Posted on 08/14/2010 1:36:24 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Speaking to reporters today, President Obama drew a sharp line under his comments last night, insisting that his defense of the right to build a mosque does not mean he supports the project.
I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there. I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding, he said.
Obamas new stance is logically consistent with his words last night, if a bit less clarion, as Mike Bloomberg called the first remarks. And there are certainly two possible stances here: Bloombergs, that the Cordoba project itself represents the best of America; and Obamas, that the freedom of religion is an important American value.
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No disagreement - my only son was at Ground Zero on 9-11 so this is up close and personal to me...
As some have reported obama is ripping open old wounds
Put gas in your car?
This...from the cork soaker who said "...the Cambridge police acted stupidly".
I think you meant that for goldi but I agree.
Yeah...thanks. Don’t know how that happened.
Maybe it was Frantzie that distracted me. ;^)
If we're lucky, perhaps both.
I am sorry to hear that. It can't get more personal than that. It ought to be personal to every American who has an ounce of loyalty to this country.
That book that has his name as author made perfectly clear that he would always side with Islam in any conflict it might have with the West. Here we have him being true to his Islamic upbringing. His school records from Indonesia make clear he was a Muslim during his elementary school days.
Sorry for your loss ...what is bad here is that Obama has no good reason to wade into this controversy....and every reason to stay out of it
I read Ben Smith at the link; he didn’t say much, as usual. Skimmed the comments, though, and it looks encouraging. It seems that the WORM (what obama really meant) apologists are starting to give up. There aren’t as many of them. The regime can publicly endorse the Victory Mosque all it wants; it is the job of the regime’s supporters in the general public to make the endorsement look legitimate. Likewise, the decision to vote ‘present’ after the fact depends on those same people. Kind of like jumping off the high dive and then discovering there’s no water in the pool. Rationalize the decision all you want on the way down, but gravity still wins. We’re the gravity in this case. Let’s keep up the pressure. This deal does not have to go through, despite the containerloads of Saudi cash that says that it will.
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