[tomkat]

Public Service Reminder :

             

[bgill]

That is the only promise he’s kept.

[longfellow]

Thank you for this. Seriously, it’s the first thing I thought of.
Now try and take our guns.

[gaijin]

“The future cannot belong to those who would slander the name of the prophet of Islam”

Morocco Bomber

[brent13a]

Public Service Reminder :

Why do people keep posting this false BO quote?
It's not what is in the book, at best it's a conflated quote and not particularly accurate as to exactly what was written.
For instance, BO only says "immigrants" and never says "Muslims".
People who keep posting this false BO quote make us conservatives look like the right-wing nutjobs that the MSM and liberals try to make us into.
Thanks

The actual quote from the book is from page 261 and is as follows:
"Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."