This is why it’s EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to look closely at a candidate, rather that saying OH YEA when he does something right (or in the case of Texas, saying that because Texas has jobs, our governor must make a great president).
Christie, to me, is an ENTERTAINER on the national level, the way he’s taking on the unions is an absolute blast to watch - but he carries a LOT of baggage, and not having a clue about Jihad is a big one. But in New Jersey, he’s getting his hands dirty and doing what needs to be done...so more power to him.
Andrew McCarthy:
“The questions about Governor Christie’s appointment of Sohail Mohammed and his exertions on behalf of Mohammed’s client, Mohammed Qatanani, have nothing to do with either sharia or the all-purpose smear of Islamophobia. They are about the governor’s judgment. They are about a U.S. attorney with political ambitions pandering to a politically active constituency at the expense of national security and enforcement of the immigration laws. They are about his decision to award a state judgeship to an attorney who was an active and vocal board member of a very troubling Islamist organization — and who has a penchant for presuming that perfectly valid anti-terror prosecutions are, instead, anti-Muslim persecutions.
Those questions are not answered by bluster.”