I wish Obama had the same respect for contracts as he now claims for religious freedom. The Chrysler and GM bondholders would have appreciated some adherence to “Founding Principles” .

Obama and his State Department have actively supported this mosque, even though many Muslim leaders have warned that it would indeed send the wrong signal. I don’t know the president’s motives here, but Mayor Bloomberg has been little more than his whore. This is a local issue in that the citizens of NYC can give the lifestyle fascist mayor grief, and a national issue in that rather than plug a gaping whole left by psychotic religious fanatics we argue about whether to, in their minds, reward them.

This isn’t about religion. It is about taste, and Obama and Bloomberg have none, which is no surprise to anyone who has watched these Peter Principle cretins destroy a city and a nation.

Osama Bin Laden is a member of the Wahhabi sect of Sunni Islam. So shouldn’t Obama and Bloomberg be urging that the proposed Islamic Center at Ground Zero be a Wahhabi Center?

When historians look back upon the tumultuous period we are currently enduring, they may well see the decision of an American President to embrace and justify the fundamental ideology of an avowed enemy as the final nail in the coffin of his own dying political party.

The Democratic Party has been dying since the Civil Rights era, as they managed to both stand in its way yet claim credit for its successes. Their shamelessly hypocritical feigned opposition to the Iraq War was the act of the drowning man pulling all around him beneath the water. But here, a sitting President has drawn an unmistakable line in the sand, of which there are only two possibilities for overt support, with no room for equivocation of any kind. This is a “with us or against us” moment, which could easily have been avoided by a wiser man.

Contrast his comments with his comments about the arrest of the Harvard professor.

Obama is not only a socialist, but he is a genuine fool. I don’t think there is a better example of our flawed “higher education” system than Obama.

Who can be surprised at this further betrayal of America?
HIS NAME IS “H-U-S-S-E-I-N”!!!!!

A Presidential declaration that there should be a Shinto shrine across from the USS Arizona Memorial??!

I am NOT opposed to Muslims building mosques in this country. As an agnostic I respect everyones’ right to freedom of religion. I am however against the chosen site for the “Ground Zero” mosque. It is highly insensitive and inappropriate, especially to those of us that lost loved ones and relatives at “Ground Zero” that fateful day. And for those, like Mr. Ali Hasan of Colorado, that use the “private property” argument, I retort: Fine. Then Muslims should have no objection to pig farms, breweries, distilleries, strip clubs, gay wedding chapels, or dog kennels located next to established mosques so long as they too are built on “private property.” [I would be personally opposed to such structures being built next to an established mosque as inappropriate and insensitive, however fair is fair.]

And for those keeping count, there are over 1,200 mosques in the United States. The number of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues in Saudi Arabia: Zero! As such, any claims of “bigotry” or “racism” rings hollow in my ears in regard to the opposition to the “Ground Zero” mosque. Race and religious baiting at its worst.

Once again, President Obama has shown that he would rather apologize for his “fellow” Americans than to take a stand for his constituents (aka his bosses). Fortunately, with missteps like this one, Mr. Obama is ensuring that he will have but one term in office. For that, I am extremely thankful!

The Dear Leader has taken some unpopular stands in the past, but this one is downright weird. While I understand this fits in perfectly with his Islamist strategy of making them feel all accepted and warm and fuzzy, does he not have a serious problem with the Optics on this one. If he was worried about people speaking his middle name because it made him look like a Muslim, what is catering to this imam going to do?
He’s generally got decent political instincts. Until we conservatives and independents made the argument, health care deform, crap and tax, and financial takeover were popular. This is a clear dog as an issue for him. It makes him look like a toady of Islam and against the populace.
I really can’t understand their political stands right now. They are almost working for defeat.

The latest analysis appearing in the MSM, over the past 48 hours, regarding our country’s just-announced Q2 2010 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) metrics indicates that initial estimates of 2.4% growth–which also infers stagnant job creation–may have been overestimated by as much as 100%, or more. Pending “adjustments” to these numbers–in the government’s first revision, which will be provided a few weeks from now–tell us actual Q2 2010 GDP results may end up anywhere from below 1% to 1.2% or 1.3%.

This is abysmal, especially when it’s taken in context with the reality that the ongoing (and growing) conventional wisdom and forecast consensus in U.S. economic circles for the second-half of this year is (and has been for awhile) for these numbers to worsen. In other words, the chances of either a double-dip recession and/or an economic relapse into negative GDP territory–signifying a rather massive, formal extension of the existing recession with increasing unemployment as we head into the last 80 days of the mid-term election season–have increased substantially in recent weeks. This is why Gibbs went off half cocked last week- he was trying to divert attention away from this piece of good news. Too bad Al Gore invented the internet and we can pull up back dated stories. Similarly, Obama made his notorious mosque statement last night- to rule the news cycle, and then basically back pedalled and voted present on it this morning. Shocker, my antennae was up, so I scoured the papers and blogs for the bad news they were hoping to hide and came across the WSJ posting a story saying their “HINDENBERG scenario” or whatever it is called points to the stock market crashing next month. Ladida- nothing to see hear, move along folks- so typical and so tired. We’ve been played obviously.

…among other papers reports that the site is not visible from Ground Zero. Is there some source for this?

It is the matter to be resolved in the court of public opinion not in the in the federal courts or the executive branch, by getting involved this is a clear breach on the separation of powers. A violation that must not be ignored.

Next problem, does the Constitution, the original intent of the Constitution matter any more?

Remember before the election? He was grateful that Sen. McCain had chosen not to make “my Muslim faith…my Christian faith an issue.” Such a slip surely had Freud trying to dig himself out of his grave to highlight it – and he was a self-loathing, non-practicing Jew!

What person of any religion confuses that religion with another? Especially one that is so philosophically and foundationally so different?

He insists upon promoting a positive spin for this one religion, while sneering at the beliefs of all others, most especially Judaism and Christianity. He is the perfect Riyadhian Candidate, because he appeals to all things leftist in America. He’s the right color, because “everyone knows” only racists will oppose him; he’s an intellectual elitist, which sends the left into orgasm; and he is anti-American, which is the indispensable quality for any serious democrat contender. That he openly flaunts his desire to destroy our great nation is icing on the cake.

The left, with its usual lack of insight and wisdom, is so bent on hating this great nation, that it eagerly embraces anyone who actively seeks our downfall. None of the idiots ask themselves what will fill the void if their dream of a post-American era comes to pass? Look at history, damn it!!! The Muslims seek not to conform to Western culture, but to rid the world of it!! Those idiots throughout the West who believe that they are “no different” from us are ignorant of both their own civilization and the civilization of our self-proclaimed enemy.

Forty years ago, the issue of permitting our enemies to flaunt their mass murder in our in our streets would have been unimaginable. Amongst decent people, it still is. God help our country if this abomination is permitted to rise.

Isn’t shocking at all. In his book he forewarned that he would come down on the side of the Muslims when push comes to shove.
I find it very interesting that a tax free entity has been approved in a high tax area like Manhattan. Many churches have been turned down for just that reason which is why more and more you find churches being built on the outskirts of towns or in low tax/revenue areas.

I’d like to those in support of the mosque (not Redstaters) who keep noting the mosque will be two (2! TWO!!) blocks from the former twin towers, you can see the complex from blocks away.

Building 14, one of the first to go back up, can be seen for several blocks, and it is by no means a huge tower.

The point of the mosque is to declare a victory for Islam where 3000 non-combative, surprised and ambushed American and foreign citizens were attacked by Muslin terrorists who proclaimed their act in the name of Allah and Islam.

The mosque supporters have many places in NYC and Manhattan to establish a place of worship. Downtown NYC is probably not even a good location as few areas are residentail. The religious buildings there are mostly landmarks that were built when the city was a village clustered around its wall, from which Wall Street gets its name.

61% of New Yorkers oppose the mosque at that site and New Yorkers are famously tolerant and very familiar with US religious freedom.

For those uninformed people who have somehow decided the opposition to the mosque is a Republican issue, I would remind them New York has 3-1 Dem. registrarion, so the 61% who oppose the mosque includes many more Dems. than the other party.

He was born a Muslim, based on his father. He was raised a Muslim by his stepfather. He enrolled in school as a Muslim. His college roommates at Occidental were Muslim foreign students. He traveled to Pakistan to visit his Muslim friends and associates when he graduated.

Yes, for political reasons when he moved to Chicago he joined a black “church” on the South Side, which church apparently was not organized along the lines of Christianity, but instead black nationalism. But he left that church two years ago, and I’ve seen nothing to indicate that he’s joined another.

Meanwhile, there’s the bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia, the apologies made to the Muslim world, the disrespect of Bibi, the redefinition of NASA policies and now this. How much more evidence do people need? The man is a Muslim, and probably subscribes to the general belief that America should become a more sharia-friendly and -compliant place.

This shows us just another example that the man is just not much of anything at all. He is not in any way capable of understanding what an American is. He has spent too many years learning the opposite and it shows. I am amazed every day as to how the American people that voted for this person configured their thoughts into a reasonable premiss to be able to vote yes. Will the Democrats all follow Obama off the cliff or will they go ahead and lame duck cape and trade and amnesty. He has no compunction with slapping the face of the American voter and up to now neither has the Democrats, but this ungodly Mosque may be an excuse to through him under the bus for a change. I see that or Dems may not see the light of day for many years, at least I hope for this to be. This is a sad time for our Country, trully sad.

Your piece may be full of passion, but its logic is flawed, and it reveals an ignorance of constitutional law.

First, to argue that a person should be permitted to exercise their right to freedom of worship in no way suggests that one also has to aggree with the tenants of their religion – which is essentiall what you are suggesting President Obama is doing. To say Christians have the right to worship and exercise their faith does not require that one embrace the ideas of that religion, or endorse its actions.

Second, the argument that there is a difference between “the exertion of a legal right, and supporting the exercise of a right that is offensive” has no foundation in law. Rights are rights, and they mean nothing unless they are enforced generally and without discrimination. There are narrow exceptions, such as the exceptional limiations on free speech, but they are grounded in principle and applied generally. There is no principled basis for suggesting that Muslims ought not to enjoy the same rights of freedom of religion as the rest of the country. And the right to freely worship is indeed one of the founding principles of this country.

Third, to anologise between Islam, one of the 5 great religions in the world (the others being Christianity, Judaeism, Buddhism, and the Hindu faith), and fringe Satanic cults is ridiculous.

The key point is that 9/11 was not an attack that can be attributed to an entire religion or faith. It was the act of a few acting in the name of their faith, but that is no different than many other terrorist organizations which try to gain legitimacy and a following by laying claim to represent some larger collective. We do not attribute the horror of the holocaust to all Christians, though the Nazis were Christians and were motivated by religious hatred.

Gamma @ The Radix (www.theradix.net).

I have a son that was honored by having his name posted on I-5 in Washington State having been killed by a drunken driver. My son was a employee of Washington State DOT and on the job.
We hold remains in in reverence when they are found whether excavating for a building or digging anything. We then move them to a cemetary or in some cases a graveyard has been uncovered and a fence build around it.

obama has no respect for the dead or the living as long as he can mooch off somebody else. Moochelle was brought up the same with her rev wright I hate America attitude.
I personally think a 10 mile area needs to be established around the Twin Towers Site, The Pentagon and where the airplane went down in Pennsylvaina. No person, groups, race that had members that were involved in killing all those Americans on 9-11 should be allowed to build anything new in those areas.
The muslem mosque had nothing to do with worship obama and you kinow that as well as I do. We are sick of the radical muslem terrorsits and their LIES, just as we are of your obama.

[found the following on the web!]

Michelle Obama’s Allah-day

Why was Michelle Obama spreading “stimulus” money during her sheik-like holiday in Spain? Do you suppose Barack Hussein Obama told her he can’t get re-elected without the votes of Hispanics who aren’t American citizens and she thought he meant the non-American Hispanics living in Spain?
At least those foreigners are much better than “voters” in American cemeteries!
BTW, in 1928 Herbert Hoover’s campaign promised that if he were elected there would be “a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.”
Well, Obama has come up with a Hoover twist and says that if he’s re-elected there will be “a chick in every car and some pot in every garage”!
For some insights into Obamessiah and his think-alikes, Google “Obama Avoids Bible Verses,” “Obama Supports Public Depravity,” “Government-Approved Illegals,” and “Imam Bloomberg’s Sharia Mosque.”
Have you noticed that America’s “Christian” president has favorites? See search engines including Google and type in “Obama Favors Islam Over Christianity.” If minority groups in America keep getting special “status,” will the USA become known as the United Status of America?
I wonder how soon Obama will “come out” and admit he’s a Muslim!

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Obama has demonstrated, AGAIN, he is either ignorant or arrogant, or both.
Just because a mosque can be built does not mean it should be. It only underscores an intentional insensitivity practiced by adherents of a religion which was the philosophical basis of the attacks on us starting in 1979.
Yet, muslims do nothing to refute the claims of the belligerents whose acts of violence are perpetrated in the name of a religion being symbolized blocks from where an attack in its name was carried out. We hear terms like “good muslims” or “peace loving muslims” yet it is muslims who rationalize, justify and accept the appropriateness of the many acts of muslim inspired violence.