A tipster emailed us saying, "There's some sort of insanity from Fairway to the 72nd St subway station. Cops everywhere, streets closed off, flashing lights and no cars are budging - any idea what's going on?" Our stab in the dark: Possible motorcade for President Obama, who landed at JFK Airport this morning to attend the memorial for CBS anchor Walter Cronkite. The memorial is being held at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall and the expected guests include astronaut Buzz Aldrin, CBS News' Katie Couric, Andy Rooney and Bob Schieffer, and NBC News' Tom Brokaw, with musicians Jimmy Buffett, Michael Feinstein, Wynton Marsalis and the U.S. Marine Band.





get cracking on health care, real reform- not just puppet talk- and not on some mumbo jumbo tribute
I'd prefer if he'd step down and let someone with half a clue do something useful. Only problem with that is Joe Biden is about as trustworthy as a rattle snake.
Go home and get back to work!
this fuckin guy. if he's not on tv he's at some "event".
yeah, who'd expect the president to get out much? i guess he should be doing something useful like hunting armadillo on his ranch.
What a joke. Stay in school was O's message yesterday. Mine for today is get back to f-ing work. What the hell is biden for anyway.
Ah yes, the whopping 3 hours he'll be spending in New York will be the downfall of the nation.
3 hours here 3 hours there and pretty soon you are talking about real time. So yes with a whimper not a bang is how it all goes to shit.
And what about all the jet fuel, think of the planet people!
his fucking 3 hours in new york already cost me an hour and a half in midtown traffic. i hate, but can accept the UN traffic we'll see next week, but this is unforgivable.
Is "get back to work" this week's addlepated dittohead meme?
He probably does more work in an average day than most of these haters do in a week.
Yeah. He spends way to much time on his ranch. Oh. Never mind.
Oh GOD does it get my goat when presidents do things!
Jimmy Buffett? OMG, please don't tell me that Walter Cronkite used to spend his time wasted away in Marga.... No, please stop.
Anyone know why the FDR is shut down from the 60's all the way to Battery Park? Can't be for this....
Could be. In the past, Presidents have traveled to Manhattan by being flown on Marine One from the airport to the Lower Manhattan/Wall Street heliport.
A tribute from one tele-prompter reader to another. Empty suits of the world unite!
930 days on a ranch tending fences made the world a better place, but I digress.
Should change the name of the strawman argument to the bush defense.