Mosque Near Ground Zero? What Would Bush Do? Defend Obama!
George would defend Obama’s decision.
A spokesman for the former president told AOL News that Bush would have no comment on the matter. BUT …. a mere days after the 9/11 attacks, Bush had much to say about the need for religious tolerance even after Islamic extremists carried out the worst foreign attack in history on U.S. soil.
“The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam,” Bush said at the Islamic Center of Washington in a speech that set the tenor for when he later sent U.S. troops to fight on Muslim soil in Afghanistan and later Iraq. “That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace. They represent evil and war.”
He went on to say, in words that Democrats who disagreed with Bush on nearly every issue now recall fondly, that despite raw emotions, millions of American Muslims “need to be treated with respect. In our anger and emotion, our fellow Americans must treat each other with respect.”
Nearly nine years later, former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson echoed the message of his old boss. Writing in The Washington Post, he defended Obama. Unlike pundits, he wrote, “A president does not merely have opinions; he has duties to the Constitution and to the citizens he serves — including millions of Muslim citizens.”
IYFR: Personally we also think building a Mosque near ground zero is a dumb move, just for argument sake, HOWEVER, which part of the Constitution do the tea baggers want to pretend doesn’t exist now while hiding behind it? Try the First Amendment!! Good going Newt. You moron.
FIRE DR L-A-U-R-A
If Imus got the boot for saying “Nappy Headed Ho’s” live on the air then Dr. L-A-U-R-A should be shown the door for saying the “n” word countless times on 08/10/10
During the exchange on Tuesday’s show, Schlessinger said the woman who called herself Jade was too sensitive for complaining that her husband’s friends made racist comments about her in their home.
When the woman asked if the N-word was offensive, Dr. Laura said “black guys say it all the time,” then went on to repeat it several times.
Schlessinger did not direct the epithet at the woman, but said she used it to suggest how often she hears it, and that it should not automatically be cause for offense.
When the caller objected, Schlessinger replied: “Oh, then I guess you don’t watch HBO or listen to any black comedians.”
Schlessinger also said that if the caller did not have a sense of humor about race, she shouldn’t have entered into an interracial marriage.
DR L-A-U-R-A’s apology: “I articulated the N-word all the way out – more than one time,” Schlessinger said in comments from the opening of her radio show that she posted on her site. “And that was wrong. I’ll say it again – that was wrong.
Dr. L was so upset she pulled herself off the air.
IYFR: Oh really?? Then FIRE YOURSELF!!
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God Save The Internet – Google Verizon Deal Threatens Free Internet
GOD SAVE THE INTERNET!!
Tell the FCC – YOU WORK FOR ME
The Google Verizon proposal is one massive loophole that sets the stage for the corporate takeover of the Internet.
Here’s the deal …
1. Under their proposal, there would be no Net Neutrality on wireless networks — meaning anything goes, from blocking websites and applications to pay-for-priority treatment.
2. Their proposed standard for “non-discrimination” on wired networks is so weak that actions like Comcast’s widely denounced blocking of BitTorrent would be allowed.
3. The deal would let ISPs like Verizon — instead of Internet users like you — decide which applications deserve the best quality of service. That’s not the way the Internet has ever worked, and it threatens to close the door on tomorrow’s innovative applications. (If RealPlayer had been favored a few years ago, would we ever have gotten YouTube?)
4. The deal would allow ISPs to effectively split the Internet into “two pipes” — one of which would be reserved for “managed services,” a pay-for-play platform for content and applications. This is the proverbial toll road on the information superhighway, a fast lane reserved for the select few, while the rest of us are stuck on the cyber-equivalent of a winding dirt road.
5. The pact proposes to turn the Federal Communications Commission into a toothless watchdog, left fruitlessly chasing consumer complaints but unable to make rules of its own. Instead, it would leave it up to unaccountable (and almost surely industry-controlled) third parties to decide what the rules should be.
IYFR: KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED. Remember it isn’t up to Google and Verizon to write the rules. That’s the job of the Congress and the FCC.
SAVE THE INTERNET – Tell the FCC to STOP THIS
DEAR FCC – YOU WORK FOR ME
Simply Priceless Picture
YAY!!
Senate Leader Mitch McConnell Will Not Campaign for Angle
After this Angle BS on FAKE NEWS, is it any wonder why McConnell is opting out?
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) re-affirmed on Thursday that he will not be heading to Nevada this election cycle to campaign on behalf of Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle.
“I am not going to Nevada,” the Kentucky Republican said, during a breakfast briefing sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.
Rep. Bob Inglis: GOP is a Party of Demagogues and Extremists
From karoli on Crooks n Lairs
When he returned to the House in 2005, Bob Inglis (R-SC), though still a conservative, was more focused on policy solutions than ideological battle. After Obama entered the White House, Inglis worked up a piece of campaign literature—in the form of a cardboard coaster that flipped open—that noted that Republicans should collaborate (not compromise) with Democrats to produce workable policies. “America’s looking for solutions, not wedges,” it read. He met with almost every member of the House Republican caucus to make his pitch: “What we needed to be is the adults who say absolutely we will work with [the new president].”
Instead, he remarks, his party turned toward demagoguery. Inglis lists the examples: falsely claiming Obama’s health care overhaul included “death panels,” raising questions about Obama’s birthplace, calling the president a socialist, and maintaining that the Community Reinvestment Act was a major factor of the financial meltdown. “CRA,” Inglis says, “has been around for decades. How could it suddenly create this problem? You see how that has other things worked into it?” Racism? “Yes,” Inglis says.
Inglis, like Lindsey Graham, believes climate change is real and should be a conservative guidepost rather than denied altogether. Speaking this idea out loud is an invitation tocensure by the party faithful, but Inglis does it anyway.
As an example of both the GOP pandering to right-wing voters and conservative talk show hosts undercutting sensible policymaking, Inglis points to climate change. Fossil fuels, he notes, get a free ride because they’re “negative externalities”—that is, pollution and the effects of climate change—”are not recognized” in the market. Sitting in front of a wall-sized poster touting clean technology centers in South Carolina, Inglis says that conservatives “should be the ones screaming. This is a conservative concept: accountability. This is biblical law: you cannot do on your property what harms your neighbor’s property.” Which is why he supports placing a price on carbon—and forcing polluters to cover it.
Asked why conservatives and Republicans have demonized the issue of climate change and clean energy, Inglis replies, “I wish I knew; then maybe I wouldn’t have lost my election.” He points out that some conservatives believe that any issue affecting the Earth is “the province of God and will not be affected by human activity. If you talk about the challenge of sustainability of the Earth’s systems, it’s an affront to that theological view.”
His opinion of Sarah Palin made me laugh aloud:
What about Sarah Palin? Inglis pauses for a moment: “I think that there are people who seem to think that ignorance is strength.” And he says of her: “If I choose to remain ignorant and uninformed and encourage people to follow me while I celebrate my lack of information,” that’s not responsible.
Well said, for a conservative guy.
Inglis doesn’t know where he will land after all of this, but I don’t think John Boehner will be offering him a job any time soon:
The week after that meeting with his past funders—whom he failed to bring back into the fold—Inglis asked House Republican leader John Boehner what he would have told this group of Obama-bashers. Inglis recalls what happened:
[Boehner] said, “I would have told them that it’s not quite that bad. We disagree with him on the issues.” I said, “Hold on Boehner, that doesn’t work. Let me tell you, I tried that and it did not work.” I said [to Boehner], “If you’re going to lead these people and the fearful stampede to the cliff that they’re heading to, you have to turn around and say over your shoulder, ‘Hey, you don’t know the half of it.’”
In other words, feed and fuel the anger and paranoia of the right.
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