Of course this will be unpopular, that doesn't mean he's taking the wrong stance.
I think that if you're President, and you don't directly have a dog in the fight, and your position is the same as that of, say, Hamas' leadership, not taking a stance might be the wiser course.
Do conservatives want the government to use eminent domain to seize the Mosque property from its rightful owners?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/13/obama-backs-mosque-near-ground-zero/
Another unpopular position Obama has taken on an issue. He's on a hot streak!
Of course this will be unpopular, that doesn't mean he's taking the wrong stance.
Do conservatives want the government to use eminent domain to seize the Mosque property from its rightful owners?
1) Everyone else on the national stage was giving their input about how its a bad idea and shouldn't be done, etc. The president was right to stand up and say it is their right to build it on private property.
2) If Hamas said it was in favor of building bridges over rivers, would you be in favor of tearing down all the bridges and only building tunnels? After all, the terrorists are in favor of bridges, so we have to be against them.![]()
WTF? Seriously? Are you six?
If Hamas was in favor of building bridges AND everyone else was against these particular bridges then I'd take a real hard look at these bridges.
WTF? Seriously? Are you six?
If Hamas was in favor of building bridges AND everyone else was against these particular bridges then I'd take a real hard look at these bridges.
I think that if you're President, and you don't directly have a dog in the fight, and your position is the same as that of, say, Hamas' leadership, not taking a stance might be the wiser course.
Or, better yet - would they have supported removing the gun toting man at the Obama event earlier this year, even if he was within his legal rights to open carry?
I am as pro-gun as they come, but you damned well better believe I would have removed that guy. Certain circumstances require common sense!!! Openly carrying a gun around the President just to demonstrate your rights like a silly spoiled child should never be allowed in my opinion.
Ditto in the Mosque case...they have the right to build it, but the most unbearable political pressure from all sides should be heaped on them if they don't do the proper and decent thing and choose an alternate location.
I am as pro-gun as they come, but you damned well better believe I would have removed that guy. Certain circumstances require common sense!!! Openly carrying a gun around the President just to demonstrate your rights like a silly spoiled child should never be allowed in my opinion.
I don't understand why the proper and decent thing is to choose an alternate location. Why would you not want a mosque/community center near ground zero? It's like opposing a church near the Oklahoma City bombing site... It would be totally unthinkable and politically incorrect to take that stance.
Why would you oppose his rights? He was legally within them - so why? Because it bothers you?
/as per this "mosque" nonsense...
It is politically incorrect for me to think like that...never said it wasn't, plus I've also stated there is no legal reason why they can't build there.
Let's put it this way...Timothy McVeigh didn't belong to a church whose religion regularly seems to radicalize people to commit terrorist acts against innocents. But if it did, I would absolutely be opposed to that sect of that religion building their church there. They of course would have the legal right to build it, just as those in NYC have the legal right, but I would want the same kind of political pressure brought to bear there in that case too to "encourage" them not to pour salt on a fresh wound.
So if it isn't allowed, just how long and how far away do you have to built this center so that it is OK? 10 miles? 100? 1000?
They're liberal Muslims, exactly the ones we want building community centers.
You mean like the president has been doing up until this issue?Oh yeah it is, as president of the United States he's bound by the Constitution and this is a Constitutional issue. You know the Constitution, the document you pretend to worship unless it goes against your wishes?
I think that if you're President, and you don't directly have a dog in the fight, and your position is the same as that of, say, Hamas' leadership, not taking a stance might be the wiser course.
When they as a community start affording their women here in the U.S. the same respect as what we in the West give to ours without effort, and as a community start regularly and loudly denouncing the acts of violence those among them who pervert their religion commit against innocents worldwide, then I will share your sentiments that they are the "liberal" kind. Until then, color me doubting.
