Pataki Nixes "Freedom Center"

NY 1 News (Hat tip to Cox & Forkum) ^ | 28 Sept 2005 | NY1 News

[ConvservativeVet]

GOOD NEWS, GOOD NEWS!!!!!!

george Pataki FINALLY grew a spine on this one.

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1493116/posts
Governor Pataki Says No to IFC at Ground Zero!

[HKMk23]

OKAY. Home team takes Game One. But watch out, just like Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction" it'll be comin' up outta the tub at least one more time.

[samadams2000]

What a noble fine statesman like.....zzzzzz

Remember moderates give cover to the extremists.

[rmlew]

Good news.
However, Pataki did this only to run for President (delusional, huh) and after Hillary expressed opposition.

[NonLinear]

Totally agree!

[Txsleuth]

Finally, some GOOD NEWS today about something...

I prayed really hard that that center would not be allowed to go in there....

[ncountylee]

"We consider our work, therefore, to have been brought to an end."

Turn the lights out and these roaches will be back.

[NRA2BFree]

Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, on the other hand, was much more blunt, saying "The governor has made the right decision."

I agree with Guiliani. It should only be to honor the WTC victims.

[NRA2BFree]

Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, on the other hand, was much more blunt, saying "The governor has made the right decision."

I agree with Guiliani. It should only be to honor the WTC victims.

[hoboken109]

This just shows that people like us can accomplish thing when we apply pressure and keep it there.Hillary must be out next target

[Marine_Uncle]

IMHO, ground zero should be left empty. Put a huge flag poll in the center of it with a huge American Flag. Let it be a place for all to visit, and just gaze at. No museums or anything else are needed. Put back a lot of rubble around the flag. Make it look like it did shortly after 9/11.
And every night at colors, a color guard and bugler play evening colors lower the flag, and each morning let them play morning colors and raise that magnificent flag.

That is all that site needs. That is all America and foreign visitors need to see. Remeber Pearl Harbor, and remember 9/11.

[Calpernia]

He was all we had to work with.

[OldFriend]

Mayor Blooming-idiot stands alone in defending this travesty.

He knows there are more America haters in NY than patriots.

[DocH]

Pretty good move for a RINO. Thanks Governor Pataki.

[finnman69]

Pataki's stock just rose.

[RobbyS]

Good deal. Any museum should be like the one at OKLAHOMA CITY.

[11Bush]

Light it 24/7 and leave the colors up and I like the idea.

[soloNYer]

Kinda sad when "republican" Pataki has to be slammed over the head numerous times with a Soros-backed liberal-to-the-hilt "freedom (let's bash the US) center" at the site of ground zero, opposed by the bulk of the 9/11 families as well as anyone who has ever voted for a Republican in their lifetime, before he releases a lame statement that he tried to give them the chance to "clarify" their intentions but there's just too much opposition. Read: I'm sorry IFC, I don't have a backbone to "clarify" what you really represent, but luckily there's enough opposition that I can deny you without looking like a real bad guy to liberals. By the way, I'd like to be President! Did anyone see me go to China or whatever? (cricket...cricket)

My state needs to be dragged to the woodshed for a severe beating.

[SaveTheChief]

Pataki said Wednesday that he's given the center a chance to clarify its intentions, but there's just too much opposition the American hating leftists were caught red handed.