“Time’s” Mark Halperin Pleads with GOP Not to Use Obama’s Support of Ground Zero Mosque Against Dems

freedomslighthouse.net ^ | 8-16-10

[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.

[Pan_Yan]

the open declarations of war on Islam on talk radio, the Internet and other forums;

Beirut Marine Barracks, 1983:

Khobar Towers, 1996:

USS Cole, 2000:

U.S. Embassy in Tanzania, 1998:

World Trade Centers, 2001:

I could go on but I choose not to. War was declared a long, long time ago.

[Southnsoul]

” ...the open declarations of war on Islam on talk radio... “

These idiots are always more afraid of Talk Radio than they are the declarations of war by radical Islam.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The commie Dems gave America our first, “historic”, America-hating muzzie president. We’re going to hold it against them whether they like it or not.

[Nosterrex]

First of all, Islam is at war with Christianity and the West. I know that the MSM knows little to nothing about Christianity, but it knows even less about Islam. Anyone that actually believes that Islam is a religion of peace, including G. W., is either ignorant or an imbecile. Islam spread throughout the East by force. Violence is an acceptable means of conversion. There is no distinction in Islam between religious faith and the state. Do you see any religious freedom in Saudi Arabia or in Afghanistan? Whatever Islam may be, it is certainly NOT a religion of peace.

[RinaseaofDs]

“No Senator...our Germans are better than their Germans.”

LOL, I think that is word for word the defense that the CIA used for Paperclip.

Where did you get that?

[whence911]

In the past, if some country had announced they were going to infiltrate our country, change the laws to follow their religion, and change the entire culture of the country, we would have declared war. Now we give them building permits and elect one of theirs to be commander-in-chief of our military.

[Mr. Silverback]

Not only should the GOP use this, here’s an angle they should pursue: The self-declared bridge-builder in chief, king of the beer summit, foremost olive branch bearer to the Muslim world, had a crowd full of moderate American Muslims and a perfect chance to publically say something like this:

“Because America is committed to religious freedom and, indeed, was founded by religious refugees, Muslims have the right to do this, but it’s not building bridges, it’s inflaming passions. Those who oppose it are not un-American, Islamophobic or intolerant, they merely have a different view of what is appropriate in a place where an enormous tragedy—for some of them, a very personal tragedy—occurred. Please call upon the builders of this mosque as your brothers in the Islamic faith to move it to another site so that we can overcome our differences instead of tangling ourselves up in unnecessary conflict.”

Instead, he pandered, giving them the half he felt they wanted to hear, and not the part that would actually make things better, actually unite people of goodwill. Of all the charges against Obama, this one, the fact that he’s a BS artist at heart, is the one that cuts across political lines most effectively. It doesn’t matter if you’re pro-abort or pro-life, union or management, hate the rich or want them to get a tax cut, unless you’re a mind-numbed robot running on Kool-Aid, you aren’t going to like a president who is a used car salesman.

That goes double when when the issue he’s saying “seats made of genuine seat material, AM/AM radio, an old lady owned it and only drove to the church next door” about is related to the death of 3,000 Americans.

[Jacquerie]

Sure, we weren’t at war with the Nazis, we were at war with Germany!

Excellent comparison.

I've never understood how the West cannot accept the fact that Islam has been at war with us these past 1400 years. Islam has Europe by the throat. It is reaching for ours.

[Mr. Silverback]

Yeah, I was really disappointed that so many big-time conservatives like Limbaugh and Hannity were treating Game Change as a serious source. I know Reid admitted saying the “Negro dialect” line, but I still don’t believe anything that was in that book unless it was massively corroborated.

BTW, avacado, Halperin famously wrote a memo telling ABC news staff to skew their reporting on Bush and Kerry in Kerry’s favor.

[Luke21]

“He’s now crying like a baby on Obama’s behalf! How pathetic that guy is.”

Home run! Obama stepped in sludge and the media whores are going berserk to persuade Rino’s not to rub his and their noses in it.

[Mr. Silverback]

Yeah, never thought I’d say this, but Patterson did a smart and good thing there when he could have just pretended it wasn’t his problem.

[marron]

People who opposed the mosque have been called every awful name in the book. So it seems a little rich now to ask that we not take political advantage of a rather nasty little battle over something that ought to have been an obvious bipartisan issue.

[Peet]

Mr. Halperin, are you now, or have you ever been a journ0list member?

[dfwgator]

“No Senator...our Germans are better than their Germans.” LOL, I think that is word for word the defense that the CIA used for Paperclip. Where did you get that?

"The Right Stuff."

[PATRIOT1876]

Obama should’ve kept his mouth shut then!

Measured words?

He doesn't seem to have anyone measuring his words, they are almost all foolishness or lies.

[jonascord]

And, you should remember, Our Germans were better than Their Germans...

I just love that line from The Right Stuff...

[PATRIOT1876]

*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.*

They always let you know what and who they fear!

The press: "Oh that Sarah Palin... we could make fun of her all day long"

"Those Tea party people are CRAZY!"

[vaudine]

Use that and everything else that might stic.

vaudinek

[Chode]

[The Shrew]

Yeah, I was really disappointed that so many big-time conservatives like Limbaugh and Hannity were treating Game Change as a serious source. I know Reid admitted saying the “Negro dialect” line, but I still don’t believe anything that was in that book unless it was massively corroborated.

Yea, I throw up in my mouth a little every time I hear Peter Boyles on KHOW wax rhapsodic about Game Change. I am still shocked that a book without footnotes to verify has been taken so seriously. It should have been laughed at. Gag!

Regards,

TS