Posted on 08/14/2010 4:43:31 AM PDT by VU4G10
President Barack Obama on Friday endorsed a controversial plan to build a mosque and Islamic center just blocks from Ground Zero in Manhattan, despite the strong objections of conservatives, the ADL and those who lost loved ones in the September 11 attacks.“Ground Zero is, indeed, hallowed ground,” Obama said at a White House dinner celebrating the Muslim holiday of Ramadan. “But let me be clear: as a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances.”Having steered clear of the controversy for weeks, Obama took on opposition to the mosque directly — a move that many other Democratic lawmakers had been hesitant to do in the face of highly emotional appeals against its construction.
But polls indicate the issue could be a high-voltage third rail for politicians who support the project: a recent CNN poll found that 68 percent of those surveyed did not approve of building a mosque so close to where the World Trade Center towers fell, killing more than 2,000 people.
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Obama is a fool.
Muslims stand up for things like this.
Muslims stand up for things like this.
The moderate mask is now officially off, he is now unabashedly siding with the enemies of America.
THAT BASTARD!
LLS
The Feakin Bastard Liar said He Does NOT GET INVOLVED IN LOCAL ISSUES. WHICH IS IT ?
It has Nothing to do with Practicing Religion ,Build a Thousand Mosques in New York They Deserve It, But not On Hallowed Ground where your Imam says we are Complicit in the Deaths of Thousands Of Americans,PERIOD
Never in my life time have I seen an American president on the 30 side of a 70-30 issue so often. Would it not suggest he is a fringe radical.
It’s quite amazing. Yet the lib media does not flinch at his ideology.
And this is news, it doesn’t take a fortune teller to predict what his view would be on this subject.
How did we get a president who hates this country?
While I am not shocked. I predict a beer summit to try to save his ass again after his polls plunge down.
I have heard nitwitted dems on the TV say they think Obama will pull a Clinton and steer middle after the elections.
Obama is to the LEFT stage of no return as savior status; all know he is a liar and beyond fringe radical left.We may as well have Louie Farrakhan or Rev. Wright in there it is the same thing.
Hillary is just chomping at the bit to sweep in and God help us when she looks good as she is as radical as Obama she just hides it better,
By putting up a RINO as his opponent, that’s how!
But don’t worry, Bammy’s endorsement of the Divine Islamic Victory mosque is creating a backlash of tsunami proportions.
November, oh come sweet November!
Barack Hussein Obama - "Audacity of Hope"
Those winds have again shifted in an ugly direction, as Muslims fight to erect a mosque over the ashes of those 3,000 and the objections of the vast majority of Americans who hold that ground to be sacred - again to cries of "Allah Akbar."
As Obama promised, he now "stands with the Muslims" on the construction of the Ground Zero mosque. Makes one wonder were he stood on 9/11.
was there any doubt i saw this coming months ago
We got him from people who voted for him that hate this country.
We allow the freedom to practice religiom within bounds. No baby eaters or other human sacrifice, no polygamy or other acts which outrage humanity. Islam is a cult of killers.
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