Posted on 08/14/2010 7:20:07 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
President Barack Obama, speaking last night at the White House’s iftar dinner marking Ramadan, defended plans to build a mosque and Islamic community center near Ground Zero. The nation’s commitment to religious freedom he said, “must be unshakable.”
“I understand the emotions that this issue engenders. Ground Zero is, indeed, hallowed ground,” he said. As WSJ reporters Devlin Barrett and Jonathan Weisman noted, the project “has generated opposition from a host of prominent Republicans, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Resistance to other mosque-building plans has sprouted around the country, but the symbolism of such a structure in close proximity to Ground Zero has generated a national argument.” It was an argument that Obama had steered clear of – until last night. (For the text of Obama’s remarks, click here.)
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Boy, if we get hit, really hit by the islamo-fascists again during zer0’s term, everyone will know which side zero is on. What a bone headed move.
IT is NOT a religion I wish everyone would GET that through their head it is a Political system and that is why it can never work here.
When Muslims CONQUER a place, they ALWAYS build a MOSQUE on top of the Temple or the Church!! This is their MO. B@stards.
Are there no Democrats who are outraged?
That's a rhetorical question, right?
The groundbreaking ceremony for this mosque will probably employ IED's in lieu of shovels.
Obamosque
Yes, there certainly are. Both of them are good people.
Another “In Your Face America” moment presented by the muzzie-in-chief.
its toxic, watch the congressional dems treat Obama like herpes on the campaign trail.
Obama is an islamic dildo.
“What do you expect from Barack Hussein Obama. He is the Islamic plant right in the White House.”
...absolutely!...he was raised Muslim and that’s the way he will be.
Can our children go back to singing Christmas songs at their “Winter Wonderland” shows in school now, in the name of religious tolerance?
...Madison’s experience at Princeton and his struggle against persecution of Baptists in Virginia had convinced him that “toleration” was an invidious concept. It was, as Thomas Paine later put it, “not the opposite of intolerance, but...the counterfeit of it. Both are despotism. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.”
Madison therefore sought to have the noxious word stricken from the declaration and to prepare the way for complete liberty of conscience and separation of church and state in Virginia...
Did you see this about NY Gov. Patterson agreeing to make Islam the state-sponsored religion ushering in Shariah law?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2570321/posts
Public opinion doesn’t matter and then it matters a lot. Right now Obama is cranking up his elitism and arrogance to surmount public opinion — get that confidence buzz happening that tells you how right and special you are in spite of public disapproval — and then he will turn around and be shocked and disappointed by the low poll numbers. The elitism and arrogance is a rocket that takes him up to a rarefied atmosphere but only to fall to earth and be like the other earthlings, subject to their opinions (and there are more of them than him). The decision to go with the Mosque was born out of his loyalty to his class (the elites) and their values rather than any concern for “his” citizens. This is just another moment of class solidarity, an aristocracy that has to stare down the rabble, the great unwashed (like the Tea Party.) Again, the greater the opposition to Obama the greater his arrogance and assurances of superiority, which means he will learn nothing and just continue to double down on his bets.
This is a no win game because Obama can’t ever be a regular American — his elitism won’t allow for it. He’ll act it out, put on a show but it is not in his heart. He is scared to be equal and regular and have people given power to be a judge over him.
NO MOSQUE
Obama will be running for re-electionJust about the time the mosque construction ramps up. Obama will have to eat this one. Interesting to see what O does for 9/11/11 probably about the time construction starts. There was no reason other than stupidity for Obama to say anything.
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