Ground zero is seen from the north side of the site, May 5
President Obama boards Air Force One at the Andrews Air Force Base en route to New York
JFK
Marine One lands with President Obama at the Wall Street Landing Zone in New York
A Coast Guard boat patrols near the landing zone as President Obama arrives in New York
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President Obama and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani meet with firefighters and first responders at Engine 54, Ladder 4
President Obama views a memorial honoring deceased members of the FDNY at Engine 54 Fire House
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A poster in tribute to New York City Fire Fighters hangs on a phone booth outside the World Trade Center site, May 5
President Obama meets with police officers and first responders at the First Precinct
President Obama walks with, from left, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Port Authority Chairman David Samson, as they arrive for a wreath laying ceremony at the World Trade Center site
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President Barack Obama meets with Avery Wall, left, and Payton Wall, whose father died in the attacks at the World Trader Center
President Obama hugs Diane Wall, whose husband Glen Wall perished in the twin towers on September 11
President Barack Obama’s motorcade heads across Barclay St after his visit to Ground Zero
The Obama Diary 
Thank you so much. I was hoping for a running thread for today’s events as I’m at work and won’t have much access to video or other live reporting. I will be refreshing this page like crazy.
This is what matters: our President meeting with the families and those who want to move forward with resolve and healing doing so.
The talking heads don’t matter. The petulant bratty rethuglicans don’t matter. They never matter, but they especially don’t matter TODAY.
May today be a day of healing and reflection.
Viva Obama.
—-PJ (BOYCOTT THE MEDIA. Stop helping them attack your President!)
Well said PJ- agree with you on what matters today and what definitely does not matter.
Well said! Them Nuts are trying soooooo hard to make this about them, or what Obama should’ve done and should NOT have done….just SHUT UP & let this moment in history happen.
Good morning, Chipsticks and fellow believers.
EJ’s piece was very moving in that it spoke about the depth of Obama. Too bad, he had to add one zinger. Looks to be a good day.
I am looking forward to this day and I am so thankful to be able to share it here on TOD! =) Love to you Chips!
I am so proud of Our President and I send all my best wishes and prayers to New York with him. New York was always the place that I worked and loved. I lived in Maryland and made that trip every monday and back on friday. I stayed at the hotel at the world trade center and to this day I hate that total destruction of a beautiful corner of NYC.
I miss my home city, too :-(. I haven’t been back since 2008, but I’ve got to get back soon….no place like it.
—-PJ (BOYCOTT THE MEDIA. Stop helping them attack your President!)
I AM VERY HAPPY FOR THE PRESIDENT TODAY…HE’S LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS! HIS COMPASSION FOR THESE FAMILIES HAS LED HIM THERE.
I think he’s looking forward to meeting the families and fire fighters, too. I heard one of the family members saying that the President is human, too, and he needs to look the families in the eyes and have them say “thank you”, so he can know it was the right thing to do. That was a really nice statement. The family member also said that the President has a very hard job, and that what he did with OBL was gutsy and took a lot of courage.
That’s family member’s comment just made me tear…Thanks for sharing, I had not heard that.
I am so happy for and proud of President Obama;the Administration for their hard work;dedication and for capturing and killing OBL
I love that the President is meeting privately with the families of the victims of 9/11. This is not about him. He wants to listen more than speak, I imagine, and a private affair is the only way to do that.
I am always pleased to know that the President is in my beloved city. I went to my first OFA training meeting last night. I am fired up!
This President is wise, compassionate, and strong. I deeply love this man. For all his detractors and (unbelievably) undecideds, this man is profoundly loved by many people in this country and all over the world, and we are vindicated again and again.
God protect our President as he meets with the families of the victims of 9/11. Protect our city, our mayor and all those ensuring the safety of our city every single day. And God bless all those whose hearts have yet to heal even in the wake of OBL’s demise. Thank you, God, for our loving leader and wise protector. We are grateful. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Amen!
Amen
Also, as a New Yorker, I am very pleased that Guiliani is there. This means more to me than Bush being there.
I thought Gullian had a dress fitting appointment or something?
LOL!
too funny Fred 😆
God made a beautiful NYC day in anticipation of the visit of a beautiful man.
Here’s a clip of his arrival: http://nationaljournal.com/president-obama-lands-in-new-york-city-on-way-to-ground-zero-20110505
I wish he wouldn’t run down the stairs. Makes me nervous everytime I see him jogging down step of AF1. What a very emotional day for New Yorkers and the rest of the country.
Nah the jog down is the greatest most swaggaest part. People look forward to that. 😀
Yeah! He’s a young president and he doesn’t get drunk and run into things/fall into things (like other POTUSes not to be named), so he has that going for him, lol. Also, maybe the steps aren’t as treacherous as they look to us in pics…
Thanks for the vid, hachiko :-)!
—-PJ (BOYCOTT THE MEDIA. Stop helping them attack your President!)
For one thing, Junkessa, he doesn’t have to wear high heels!
someone we shall not name choked on a pretzel PoliticalDunkessa 😉
HA HA!!! I totally agree.
thanks hachiko! my goodness watching the secret service agents while the president shakes hands makes me feel so worried about his safety.
Wonderful pics …
I found a photo of the memorial stone for the firefighters: In Remembrance of the Heroic Firefighters of Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9
Thanks northanger, that’s a beautiful stone, very symbolic.
Thanks for the link Northanger, the stone Is Beautiful, I like 🙂
Thanks for providing us with this running thread. As to that video of PBO’s arrival, I really wish he wouldn’t run down those steps.
“When we say we never forget, we mean what we say”.
PBO said that meeting with the firefighters today. I used to live in Manhattan, thank you for those words Mr. President.
Gotta love the FDNY! *sniffle* 😦
—-PJ (BOYCOTT THE MEDIA. Stop helping them attack your President!)
Thank you for the updates. I am glad POTUS is not making this a big “mission accomplished” event. It is exactly as it should be solemn, classy, and emotional for me. The look on everybody’s face says it all.
Please make sure to see a video of the firefighters comments. They appreciated PBO’s visit saying the White House picked their location to show his respects (here’s an article that might explain the symbolic significance). PBO quickly broke the ice, Mayor Giuliani’s presence helped. Afterward, PBO took off his jacket and ate eggplant parmesan.
The firefighters also said, several times, how much they appreciate the military.
That article was very moving, Northanger, thank you for sharing it. It gave me a better background than I had before on the reality of the pain suffered by the firefighters. I imagine there are still moments even today when they remember and feel the pain of this awful massacre.
I think I appreciate the reality of that day too and what New York wants us to remember. Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9. That was the entire shift lost.
PBO at NYPD Precinct One right now. Then going to lay the wreath.
To All:
Thank you for the lovely welcome the other day. I see many old friends here 🙂
I am not ashamed to say I am a “bot.” I have never “known” a POTUS, or a human, for that matter like BHO. This country and the ALL countries are so fortunate he is in the WH.
I agree whole heartedly with that comment gc. The whole world are lucky that PBO is in the White House. God bless your amazing President.
I have been reading your very intelligent, insightful comments on WSY for some time now, gc, and I feel as if I already know you as a member of the Obama Democratic Party! I check WSY everyday, but I don’t always comment. I’ve found it to be a very useful source of information to post on my FB wall.
What is WSY?
W.E.E. See You Website
http://weeseeyou.com/
Thank you so much, maji. But we actually knew each other from BK. I was “Another Ct Dem.”
NYPD | 9/11 Memorial :: Fidelis Ad Mortem
Just had to share this with you guys:
http://jalopnik.com/5798920/indy-500-to-trump-youre-fired Hahahahahahaaaaa!!!!! Too sweet.
Hahaha. Keep us posted. This would be poetic justice indeed.
🙂 🙂 🙂
—-PJ (BOYCOTT THE MEDIA. Stop helping them attack your President!)
I live in Indy and called the Indy 500 folks twice today to demand the rescind their invite.
YEAH!!
This is heartwarming. I’m glad people are starting to stand up in greater numbers against this racism.
Ha, ha. . . one of the comments . . .
“Great . . . Donald Trump is the Lady Gaga of politics.”
And someone replied to that, Marlz,”Don’t insult Lady Gaga!”
FINALLY! Open love and admiration and RESPECT for the president of the United States! FINALLY!!! So, so, so happy that his man is finally getting what he deserves for SOMETHING he’s done for this country. Finally.
Love him so!
CNN is showing shots of (I think) a firefighter holding the wreath the President will present.
All I can think is F* U RUDY!! Looking like a lil kid running BEHIND Obama after you be talking all that Jazz!! He makes me sick!! The way he brings up 9/11 like it was A GOT DAYUM Photo Op for him!
Besides all that, I lOVE MY PRESIDENT, he’s so caring and respectful of EVERYONE! (Even Rudy’s punk a**!)
He used 9/11 to get Bush reelected in 2004. SMDH. I will never respect him.
Really!! And I know he was there & it meant alot to the people in NY and as I watched I thought it was special for him to go there, right then……BUT NOW, after he bring it up every 5 seconds and then brings up how QUICKLY HE RAN THERE, I mean it ALL THE TIME! So, I actually feel now, that when he heard what happened his crazy mind DID think it would be a great photo op! I really do! I don’t hate people, BUT I ALMOST HATE THAT MOFO!!
And me NEITHER! 😦
This came across my twitter stream: @Mark Knoller:
At Pres Obama’s request, a 14year old girl, Payton Hall, was invited to the ceremony. She wrote him about the loss of her dad on 9/11.
From the pool report on the wreath-laying ceremony (which also has some more great photos):
One of the youngest in attendance was 14-year-old Payton Hall. As is his habit, Obama read some of the letter sent to the president on Monday, including one from Hall. Payton lost her father, Glen James Wall, in the World Trade Center attack and wrote about how she has handled the loss. So Obama asked that she be invited to the ceremony. When White House staff called Payton’s mother, she had no idea that Payton had written the president. Payton, her mother, her sister and her friend (who also lost her father on 9/11) all were in attendance.
I think it Payton is in the photos above…. three girls and mother in Stilettos.
I’m still checking, but I think those were the first people President Obama greeted after laying the wreath.
Hi Northanger, I just found a caption that included the woman’s name – she’s Diane Wall:
“….New Jersey mother and 9/11 widow from Rumson, Diane Wall, along with her two young daughters Payton and Avery, waited and watched….Obama walked over to the Rumson mother and her daughters, embracing one of the young girls fully, and seconds later hugging and kissing the mother on the cheek … Diane Wall’s late husband, Glen, had perished on 9/11 while working high in the World Trade Center, at Cantor Fitzgerald. They also stood with one other teenage girl who was said to also have lost her father on 9/11.”
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/05/obama_arrives_at_ground_zero_f.html
Thanks Chips! I’m so glad Ms. Payton Hall wrote President Obama and she could be there today to honor and remember her father. As well as her friend’s father.
And thanks so much Hachikō for posting this.
President about to present the wreath. He’s shaking hands with those outside.
President carried wreath with the firefighter — it’s primarily white with red and blue flowers and leaves. They both carefully placed the wreath on a wooden stand with a hook on it. Then stood by and they bowed their heads and gave their respects for a moment.
Thanks for the updates :-).
—-PJ (BOYCOTT THE MEDIA. Stop helping them attack your President!)
My pres is cool and fine. I forgive the lady for hugging him sooo long – just this once.
LOL!
Proud back off immediately, he is mine and only meeeeee.
Hey Me4Obama, you’d better be getting to NY to get that pretty lady who was hugging him waaaaaaaaaaaay too long. Fact, we should team up.
Well no teaming up. If u don’t back off I will send the navy seals at your door steps.
LOL!!!!
He’s a hugger!
Sharing is Caring ladies ….by the way He is mines… ha..
Everything was okay until I saw Rudy Giuliani…. There goes my dinner.
a despicable man.
You know he would not pass up a minute to be involved with anything that has to do with “the community organizer” and a noun, verb and 911. Turd.
THANK YOU!!!
We have to rise above it as despicable as he is. If our President can, we can.
ROFL
The wreath was laid near the Survivor Tree, a pear tree that survived the 9/11 attack & nursed back to health.
What a lovely ceremony.
I want to hear about the food and which firefighter cooked today. 🙂
Eggplant Parmesan, scallops, shrimp, pasta in cream sauce. Don’t know who made it yet! 🙂
Joe Ceravolo 🙂
Firefighter Joe Ceravolo, who cooked a lunch of shrimp, veal and eggplant parmesan for the president, said the firehouse “just wanted to tell him we thank him for what he did on Sunday, and all the troops… If it weren’t for them, we’d still be chasing this guy.”
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I want to thank President Obama for setting the right tone. He really made this First Responders Day.
Glory be, the salad had “dijon” in the vinagrette, and the salad was “mixed” greens….you know there was some “arugula” in it 😀
“a spring mix salad with dijon balsamic vinaigrette” 🙂
a very “elitist” salad 😉 😆
Exactly 😀
Nice. Thank you, northanger.
He also said President Obama loved his Eggplant. Which will make Michelle very happy!!
Why is Eugene Robinson now waxing poetic about Condoleeza Rice? And that morphed into compassion for the Bush administration. Triple grrrrrrrrr!
I told ya, Robinson is better in print than on TV. On TV, he becomes a babbling dewfus.
I’ve had to give up the media entirely today. After the birther nonsense, one would have thought they’d show some respect this week, at least. They’ve been worse than usual. I”m just enjoying the images and stories from the families. The media is beyond redemption.
Thought I would post a a very telling email a friend of mine received from a woman she has been corresponding with in Pakistan:
Hello.
We are so happy personally,some Pakistanis are anger due to their un known action but most of the people are happy.they even do not want to know how it happened So many questions arises there,,,,,,,,
How did he entered in Pakistan?what he was doing their?Who helped him?how is it possible no body knows somebody is living their.
There is excessive corruption in Pakistan Then how is it possible our Government will think about us. He just know to hang the Christians in case of Insult of Islam.
Our Christians were burnt in Gojra Pakistan just because of their anger. All the time we are facing pressure and increasing During the month of December,New year or Easter.In most areas Christians go to work on our festivals.
We are happy because if America tell the Pakistan we want to do this operation it will never happen what people are listening and watching today.
Any how Pakistan supports these people is wrong we do not know hows it happened,who was doing this.
our some angry persons who may be angry but most of the peace loving people are happy.
we are just praying for Pakistan
We are happy what America had done is out good.
Take care
bye
Thank you so much for sharing this. My prayers are for the People of Pakistan as we continue to sort out all the implications here.
btw, Emily at Angry Black Lady strongly recommends a book by Anatol Lieven called “Pakistan: A Hard Country”.
If you’re pressed for time — or if foreign relations isn’t enough your bag that you want to commit to 480 pages — you would be very well served by reading just the book’s 38-page introduction, where Lieven carefully lays out the parameters of his subject and the outlines of his conclusions — but if you do have the time, I highly recommend diving i
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Lieven grapples successfully with a truly gobsmacking amount of information, transforming it into a lucid — and not incidentally, fascinating — whole, parsing the social and cultural tapestry woven from Islam, kinship ties, the military, and global expectations and pressures (indeed, a sort of patchwork tapestry, as each small section of the tapestry is overlaid with, and butts up against, unexpected intricacies), pointing to issues that few on this side of the ocean appear to have even begun to consider (such as population growth and the climate: “In the long run,” Lieven writes, “the greatest threat to Pakistan’s existence is not insurgency but ecological change”).
For all those who were saying PBO is thin skinned, well I can tell you his skin must be like a rhino’s because he has to put up with the likes of that hateful Rudy, who’s pimping off the AMAZING that is President Obama. Like Hammer used to say, “you can’t touch this”.
Yup yup. As the recent Guardian article was headlined, PBO is Gulliver in the midst of Lilliputians. ‘Nuff said.
The young ladies the President met with today were so pretty and excited to meet him. Glad he was able to put a smile on their face.
Did I see that fat turd, Chris Christie, in a photo? Gag me! Who invited him?
Yeah, why was he invited?
Heehee. My thought was, “what’s fat boy Christie doing there?” He just had to come and suck up to the President. Ugh.
As much as I hate Governor Chritie, there were a lot of people from NJ that were killed on 9/11 so it doesn’t surprise me if it as President Obama that invited him.
should read wouldn’t surprise me if it was President Obama.
THANKS for the pics and video
OT but had to post. Coward Chump has backed out of the Indy 500 with the lie that it will interfere with his presidential campaigning. Truth is people like me (I called twice, yay!) put the heat on the folks at Indy 500 and told them not to support a racist.
Ha ha.
http://www.indystar.com/article/20110505/SPORTS0107/110505008/Trump-backs-out-driving-Indy-500-pace-car?odyssey=mod|breaking|text|IndyStar.com
Excellent news, but really, Trump doesn’t have to worry about interrupting his nonexistent, failed-before-it-begins presidential campaign. I hope he really becomes a parriah. People need to start understanding that their neanderthal beliefs are not welcome or acceptable.
Theo, you got me rolling over with laughter, too funny
Yeeeeeees Facebook campaign DUMP THE CHUMP paid off.
Not “paid” off, but certainly paying off. We want NBC to dump him, and if they won’t, we want the advertisers to dump his show on NBC.
He should become a pariah and scorned wherever he goes.
I knew once Trump touched the birth certificate issue that he had sealed his fate. His life will never be the same. Because he’s an idiot, he couldn’t see the big picture, but he’s going to pay for his campaign of hate for a loooooong, looooong time.
—-PJ (BOYCOTT THE MEDIA. Stop helping them attack your President!)
I was on a tour boat in Chicago yesterday, and when they pointed out the Trump tower, the audience booed. On the tour bus the day before, the driver mentioned that many people hope the Trump tower will be the last one he does, and a woman next to me said that it just figures that Trump would take the best view in Chicago. The sentiment against Trump is spreading, as it should.
That picture with Chris Christie, Cuomo, Bloomberg et al say it all. Christie is truly a diminutive in the Presidential look department. President Barack Obama just towers literally and metaphorically, above all the competition. As for the pic alongside Giuliani? My! what a comparison. Giuliani does not measure up one whit.
PBO was so charismatic, sensitive, engaging and thoughtful at ground zero today. What a phenomenal President we are blessed with.
Praise God these firefighters, families, friends and the city of NY got JUSTICE.
President Obama you are a gift!
Amen Perry!
Amen!
BREAKIG NEWS. President to meet with the navy seals tomorrow. Lord have mercy on me.
Oh wow! That is awesome.
Fort Campbell on Friday.
Wow!…My goodness!
fantastic 😀
GOD bless them and thank you
Navy Seals or the Army Troopers that flew them there? I think Fort Campbell is an Army base. The Seals are from Virigina.
I think it’s the Army Troopers. It’s in Kentucky, right?
Yeah, I just read somewhere that he will meet with the Seals also. It will probably be closed press as I don’t think they will reveal these guys identity.
Source: Obama to meet with SEALS Friday at Fort Campbell
President Obama will meet Friday with some of the troops involved in the operation that took out Osama bin Laden, administration officials said. The meeting will occur at Fort Campbell, Ky., where Obama will also speak with soldiers just back from Afghanistan, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. According to the Associated Press, Obama will meet with SEAL team members from bin Laden operation at Fort Campbell on Friday.
Obama to visit Fort Campbell
Helicopter pilots from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, which has a battalion based at Fort Campbell, supported the SEALS team that killed bin Laden in the compound in Abbottabad, near the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. One hundred thirty members of the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division returned from Afghanistan on Monday after a one-year deployment.
*side eye at fake-ass Christie’s corpulent self*
I wish he WOULD run for president. 50 state Obama roll!
—-PJ (BOYCOTT THE MEDIA. Stop helping them attack your President!)
Well, Ijust wish he would RUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN Period.
LOL! PBO “When Michelle said you should run, she didn’t mean for President” ROFL
thank you so much for these updates Chipsticks, the hugs at the end with the family members about did me in.. I am so grateful they have this man, this President to cling to.
To know/meet him is to love him. The guy is just Class personifed.
He really is such grace and class. So dignified. What a phenomenal man he is.
This is interesting. PPP poll about how many people believe PBO was born in America since he released his long-form birth certificate. A nugget:
“The biggest change came among Republicans, as 14% now say Obama was born outside America, down 17 points from last April when 31% of GOPers said the same thing.”
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/birther-population-plummets-after-obama-released-birth-certificate.php?ref=fpb
The ones who watch FOX News and nothing else? And their Trump couldn’t provide any reports from his “investigators” in Hawaii, so I guess they grudgingly accepted the truth.
I love motorcade photos :-).
—-PJ (BOYCOTT THE MEDIA. Stop helping them attack your President!)
Please let it be untrue that he had a gun –
Witnesses say man may have pulled gun as Obama motorcade passed near Ground Zero
Authorities apprehended a man who witnesses say may have pulled a gun out of a backpack as President Barack Obama’s motorcade passed today in New York.
The man, who wore a blue hat, had dark curly hair and appeared to be in his 20s, was wearing a backpack. New York Police Department officers and Secret Service agents shouted, “Get down, get down,” and tackled the man at the corner of Church and Vessey Streets in lower Manhattan.
Obama had just left the World Trade Center site and his motorcade was turning from Vessey Street to Church Street when the incident occurred in front of the Church Street Station Post Office.
The man was taken into the post office as dozens of officers from various organizations arrived to assist.
Two photographers, from the New York Daily News and the Associated Press, snapped photos of the man as he was taken down. They went into the post office with police to show them the photos.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/05/authorities_apprehend_man_witn.html
New York city police officers arrest a man near ground zero
Stupid bastard. Thank you Secret Service and NYPD et al for being on the job. Really, people out there you do not want to go after our President.
THROW THE BOOK AT HIM.
OMG, NO! Thank God for all the protection around our President. Why are there so many nuts out there who could even possibly think of doing something like this??????????
Punk! >:-(
—-PJ (BOYCOTT THE MEDIA. Stop helping them attack your President!)
Damn shame. I’m glad CNN and the other new organizations didn’t get word of this during the wreath laying ceremony. It would have ruined the moment.
Nevermind. It happened afterwards, I misread.
THANK GOD for the Secret Service.Shoot that MOFO
The “Beast” is bullet proof. President Obama was not in danger. However, some policeman in the motorcade could have been seriously injured or worse. Thank God nothing happened.
Omg. Am saying a little prayer now for the president and the secret service
Our prayers ARE working, M4O. Let’s keep them going!!!
The are reporting he was questioned and released http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/05/man_detained_by_ny_police_duri.html
He sounds like a bone-head who will probably never do this again.
Thank God it was nothing. Glad to know that the Security Services were on their toes – thanks guys. Better safe than sorry.
What a dignified and beautiful ceremony and set of meetings. My heart goes out to NYC, those who have fought in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and our President.
oh my gosh…super scary.
It has worried me today thinking of PBO in NYC with so many people and buildings. I’ve been wondering how the secret service can screen everyone/everywhere in an outdoor city event.
I’ve been wondering how the secret service can screen everyone/everywhere in an outdoor city event.
Yeah *M* I often wonder the same thing. How do the Secret Servicemen protect PBO, with a lot of people around????
For anyone who doesn’t mind clicking on a DKOs, this diary is a collection of all those great, funny memes from this last week. Highly recommend it for a good laugh.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/05/973012/-Photo-diary:-Some-of-the-best-Obama-memes-of-the-week
VIDEO: Biden lays wreath at Pentagon
As President Obama visited ground zero in New York City Thursday, Vice President Biden was joined by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to lay a wreath at the Pentagon to commemorate 9/11 families and responders.
Guy, you have to watch this. http://bit.ly/ObamaOsamaSPOOF the young man is really good. You’ll love, trust me. 🙂
Hachiko thanks for the belly laugh. That end walk almost had be rolling over.
hater’s gonna hate had me crying 😆
O.k. That was good.
“Oh, that’ll be two terms please. Thank you!”
That end walk was good.
Thanks for sharing.
ObamaBiden2012&I’mIn
That was great!yzAD
Disregard the yzAD….? Typo!
Thank you president Obama, may God bless you and the people of New York.
I prayed last night knowing he would be in NYC with all those people and huge buildings. Everyone isn’t a fan of his and there are some nasty, filthy, ignorant people in this world. I am so glad that SS could obtain and arrest this man. Why would anyone want to wish death upon anyone? Especially MY PRESIDENT?? Something is mentally wrong in his mind or he needs JESUS. Probably BOTH. I’m so glad Mr. President is safe. God was truly watching over him. His is work is not done.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7365013n
Chipsticks, a new 60 minutes clip! On Bin Laden’s burial.
My favorite remembrance at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville is by Jeff Ray and here’s the photo of his sign: I Did not Forget
The Beast looks BADA**. It’s freaking huge. Glad my President is well protected.
The Beast + President Obama = BADA**. WHO WANT SOME?? Lol
ObamaBiden2012&I’mIn
Isn’t the Beast something? The last time the Prez was in London for G20, it couldn’t park on a street by St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Sq. as they were scared it would go thru into the Crypt below – it’s that heavy!
The poster of the fallen firemen in the picture above has the Chaplain of the Fire Department at the top as if in clouds. He was the first recorded fatality. His name was Father Mychal F. Judge OFM. I remember them carrying him out. It devastated the fire fighters and it was the beginning of the end for so many. Remember the Frenchman who just happened to be at that Fire Station when the call came in of the 1st airplane. He road along with them and was inside with the chief and his camera scanned over to Fr. Mychal and he was pacing in the lobby praying and within a few seconds he was dead.
IF you saw that video you could hear the large thuds as people hit the pavement after jumping out the windows. The chief was startled and said “What’s that?” and then he look out the window and recognized what wss happening and calmly said “I think we need to go another way to see if we can get up there. All the time this was being recorded. I’ll never forget that.
I know those first responders were so happy to see our President and the young letter writer with her mom and friend. The young boy on the other side is looking down poor little guy. It was such a moving experience to see all these pictures Chips. Thank you. You are our first responder with all the pictures.
I just watched the fire fighter interview. Near the end that reporter asking questions was real scum as he tried to get the Chief to say something bad about Bush. But the Fire Chief is smart and would not let himself be pulled into a blame game. Good job on him.