Let me guess: the “Jersey Girls” are among those representing a “cross section” of families, right ?
Bush was absolutely correct in turning down this impostor’s offer at NYC. This POS p-Resident wanted a photo op for the 2011 campaign.
To be fair, if there are too many people around him, it may block the site line between him and the cameras. He wants to make sure there is a clear shot of him patting himself on the back
This guy is a complete coward. What was the security like when President Bush stood with the first responders with a bull horn? Now look at the security today at ground zero when the great one appears. The guy is a complete embarrassment.
Some folks say that Obama knows exactly what he's doing. I contend that this last paragraph suggests the opposite - the Administration is so inept they make the gang that couldn't shoot straight look like Special Ops sharpshooters.
This guy is nuts! Over 3000 Americans died there and he goes on a “I got Osamapalloza tour?” at ground zero? What an a-hole!
Just watching the live news feeds from ground zero and it doesn’t look like many people are lining the streets or anything to greet the Usurper. Just a bunch of police. Me thinks Obama’s political ploy/campaign stop is going to be an epic fail! People were turned off by his MEMEMEME speech and his hypocrisy on releasing the pics.
I am sure SEIU is being bused in as we speak though...(eye roll).
Were the SEAL’s able to recover Bin Laden’s signed copy of Audacity Of Hope?
And still about half the country voices approval for this kneejerk prevaricator who lies when the truth would be more convenient.--Color me disgusted to the point of nausea.
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Grandstanding. Nothing more.
I prayed all day yesterday that it would rain today to cause lower turnout.
Nope, the idiot gets a beautiful day to kickoff his 2012 campaign over our dead. dammit.
Why would they want to be there? It’s just a stop on the ‘I, Me, My Tour’. I’d rather have the flu.
In other words, Liberals and Obama supporters.
CAn’t have anyone there that might BOO the MEssiah during his great Taking-Credit-I-Don’t-Deserve moment for his adoring Mainstream Media worshippers, can we?
Obama - The Polished turd Of The United States - Looking good and shiny on the outside, but nothing but ???? on the inside!!!
All construction work has been stopped at the site.
The workers have been promised a meeting with messiah.
One question. Are there tee shirts?
9/11 Family Invited To Presidential Ground Zero Visit Snubs Obama
As 50 carefully selected families prepare to join President Barack Obama for a ceremony at the World Trade Center site Thursday, one of the invited 9/11 families have decided to pass on the Commander-in-chief’s visit.
Although many consider it to be a once in a lifetime invitation, the Vigiano family of Deer Park, Long Island have respectfully declined.
“If this form letter was the invitation, it was kinda lame,” John Vigiano told PIX 11 News when describing the email invitation sent to him from the White House.
Jan and John Vigiano received the email invite Tuesday and admitted that they nearly deleted it, thinking it was spam. The private invitation complete with the White House seal informed the couple about President Obama’s visit to the World Trade Center site just days after news broke about Osama bin Laden’s death.
What rubbed the Vigiano’s the wrong way was not what the email said, but how it was addressed.
“It says ‘Dear 9-11 family member,’ - no names” “ John Vigiano said, reading the invite aloud to PIX 11 cameras. “I don’t know if its disrespectful, but it doesn’t work for me.”
The Vigianos lost both their sons on September 11, 2001. John Vigiano Jr. was 36, and a FDNY firefighter, while their youngest Joe Vigiano was an emergency services detective with the NYPD.
“There is no closure,” a sobbing John Vigiano said. “There is none.”
The Vigiano family is just one of fifty families sent the exclusive invitation to meet the President at what is being billed as a historic visit to Ground Zero Thursday. With all that considered, the mourning father says he’s not going.
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http://www.wpix.com/wpix-family-unhappy-about-obama-visit,0,3547351.story
Many victims’ families received an invitation to the ceremony via email Tuesday night. Others, however, were not invited.
“I feel that every family member should have received an invitation,” said Maureen Santores, whose son, a New York City firefighter, was killed at the World Trade Center. “Everyone suffered the same and we should all be with the president to mark this.”
Those emotions, many family members said, are further complicated by Obama’s decision not to publicly release photos of a slain bin Laden, shot in the head.
other family members, releasing the photos – seeing the person who killed their loved ones – might give them closure, which they compare to family members being allowed to witness a murderer’s capital execution.
“The families have already been through so much,” said Bill Doyle, whose son Joseph was killed in Tower 1. “I know why people don’t want the photos released… but I know a woman whose husband was identified because they found his heart. How much more gruesome can the photos of bin Laden be?”
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/flurry-emotions-911-families-meet-pres-obama-ground/story?id=13530733