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| McCain, Obama Plan Joint Stop At Ground Zero |
| 2008-09-06 |
| Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama said Saturday they will put aside partisan politics for a joint appearance at Ground Zero to mark the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, in a statement, said they will appear together at the World Trade Center site on Thursday "to honor the memory of each and every American who died" in the 2001 attacks. The campaigns already had agreed to suspend television advertising critical of each other on Sept. 11. The McCain campaign has said it will air no ads that day. Both campaigns have been running negative television ads and, at the just-concluded political conventions, pulled no punches in exploiting partisan differences. Obama and McCain said Thursday will be different. "All of us came together on 9/11 -- not as Democrats or Republicans -- but as Americans," they said. "We were united as one American family. On Thursday, we will put aside politics and come together to renew that unity." A group backing community service, MyGoodDeed.org, wants Sept. 11 to become a national day of voluntary service and had asked that Obama and McCain perform acts of community service instead of campaigning. Nearly 3,000 people were killed after hijackers rammed passenger airplanes into the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon. The death total includes 40 passengers and crew members aboard the fourth hijacked plane, United 93. It crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pa., as passengers rushed the cockpit, investigators believe. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #7 I haven't checked figures, but Gov. Palin may have an unfair advantage over Joe . . . . Ya think? She could probably reduce him to a quivering heap with a sidewise glance. Sarah Palin doesn't just open up a can of whoop-ass--she grows it and cans it in her own kitchen. |
| Posted by: Mike 2008-09-06 23:39 |
| #6 At the start of the first debate, Johnny Mac should light up a cig and leave it smoldering where it wafts over to O's podium.....sweeeeeet |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-09-06 22:05 |
| #5 IIRC, John is 5'9"ish. Short and stocky like all good fighter jocks. The heart to brain distance with a good muscle build helps keep fighter jocks from blacking out. When I watched Palin give her speech and McCain came out after, she was about his height in heels. It didn't seem awkward or strange and didn't really think of it until now, so I think they are OK for the height thing. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-09-06 21:56 |
| #4 He's younger and taller than McCain, which is why the no-joint-appearences thing is baffling. Aside from having to speak, I'd think he'd want to been seen side-by-side. Also, since he's quit smoking, even his voice has raised a few notches - no more of the smoke-aided baritone. I haven't checked figures, but Gov. Palin may have an unfair advantage over Joe, in that she could jack up her heels and look him eye to eye. Joe doesn't strike me as tall, but again it's worth checking. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Asymmetrical Reply Division 2008-09-06 19:52 |
| #3 Well he needs to get positive publicity somehow, minister. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-09-06 17:25 |
| #2 This is another flip for THE ONE. He wasn't going to DO joint events with McCain. Now he is. Huh. |
| Posted by: Minister of funny walks 2008-09-06 16:59 |
| #1 Follows are a few quotes from The Lord of the Hoops pastor of 20 years. Maybe he'll want to use selected portions during his visit: “We bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye. “Kids playing in the playground. Mothers picking up children after school. Civilians, not soldiers, people just trying to make it day by day. “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff that we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-09-06 16:33 |