Obama marking 9/11 in Va. (No WTC visit planned)

Politico ^ | 9/1/2009 | CAROL E. LEE

[markomalley]

President Barack Obama plans to observe the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks with a visit to the Pentagon ...

... White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Tuesday. But Obama has no plans to visit New York City on the eighth year since the World Trade Center was destroyed.

"I believe he will go to the Pentagon that day, and go to the memorial there and speak after that," Gibbs said in his morning gaggle. "But we have not announced more details than that."

Asked after the gaggle if the president has any plans to visit New York City for the occasion, a White House official told POLITICO he does not and that is unlikely to change.

President George W. Bush marked the 9/11 anniversary with visits to lower Manhattan in 2002 and 2006. Last year, Obama and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), then Obama's rival for the presidency, both attended a memorial ceremony at the World Trade Center site as Bush dedicated a memorial at the Pentagon.

[Venturer]

Maybe he will just send Air Force One up to New York to fly around again.

[allmost]

First year in office he should make an appearance. Guess he doesn’t feel like it.

[gidget7]

Didn’t he forgo D-Day too?

[NativeNewYorker]

New York is where he goes for a date.

[RexBeach]

What’s he going to say, “we surrender!”

[stuartcr]

I bet if he didn’t go to the pentagon and speak, someone would say he hates the military.

[BilLies]

Apparently not enough Afro-americans were killed by the terrorists to make the trip worthwhile.

But if you’re talking dinner and a show you have my attention.

[gimme1ibertee]

Political strategery.

[thefactor]

no reason to go to NYC. there’s nothing but a hole! still!

[jessduntno]

New York is where he goes for a date.

And to “score a little bit of blow...no heroin, though.”

[Rickcbw]

He’s probably not going because there are no Broadway plays he’s interested in seeing while he’s up there. The filthy traitor!

[chris37]

That’s fine. I don’t want this skid mark anywhere near that site.

[ErnBatavia]

New York is where he goes for a date.

This'll mark the first time he's passed on an opportunity to that that big ole airplane for a ride.

[NativeNewYorker]

[Steve Van Doorn]

This by itself is not anything to rub his nose in.
Going to the pentagon is fine.

But going to the pentagon during Ramadan seems to be blasphemy. That is my opinion.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[jessduntno]

[allmost]

Not far by air. If he was concerned, both are easily doable. He might need another vacation afterwards, but...

[jacknhoo]

He’s done enough damage in NY already.