[truthandlife]

Does everyone still think Rove is a genius?

[Clemenza]

Do you think this means that Bush will spend a lot of time here in Bay Ridge? He better be careful if he brings his motorcade down Fifth Avenue in this nabe, lest some Saddam/Party of God/Hezbollah symphathizers get too cocky.

[Types_with_Fist]

I know Bush is a "good guy" and "better than Clinton," but I've been disturbed ever since shortly after 9/11, when he visited a mosque and praised "peaceful Islam" even while body parts were being pulled from the destroyed towers.

[Shermy]

I smell Grover Norquist?

[BenR2]

Does everyone still think Rove is a genius?


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Of course. Yes.

(And a convert to Islam, as well.)

[twigs]

His capture of the Muslim vote, who now outnumber the Jews in this country, put him over the top in the Florida election and got him to the White House. Bush is a brilliant politician and he knows that he needs them. I personally want him to be re-elected and while I do not agree with everything he does, I do not see this negatively. He needs to get votes. In the meantime, I saw a thread here just in the past day or two that said that Muslim deportations are on the rise. This president doesn't see the need to rush to the microphone and announce to the world that he has done yet something else as president. He does it quietly. I continue to trust him.

[Noachian]

Pandering to the Muslims didn't do the French any good, and if Bush tries his own brand of pandering to Muslims we'll wind up being another France.

If Bush thinks that the Muslim vote is more important then his base of Christian voters he's sadly mistaken.

[Courier]

Fifteen of Nineteen Saudis support Bush for President

[risk]

>>>> Does everyone still think Rove is a genius?

No, never did, never will.

[Uncle Bill]

"Does everyone still think Rove is a genius?"

Yes, for losing.

[veronica]

"The majority in the American Muslim community voted for President Bush in the presidential election of 2000," the AMC said in a statement. "The community believes that the Muslim vote, and hard work and efforts of many Muslim activists in the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign played a decisive role in the victory for the president."

What a crock...

[caltrop]

I'm pretty sure Rove, whether a genius or not, is smart enought to recognize the Republicans have been chasing the Jewish vote for some time without success. If he figures his down side is losing votes he can't get anyway, why not reach out to the Muslim vote?

[onyx]

This is a totally fallacious headline! Read the article.

POTUS met with the arab/muslim rep., and said rep. gave him a muslim wish list. BFD.

POTUS agreed to NOTHING!

[joesnuffy]

Big Tent politics
With the camel jocky's nose under the tent
Can the camel be far behind?
The war on "select" terrorists is going well
The other terrorists confirm this

[MJY1288]

"The officials said the White House regards the Muslim vote as a key element in the campaign"

ROFLMAO, is this from the Onion?, Cause I checked the link and there is no author or any sources for these claims

[Those_Crazy_Liberals]

"Does everyone still think Rove is a genius?"

Yes. Their votes count as much as yours and while he's patting them on the head with one hand, with the other he's locking their terrorist butts up. Thats how presidential politics is played my young friend.

[dfrussell]

Oh, baby... makes me want to convert. :)

[jagrmeister]

Muslims are not evil. They are not to be feared. From reading these posts, it seems that some people think associating with the Muslim community is to associate with terrorists. This is ridiculous xenophobia and we really need to think past these stereotypes if we want to effectively thwart terrorism- rather than caught up in stigmatizing a whole population.

[veronica]

The letter was reported to outline the positions of American Muslim leaders on the Arab-Israeli conflict and other Middle East issues. The AMC has opposed the listing by the State Department of such Islamic insurgency groups as Hamas, Hizbullah and Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations.

Let's see now. Hizbollah built the bomb that hit the USS Cole, Ayman Al Zawahiri, Bin Laden's 2nd in command is Islamic Jihad, and Hamas has killed countless Israelis and some Americans as well.

[Faraday]

I bet Bush wins the vast majority of the Iraqi-American vote, but hardly any of the vote from those of "jihad-state" extraction.

My guess is that this isn't really about winning the Muslim vote, any more than the speech at the Urban League was about winning the black vote. The Democrats are going to try to persuade the people that the President is an extremist, divisive, etc. By making a bid for support from strongly Democrat leaning groups, he shores up the "squishy" middle, who don't want an "ideologue." Policy is what counts for most of us. But perception is key for the swing voter.

The recent poll which showed 20% of white males consider themselves Democrats, should be the death-knell for that Party. Republican conservatives have to promote candidates that have both President Bush's natural appeal, and the ability to cast limited government as in the people's best interest.