Rallies over mosque near ground zero get heated

presidunce odumba has already stated he chooses the muslim terrorist sympathizers over his own legal U.S. citizens!

most dumbocraps agree with odumba's cruel & shameful position that mocks ground zero and opens the huge wounds that those muslim scumbags created on 9-11!!!

odumba is one huge pile of crap-ola!!!

acorn obama wrote:

presidunce odumba has already stated he chooses the muslim terrorist sympathizers over his own legal U.S. citizens!

Liar.

Does Barack Obama want to be re-elected in 2012?

Few Americans consider themselves bigger than the presidency but Obama might be one of them.

The man in the Oval Office, argues Toby Harnden, may already be preparing for a role as a post-president in a post-American world.


Published: 21 Aug 2010

Obama's intervention on the so-called "Ground Zero mosque" issue is a case in point. There was no need for him to get involved - the Islamic community centre two blocks from the 9/11 site is unlikely to get built and there was no political advantage in his making a statement.

What he said about religious freedom was typically Obama - high-minded, principled and legalistic. He is, after all, a former constitutional law professor. What his words lacked were any real empathy with what Americans felt and practical considerations about resolving the issue - never mind the political downside for him.

Doubtless he has been advised to prove he is "connected" to ordinary Americans by doing things like be seen attending church and taking "regular" holidays. But Obama seems happy to act as a European-style secularist, vacation in Martha's Vineyard and send his daughters to one of America's most exclusive private schools.

Obama does not suffer for self doubt. He has long seemed so convinced of his own virtue that to question his motives is illogical. Increasingly, his pronouncements carry the tone of one who believes those who disagree are stupid or bigoted.

Before departing for Martha's Vineyard last week, Obama spent three days on the campaign trail raising money and support for Democratic mid-term election candidates. Don't give in to fear," he said in Milwaukee. "Let's reach for hope."

It was a message that worked once but is unlikely to appeal this time, with America in the grip of a recession, unemployment still stubbornly close to 10 percent and blame-it-on-Bush rhetoric wearing very thin.

Obama is, however, at his best in these settings. He has the crowd hanging on his every word and he is not dealing with grubby political realities or objectionable opponents. Perhaps they are a reminder for him of simpler times.

They might also be a glimpse of the future. For Obama, the crowning moment of his presidency have been speeches abroad - the statement in Strasbourg that America had been "dismissive and arrogant", the address to the Muslim world from Cairo, the acceptance in Oslo of the Nobel Peace Prize.

In Berlin in 2008, Obama cast himself as a "citizen of the world". He has dismissed the bedrock notion of American exceptionalism by describing it, also in Strasbourg, as little more than narrow patriotism. Elite opinion among liberal Ivy League types - of which Obama is the embodiment - holds that we are already living in a post-American world.

There are few Americans who see themselves as bigger than the presidency but Obama could well be one of them. In 2008, Obama showed little appetite for the down-and-dirty aspects of political campaigning.

When things got tough against Hillary Clinton, he all but conceded the final Democratic primaries and let the clock run out. Against John McCain, he developed a campaign plan and refused to deviate from it. McCain was level in the polls when the US economy imploded, handing Obama a relatively comfortable victory.

Obama is the first black American president, an established author, multi-millionaire and acclaimed figure beyond American shores.

It seems highly unlikely that Obama will decide not to run in 2012. But he might well be calculating that a embarking post- presidential role as the leading global thinker in the post-American world as a Republican successor enters office is more attractive than being sullied by the political compromises and manoeuvrings necessary to win.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/nor...

Richard_ wrote:

<quoted text>Liar.

...and, with much company.
Fools, idiots and clowns.

Sen. Harry Reid Breaks With Obama Over 'Ground Zero Mosque'

President Obama's Support for Islamic Center Opened Door to Republican Assault

By RUSSELL GOLDMAN
Aug. 16, 2010

President Obama's staunchest ally in the Senate broke with the president today over the controversial Islamic center planned for a site near Ground Zero, and said he is opposed to its construction.

The office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada issued a statement saying, "The First Amendment protects freedom of religion. Senator Reid respects that, but thinks that the mosque should be built some place else."

Reid's comments came just days after Obama told a White House gathering that Muslims had a right to build the mosque, and Republicans vowed to make the president's stand an issue in the November elections.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republicans-se...

The Obsolescence of Barack Obama

The magic of 2008 can't be recreated, and good riddance to it.

AUGUST 11, 2010
By FOUAD AJAMI

Not long ago Barack Obama, for those who were spellbound by him, had the stylishness of JFK and the historic mission of FDR riding to the nation's rescue.

Now it is to Lyndon B. Johnson's unhappy presidency that Democratic strategist Robert Shrum compares the stewardship of Mr. Obama. Johnson, wrote Mr. Shrum in the Week magazine last month, never "sustained an emotional link with the American people" and chose to escalate a war that "forced his abdication as president."

A broken link with the public, and a war in Afghanistan he neither embraces and sells to his party nor abandons—this is a time of puzzlement for President Obama.

His fall from political grace has been as swift as his rise a handful of years ago. He had been hot political property in 2006 and, of course, in 2008. But now he will campaign for his party's 2010 candidates from afar, holding fund raisers but not hitting the campaign trail in most of the contested races.

Those mass rallies of Obama frenzy are surely of the past.

The vaunted Obama economic stimulus, at $862 billion, has failed. The "progressives" want to double down, and were they to have their way, would have pushed for a bigger stimulus still. But the American people are in open rebellion against an economic strategy of public debt, higher taxes and unending deficits. We're not all Keynesians, it turns out. The panic that propelled Mr. Obama to the presidency has waned. There is deep concern, to be sure.

But the Obama strategy has lost the consent of the governed.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274...

Impeach the Maggot!

A Clinton Dem & Carter Dem call Obama: "Our Divisive President"

July 28, 2010

The former head of the Civil Rights Commission, Mary Frances Berry, acknowledged that the Obama administration has taken to polarizing America around the issue of race as a means of diverting attention away from other issues, saying: "the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats.

"... Having one's opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness."

The president had a unique opportunity to focus on overarching issues of importance to whites and blacks. He has failed to address the critical challenges.

He has not used his bully pulpit to emphasize the importance of racial unity and the common interest of poor whites and blacks who need training, job opportunities, and the possibility of realizing the American Dream.

He hasn't done enough to address youth unemployment—which in the white community is 23.2% and in the black community is 39.9%.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274...

Democrats vs. Democrats: Is Obama Too Divisive?

Our Divisive President

By (D) PATRICK H. CADDELL AND (D) DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN

During the election campaign, Barack Obama sought to appeal to the best instincts of the electorate, to a post-partisan sentiment that he said would reinvigorate our democracy. He ran on a platform of reconciliation—of getting beyond "old labels" of right and left, red and blue states, and forging compromises based on shared values.

President Obama's Inaugural was a hopeful day, with an estimated 1.8 million people on the National Mall celebrating the election of America's first African-American president. The level of enthusiasm, the anticipation and the promise of something better could not have been more palpable.

And yet, it has not been realized. Not at all.

Rather than being a unifier, Mr. Obama has divided America on the basis of race, class and partisanship. Moreover, his cynical approach to governance has encouraged his allies to pursue a similar strategy of racially divisive politics on his behalf.

We have seen the divisive approach under Republican presidents as well—particularly the administrations of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. It was wrong then, and it is wrong now. By dividing America, Mr. Obama has brought our government to the brink of a crisis of legitimacy, compromising our ability to address our most important policy issues.

We say this with a heavy heart. Both of us share the president's stated vision of what America can and should be. Having worked in the South during the civil rights movement, and on behalf of the ground-breaking elections of African-American mayors such as David Dinkins, Harold Washington and Emanuel Cleaver, we were deeply moved by Mr. Obama's election.

The first hint that as president Mr. Obama would be willing to interject race into the political dialogue came last July, when he jumped to conclusions about the confrontation between Harvard Prof. Henry Louis "Skip" Gates and the Cambridge police.

During a press conference, the president said that the "Cambridge police acted stupidly," and he went on to link the arrest with the "long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately."

Then he admitted he had not read a full account of the story!

Now Immigration.

As the Washington Post reported last week, two top White House strategists, speaking on condition of anonymity, have indicated that "the White House plans to use the immigration debate to punish the GOP and aggressively seek the Latino vote in 2012."

On an issue that has gotten much less attention, but is potentially just as divisive, the Justice Department has pointedly refused to prosecute three members of the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation at the polls on Election Day 2008.

It is the job of the Department of Justice to protect all American voters from voter discrimination and voter intimidation—whether committed by the far right, the far left, or the New Black Panthers. It is unacceptable for the Department of Justice to continue to stonewall on this issue.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Mr. Obama's campaign emphasized repeatedly that his minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was being unfairly stereotyped because of racially incendiary sound bites that allegedly did not reflect the totality of his views. In the Gates incident and others, Mr. Obama has resorted to similar forms of stereotyping.

Even the former head of the Civil Rights Commission, Mary Frances Berry, acknowledged that the Obama administration has taken to polarizing America around the issue of race as a means of diverting attention away from other issues, saying: "the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats.... Having one's opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness."

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274...

IMPEACH!

Lance Winslow wrote:

<quoted text>...and, with much company.
Fools, idiots and clowns.

Hey, we agree. Seems the WH and congress are full of them these days.

it is a sad day in America when presidunce odumba chose the side of the muslim terrorist sympathizers over his own American citizens!

odumbass is a traitor! most dumbocraps are traitors too!

Muslims have started this whole mess because of them being insenstive to New Yorkers feelings. So deal with it muslims. This is not about religion or racism. Muslims will reap want they have sown.

Do you think they would have pulled this stunt if Bush was in office? I think not.

acorn obama wrote:

presidunce odumba has already stated he chooses the muslim terrorist sympathizers over his own legal U.S. citizens!
most dumbocraps agree with odumba's cruel & shameful position that mocks ground zero and opens the huge wounds that those muslim scumbags created on 9-11!!!
odumba is one huge pile of crap-ola!!!

You're right, except MANY DEMS, Thank God are NO longer behind this moron of a president. He is the WORST. He doesn't support our National Day Of Prayer, but supports the building of this MOSQUE. And he at one time said, "The cops acted Stupidly" NOW who's acting STUPIDLY????? FUBO

And for those who think this is just about "respecting the dead", there is swamp for sale.

This issue is a very sad indictment of our country's values, our fear of others, how scaremongering and bigotry works and this is making our country look intolerant and hateful.

sue wrote:

Muslims will reap want they have sown.

You have it sort of backwards, our country will reap what we are sowing on this issue. We should remember that in the future when our country is criticized.

Responsibility wrote:

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You have it sort of backwards, our country will reap what we are sowing on this issue. We should remember that in the future when our country is criticized.

Our country is criticized no matter what we do, and its out of jealousy from other countries.

sue wrote:

<quoted text>Our country is criticized no matter what we do, and its out of jealousy from other countries.

Yes Sue. Did we date in College?

Responsibility wrote:

And for those who think this is just about "respecting the dead", there is swamp for sale.
This issue is a very sad indictment of our country's values, our fear of others, how scaremongering and bigotry works and this is making our country look intolerant and hateful.

Fe4ar/ I dont think anyone is afraid of muslims. Maybe just the cowardly sneaky ones that murder innocent people.

Obamination wrote:

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You're right, except MANY DEMS, Thank God are NO longer behind this moron of a president. He is the WORST. He doesn't support our National Day Of Prayer, but supports the building of this MOSQUE. And he at one time said, "The cops acted Stupidly" NOW who's acting STUPIDLY????? FUBO

Try this...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/prayerda...

I know all you folks on the right want to do is bash and crap on the President no matter what he does, but for the love of whatever upright God you believe in; try to at least get the facts straight.

sue wrote:

<quoted text>Our country is criticized no matter what we do, and its out of jealousy from other countries.

No, it is out of how we treat others and what values we have,

We are showing a lack of those traits and no country should be jealous of the lack thereof.