Posted on 08/16/2010 12:44:57 PM PDT by Justaham
Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin is pleading with Republicans not to use President Obama’s endorsement of the Ground Zero Mosque against Democrats in the Midterm Elections:
Time: . . . . Yes, Republicans, you can take advantage of this heated circumstance, backed by the families of the 9/11 victims, in their most emotional return to the public stage since 2001.
But please don’t do it. There are a handful of good reasons to oppose allowing the Islamic center to be built so close to Ground Zero, particularly the family opposition and the availability of other, less raw locations. But what is happening now — the misinformation about the center and its supporters; the open declarations of war on Islam on talk radio, the Internet and other forums; the painful divisions propelled by all the overheated rhetoric — is not worth whatever political gain your party might achieve.
It isn’t clear how the battle over the proposed center should or will end. But two things are profoundly clear: Republicans have a strong chance to win the midterm elections without picking a fight over President Obama’s measured words. And a national political fight conducted on the terms we have seen in the past few days will lead to a chain reaction at home and abroad that will have one winner — the very extreme and violent jihadists we all can claim as our true enemy.
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Reverse Psycho-logy?....
Sheesh, don’t be such a whiner.
Just wow, that would bring a tear to a glass eye...
of course the RINOs are probably falling over themselves now to see who can be first to look good to the state run media :(
I doubt it. Prove it.
Don’t make the jihadists mad...they might try to kill us. Oh, yeah, they already are...
Time must be big in Saudia Arabia. Did they sponsor the new clock?
What a load of BS.
The jihadists are winners because we are standing up to them?
Igniting a religious war against islam is exactly the correct thuing to do. In fact it is the only thing we can do to survive. After all, they are already in a religious war against us. We just haven’t woken up to it yet.
It’s about time we tarred the entire democrat party with being on the enemy’s side in this terrorist war. Especially since they are.
Obama screwed up big time. The left knows it. They’re scared to death of the fallout. When the media gets to the point of begging for relief, that big-time fear.
The little creep begs that you won't take out your gun to save your life from a nearby thug while he bashes at your kneecaps with a bat to preclude your escape.
Seems to me Mark that the only noise for the moment is coming from the Left. The spin sounds like an F5! Dizzying!
Let’s go back all of his articles and see if he would extend the same grace to republicans?
Halperin is a disgusting, total lefty POS. I’d enjoy seeing Mr. Halperin lose everything he owns in the coming 2nd dip of our economic recession.
But this, this misstatement of an obviously distraught pres--ent, why we should just let it slide.
Hmmm, got it.
Goodly old Markey is giving out advice to his enemies.Please.
Mark’s DAD is employed by MOVEON.ORG so we know that marky’s intentions are always good !
In case you missed it sucka, they declared war on us and are in absolutely no doubt about it. It would be like letting the Nazi Party open an office on West 52nd Street in 1943.
Sure, we weren’t at war with the Nazis, we were at war with Germany!
An Obama apologist/supporter.
It’s finally occured to democrats that Obama has not only touched a political 3rd rail, but that he’s laid down on it.
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