Posted on 05/05/2011 8:50:59 AM PDT by greatplains
NEW YORK — President Barack Obama arrived in New York City Thursday morning, on a mission to bury the memory of Osama bin Laden by honoring those who died in the fiery Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.
In private talks with families and a somber ceremony at Ground Zero, Obama wants to let New York have its own moment of justice.
His trip comes after the president sharply rejected calls to release photos of a slain bin Laden so the world could see some proof of death.
The president said he would not risk giving propaganda to extremists or gloat by publicizing grotesque photos of a terrorist leader shot in the head.
To those who keep on doubting, Obama said, "You will not see bin Laden walking on this earth again."
His government, meanwhile, insisted the shooting of an unarmed bin Laden during a daring raid in Pakistan was lawful and in national self-defense.
Obama's New York visit is intended to have a measured tone — not a bookend to President George W. Bush's bullhorn moment, but more somber and private.
White House spokesman Jay Carney called it a "cathartic moment for the American people."
Obama does not even have scheduled remarks during his trip. Yet it is likely Obama will make comments during his time at the 9/11 memorial, where he will lay a wreath. That ceremony is scheduled for 1.30 p.m. ET.
Obama will visit a bustling construction site that bears little resemblance to the pit that became ground zero in the months after Sept. 11, 2001.
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Ozombie Bin Laden.
They didn’t take his head off the first time.
ca·thar·tic
[kuh-thahr-tik]
–adjective
1. of or pertaining to catharsis.
2. Also, ca·thar·ti·cal. evacuating the bowels; purgative.
So, he’s evacuating his bowels? Live? On TV?! Ew.
Carney is such a doofus.
He was there with John McLoser the Infidel.
” bet he sat in front of the TV with his buddies Rev Wright and Louis Farrakan.”
Don’t forget the Weather Underground terrorist, Bill Ayers.
And I’m certain the SOB D I D cheer. I wasn’t joking one iota!
I bet they did!
I laughed ‘till I almost cried.
Thanks, guys, that was excellent.
My f-f-fellow Americans (pause for effect) and New Yorkers,
as we experience this (pause!) cathartic moment for the American a-people, this colonic (and a one and a two and a three) moo-moo-moo-movement, looking out upon your faces I w-w-wonder why (`Swannee River’! Way down upon...) you look so catatonic.
No matter how hard they try, the spin machine can not transform a dungslinger into a gunslinger.
true
Catharsis for me would be seeing OBL dead in the photos.
Our president is a lying scuzzbug muzzie.
Muzzies kill muzzies all the time... to stay in power.
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