Posted on 08/19/2010 9:49:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Let’s Make a Deal.
A radical Muslim cleric can build his mosque two blocks from Ground Zero as soon as town officials in Mecca approve plans for a synagogue in the center of the holy city. Maybe President Barack Obama could broker the deal — he gets his mosque and Jews get their synagogue.
On the other hand, we may not have a deal after all.
It baffles me how Obama can see a mosque near Ground Zero as a symbol of religious freedom and tolerance. By its very nature, the structure would be a monument to religious intolerance, hatred, mass murder, unspeakable violence toward women, and centuries of despotic leadership and oppression.
Now there’s a legacy to be celebrated by a landmark building in lower Manhatttan.
What a bunch of radical Muslims — financed, trained and encouraged by a handful of Islamic nations — did on Sept. 11, 2001, was to destroy another landmark, the World Trade Center, which stood for freedom, international commerce, tolerance of differing cultures (many foreigners were killed in the attack), and the hustle and bustle of life.
Let’s Make a Deal.
Let’s trade a symbol of freedom and tolerance for a symbol of oppression and hatred.
President Obama, in his speech to a group of Muslims celebrating their holy period of Ramadan last Friday, unnecessarily injected himself into the New York City mosque debate. He pointed out the obvious — which no one had disputed — that anyone, including a radical Islamic Imam, has property rights and can build a structure which conforms to land-use laws on privately owned land.
(In America, not in Iran.)
Why the president was compelled to remind Americans of property rights remains a mystery. Just a day or two earlier, his press secretary (otherwise known as the Class Clown) insisted that the mosque issue was a local zoning matter and did not require White House intervention.
Nevertheless, Obama weighed in — to his everlasting regret.
The next morning, not even waiting until High Noon, the president began backtracking. He wasn’t expressing his opinion on the “wisdom” of building the mosque so near Ground Zero, he merely was ruling on the legal rights of Muslims.
Duh. Nobody had questioned the legal-rights non-issue.
What Obama actually was doing on Friday night was playing to an audience — the Ramadan dinner crowd. The next morning he was playing to a different audience: an outraged American public.
The sad thing is that he didn’t have to do either. But this president can’t avoid playing to a crowd — whether it is a crowd of auto workers or farmers or Hollywood celebrities or jobless fishermen in Louisiana.
The guy loves a crowd.
Unfortunately, his arrogance is getting in the way of his governance.
Elected on a pledge of unifying the nation, he has divided the nation into ugly camps of rich and poor, black and white, Christians, Jews and Muslims, left and right, socialists and entrepreneurs.
Not since the upheavals of the era of Martin Luther King’s and Robert Kennedy’s assassinations has the American public been so divided, so internally hostile. Obama has turned the calendar back to the 1960s and 70s, after decades of healing and conciliation.
That’s not exactly the “change” most Americans had in mind when they pulled the voting-booth lever in November 2008.
It’s gotten to the point that even Democrats are starting to waver in their support of the president. They can’t seem to abide by his increasingly iron-fisted rule over legislation and policy. Senate leader Harry Reid, the president’s most-loyal general, broke ranks with his commander in chief on the mosque issue (Reid is desperately trying to keep his seat in a heated election back home in Nevada).
The bottom line of Obama’s problem is that he and his advisers are terribly out of touch with the average American family.
As families are facing the loss of their jobs and their homes, the Obamas are living the high life. Michelle, demanding privacy on her vacation with one of her daughters, has lunch with the King and Queen of Spain at their Mediterranean retreat. While soldiers are dying in Afghanistan, the president is golfing in Virginia. With taxpayers are paying the transportation bill, the president attends a lavish, celebrity-studded Democrat fund-raiser in Hollywood.
The president’s problem is that he was elected by the little people, as they are sometimes called, but he has utterly forgotten them in his newly adopted world of unrestrained arrogance and power. The crowd he so admires now is about to turn into an angry mob in November, and he doesn’t see it coming.
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Chuck Green, veteran Colorado journalist and former editor-in-chief of The Denver Post, syndicates a statewide column and can be reached at chuckgreencolo@msn.com and 303-588-4138.
Because it cuts right to the chase, no mincing words, just an article EVERYONE can understand unless they're as unheeding, uncaring and unnatural as Obama, Moochelle Antoinette and his Dem cohourts in both houses of Congress.
Pings advised throughout the day.
Leni
That’s a socialist community organizer who CLAIMS to be black! In reality he is at most half black and most likely far less than half. In a rational world he would be called mixed race. He looks more Arab than black.
Psycho Pelosi is one of our weapons right now.
Gamaliel Fndtn, praying to 0bama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUazd8DqcNk&feature=related (oldie but goodie)
” It’d be nice to think that Ohaha is finished......but we have to face the reality of the satanic monsters that occupy the WH. “
Too many here think we can stop Obama and his thugs in November. We can’t. They don’t care about ANY rules or laws.
If we do well in November, Obama will become even more dangerous.
I think the two months after the Democrats have been voted out of the majority status, will be a vulnerable time for the nation. Sadly, our spineless tag team will find some way to enable the worst of it.
” Sadly, our spineless tag team will find some way to enable the worst of it.”
You must be alluding to the Recountryclubicans in the House & Senate.
Yep. Fraid so.
ONE block from the 47 story World Trade Center building #7 that burned and collapsed that day along with buildings #1 and #2.
You got that right.
If so, perhaps somebody can persuade Dear Leader to show up and play a few holes for the amputees in the crowd (just so they can appreciate how it's done) - after he finishes his current palatial vacation on The Vineyard, of course.
That seems to be the only way to get him there...
Twisted Sister.
I love ya Man!
Sara...one thing most people forget is that he is half white.
Wonder why that is...???
To add to my post...he’s the worst President...evah!
Sara...one thing most people forget is that he is half white.
Wonder why that is...???
So you might say that the white racist structure is long gone so why is the one drop rule still in effect when Americans classify themselves? That has happened because liberals immediately replaced the segregation model with the diversity race classification and racial preference scheme.
Why would they do that? Because the Democrat Party has always built power on racial division and maintaining racial orders appealing to a majority of voters. Hence they created “affirmative action” and established legal, economic, education and job preferences for minorities and white women over white men in the post segregation era.
Diversity racist doctrines replaced the white racist doctrines of superiority in the past. The doctrines in the past as is the case with diversity race doctrines now, rationalizes why the racial order exists with a combination of “little guy” economic race warfare against the enemy race and racial superiority doctrines to numb the conscience.
To make a long story short, race classification has been carefully maintained by the Democrat Party to maintain an unconstitutional and hatful racial order and division among the American people in the post segregation era.
Thank you so much for your very thoughtful reply, Sara!
It was a rhetorical question, I guess.
My point was that he’s run away from the white half of his family, and never acknowledges it. It’s as if the white half of his family never existed.
I get the feeling that he hates whites.
Obama does hate Whites. He worshiped at a “church” of race hate.
I think they believe that the only reason socializm hasn’t worked is because EVERYBODY hasn’t been forced to submit to it.
This happened nearly as soon as Dr. King died. The race-baiting poverty pimps who killed him had turned before the body was cold and The Dream of races living side-by-side in harmony was dead with him.
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Obama doesn’t see the mob closing in
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Here’s hoping that The Messiah remains deaf and blind until the day after
the election on November 2.
Seeing bad guys swallowed by “a reversal of fortune” is one of the
sweetest things in film and real life.
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