Posted on 08/15/2010 9:05:33 AM PDT by yoe
The White House on Saturday struggled to tamp down the controversy over President Barack Obama’s statements about a mosque near Ground Zero — insisting Obama wasn’t backing off remarks Friday night where he offered support for a project that has infuriated some families whose loved ones died in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Obama’s comments placed him in the middle of the controversy over a Muslim group’s plans for a mosque near the site of the 2001 attack — and in turn, transformed an emotion-laden local dispute in New York into a nationwide debate overnight.
Republicans pounced, amid early signs that the issue would seep into some state and congressional contests. “It is divisive and disrespectful to build a mosque next to the site where 3,000 innocent people were murdered at the hands of Islamic extremism,” said Florida GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio. His opponent, Charlie Crist, a Republican turned independent, came out in support of Obama’s comments.
And Democrats — at least some who were willing to comment — could barely contain their frustration over Obama’s remarks, saying he had potentially placed every one of their candidates into the middle of the debate by giving GOP candidates a chance to ask them point-blank: Do you agree with Obama on the mosque, or not?
That could be particularly damaging to moderate Democrats in conservative-leaning districts, already 2010’s most vulnerable contenders.
[snip] Obama’s comments Friday night — at an Iftar dinner at the White House marking the start of Ramadan — were widely reported as offering support for the specific mosque project in question near Ground Zero.
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Amen.
I'm done.
Indeed you are.
Don’t froth at the mouth. This isn’t about YOUR views. It’s about the attacks on America, even though people from other countries were affected.
Wikipedia, to me, is notoriously lacking in REAL info. It is NOT the Bible. Give yourself a break and stop trying to read death and destruction into every post here.
I agree, and thanks for your comments.
I have a hard time considering Ramadan to be a true "fast" since the purported "fast" ends temporarily every day at sundown. To me, that would be much more appropriately described as "skipping lunch".
No thanks necessary. ;o]
(I got yer bak!)
Whenever he is talking to like-minded folks, his true feelings emerge.
I don’t mind them just doing it until sundown but it seems silly to gorge yourself at night. They should just have a normal evening meal. They make an awful big deal over skipping two meals.
Maybe this is what makes some of them so mean- they’re hungry.
The posted article uses the phrase “moderate Democrat.” There is no such thing. There are those who will vote for Pelosi for Speaker and those who will not. Nothing else matters.
Why are 100% of Rape / Assaults in Oslo, Norway, committed by Muslims?
“The police in the Norwegian capital Oslo revealed that 2009 set yet another record: compared to 2008, there were twice as many casses of assault rapes. In each and ever...y case, not only in 2008 and 2009, but also in 2007, the offender was a non-Western immigrant.” - Brussels Journal
“non-Western immigrant” is a code-word for Muslim, since they form the vast majority of immigrants in Norway.
If the Victory Mosque is built at Ground Zero in New York, will rapes increase there too?
“The stock of the foreign-born population as a percentage of the total population grew from two percen...t in 1970 to seven percent in 2002. As of 2001, most of the immigrant population was from Pakistan, Sweden, and Denmark, though new flows in 2004 largely came first from Sweden, then Russia, Denmark, and Poland.”
“In the late 1960s, a combination of a booming economy and a population shortage led Norway to accept a number of labor migrants from Morocco, Yugoslavia, Turkey, and particularly Pakistan.”
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?ID=307See More
There are no moderate DEMS. They all march to the goosestep of the WH,as their voting has shown.
Since they can eat breakfast before sunrise, they really only need to skip one meal.
So the big deal is simply about skipping lunch? Heck, businessmen all over America do that all the time!
Yep. My understanding is that they can eat at any time between sunset each day and sunrise the next day. That sounds like dinner every evening and an early breakfast the next morning to me.
Obama was correct in saying that the mosque could be built on private property...it’s just in horrible, indescribable, foolish, bad taste to do so.
Hamas.
There’s a chapel there, too.
transformed an emotion-laden local dispute in New York into a nationwide debate overnight.
Sorry, this wasn’t a emotion-laden LOCAL terror attack.
I feel much better now knowing that.
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