Exactly right! Obama’s comments were idiotic as he said how Muslims have the right to practice their religion, etc. This issue is not about freedom of religion or the right of people to practice their faith. The issue is precisely about why Muslims want to build a mosque at Ground Zero, not whether they have freedom of religion in America.
And there are about 100 mosques in New York City. There is no shortage of places of worship, and no persecution of anyone worshipping at those mosques. Obama set up a straw man about freedom of religion and knocked it down. Why? To make liberals happy? To make Bin Laden and his boys happy?
Why in the heck did Obama bring up the subject of the mosque, if not as an endorsement of the plan? Today he’s backtracking and saying that he wasn’t commenting on the wisdom of putting a mosque there. I think that Axelrod, Rahm Emmanuel, etc. and him had a meeting to go over the overnight polling on the issue and realized this is very bad news for him.
You stepped in it, again, Mr. President, like when you weren't commenting about the wisdom of the Boston Police Dept, and it's too late to pretend you aren't in it now.