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Obama’s Ideas

Posted on September 8, 2008 at 6:32 am

Barack Obama and John McCain issue a joint press release:

The rancor of the presidential campaign will come to a pause on Thursday as Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama jointly visit Ground Zero, the former site of the World Trade Center, in New York City. It will be the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack.

“All of us came together on 9/11 - not as Democrats or Republicans – but as Americans,” the pair said in a statement, the first the two campaigns have ever issued together.

Both candidates had planned to be in New York on Sept. 11 for events commemorating the attacks. On Friday, Obama called McCain to congratulate him on his convention and his convention speech the night before, according to an Obama aide. “While they were on the phone, Obama said that since they’d be in NYC together that they should go to ground zero together. McCain immediately agreed,” the aide said.

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One Responses to “Obama’s Ideas”

  1. bridgett writes
    September 8th, 2008 8:08 am

    How statesman-like of them both to agree to a joint appearance. Hopefully, this signals a less exploitative approach to national tragedy.

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