President Obama in New York City to honor 9/11 victims, first responders

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President Obama in New York City to honor 9/11 victims, first responders

by Jed Lewison

Images from President Obama's trip earlier today to New York City, where he visited with 9/11 first responders and victims's families and laid a wreath at the 9/11 Memorial Plaza at the site of the World Trade Center (captions written by Reuters):



President Barack Obama talks with firefighters as he visits the Engine 54 Ladder 4 New York Fire Department firehouse at
Times Square in New York, May 5, 2011. The battalion lost 15 firefighters in the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings
on September 11, 2001. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)



President Barack Obama greets officers while visiting the First Precinct police station with former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (3rd R)
in New York, May 5, 2011. The First Precinct covers the World Trade Center and Ground Zero area and was first on the
scene during 9/11. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)



President Barack Obama carries a wreath accompanied by New York City firefighters and NYPD police officers during a
wreath laying ceremony at the National September 11th Memorial at the World Trade Center site in New York, May 5, 2011.
Days after the killing of Osama bin Laden, U.S. President Barack Obama met New York firefighters on Thursday before a
visit to Ground Zero to offer comfort to a city still scarred by the Sept. 11 attacks. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)

President Obama delivered remarks at the firehouse. A transcript is below the fold.

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1. K & R

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2. Obama and Rudy in one of those pictures... glad Rudy was along for

the ride.

Rudy NEVER talks about 9/11 does he??? Never has mentioned it in a speech, or in answering a question?

But seriously, I think it was appropriate for Rudy to be there, despite how he capitalized on it for the rest of his political career!

Obama couldn't refuse Rudy another chance to shine in the 9/11 spotlight.

Bush, on the other hand, wonder what Bush was afraid of.