Our Clueless Professor

Creator's Syndicate ^ | 8/17/2010 | Pat Buchanan

[markomalley]

Have we ever had a president so disconnected from the heart of America?

On Friday night, at a White House iftar, the breaking of the Ramadan fast, Obama strode directly into the blazing controversy over whether a mosque should be built two blocks from Ground Zero.

Speaking as though this were simply an open-and-shut case of constitutional law, Professor Obama declared that Muslims "have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country," including "the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan."

Hailed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also sees this as an issue of tolerance and religious freedom, Obama had poured gasoline on a fire that had him in headlong retreat Saturday morning.

"I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there. I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding. That is what our country is about."

Professor Obama finally seemed to grasp the point.

This is not a question of "Can they build a mosque near Ground Zero?"

It is an question of "Should they build a mosque in the shadow of the twin towers, where 3,000 Americans were suffocated, crushed or burned to death by Islamic fanatics whose Muslim faith was integral to their mission of mass murder and to their identify?"

[pissant]

Palin was far from the first. But the ill informed always think Palin is the tip of the spear.

Peter King of NY has been on this like a fly on a turd weeks before Palin commented. As has Rick Lazio. Pamela Geller. The citizens of NY. Robert Spencer. National Review. Steve King. Mark Williams. World Net Daily. The National Republican Trust. Debbie Schlussel. FreeRepublic. ANdy McCarthy. Pete Worthington. Forbes. Hot Air. JAWA Report. Etc. etc

[firebrand]

And that’s the last of it, except for quartering soldiers in private homes and I think one other.