[soccermom]

"I actually think it's unseemly for conservatives to play race cards and think it's perfectly reasonable for Americans to be wary of Muslims, muslim Arabs or whomever has something of a track record of being against our interest."


Sorry, all you need to do is look at some of the posts on FR and at letters to the editor to see that it very much was about anti-Muslim bias and Bush was right to call his critics on that. Your statement illustrates that. If Americans really were looking at a "track record" and not "race" for lack of a better term, they would be looking at a country with a very good record in aiding us in the war on terror and not merely looking at them as "Muslims."

I'm getting a little tired of the claim that Bush was using "the race card". If someone criticizes, say Jesse Jackson, for his behavior and comments and defenders say, you're just doing that because you're racist. That is playing the race card. If someone opposes Jesse Jackson by arguing , "Hey, blacks have a track record of acting like that." That is racism and people are right to call it as such.

[wardaddy]

I'm sorry dear but a weighted anti-Muslim bias sure makes sense to me.

Islam has been clashing with Judeo-Christian based civilization for about 1200 years now....and about any other non-Muslim demographic in their way.

Not to mention, they sure enjoy killing the hell out of each other when it suits them

So being wary of muslims doesn't bother me a bit.

We will win this when they fear us and in particular our will to prevail. Some like the UAE already knew this more or less and as well as knowing where their bread is buttered and have tried more or less to saddle up to us

which is why I reluctantly leaned towards supporting W on this ports deal(unlike most of my compadres) though I thought he handled the politics and his own party clumsily

I am not one bothered by race period unless it's used against me to deflect candor that minorities or majorities find uncomfortable.

Islam is a problem. Failure to recognize that and an unwillingness to do so simply because that might be considered bigoted is naivete in the face of an enemy that would exterminate us given the chance.

Are you in favor of no restrictions on Muslim immigration to this country too?

Some social moderates here love that idea.

I wouldn't give any of them a foothold here unless they are at risk for having helped us.

Wherever Islam goes....death follows.

Btw....I was married to an ethnic Arab Christian and have two daughters with her, one of whom lives with me and have Maronite DNA on my mom's side so save the racist stuff for someone else...lol

btw...at least one good thing came out of bayourant (bayourod) lying about holdonow......JR canned him-her...good riddance