…doesn’t mean I’ll vote for you.
EMILY’s List has launched a campaign to counter Sarah Palin’s efforts, “Sarah Doesn’t Speak For Me.”
And thanks, Politico, for the link.
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No politician “speaks” for me, regardless of race or gender.
To vote based on gender or race is the act of a very foolish person. Demonizing Palin when her views are popular with many voters does nothing to forward any cause of politicians that you may agree with. Stop hating, start supporting and voting for those who “speak” for you.
That is the democratic process. That’s what speaks for me.
But I think it is also a part of the democratic process to call someone on what you judge to be nonsense. If that’s Harry Reid or Barack Obama, so be it.
The more I read, see, and hear about President Obama…the more that I am beginning to see his true genius. He truly cares so much about our country and the feelings of everyone…not just those smart people who support him…but everyone! I am predicting that he will down in history as not only as the greatest president ever…but the greatest human being of all time. We are all so fortunate to have a man who is so willing to give so much of himself…for us. We should all bow to him!
Noemie Emery echos my thoughts!
Let’s just appreciate the great Obama presidency
By: Noemie Emery
Examiner Columnist
August 17, 2010 Just how badly does President Obama want the Democrats to lose the 2010 midterm elections? Just how much did first lady Michelle Obama relish her Spanish vacation?
Just how thrilled and grateful were the Gulf State residents to discover that the Obamas were giving them one whole day of their time — between Michelle’s Spanish vacation and the family’s real vacation, up there in Martha’s Vineyard, at a posh estate near their own kind of people — to dip their dainty toes in their oil-soaked waters?
And exactly how thrilled were the Democrats’ candidates, already facing headwinds of epic proportions, to wake up Saturday morning to find out that their president had come out in favor of a Mega Mosque near Ground Zero, opposed by only two-thirds of American people, and added another to the impressive collection of millstones — health care, the stimulus, the economy, Government Motors and a few other triumphs — he had already hung round their necks?
How brilliant are these strategists there at the White House, and how canny at reading the mood of the people? How wise is this strategy of giving them what they don’t want, and then, when they complain about it, telling them to shut up, and keep giving them more?
How clever to tell them Missouri’s vote against the individual mandate meant “nothing,” when it is only the fourth vote against health care — Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts being the others — to be taken in less than a year?
What smarts does it take to take a huge popular mandate, and shred it in no time? How clever of them to hit on coalition destruction as a method of governing! In that White House In The Sky, FDR and Reagan are probably seething with envy. Why didn’t they think of it first?
How brave is Obama, to speak out as he did against the persecution of Muslims that is sweeping the country, and has swept it in fact since Sept. 11, 2001? Who can forget the riots that engulfed the whole country, the cross (and Star of David) burnings outside the mosques and the homes of innocent Muslims, the lynchings and hideous acts of unprovoked violence; the demands of conservatives, Tea Partiers, and Sarah Palin enthusiasts that Muslims and in fact all Arab-Americans, be confined in camps somewhere out in the country — Wasilla, for instance — as Japanese-Americans had been during the Second World War?
How lucky was it that Obama was swept into office just as George W. Bush was about to put this vicious scheme into practice? What would the world then have said about that?
How wise too for Obama to come out for the mosque, enraging survivors of those killed in the terror attacks and swing voters everywhere, and then walk it back somewhat, ticking off the press and the left wing of his party (but we repeat ourselves), who now feels a little betrayed?
It’s not as if Muslim outreach hasn’t paid off already: Iran has dropped its nuclear plans, and adopted a Good Neighbor policy, which would never have happened if Bush were in office. Can we all say a prayer over this?
Can we say a prayer too for President Obama, and all the mosque backers, for being sensitive to the right of the would-be mosque builders to violate the sensitivities of the victims’ survivors, New Yorkers and Americans everywhere? And how lucky are we to have this rare president, brave enough to look at these friends and relations, spouses and children, of people who died on Sept. 11, and call them out for the bigots they are?
And Todd? I believe you like to kind of hit and run — throw something up here and then not look back — but if you DO come back, may I suggest you read an article that was linked yesterday? The one about how this story became so distorted?
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/08/16/ground_zero_mosque_origins/index.html
Oh, and the one about “Hitler’s Scissors,” as well — that’s pretty clear too.
“…enraging survivors of those killed in the terror attacks and swing voters everywhere, …”
Not everywhere. There are relatives of victims who support, or at least don’t NOT support, the proposed building. Look at yesterday’s Courant letters for a letter from Judith Keane, widow of one of the victims.
Yep. And thanks for the reminder.
I just read it Cynical.
The name Cordoba House, the date (9/11/11) they plan on opening this project, and the proximity are what I find offensive.
Todd, might you find this offensive no matter when they opened it, because your media told you to find this offensive?
I don’t need the media to tell me what to find offensive-isn’t anybody else here concerned that the US State Dept is flying Feisal Abdul Rauf around on our tax dollar dime to secure funding for this?
Isn’t anybody else a little shocked at the proposed opening date of this project? Isn’t the location a little too close to where nearly 3000 Americans died? Seventy percent of Americans do not feel this building being built there is such a hot idea…70%.
In order: Nah. I won’t do that. Let’s just say I question your sources on much of your concerns, which leads me back to my original question about your media sources.
“The name Cordoba House, the date (9/11/11) they plan on opening this project, and the proximity are what I find offensive.”
Well, there’s been a lot of discussion about all of these points — Gingrich is making a big deal about “Cordoba House,” yet that mosque was covered up by a cathedral — thus making that location very fluid over the centuries, AND a new name is being floated, just using the address (very NY-hip); and are you sure about the date? and from a report I saw yesterday, the location is, only if you really stretch the imagination, 2 blocks away from a far corner of the WTC site.
Also, I’m curious as to why you posted this comment on THIS thread rather on one of the more related threads.
I just posted it here because the thread with the Sex shop picture near Ground Zero takes too long to get to…and this is a political thread, Palin has an opinion on this topic…it seemed OK to do so.
Cynical, thank you for not calling me a racist or bigot because of my feelings about this topic-serioulsy I appreciate that-I really do.
“Cynical, thank you for not calling me a racist or bigot because of my feelings about this topic-serioulsy I appreciate that-I really do.”
All part of my secular “do unto others” attempts. I am a fairly polite person, even if I think someone is WAY off, and even if those people are sometimes not quite so polite.
It is interesting to me how some on the left now are so adamant that this mosque be built and we must allow Muslims the right to worship…yet some of those from that same crowd worked so hard to get prayer out of school, want “God” taken out of our currency, and Notre Dame and Georgetown both had to cover up all religious symbols before Obama could speak at those schools.
If religion is important to somebody they should be free to worship in any way that works for them…but building a mosque at that location, on that date just seems wrong on many levels.
Ah, but that’s because prayer in a public school is prayer in a public place, and not everyone prays. One can choose to go into a mosque or church to pray. One should not be coerced to do so in a school.
I understand your concerns, though I don’t share them.
Jonah Goldberg Rocks. Here are his thougths on this topic…
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/244080/america-decent-jonah-goldberg
Maybe I secretly just love the name JammieWearingFool…or perhaps this site is asking a very good question of Chuck Schumer…come on Chuck do tell, the ball is in your court!
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2010/08/silence-of-schumer.html
Speaking strictly for myself, the name’s good, the logic’s faulty, but my heart still belongs to Snark&Boobs, the name.
Where are all of the PC Do-Gooders regarding St. Nicholas Orthodox Church? Come on Bloomberg tell us all to shut up-and go pound sand. Perhaps the U.S. State Dept should fly Father Alex Karloutsos around so he too can secure funds to get this church rebuilt.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/18/leaders-disappointed-government-declares-deal-rebuild-ground-zero-church-dead/
What a waste of $16,000! But on a positive note it’s much cheaper than Michelle’s Spain trip!
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100818/D9HM55S00.html