Of course this is going to be a photo-op for Rudy! I don’t think, since he announced his intentions to run for president, that he’s not brought up 9/11 during any of his many speech engagements. Hell! According to Rudy, he spent more time at ground zero than anyone else!

But, we must give him the benefit of the doubt. After all, he has been attending the ground zero ceremonies every year since that tragic day. It will be interesting, though, to see the fancy footwork at play this year. Oh, he’ll work the ceremony. He’ll work it good!

Some balk at Giuliani role in 9/11 ceremony

Questions over appropriateness now that he’s a GOP presidential candidate

Each year since Sept. 11, 2001, Rudolph W. Giuliani has spoken at New York City’s commemorations of the attacks. At past ceremonies he has read off the names of some of the dead, given readings by Lincoln and Churchill, and recited poetry.

This year Mr. Giuliani is no longer just the former mayor who led New York in the wake of the attacks, but a leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. So when the city announced that Mr. Giuliani would speak next month at the sixth anniversary of the attacks, some relatives of people who died on Sept. 11 said they were dismayed, some because they feared his presence might inject politics into the event and others because they had been critical of him in the past.

“I think it’s disgraceful that he’s going to be there,” said James Riches, a deputy fire chief who lost his son Jimmy in the attacks, and who said that he faulted Mr. Giuliani as not giving firefighters the proper equipment before or after the attacks. “It’s a photo-op for him.”

Michael Cooper, The New York Times

Source: MSNBC.com