Obama's Ground Zero Mosque Stance: Why Republicans Shouldn't Run Against It

Time:

It isn't clear how the battle over the proposed center should or will end. But two things are profoundly clear: Republicans have a strong chance to win the midterm elections without picking a fight over President Obama's measured words. And a national political fight conducted on the terms we have seen in the past few days will lead to a chain reaction at home and abroad that will have one winner -- the very extreme and violent jihadists we all can claim as our true enemy.

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[emma richmond]

06:43 AM on 08/18/2010

We stand with the President and that is on the people Constitution Rights, and we are glad the President have taken a Firm Stand on Principle and the Rights for all not just one Race. For David Gergan to say on CNN that the President is Unsenitive, we would like to know when is it unsenitive to defend the People Constitution Rights, it's a lot difference in endorsing someone or something and Defending people Rights. if this happen to these people this give these right wings nuts and racist bastards try it on someone else, these people have demonized the Muslims women by saying they come to this country to have terror Babies, this the toxic Gohmert is Spewing, do they call that unsenitive? Not to them they call it Freedom of SPEECH, we are happy we have a President who not afraid to make hard choices, this is what make him a "STRONG," Leader, making hard Choices, sorry Harry Reid and the other Democrats Melded down we are looking for strong Leaders, Green Melded and some other Democratics candidate Melded down, three so far. We Still rather have Harry Reid For our Senator, we know what we have, Sharron Angle, want to take the People social Security and Medial from them.

[Takebackourmoney]

05:03 PM on 08/16/2010

I guess the poll the article spoke of is of the only people left buying Time Magazine.

[gevan]

04:01 PM on 08/16/2010

" In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world.

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, excerpted from the State of the Union Address to the Congress, January 6, 1941
[just kidding]

[gevan]

03:45 PM on 08/16/2010

Seems that every time I am convinced that Jeff Sessions is the stupidest man in Congress Senator Cornyn will say something to try and disabuse me of that notion.