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Obama doesn't see the mob closing in
The Aurora Sentinel ^ | August 19, 2010 | Chuck Green

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 911; bho44; economy; golf; groundzeromosque; imamofthedeficit; islam; michelleobama; obama; obamagroundzero; zerogroundzero
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1 posted on 08/19/2010 9:49:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If he doesn’t cut short his ten-day Martha’s Vineyard sojourn he might as well not come back at all.

His own gang on Capitol Hill will be waiting for him with tar and feathers.


2 posted on 08/19/2010 9:55:42 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
That he is president is still very unbelieveable to me.

What a POS joke of a president

3 posted on 08/19/2010 9:58:28 PM PDT by blam
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To: sinanju

I hope he takes the rest of the year off, the less he does the better off we are. I honestly think he has so much resentment for Americans (who aren’t communists) that he doesn’t care at all what he looks like to us - he’s laughing and glad we suffer.


4 posted on 08/19/2010 9:58:42 PM PDT by MissyMack66
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The article’s way too nice to Obama ...


5 posted on 08/19/2010 9:59:50 PM PDT by JohnEBoy
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To: blam

That’s it in a nutshell. Why and how did this Commie joke become President? The MSM/LSM and the vast un-educated in real life. Let it never happen again...please.


6 posted on 08/19/2010 10:02:31 PM PDT by liberty or death
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"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."

Odd parallel to another article (excerpt from Wikipedia):

"By 1989, Ceauşescu was showing signs of complete denial of reality. While the country was going through extremely difficult times with long bread queues in front of empty food shops, he was often shown on state TV entering stores filled with food supplies, visiting large food and arts festivals, while praising the "high living standard" achieved under his rule......

.....The country, which had no information of the Timişoara events from the national media, learned about the Timişoara revolt from western radio stations such as Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, and by word of mouth. On the next day, December 21, a mass meeting was staged. Official media presented it as a "spontaneous movement of support for Ceauşescu", emulating the 1968 meeting in which Ceauşescu had spoken against the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact forces.

The mass meeting of December 21, held in what is now Revolution Square, degenerated into chaos. The image of Ceauşescu's uncomprehending expression as the crowd began to boo and heckle him remains one of the defining moments of the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. The stunned couple (the dictator and his wife), failing to control the crowds, finally took cover inside the building, where they remained until the next day."

7 posted on 08/19/2010 10:03:05 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne

If Obama wanted to give congressional Dems a chance to oppose his mosque position to increase their chances of reelection, Pelosi dropped the ball. She will get reelected in Crazy Town, but she didn’t do Dems a favor by hinting she wants 9-11 widows investigated.


8 posted on 08/19/2010 10:03:21 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Lt. Col. Ralph Peters: Obama is the dog who caught the fire truck!)
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To: sinanju

Should we get more popcorn as we watch the Democrats turn on each other?

Obama is too liberal. Yes he’s out of touch with middle America. We have seen evidence before, such as his inane comments about people clinging to guns and religion. His idiotic comments about how police acted stupidly in the Professor Gates case, when he admitted he didn’t know all the facts, but rendered his opinion anyway, is another good example of a liberal elitist attitude.

And on this mosque issue, he definitely is showing a liberal elitist attitude. He is so condescending to everyone who doesn’t have his allegedly superior intellect and understanding of the 1st amendment.


9 posted on 08/19/2010 10:03:43 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mr Green doesn’t have a problem with speaking his mind. I like it!


10 posted on 08/19/2010 10:07:18 PM PDT by GVnana (I'm a Mama Grizzly)
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To: MissyMack66

The Grand Strategy was that the dems get defenestrated by the electorate and have to spend a few election cycles out of power but that the pubbies will blow their opportunity out their bungholio like they always do and fail to repeal any of the recent legislation.

Then the dems will be back in power. This time for good.

The problem with this strategy is that it requires dozens of dem congresscritters to commit seppuku while singing the Internationale and saluting The One. Unfortunately for Obama, most dems are not the self-sacrificing type. Even Dingy Harry is breaking ranks. After November, I wot the dems will use their last few months in power not to finish passing the Messiah’s agenda but to extract revenge on his hide.

When it sinks in how thoroughly they have been used what happens next is gonna be ugly.


11 posted on 08/19/2010 10:09:27 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The issue shows many things....
1) Obama endorsing the Muslims brazenly touting the first amendment
2) The principle of Sharia at work.... funding? No problem. Money will come via Sharia from Saudis and/or Iranians
3) Solidarity in Sharia. Irrespective of what some say about Saudis and Iranians being enemies.
4) Bloomberg is in it for the Sharia banking benefits as well
5) Obama supporting all involved at the expense of America and the 9-11 victims.


12 posted on 08/19/2010 10:12:46 PM PDT by himno hero
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obie learned to play the race card early. I think that is how he made his way through college and law school. When he got into politics he had the full force of the Chicago political machine at his disposal to bully his opponents out of the way. These two dynamics don't do him much good on the big stage so now he is lost.
13 posted on 08/19/2010 10:12:46 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I think the MSM is going to throw a few logs of their own on Obama’s pyre when they realize how they too have made fools of themselves for nothing.

I’m still amazed at the absolutely crazed hateful ranting the lib media has directed at us peasants for refusing to get with the program. As if they weren’t dying fast enough already they have to enrage the entire country with their arrogance.


14 posted on 08/19/2010 10:14:26 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The bottom line of Obama’s problem is that he and his advisers are terribly out of touch with the average American family.”

The above succinctly captures the issue. BO has no cultural connection with mainstream America. He is not one of us, and cannot lead us anywhere.


15 posted on 08/19/2010 10:44:48 PM PDT by One Name
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To: 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.

One site tongue-in-cheek suggested a Ground Zero Mosque Beer Summit

16 posted on 08/19/2010 11:41:02 PM PDT by SloopJohnB (CONGRESS.SYS version 11.2010 available soon at a voting booth near you!)
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To: sinanju
If he doesn’t cut short his ten-day Martha’s Vineyard sojourn he might as well not come back at all.

He won't come back before Glenn Beck and the 8-28 crew have left town.

He's a self-absorbed SOB; and he's also a coward.

17 posted on 08/20/2010 12:01:16 AM PDT by onemiddleamerican (FUBO - and all your terrorist buddies, too!)
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To: onemiddleamerican

Typical - he left town before the April 15th million-and-a-half patriot march.


18 posted on 08/20/2010 12:10:38 AM PDT by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. (PursuingLiberty.com))
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To: Tench_Coxe

Excellent posting! Thank you so much for that reminder.

I think I’m experiencing that “hope” thing that Obama went on and on about. ;o)


19 posted on 08/20/2010 12:20:01 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Remember November...I can see it from my house!)
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To: dixiechick2000

So what are they sayin’: A Black socialist community organizer is unqualified to be President? But he race baits so goooood!


20 posted on 08/20/2010 12:37:12 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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