Something along the lines of what New York does within its borders is New York's business. Add a couple of platitudes about how they understand how people can be upset about the current mosque plans and a few comments about how important 1st Amendment rights are for everyone and they're home free.
you live in a fantasy world NS. You know this is a HUGE problem for your guy, obumbler, and it’s freaking you out. So you want to ‘reason’ with those of us on FR that it really doesn’t matter to those of us ‘outside’ NY.
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You AND your butt brother are pathetic jokes.
Something along the lines of what New York does within its borders is New York's business.
That translates to "butt out" -- but that surely won't work w/ respect to 9/11, in response to which the nation has already mounted several very substantial responses, including two wars within the overarching Bush Administration rubric of a "War on Terror" which Obama has very specifically repudiated for reasons which must remain suspect, which suspicion he fuels by throwing gasoline on it every time he issues another mark of conspicuous support for Islamists at the expense of Western Civilization and the American Experiment.
It doesn't get much more high-concept than what Obama is doing, and Republicans are right not to "leave it alone".
What more evidence do you want that they are right, than being told to back off by a TIME polemicist? TIME being the rag, by the way, that coined the term "Clinton hater".
Claims that the Victory Mosque controversy should stay with New Yorkers are no more valid than a claim that New Yorkers should be free to "redevelop" Bedloe's Island and Ellis Island. The World Trade Center, whatever it was on 9/10, is now a national massacre site. You might profitably have a look at Charlie Krauthammer's weekend op-ed on that point. (I don't have the link -- saw it in print.)
hmmmm.... WHAT kind of American thinks that 911 and Ground Zero and those that died in the WTC are not everyone’s business???????
WHO really thinks that the 1st Amendment (which is about “Congress shall make no law....”) means that no one should CARE what happens at the site of the worst terrorist attack in US history?
HOW exactly does one translate “freedom of worship” into “freedom to stomp all over the raw memories and beliefs of countless millions of Americans?
WHEN exactly are we supposed to stop caring about the future of this nation and our civilization?
WHERE do people learn to think that Ground Zero should be treated as the Muslims treated the Hagia Sophia basilica?
WHY do you feel such utter certitude in believing that the 70+ % of Americans who DO think this is an important issue are delusional and wrong, and that it neither should nor will be a political problem for Obama’s Party of Appeasement and Dhimmitude in 2010 and beyond?
“Something along the lines of what New York does within its borders is New York’s business. Add a couple of platitudes about how they understand how people can be upset about the current mosque plans and a few comments about how important 1st Amendment rights are for everyone and they’re home free.”
Sounds mealy mouthed. Enough rats will get it wrong that several seats in the house could move. Dems are terrified of this issue. Help them find their inner terror.