Maureen Dowd: Obama Needs Bush's Help On Ground Zero Mosque by AURaptor

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Maureen Dowd: Obama Needs Bush's Help On Ground Zero Mosque

POSTED BY: AURAPTOR
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:11
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:22 AM

America loves a winner!

It quite literally writes itself..... amazing.

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Let me be perfectly clear, Mr. Perfectly Unclear President: You cannot take such a stand on a matter of first principle and then take it back the next morning when, lo and behold, Harry Reid goes craven and the Republicans attack. What is so frightening about Fox News?

Some critics have said the ultimate victory for Osama and the 9/11 hijackers would be to allow a mosque to be built near ground zero.

Actually, the ultimate victory for Osama and the 9/11 hijackers is the moral timidity that would ban a mosque from that neighborhood.

Our enemies struck at our heart, but did they also warp our identity?

The war against the terrorists is not a war against Islam. In fact, you can’t have an effective war against the terrorists if it is a war on Islam.

George W. Bush understood this. And it is odd to see Barack Obama less clear about this matter than his predecessor. It’s time for W. to weigh in.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/opinion/18dowd.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

So, the worst President in the past 100 years, the man responsible for the worst economy since the depression, the man despised around the world and who dragged our nation's good name through the mud, just so his buddies at Haliburton could make a few bucks...... NOW is being asked to come back and save Barry Hussein Obama's presidency,the Democratic Party, from themselves ???

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:32 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

" Save us, George W. Kenobi.... you're our only hope! "

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:51 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Miss him? Hell, I wasn't even aiming at him.

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Friday, May 28, 2010 - 20:32 To AnthonyT:
Go fuck yourself.
On this matter, make no mistake. I want you to go fuck yourself long and hard, as well as anyone who agrees with you. I got no use for you.

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 18:26 To President Obama:
Mr. President, you're a god damn, mother fucking liar.
Fuck you, you cock sucking community activist piece of shit.
... go fuck yourself, Mr. President.

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 9:09 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

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Actually, the ultimate victory for Osama and the 9/11 hijackers is the moral timidity that would ban a mosque from that neighborhood.

Our enemies struck at our heart, but did they also warp our identity?

Excellently spoken. Unfortunately, THEY didn't warp our identity, but "we're" doing a pretty good job of it on our own, with our pettiness and hatred, and our politicians are doing an excellent job of taking advantage of it.

On the other hand,

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You cannot take such a stand on a matter of first principle and then take it back the next morning...

is innacurate and it's a shame she both didn't realize that and said it--thereby improving on the Republican's manipulation of the situation.

Once again: Obama spoke about the right of freedom of religion. He never addressed his own opinion on the COMMUNITY CENTER with a prayer room. He has yet to speak to his own feelings on the matter, and I hope never will. It is his job, as President, to remind the country of the principles upon which it is built, nothing more

Yes, he was foolish to not make the caveat at the same time that he was not expressing support of the COMMUNITY CENTER, that was a faux pas. But once it was being utilized by the right so effectively, I don't see he had any choice but to clarify or let the misrepresentation stand.

He never expressed support for the COMMUNITY CENTER, he reminded us that our country believes in freedom of religion. He did not backtrack, he clarified that he HADN'T expressed support for the COMMUNITY CENTER.

The Republicans are doing an excellent job, with the help of the MSM, of portraying it otherwise, and the American people are swallowing it whole cloth. Those are the facts.

As to Bush, that's a laugh. Of COURSE he was for freedom of religion, CHRISTIAN religious zealots helped put him in office. He didn't give them what they wanted, buthe constantly spoke about religion and helped them gain power in the government. But I'm not sure anyone asked him about freedom of OTHER religions, and he was never called upon to act on that issue, that I'm aware of.

His bias toward governmental involvement with religion was so well known it was a joke. Jokes happen because there is a grain of truth in them:

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Dateline: VATICAN CITY.

In a turn of events that stunned Vatican officials, Pope Benedict XVI has abdicated and named President George W. Bush to succeed him as the supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

In a papal bull entitled Auf Wiedersehen, the erstwhile Cardinal Josef Ratzinger said that he had been deeply moved by the Bush campaign DVD George W. Bush: Faith in the White House. "My infallibility seemed so trivial compared to his," Benedict explained. "Abdication was the only alternative."

When informed of his appointment, President Bush expressed surprise. "I was not aware I was in the running for the popecey," he said. "I wish people would tell me these things."

"However," he added, "I would be honored and privileged to serve as Supreme Pontoon for the rest of my natural life, or until I die, whichever comes first."

Noticeably, Bush has remained silent on the COMMUNITY CENTER issue; he could speak up if he wanted, why hasn't he?

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Former US president George W. Bush, who worked hard for years to convince fellow Americans that Islam is a "religion of peace," declined comment Tuesday about a controversial mosque-building project.

Bush was very vocal about his belief in freedom of religion; he did his best to quell the anti-Muslim feelings which abounded post-9/11. But I'd have to hear him actually speak out about his beliefs on the current issue before I'd jump to the conclusion he'd actively attempt to support religious freedom in this instance. He was never forced to take sides in an issue such as this.

Nonetheless, the fact that Bush would be assumed to agree with Obama on the issue of freedom of religion somehow makes us miss Bush? We can't know how he really believes on this issue unless he speaks out, which he chooses not to do. I wonder why?

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 9:18 AM

DICKCHENEY

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Miss him? Hell, I wasn't even aiming at him.

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Friday, May 28, 2010 - 20:32 To AnthonyT:
Go fuck yourself.
On this matter, make no mistake. I want you to go fuck yourself long and hard, as well as anyone who agrees with you. I got no use for you.

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 18:26 To President Obama:
Mr. President, you're a god damn, mother fucking liar.
Fuck you, you cock sucking community activist piece of shit.
... go fuck yourself, Mr. President.

Quit stepping on my lines, you cunt!

Go Fuck Yourself!

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 9:20 AM

KWICKO

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

" Save us, George W. Kenobi.... you're our only hope! "

You misspelled "dope".

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Friday, May 28, 2010 - 20:32 To AnthonyT:
Go fuck yourself.
On this matter, make no mistake. I want you to go fuck yourself long and hard, as well as anyone who agrees with you. I got no use for you.

Friday, May 28, 2010 - 18:26 To President Obama:
Mr. President, you're a god damn, mother fucking liar.
Fuck you, you cock sucking community activist piece of shit.
... go fuck yourself, Mr. President.

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 9:36 AM

MINCINGBEAST

Assuming that the mosque is an issue, it is not a first amendment issue. No one is arguing that muslims ought not be allowed to practice their brutal bronze age superstitions; the government has taken to steps to abridge their religious freedoms. This is really a matter of taste; many folks find the location distasteful, the symbolism obvious. That people react does not demonstrate deviation from hollowed principles.

I hope they build the damned thing; itd give conservatives something to cry about, and tears taste good.

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:11 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by Kwicko:

You misspelled "dope".

You're the dope. Dope.

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