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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That’s exactly the thought I been having for some time. His behavior is beyond what a “normal politician” would do...regardless of which side of the isle he is from.
Nice one.
(shades of Roberto Duran)
Well it’s not ringing any more, it’s obnoxiously buzzing and screeching off key.
Obama owes Americans an apology for supporting this mess.
Of course this subject will be the topic of discussion on the Sunday talking heads shows. Not.
Once again the British media tell it like it is.
I think the GOP wants it that way, too.
If we sweep the house and senate this year, we have GOT to make vote fraud first on our to-do list.
In Saudi Arabia they say “No Mass.”
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I realize that I should have spelled it differently.
Obama is blind to that.
He’s on a roll to hopefully SELF DESTRUCTION.
Oh yeah, now DU is “strict constructionist” when comes to interpreting the Constitution—
hehe
I thought I had heard that the construction unions in NYC had announced they were going to boycott the construction of the Cordoba mosque and center. I was thinking, too bad. Because it would be interesting to see the toilets plumbed into the drinking fountains, the telephones tied into 480 volt buses, and such.
He is not one of us.
They did in 2008.
I bet ya, if this happens, Obama will visit NYC and go to the Mosque. Of course it will be to SHOW that he is “tolerant”. BULL! He’ll finally have some cover to actually worship where his closet Muslim faith will be welcomed and he can enlist others to destroy our country more.
All depends on whose ox is getting gored.
Obummer can demand that Jesus be covered at Notre Dame, but push ground Zero Islam BS in our faces. Sic semper tyrannis!
Georgetown University covered up a monogram symbolizing the name of Jesus because it was inscribed on the stage where the president spoke Tuesday. The White House asked them for all symbols to be covered up at the lecture hall.
Obummer demanded Notre Dame to Hide Jesus image
Deus mos eradico diabolus tyrannus velociter
Islam is a subversive political movement that masquerades as a religion. The leaders of this movement seek to conquer and enslave. Their tactics are infiltration, subversion, insurrection, and direct attack. Using any combination that furthers the purpose. As a religion it needs to be expunged from the planet. Until then, they can build another mosque in America when I can build churches and synagogues wherever I want, whenever I want, in the nations islam controls. Until then no islamic religion should be allowed in the west. Period.
The idiots who watch TV got him elected because by watching TV they gave the media INCREDIBLE power. Fox/Saudia News is just as bad now. Saudi shareholders and Fox cheered for Obama on election night. Keep watching TV - it helps the regime.
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