDink]

9. Omitted "Senator" and/or "Democratic candidate"and added "Hussein"??

Is McCain's middle name always used?

And "talks to reporters"? Looks like fellow workers to me (shovels, jeans).

Not to mention the lay-out: "Obama turns his back on the workers."

[FrenchieCat]

2. Here are some.....

[ColbertWatcher]

3. I like yours better! n/t

[FrenchieCat]

4. True!

You can see him actually working......

[ColbertWatcher]

5. I went looking for your first picture of him with the little boy...

...some time later on the day it happened or the next day and couldn't find it.

I had no details (which city, state, date, etc) I didn't even know if I was seeing the picture on the same day it was taken, all I could go on was that he was doing something with sandbags.

I picked the one with the Amish father and son because I just thought they were interesting.

[Tim4319]

10. Thank you

I've been trying to find these pictures for a long time!

[Forkboy]

6. And now found.

Gotta love DU. :)

[Forkboy]

7. Dupe post.

:silly:

[blogslut]

8. Google image search is unreliable

For various reasons, the primary being that so many of the images emanate from individual pages as opposed to news sources.

The photos that Frenchie Cat posted come from Yahoo News, via the AP:
http://news.yahoo.com/photos

However, eventually older photos on Yahoo/AP images get sent off to the land of the disappeared. For older images, try Getty:
http://www.gettyimages.com

[Tim4319]

11. Thank you for the info!

I will try and remember that for the future. Thank you so much.

[blogslut]

12. You're welcome

:)