Posted on 08/14/2010 7:36:17 AM PDT by libh8er
By charging headlong into the ferocious controversy over the plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero, President Barack Obama may have further damaged Democratic Party prospects in the upcoming mid-term elections.
For while his return to the soaring rhetoric that won him the White House in the first place will be popular with hard-core liberal supporters, it is unlikely to capture the hearts of middle-America this year.
In 2008 Mr Obama was a largely unknown quantity running on the strength of untried ideas and a ringing call for moral superiority. But now all of that has changed.
According to the NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll, 52 per cent of Americans disapprove of Mr Obama's handling of the economy; 45 per cent disapprove of his handling of the Afghanistan war; 40 per cent say the country is worse off since he became president.
Mr Obama has lost the political high ground and on the mosque issue - where emotions are far more likely than logic to win the argument - his stand will not go down well at the voting booths in November.
The President may be right in declaring that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in America, but that is not the question as middle America sees it.
For the majority of Americans this is not an issue of freedom of religion. It is a question of whether or not a mosque should be built within two blocks of Ground Zero, where 3,000 people perished when jetliners hijacked by Muslim extremists were flown into the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001.
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Watching the video at the link, the Brits were able to stop the mosque (this result had not been reached at the time of this news report) by asking some of the questions we are asking here -- even though the mayor of London at the time, like the mayor of NYC, was all for the mosque project.
I think we can and should take heart from the Brits' experience -- and learn from it. This mega mosque business is not a one-off project; it seems to be part of a movement to get these Muslim "holy grounds" into the heart of large western cities.
Or else he is cool with the fact, or too dumb to know, that he is The Ultimate Liberally-Used Black Man. (Written by the black, right and funny Bob Parks.)
A very good rant! Thanks!
All the while they are suing people for wearing a cross necklace to work, listening to K-LOVE at their desk, holding a bible study in a room they paid to rent at a public school, etc.
And, btw, this reminds of a great call I heard on #Rush several years ago. Man said he was wearing a t-shirt that said something about Jesus and he went to the mall. A Muslim woman wearing a hijab came up to him and told him that his t-shirt offended her. He said, "Well, you know offends me? People flying airplanes into building and killing thousands of innocents, that's what offends me."
((crickets))
I also think it’s ridiculous and ignorant when the President of the United States starts with this garbage about how the GOP “hasn’t had one new idea.”
First, not true that the opposition has not tried repeatedly to address the issues.
But more fundamentally — HELLO. If 2 + 2 = 4, no matter how the Rats try to pose the question of what equals 2 + 2, the honest answer is always going to be 4 — even if that, boo hoo, “isn’t a new idea.”
Cutting taxes, reducing spending, limiting government, reducing entitlements — these are ALWAYS the right answer. There can be no “new” answers because these are ALWAYS the right answer. And there’s no shame in year after year, decade after decade, continuing to state that, yes, you loony Rats, 2 + 2 still = 4.
Or should it be “no mosque, no mas”?
It was picked up by another FReeper (reagandemocrat), who quickly was found by another FReeper (A_Former_Democrat, how wierd is that?) who said he/she had already thought of it in this form: No Mas-Que, which, as I understand it, means "no more of this" again en Español.
Actually I was tongue-in-cheek when I posted on this thread. I too had thought “no mas” ala Roberto Duran when I first heard “no mosque” . . . Might make for a nice little rallying cry for the project’s opponents.
I wonder if the homosexuals over there (which probably comprises the vast majority of posters) say that while whistling past the graveyard, knowing how Muslims feel about their depravity.
Wow, that’s some kind of wierd, but fascinating, guacamole!
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