Bush's First N.Y. Stop Will Be Firehouse

It was the defining moment of his presidency, and for his first stop in the convention city, President Bush chose a New York audience that will evoke memories of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Bush was to meet Wednesday night with firefighters in Elmhurst, N.Y., about 10 miles from where terrorists crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center nearly three years ago. Campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel says conventioneers will be able to watch as Bush talks with the firefighters.

The president planned to rehearse his speech Wednesday at the White House before he and first lady Laura Bush leave for Columbus, Ohio, the final stop of the president's nine-state journey to the Republican National Convention. Ohio is a swing state dubbed Ground Zero of this year's election.

The event with firefighters is aimed at emphasizing the war on terrorism, a central theme of Bush's race for re-election. And it is designed to recall the day Bush visited Ground Zero three years ago - without the president actually visiting the attack site and inviting criticism that he was exploiting the tragedy."Sept. 11 is an issue of political symbolism and a question about who owns that symbolism," says Stanley Renshon, a psychologist and political scientist at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. "Bush has as much claim to it as anyone else since he was president when we were hit. But having said that, the Republicans are going to have to be very careful not to politicize it."

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if he would support a raise for them and if so why hasn't he done so yet.

notice how it said elmhurst, NY.

if he went to a NYC firehouse, they'd punch him in the face for fucking them over post-9/11.

They have to support him because they know if they don't and he steals the election they won't get a raise or any funding for equipment. It's life or death for them.

Not one firehouse in Manhattan would let him in?

New York Fire Fighter Locals Overwhelmingly Endorse Kerry for President.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x793310

No Class! Won't give them a raise but will use them for More Photo ops.

of this convention was written a long time ago right after they decided to have it in New York...before the controversy about using 9/11 as a theme.
Since they think they are all fired right about everything they do, they just kept to the message and are ignoring people because what do the peons know anyway.

For us country folk. New York's way too big for me to know much more than there's boroughs there I hear. :shrug:

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Or is it just the least hostile demographic area they could find in NYC?

and they've had the area closed off for 2 days already. People there are pissed. You should have heard what my mother called the folks at the Italian social club. It wasn't pretty.

According to http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/112779/index.php BUSH DIDN'T GET TO HIS DANCE-ON-THE-GRAVES FIREHOUSE PHOTO OP!!!!!

The transit authority even shut down the subways to Queens at 7pm, but THE LOCALS CAME OUT IN FORCE AND STOPPED THAT SHIT COLD.

Savor this moment, people. If bush had the guts to face his opposition, he could have gone to the firehouse.

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Uniformed New York firefighters endorse Bush

<http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040901-110733-2725r.htm>

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he can't stand up straight or tell another lie.