President Obama to visit Ground Zero NYC Thursday

[RamboLiberal]

Breaking news Headline: http://www.cbsnews.com/

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Awesome!

[DCBob]

2. Of course the Rethugs will be screaming he's politicizing 9/11 and the killing of OBL..

When Bush did it, it was an incredible patriotic event.

[karynnj]

4. True - Bush had his convention in NYC - and had it as close to 911 as he could.

My daughter, a student living in NYC in 2004, spoke of how she and everyone she knew - well she attended the New School - was affronted that he chose NYC and inconvenienced them for months. But the animosity was not limited to students. She had a New York Liberty season pass and all the people in the area she sat in were furious that Bush was there - especially as it meant that for 2 plus months the Liberty had to play at Radio City Music Hall - which really did not work.

That fall, for what I think was a cultural urban anthropology class her project was to the record the feelings of people who lost "their place" and were "exiled" by the powers that be who took over Madison Square Garden. (She found many angered because they did not think that had the time of year been different the Knicks would have been kicked out. She found near universal dislike for Bush - not surprising because Manhattan went something like 81% for Kerry - and the disproportionately female and black audience likely made them far less for Bush that that!

NYC would NEVER have been chosen for the Republican convention. They hated NYC and everything it stood for before 911.

[karynnj]

3. Fantastic - I hope the speech is an outreach for America to come together and for Moslems

to reject terrorism. This is the time that he can be heard on both.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. Rumor is he will pull OBL's head out of a sack and toss it down the stairs.