McCain, Obama Plan Joint Stop at Ground Zero
Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, opponents in this year’s presidential elections, announced Saturday that they would temporarily put aside their differences in order to visit Ground Zero, in New York, together.
The two will visit New York City to mark the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Both campaigns have further said they will not run any campaigns criticizing the other on that day. McCain’s campaign even went so far as to say that it would run no ads whatsoever.
“All of us came together on 9/11—not as Democrats or Republicans—but as Americans,” they said. “We were united as one American family. On Thursday, we will put aside politics and come together to renew that unity.”
It is a remarkable step. It goes to show that some of the ‘lets unite the country and reach out across the aisle’ rhetoric may actually be heartfeld; from both sides indeed.
On the other hand, one could also say that not deciding to play politics as usual is purely politics as well. After all, if one decides to be decent, the other has to do the same; if he does not, he will be destroyed by the media and public alike.
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