Posted on 09/03/2013 9:17:43 AM PDT by cotton1706
S.C. Sen. Lee Bright (R-Spartanburg) is ramping up the rhetoric in his bid against U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (RINO-S.C.). The social conservative bomb thrower – who previously (and aptly) labeled Graham a “community organizer for the Muslim Brotherhood” – now has his sights on U.S. President Barack Obama.
But is he reaching too far in an effort to throw red meat to the Palmetto State’s GOP base?
In a wide-ranging piece on the Palmetto State’s U.S. Senate race published by CNN’s Peter Hamby late Friday, Bright took off the gloves against Obama – saying he has “certain embedded hostilities to the American way of life.”
We’re obviously not going to argue that point … Obama is clearly hostile to constitutional liberty and the free market economy, two pillars of our (rapidly eroding) “American way of life.”
But Bright wasn’t done …
“He is more in line with Muslim extremists than he is with Muslims,” Bright continued. “He seems to identify with their cause.”
Again … Obama’s disastrous intervention in Egypt lends some credence to this criticism, so Bright is technically within his bounds in making such a statement.
Where did he veer way out of bounds, though? His very next thought …
“I don’t know if he is a Muslim extremist,” Bright said of Obama. “But I don’t know what his faith is. He professes to be a Christian, so I take him at his word.”
Hmmmmm …
Couple points here …
First and foremost, Bright’s statement is a logical contradiction. If he takes Obama “at his word” on the profession of his Christian faith, then it is impossible for him to simultaneously believe that Obama is a Muslim extremist. The statement doesn’t make any sense because the terms are – last time we checked, anyway – mutually exclusive.
More importantly (as we’ve said on numerous previous occasions) any sort of attack against Obama based on his faith is totally inappropriate – and counterproductive. Seriously, has Obama’s legacy of failed economic policies, soaring deficits, Orwellian domestic spying, socialized medicine, global interventionism, and rampant administrative corruption not given his opponents enough to attack?
In light of all that egregiousness … what on earth does anyone care what his religion is?
In Bright’s case the attack is also deeply hypocritical. See, if he were a true lover of liberty he would recognize Obama’s faith is none of his damn business – and that such a line of criticism is inherently at odds with the personal freedom he claims to embrace.
Bright is correct to exploit the sheer insanity of the Obama-Graham worldview – which is set to plunge our country into yet another needless foreign conflict. But there is a way to do that without compromising one of the most sacred ideals of the liberty movement he seeks to represent.
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He might want to reel it in there. Some things are better left on FreeRepublic. I mean, he is an extremist Muslim, but don’t say it out loud.
Some of us are tired of this failed decorum and excuse... if this had been said in 2007... we may never have known how bad obama is. Bright is the one because he will never lie for political gain and/or shrink from the truth... he is the one to replace lightfoot, “sweetie feetie”, toe tapping grahamnesty.
LLS
On a slightly unrelated note, I was a huge fan of the BBC version House of Cards with the late, great Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart and Colin Jeavson as his loyal minion Tim Stamper. So when I decided to try Netflix lately one of the first shows I watched was the pilot for their version of House of Cards set in D.C. I did note a number of similarities such as the Francis Urquhart character, now named Francis Underwood and played by Kevin Spacy as a South Carolina Democrat, also has a minion named Doug Stamper. And talk about life imitating art, the South Carolina Democrat that will likely face the winner of the Republican primary next year is named...Jay Stamper.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again - Obama’s every policy move in the Middle East has been to the benefit of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the proposed action in Syria. Whether that’s by coincidence or design really doesn’t matter, does it?
“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again - Obama’s every policy move in the Middle East has been to the benefit of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the proposed action in Syria. Whether that’s by coincidence or design really doesn’t matter, does it?”
You’re absolutely right. Chaos is their friend while ordered liberty is their enemy. And ordered liberty began with the Hebrews, which is one of the reasons why they want the destruction of Israel. A free people in their midst is an affront. And Obama is a handmaiden to the destruction of Israel. But history is against them. The Jews have faced the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Romans, the Muslims and the Nazis and they’re still here. They were scattered to the winds for close to two thousand years and then reappeared as one people on the same plot of land. It must cause much frustration to Obama and the Muslims.
Look, if South Carolina is stupid enough to believe Lynn Graham is a Republican, for multiple re-elections, they’re pliable enough to get the shivers on the truth coming from his opponent.
Given the state of things, and looking around, SC is plainly either going blue or about to wake up.
Let’s hope they get the shivers and wake up.
I’m ready to find out.
We can only hope McLame follows after
Leftists want to control the dialog. They demand certain topics be off limits and when you hit them hard with information they know could hurt them, they demand apologies by charging racism, muslim bashing, war on women, etc., etc.
I’m tired of seeing Republican after Republican folding when leftists demand it.
Voters can size up Bright’s comments as likely truthful or not. But if the voters are willing to throw any conservative candidate overboard, in order to vote for a leftist or Big Government Republican, just because of a comment they think could have been phrased more politely or diplomatically, then the voters deserve to lose their country.
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