Hmmm...I didn't hear the words bigot or racist anywhere in the president's statements. I'm sure you mean he implied such but I would beg to differ. Regardless, I agree with his statement.
Of course nobody dared answer, "because, Mr. President, nobody else flies commercial airlines into our highrise buildings". That kind of honesty is too dangerous today.
Not only dangerous but, with all due respect, stupid. Two of the hijackers were from the UAE. Some Christian pro-life individuals have blown up abortion clinics and murdered doctors that have performed them. I'm a Christian. Am I as guilty as them? Are you? I'm not "trumpeting the virtues of moderate Islam" but let's not be ridiculous here. Communist China doesn't sanction any religion and we deal with them. Oh and BTW, they have nukes.
It's a curious thing, watching penguins fall over the cliff, inborn, because they have blind trust in the fellow leading them. It's perhaps even more curious to watch conservatives begin acting like the hated liberals by suddenly trumpeting the virtues of 'moderate islam', and liberals acting like conservatives by distrusting even 'moderate' muslims to run some of our shipping ports.
Wow...where to begin. How 'bout this? It's not blind trust in the fellow leading me us. It's a belief that he and his advises have more information and are more qualified to make a decision based on that information than simply nixing the whole thing because of their religion which, like it or not, is bigotry. And frankly the liberal Democrats that have come out against this have not done so because of port security. They're done so because the AFL-CIO and the longshoreman's union want them to. And that's why they're willing to chance showing their hypocrisy.
But all's well that ends well. Inspite of these comical role-reversals going on, islam is being kept away from a Trojan Horse invasion of our ports, at least for awhile anyway.
Cute analogy. But silly. Why would the UAE--or, in your mind, radical Islamists since they apparently are one in the same--need to manage some of our ports to the tune of billions in order to attack us? Seems kind of a waste of money. After all, the nineteen hijackers didn't need to take over an airport to facilitate their attack.
As much as you, Pat Buchanan and the rest of your ilk hate the idea, the US will never go back to being the isolationist country it once was. And telling the United Arab Emirates that the only purpose they serve is oil production--even if it's true--is counter-productive. One of the virtues of conservatism is common sense and frankly I don't see much being demonstrated on your side. What I do see is hysteria and demogoguery, both (using your term) "hated liberal" traits. Perhaps it's you acting like them, not me.
(Lawmakers who have called for the deal to be blocked) "need to step up and explain why a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard," said President Bush to reporters.
Bush contemptuously pulled out the "prejudice/bigotted" stick from the liberal rat repertoire and swung it at some of his own party members, Congressmen and Governors, insinuating they want to block the deal because they harbor some cultural bias against the middle east, and not because of genuine security concerns.
Of course when liberals pull this garbage they are excoriated on FR, and rightfully so. The President needs to learn that sometimes "bias" is forced on people, as we saw with the "bias" President Roosevelt held against the Japanese after they attacked us. President Bush seemed to forget about his own "bias" against Iraq.
The bushbots are circling the wagons on this thing and are mindlessly defending what they customarily renounce, both the notion of a "moderate", friendly islam, and base personal attacks and insinuations against political opponents. The more this garbage gets defended, the more it will come back and haunt the Republican party. What's next in line, "hate speech" assigning to anyone who thinks this port deal is bad national security policy?
Overnight, conservatives have become liberals and liberals are taking traditionally conservative stands against islam. Weird stuff.