"Sept. 11. Afghanistan. Iraq. Fort Hood. The ground zero mosque. ISIS. Paris.
Again and again, Republicans demand to know why President Obama won’t name the enemy. They say he’s too forgiving, too afraid of ideological conflict, too reluctant to wage all-out war, too eager to find people of good will on the other side.
Maybe they’re right. Maybe he should come out and say it: The GOP is trying to destroy him.
Anyone who has watched Obama’s genteel response to his Republican tormentors shouldn’t be surprised at his delicacy about Islam. He resists generalizations and looks for common ground, whether the context is terrorism or domestic politics. No matter what Republicans do—heckle his speeches, impugn his patriotism, shut down the government, threaten a credit default, stage countless votes to repeal his health care law—he refuses to categorically condemn them.......
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For Democrats, this can be exasperating. It’s especially exasperating when Republicans refuse to take responsibility for, or even disown, outbursts from their colleagues, such as Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You lie!” or Rudy Giuliani’s “I do not believe that the president loves America.”......
Please. If we’re going to start calling out religious and political groups for extremism, we could start at home with Republicans. Too many of them spew animus. Too many foment sectarianism. Too many sit by, or make excuses, as others appeal to tribalism. If Obama were to treat them the way they say he should treat Islam—holding the entire faith accountable for its ugliest followers—they’d squeal nonstop about slander and demagogy. They’re lucky that’s not his style."
"It is amusing to watch the furies unleashed in both the White House and the liberal media over former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s citing of the Communist Frank Marshall Davis as an influence on the young Barack Obama. And Giuliani’s insistence that, partly as a direct result of that influence, the president doesn’t “love America the way we do.”
On Sunday, Davis biographer Paul Kengor wrote a terrific piece laying out the history of the Davis-Obama relationship in detail. The full title of Mr. Kengor’s book, notably is The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. As Kengor points out in detail, Rudy was right. But well aside from that is the larger issue of the influence of Communism itself on the modern Democratic Party and its ideas. Far from being the province of supposedly nutty, frothing far-right zealots, this issue was discussed years ago by none other than Ronald Reagan.
So let’s begin with the specifics. As is well recorded, both in the day and ever after in Reagan lore, on October 27, 1964 actor Reagan gave a nationally televised speech at the end of the presidential campaign on behalf of GOP nominee Senator Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was fighting a losing battle against LBJ in a moment that turned out to be the high-tide of American liberalism. The Reagan speech, eventually titled “A Time for Choosing,” pulled no punches on the subject of ties between the Democrats and communism. The speech was a rousing success. Not only did it raise a stunning (in the day and even now) $8 million for Goldwater's last few campaign days, it not so coincidentally launched Reagan's own political career as a twice elected California governor and president of the United States — all four victories coming in landslides. Said Reagan:................."
Let the record show that it finally took a New Yorker to slam 0bama good on the ugly truth. :)
If Giuliani thinks Obama doesn’t love America, then fine. It’s Rudy’s opinion on a subject that really doesn’t matter. I don’t think Obama loves America. Does anyone really care about that? I didn’t think so.
Obama probably thinks that Giuliani doesn’t love communism. I wonder if anyone will ask him?
The left doesn’t love America.
>> the Left’s faux outrage
The bane of the social psyche.
There is a certain irony in this hoopla over Walker not answering the inane questions by reporters.
Obama, and they the media bend over backards (to the point of being able to lick their heels) in telling us Islam is a religion of faith and peace. That the overwhelming majority of Muslims are peaceful, and those infinitesimally small number of extremists who happen to be Muslims doing workplace violence aren’t doing such in the name of Islam.
Moreover, the media (and the President/government) go out of their way to condemn any Christianity related action - even centuries old - as equal to or worse than the virtuously nonexistent happenstance Muslim workplace violence not-really-Islam, per se.
Okay, work on that premise then. Then why does Democratdom, the Media and Muslims bristle like a wet cat when the possibility is put forth that the President is indeed a Muslim and NOT a Christian? Hmmmmmm?
The left is full of fake outrage whenever a normal person breaks through the PC curtain and says a forbidden truth.
The problem with this statement is that Obama DOES love his country. The fact is that the United States is NOT Obama's country.
But the question of who is right is unimportant, because, as we both agree, President Obama is doing great harm to the United States.
Totally true.
Progressives want to see America diminished and its citizens humbled because they feel themselves above both. The phony outrage is merely that they've been called on it.