Posted on 08/23/2010 2:28:50 PM PDT by dselig
As soon as President Obama endorsed the Muslim community's right to build an Islamic Cultural Center two blocks from Ground Zero, the political speculation mill started churning. Republican operatives crowed about how Obama was taking a position that only a minority of Americans hold. Others shook their heads in disbelief at how Obama apparently just doesn't understand the real Americans in the Heartland who know better than New Yorkers what should be built in New York. Democrats murmured to each other that this would cost them congressional seats
A week later, as the political fallout from the "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy reveals itself, it looks as if everyone may have overreacted. It is not exactly true that Obama took an unpopular position, nor that he partially retracted it the next day, when he said that he is not taking a position of the wisdom of the project. While only a minority of Americans think the Park51 plan is a good idea, they are evenly split as to whether its developers have the right to build it. So when Obama said that he supports the right to build the Cordoba House, but clarified later that he did not say that he supports the choice to build it, he was not expressing views any more contradictory than those of a significant number of Americans.
Nor is it clear that the average swing voter, beset by economic insecurity in a nation at war, is as obsessed with this as the pundetariat. The polls suggest that this is not the issue outside the Beltway that Charles Krauthammer would lead you to believe. When Gallup asked poll respondents what they thought of Obama's comments, "while more disapprove than approve, a huge chunk -- 41 percent -- didn't know enough to form an opinion."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
And the Healthcare law will make the President popular and secure victory for the democrats. Forget the polls, believe the ministry of propoganda.
Newsweek: The magazine that was sold for $1. Still trying to spin.
Whereas Newspeak no longer matters at all.
Newsweak, the magazine publisher that was recently sold for ONE DOLLAR!!!!
But, but......did Obama really endorse the building of the mosque, as this article states in the first sentence? I thought the party line was that Obama was not commenting on the wisdom of building the mosque there.
And this was in liberal Newsweek magazine. Did this author miss the clarifying statement by the president? Is the Journolist group still active so everyone gets their talking points straight??????
The Communists and their Muslim allies must be rooted out and dealt with.
Lamestream Media needs to get out more. Even my sister, who voted for Zero, is outraged by his support of the GZM.
I think that number is changing fast...
Delusional.
The Democrat spin machine, read:propaganda, is playing this all over the place, yet, tell that line of crap to the millions of blue collar job workers in NY that cleaned up the mess and had fellow workers killed by the Muslims.
I’m sure that all 11 people who read Newsweek will agree.
LOL Wanna bet?
Oh yeah sure that is the only place it will matter since upwards of 70% of people hate the idea.I read a report this morning that said the more people who find out the higher the dislike numbers climb so this is probably the wrst thing that could’ve happend to he dems when they were already in trouble.
What the hell is wrong with New Yorkers?
BS.
They are squealing like the stuck pigs that they are.
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