Posted on 08/17/2010 4:14:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In Sarah Palin’s opposition to the construction of a Muslim community center in lower Manhattan, she has revealed, once more, why she must never serve as president of the United States.
We are a nation at war. And the president is the commander-in-chief, a job that requires cold--sometimes cruel--calculation of the national interest, and a rigid sense of discipline. The United States is a superpower, with economic and military interests that govern the future of millions of lives, and fortunes. The decisions made in the Oval Office are truly momentous. They demand the strongest character.
Especially in wartime--and we will soon enter the 10th year of the war that began at ground zero--reason must overrule self-indulgent emotionalism, and the lure of following one’s “feelings.”
But Palin is nothing if not about “feeling.” She appeals not to logic, but emotion. To the gut, not the brain. She is one self-indulgent and excitable woman. And in her histrionics over the construction of an Islamic cultural center, two blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks, she has demonstrated, once again, why she is unsuited for high office.
“Doesn’t it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland?” Palin asked those fellow Americans who pause at her readiness to blame all of Islam for the act of a relatively few crazed extremists.
No, it doesn’t. I have lived a long life in the company of Iranian-Americans and Turkish-Americans and Egyptian -Americans and other U.S. Muslims, whose right to build a community center, including a mosque, in Manhattan was ably guaranteed by guys named Madison and Jefferson and Washington in the Bill of Rights. I have an intellect, and can make the distinction between Osama bin Laden and the rest of Islam.
It may feeeel good to Palin and her followers to focus hate and resentment against the Muslim world. But to kiss off freedom of religion for America’s Muslims is to kiss off freedom of religion for evangelical Christians, Jews, Catholics, and other believers. And once you start down that road, folks, you can kiss off your right to bear arms, to a free press, and to trial by jury as well. Because so many, many times, the difficult applications of these rights doesn’t feeeel good.
Palin’s politics of grievance is especially ill-suited for wartime. Wars are won by cruel and calculating bastards like FDR who, if he was around today, would tell us that we will win this war against Muslim terrorists by isolating them, and by enlisting the help of the more-than-a-billion other Muslims in the world who don’t share such hateful beliefs. Presidents Bush and Obama recognized this immediately. Do you think our drones would have such success against al Qaeda leaders in southwest Asia without the help of the Pakistani military, intelligence services, and their sources?
But Palin suggests that we take a feel-good route--painting all Muslims as hateful extremists--that guarantees we lose this war. She seems intent on demonstrating that we Americans are the clueless and oppressive cultural, military, and economic imperialists that al Qaeda says we are.
Sarah Palin cannot make the distinction between feeeeling good, and thinking smart. Or maybe she knows the difference and is undermining the war effort for her own selfish ambitions. Either way, she must never be president.
This one of the reasons Palin SHOULD be POTUS:
her unique ability to sum things up in a simple phrase.
‘Death panels’, ‘9/11 Mosque’, etc.
She has a gift for that.
funny how libtards resort to the very bigotry they so deride when it suits them for their agenda
social liberals do it here too
“hey you racist cracker hick inbred sister fornicating southerners...I am morally superior to you even though there are no minorities within 100 miles of here with which I can actually prove my tolerance...but you who live in a 50-50 racial cluster do suck”
this article smears Palin as a woman and a rube-—hick
She also has more balls than 99 percent of the gop.
Thanks to the democrats and people like this author the U.S. is no longer a super power.
Who will rid me of this troubling journOlist?
I didn’t know Sarah Palin was President yet. They are really going to go nuts when she is.
“It may feeeel good to Palin and her followers to focus hate and resentment against the Muslim world. But to kiss off freedom of religion for America’s Muslims is to kiss off freedom of religion for evangelical Christians, Jews, Catholics, and other believers.”
So, exactly how much freedom of religion is available in any muslim dominated country?
“Palin’s politics of grievance is especially ill-suited for wartime. Wars are won by cruel and calculating bastards like FDR who, if he was around today, would tell us that we will win this war against Muslim terrorists by isolating them, and by enlisting the help of the more-than-a-billion other Muslims in the world who don’t share such hateful beliefs.”
I wonder how FDR would have reacted to a Nazi sponsored cultural outreach center? Wouldn’t he have wanted to ‘enlist’ the support of Germans who weren’t nazis?
“She seems intent on demonstrating that we Americans are the clueless and oppressive cultural, military, and economic imperialists that al Qaeda says we are.”
No, Al Qaeda says we’re ‘infidels’ who must submit to sharia law.
Wars are won by cruel and calculating bastards like FDR who, if he was around today, would tell us that we will win this war against Muslim terrorists by isolating them,
putting them and their families in relocation camps,
opening their mail and correspondence, inspecting their
mosques, etc?
Liberals can twist things around so much they can
see their own ass holes and then not believe it.
That about says all you need to know about this guy.
For a long time I have been unconvinced that Palin is the best choice to be President. I am relenting on the grounds that no other politician running has a lick of common sense. It tells you what a great country we have been that we have been able to dispense with it since RR was president. But I fear those days are gone and we can no longer afford to be without it.
“The United States is a superpower, with economic and military interests that govern the future of millions of lives, and fortunes.”
During his apology tour, didn’t Obama make it clear that we are no longer any of the above? I love it when liberals claim to be the rational ones and accuse conservatives of thinking with their emotions, especially after the endless stream of sad anecdotes America was subjected to during the healthcare debates.
Hooray for Sarah.
John Aloysius Farrell is going all kneepads in.
You’ve gotta laugh when liberals pose as tough-minded foreign policy realists in order to come to the twisted conclusion that surrendering Ground Zero to an Islamist Nazi victory mosque is the way to win the war against them that the same liberals never wanted to wage in the first place.
“I have an intellect”
Though clearly without common sense.
And most important—you have no access to reason, having denied, like all liberals, the existence of absolute truth.
Truth to a liberal is as consistent as a rubber band floating in the ocean.
Moslems deserve instant mosques, but Christians have no right to build churches.
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