A Day Of Truce

Thursday is the 7th anniversary of 9/11, and both Obama and McSame are planning to take a day off from whaling on each other and will make a joint appearance at Ground Zero.

The Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, in a statement, said they will appear together at the World Trade Center site on Thursday "to honor the memory of each and every American who died" in the 2001 attacks.

The campaigns already had agreed to suspend television advertising critical of each other on Sept. 11. The McCain campaign has said it will air no ads that day.

Both campaigns have been running negative television ads and, at the just-concluded political conventions, pulled no punches in exploiting partisan differences.

Obama and McCain said Thursday will be different.

"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."

What I fear this will turn into is each side pledging it will be the first to bomb Iran into a melted glass parking lot if it looks at Israel cross-eyed.

But then I don't expect that to change no matter who is in the White House, and it would have been the same if it was Hillary, Huckabee, Romney, Edwards, or anybody else running from these two parties.