Barack Obama – desperately wanting to divert attention away from his failed policies and the terrible economy those failed policies have produced – poured gasoline onto the mosque being planned near Ground Zero and then lit the match.
The White House went from “deeming [the mosque] a local issue that local politicians can and should deal with,” to “endorsing” it, to waffling away from his endorsement to the point of lunacy.
In light of Obama’s pretzel-twisting flip-flopping cowardice, comedian Jon Stewart proposes Obama adopt a new campaign slogan: “Yes we can . . . But should we?”
Harry Reid came out in opposition to Obama’s endorsement, which Obama walked back into a non-endorsing endorsement:
“The First Amendment protects freedom of religion,” said Reid’s spokesman in a statement. “Senator Reid respects that but thinks that the mosque should be built someplace else.”
Which is exactly the position of the right-wing of the Republican Party:
U.S. House Republican leader John Boehner called Obama’s “endorsement” of the center’s construction near Ground Zero troubling.
“The fact that someone has the right to do something doesn’t necessarily make it the right thing to do,” Boehner said in a statement. “This is not an issue of law, whether religious freedom or local zoning. This is a basic issue of respect for a tragic moment in our history.”
Harry Reid is in a fight for his political life, and that may be why he had to actually honestly represent the clear will of 70% of the American people for a change.
Enter Nancy Pelosi, who demands an investigation of those who oppose the mosque her Messiah voted for before he voted against it:
Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) today called for an investigation of those opposing the mosque being planned for construction a block away from the site of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on New York City that toppled the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center complex in lower Manhatten and killed nearly 3000 people.
Speaking to reporters in San Francisco, Pelosi at first deferred to New Yorkers on the mosque, calling it an “urban development question” for them to decide.
“I think everybody respects the right of people in our country to express their religious beliefs on their property. The decision though as to how to go forward in New York is up to New York,” Pelosi said.
Pelosi reiterated that New Yorkers should decide in response to a follow-up question about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) differing with President Barack Obama on the construction of the mosque, but then launched into a brief tirade against being questioned on the mosque and demanded an investigation be made into the opposition to the mosque.
“There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded. How is this being ginned up that here we are talking about Treasure Island, something we’ve been working on for decades, something of great interest to our community as we go forward to an election about the future of our country and two of the first three questions are about a zoning issue in New York City,” hissed Pelosi.
Audio of Pelosi’s comments was posted by KCBS-AM-FM which ignored Pelosi’s call to investigate the opposition to the mosque in its summary of her remarks–likewise for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Audio of Pelosi calling for an investigation into the opponents of the mosque, and how they are being funded.
Mind you, she’s not calling upon an investigation as to how the mosque is going to be funded, and which possibly hostile and jihadist foreign sources might be involved with the funding.
She’s not looking into these questions:
The Cordoba Initiative has reported less than $20,000 in assets. Where the $100 million for his project would come from is anybody’s guess. Furthermore, it’s fair to ask why, exactly, Imam Rauf has insisted on building the mosque so close to ground zero, and why he wants to unveil it on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. This not an issue of religious freedom, but rather, a question of safety and security.
Here’s another question: the Governor of New York has offered to provide another site for the community center. And been ignored. Why won’t the Muslims budge on demanding that they build right next to Ground Zero?
No. The Speaker of the House of Representatives is demanding that the people representing the 70% of the American people who oppose the mosque should be investigated.
The mosque would be built less than 600 feet from Ground Zero. On a site that is technically very much a part of Ground Zero, given the fact that it was hit in the 9/11 attack by the landing gear of the plane that slammed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center.
If this mosque is built, our worst enemies overseas will rejoice over their victory. By Islamic tradition, you commemorate a great victory by building a mosque on the site of that victory.
There are over 3,000 mosques in the United States. Many have been recently built, and many more are presently under construction. How easy is it to build a Christian church today in an Islamic country? Try, “impossible.” And that’s even if we don’t try to build one within 600 feet of Mecca.
You want to investigate someone, Nancy? Investigate Harry Reid. Investigate the Democrats who are backing away from Obama and from the Ground Zero mosque that he endorsed. Hell, investigate the voters who decided to elect such a remarkably stupid and evil woman to be the Speaker of the House in the first place.
I find it amazing that Nancy Pelosi felt so free to falsely and maliciously demagogue and demonize Tea Party protesters who were clearly acting within their rights as American citizens, only to now demand an investigation into those who are STILL acting within their rights to oppose an ill-considered mosque being built too close to Ground Zero.
She denounces those who make the mosque a political issue EVEN AS SHE MAKES THE DAMN MOSQUE A POLITICAL ISSUE.
It’s long-passed time we vote these hypocrite fools out of office.
On the “bright side,” at least liberals have finally found a religion that they want to defend and not relentlessly attack. Nancy and Barry Hussein will fight to the last Democrat to defend Sharia law which cuts off the nose and ears of a Muslim girl for fleeing a pre-arranged marriage. But where are they with Christian churches, where liberal commissions routinely deny them the right to build right here in the USA? More. Where are they with St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was destroyed in the 9/11 attack, and STILL not allowed to rebuild?
Why is it the tolerant thing to build a mosque near Ground Zero when Muslims created the horror of Ground Zero to begin with? Why isn’t it tolerant to first rebuild the church that was destroyed by Muslims? Why are we supposed to passively allow Muslims to lecture us about our “intolerance” when Islam is far and away the most intolerant religion and culture on the face of the earth?
Why don’t we investigate why Nancy Pelosi and Democrats undermine Christianity as a matter of routine, and bow (literally) and scrape before Islam?
Moral Fool And Moral Weakling: Obama Weighs In On Ground Zero Mosque Before Wavering
August 16, 2010As usual, Barry Hussein has talked himself into a pretzel. And the twisted shape suits him. It appears to go off in every direction, but leads nowhere.
In this case, Obama was for that mosque before he was against it.
He doesn’t support it (or at least he doesn’t not support it???):
Before he did support it.
From ABC News:
Obama thinks that everyone in the country is some kind of moron. And he can say one thing, and then say another thing, and only he can tell the difference.
From the Associated Press:
Democrats have been moral idiots for the last forty years. And Barack Obama has stomped his foot all the way down to the floorboard toward moral idiocy.
I watch Fox News regularly. I hear what the Republicans and the conservatives have been saying. I’ve heard what Sarah Palin has said and what Newt Gingrich has said.
None of them are saying that the Muslims who want to build this “community outreach center” don’t have the legal right to build it. What they are saying is that the Muslims shouldn’t build it if they actually want any genuine community “outreach.”
It isn’t “outreach.” It’s “outrage.”
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf claims that this “community center” “will serve as the platform to launch a broader vision of Muslim-West harmony and interdependence.” That clearly isn’t anywhere even remotely true.
This isn’t about freedom of religion, and it isn’t about the Constitution. It’s about right and wrong.
Let me give you an example of what I’m saying. In this country, I have every right to go into a black establishment and repeatedly shout the N-word at the top of my lungs. I have the right to go into a black church wearing a white robe and a white pointy hat. But I shouldn’t do it. And all rights aside, I’m profoundly wrong if I do do it.
On the Democrats’ morally idiotic defense of the mosque, the fact that the Muslims have a right to build it means therefore ergo sum that they should build it, and that anyone who disagrees is “intolerant” or is violating the Constitutional rights of the Muslims.
But that is every bit as stupid as my walking down the street pointing out every single black person and shouting the N-word, and then telling anyone who criticizes me for doing it that they are enemies of the Constitution.
And, of course, the only reason I’m wearing that white robe and that pointy hat is for “community outreach.” You see, I want to create a “racial dialogue.”
So how DARE you criticize me. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll put my pointy hood back on and be on my way. I have some black people to go shout at.
And yet Democrats who argue that I should have no right to criticize the inappropriateness of building a mosque celebrating a religion immediately adjacent to a site that was destroyed with huge loss of life in the name of that decision refuse to extend that same principle to their fellow citizens as they repeatedly demonized Tea Party people who were merely exercising their Constitutional rights.
Now, I don’t have to explain this to people who have moral common sense. But if I actually want to create a community, or to create a racial dialogue, I don’t set up a gigantic act of offense to the very people I claim to be reaching out to. There’s something profoundly wrong with this picture.
And building what is essentially a mosque (or are they going to build a synagogue and a church in this “community center” so that Jews and Christians cans worship there, too?) clearly incites rather than heals.
Maybe, instead of building a mosque as close as possible to Ground Zero, this “outreach” could focus on building a synagogue as close as possible to Mecca, instead.
The Reuters article points out that:
Seventy percent of Americans don’t feel any “community” from this community center. They feel outraged.
Which is why the next paragraphs that follow that demonstration that the American people are opposed to the construction of this “community center” are true:
The American people understand the difference between the fact that the Muslims who own the property have a right to build, and the fact that it is an outrage for Muslims to build a mosque near the site where a group of Muslims acting in the name of Islam and shouting “Allahu Akbar!” murdered 3,000 innocent Americans in a cowardly attack.
This “outreach center” should not be built near Ground Zero. Build it somewhere else. The American people have been very tolerant regarding the building of more than 3,000 mosques in the United States. The fact that radical Muslim – and their useful idiot liberal apologists – are now arguing that they have the right to build a mosque so close to a scene of Islamic jihadist massacre is a profound demonstration of which side is intolerant. Especially since Islamic countries refuse to allow Christians to build a single church in their countries, let alone 3,000 of them.
And there are questions. So many questions. Who is paying for this “community center”? Can we know for certain that this center is not being funded with radical Islamist money for radical Islamist purposes? No. We don’t get to know.
And what about the man – Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf – who is behind this center? Is the man who refused to even acknowledge that Hamas is a terrorist organization someone we want behind such a huge venture? Do we want the man who said that American policies were an ‘accessory’ to the crime of 9/11, and who said “Osama bin Laden is made in the USA,” to be the American face of Islam as a result of this center?
Particularly when we find that this man says one thing to Americans audiences, and quite a different thing to Islamic audiences?
“Cordoba” refers to the Muslim conquest of Spain. And how is naming this “the Cordoba Initiative” and “the Cordoba House” anything other than Islamic triumphalism, in celebration of the successful 9/11 attack? Add to that the historic Muslim tradition of building a mosque on top of every place of victory (i.e., 9/11 as a victory for Islam and a defeat for Christendom), and we’ve got a problem.
Do we want an Imam to represent Muslims in America who favors Shariah Law? Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf DOES support Shariah Law in America.
Do you want to see the face of Sharia Law? Here it is:
And no decent American wants that evil taking root here.
So does Obama do? Other than twist himself into a pretzel in endorsing the mosque that he doesn’t endorse? He foots the bill to make this extremely questionable imam his emissary representing the interests of the American people. When this man represents the exact opposite of American interests.
There are good Muslim leaders out there. Faisal Abdul Rauf is not one of them.
Barack Obama is a fool. And nearly 70% of the American people understand that as regards to this issue. Obama is as fundamentally twisted about this issue as he was about Gitmo when he demonized it and idiotically promised he would close it no later than January 2010. He is a moral idiot and a moral weakling. He is a disgrace to this country. And until he day he is gone, we are living in “God damn America.”
Even Harry Reid is breaking with Obama and publicly stating that this mosque is a terrible idea. That should tell you something.
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