WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2008
McCain, Obama To Appear At Ground Zero
Presidential Candidates Plan Joint Stop To Commemorate 7th Anniversary Of 9/11 Attacks
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Play CBS Video Video The 9/11 Pentagon Memorial David Martin reports on a new memorial which is set to open at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., in honor of the 184 victims who died there on that September morning nearly seven years ago.
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Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain plan to appear jointly at Ground Zero to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. (AP/Michael Conroy, Morry Gash)
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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.
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- As a Hillary Democrat, I am THRILLED to see that Obama is trailing McCain.
I will NEVER forgive him for trashing Hillary and Prez Clinton..... and how DARE him not to vet Hillary as VP even though Hillary won MORE votes than he did.
I want him to LOSE!!!!
Party Unity My A$$ - Reply to this comment
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- Clever piece of manipulation by US political journalism; tries to make it factual that the ''surge'' worked. The violence was actually reduced mostly due to Sunni ''awakening'' tribes on one hand, and Iran reigning in Al Sadr on the other. No wonder americans are easily led emotional wrecks - you believe all the rubbish you are fed.
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- YOU REPUBLICANS ARE FORCING PALIN DOWN OUR THROATS
Posted by GenerationC at 08:44 PM : Sep 07, 2008
If you don''t like her, don''t vote for her. It''s as simple as that.
Why do you have to shout about it? - Reply to this comment
- "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."
I remember all the cars and trucks driving around with stickers that said "United We Stand."
The problem was, we never had a meeting to agree on WHAT WE WERE UNITED ABOUT.
Within six months, we were hearing "Bush is to blame" and "Bush is Hitler." Instead of uniting us, the shameful ones (we ALL know who they are) used 9/11 to divide us.
Those divisions still run deep today. It''s ironic, the more recent crises related to energy and the financial world seem to have done more to unify public opinion.
They have unified us in the agreement that the Republicans have failed us. The Democrats failed us long ago, and after two years without the excuse of a Republican majority in Congress, the Democrats are failing us yet again. Congress has an even lower approval rating than the President.
We need a change. I hope it will be Obama. We have no choice. - Reply to this comment
- Have you been safe the last 8 years? Have the terrorists attacked us again?
Terrorists have not attacked the United States since September 11th, 2001 - about 8 months after President Bush took office. Seven years after the mass murders that were committed on 9/11, Osama Bin Laden, accused of plotting and implementing the attack, has not been captured. - Reply to this comment
- I don''t know why I have to repost this comment again, but since you believe in spamming your lies, I am going to repost it.
ABORTION: ALL THOSE MILLIONS OF DEAD BABIES.....
DID GEORGE BUSH OR THE REPUBLICANS DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT WHEN THEY HAD CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE ? NO.
WHY ? THE REPUBLICANS NEED ABORTION AS AN ISSUE TO DIVIDE US.
DID REAGAN ? NO.
DID NIXON ? NO.
DID FORD ? NO.
WELL...............
Posted by tonic1111 at 05:51 PM : Sep 07, 2008
Actually, the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act was passed by the REPUBLICAN controlled House and the REPUBLICAN controlled Senate and the REPUBLICAN President to eliminate all third trimester abortions. It''''s constitutionality was upheld in 2007 by the Supreme Court.
So yes, the Republicans DID do something about abortion. Stop your spreading your factless agenda and get actually do some research before you open you a comment. - Reply to this comment
ABORTION:. . . .
ALL THOSE MILLIONS OF DEAD BABIES.....
DID GEORGE BUSH OR THE REPUBLICANS DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT WHEN THEY HAD CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE ? NO.
WHY ?
THE REPUBLICANS NEED ABORTION AS AN ISSUE TO DIVIDE US.
DID REAGAN ?
NO.
DID NIXON ?
NO.
DID FORD ?
NO.
OBAMA WILL ALLOW CIVIL AGREEMENTS CONCERNING GAY PEOPLE.
NOT MARRIAGE.
OBAMA IS FOR THE SECOND AMENDMENT .
KEEP YOUR GUNS, JUST NO AK-47''''S.
OBAMA WILL GIVE TAX BREAKS TO EVERYONE EARNING UNDER 150,000 AND WILL TAX THE WEALTHY.
I AM A REPUBLICAN AND I AM TIRED OF PROMISES.
I DO NOT CARE IF OBAMA IS PURPLE.
I WANT A TRUE CHANGE- Reply to this comment
- ABORTION: ALL THOSE MILLIONS OF DEAD BABIES.....
DID GEORGE BUSH OR THE REPUBLICANS DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT WHEN THEY HAD CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE ? NO.
WHY ? THE REPUBLICANS NEED ABORTION AS AN ISSUE TO DIVIDE US.
DID REAGAN ? NO.
DID NIXON ? NO.
DID FORD ? NO.
WELL...............
Posted by tonic1111 at 05:51 PM : Sep 07, 2008
Actually, the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act was passed by the REPUBLICAN controlled House and the REPUBLICAN controlled Senate and the REPUBLICAN President to eliminate all third trimester abortions. It''s constitutionality was upheld in 2007 by the Supreme Court.
So yes, the Republicans DID do something about abortion. Stop your spreading your factless agenda and get actually do some research before you open you a comment. - Reply to this comment
ABORTION: ALL THOSE MILLIONS OF DEAD BABIES.....
DID GEORGE BUSH OR THE REPUBLICANS DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT WHEN THEY HAD CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE ? NO.
WHY ? THE REPUBLICANS NEED ABORTION AS AN ISSUE TO DIVIDE US.
DID REAGAN ? NO.
DID NIXON ? NO.
DID FORD ? NO.
WELL...............- Reply to this comment
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