“I would prefer the president be a little more of a politician and a little less of a college professor,” former Rep. Martin Frost (D-Tex.), who once ran the House Democratic campaign arm, wrote in POLITICO’s Arena. “While a defensible position, it will not play well in the parts of the country where Democrats need the most help.”

Democratic aides say that, at the very least, the president has again knocked his party's candidates off local messages and forced them to talk about a national issue that doesn't appear likely to play well with important swing voters.

"The main reaction is 'Why? Why now?’" said one House Democratic leadership aide. "It's just another day off message. There have been a lot of days off message."

The chief of staff to one politically vulnerable House Democrat said it "probably alienates a lot of independent voters" and "it's not a good issue to be talking about right now."

He said he suspects "there are a lot of (Democrats) who are spooked in tough districts today" and "a lot of Republicans licking their chops right now."

"Muslims build mosques at the sites of their victories."

Like this one?

Our president can sure talk. It is shutting up he cannot do. The Republicans are celebrating.

God forbid, an American president defend actual American values.

He can. Republicans are delighted that he chooses to so close to an election. Every bit helps.

people criticizing the President for standing up for American values, rather than criticizing Republicans for being against them?

I must have missed the part where the Republicans were against the mosque.

GOP Trust. Sounds kind of Republican to me.

Sounds more like an oxymoron to me.

Then, of course, there's this wonderful bit of racist propaganda from the National Republican Trust--

This is about much, much more than an official "mosque" three blocks from ground-zero. There are much, much deeper implications for this country.

If racist idiots are allowed to hijack this issue for political purposes

my strike.

Racist is an appropriate epithet.

Hence, racism. They is different from us white folks, therefore they is baaaaaad

Then you're calling Harry Reid a racist.
He has just called for the mosque to built somewhere else.

Racist is an appropriate epithet.

Do we hear calls for the banning of Christian churches in certain areas when a Christian kills a doctor or bombs a clinic? Is it considered an "act of war" when a Christian blows up a federal building in Oklahoma City? Anybody objecting to the building of new churches there?

What's the difference? Skin color. Public perception amongst the Jethro and Daisy Maes of this country is that Muslims are brown people. Brown people, whether worshippin' one a' them heathen gods or sneakin' acrost the border to take our jeeeobs, are the enemy, according to the denizens of Dogpatch.

Hence, racism. They is different from us white folks, therefore they is baaaaaad.

That it is getting hijacked politically disgusts me.

WASHINGTON – The Senate's top Democrat on Monday came out against plans to build a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, moving away from President Barack Obama on the controversial election-year issue.

Locked in a tight race, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid became the highest profile Democrat to respond to Obama, who last week backed the right for the developers to build a mosque near ground zero. Since his comments Friday, the Democratic president and his aides have worked to explain the statement, which drew criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike.

"The First Amendment protects freedom of religion," said Jim Manley, a Reid spokesman. "Senator Reid respects that, but thinks that the mosque should be built some place else."

If one takes the time to read the books Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has written, not only for western readers, but also excerpt translations of the versions published for mid-eastern muslim readers, you will find that fact undeniable. It was an incredibly serious mistake for the Bush administration to embrace and support this man and his cause, and it is a mistake for the B.O. administration to do the same.

As a strong advocate for Islamic law to be practiced the United States, Rauf represents a creeping religious, social, and political cancer determined to undermine and then destroy our Constitution and way of life as we know it.

Funky, as a woman, the things this man advocates should outrage you.

Really, oh, sweet, imbecilic right-wingers? Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the Cordoba Initiative, which dares to want cheap real estate in New York City in order to build a Muslim community center, is a radical? Really? Does anyone actually understand the meaning of "radical" anymore?

Here's what he's said over the last few years. Mullah Omar, he ain't:

"The issue of women's rights is more than an issue for women or about women. It involves everyone...The best of you are those who are best to their women. Consequently, the worst of men are those who are worst to their women."- From the Yemen Times, August 9, 2009, at a conference on advancing the cause of women in Islam.

Rauf believes in "showing those who resort to violence that it is counter to the very idea of Islam." - From the Khaleej Times (UAE), July 5, 2009.

"Islam denounces suicide of any sort, especially suicide bombings that kill innocents. Even in a defensive war sanctioned by Islamic law, suicide is expressly forbidden." - From a June 2009 commentary by Rauf.

"The Quran expressly and unambiguously prohibits the coercion of faith because that violates a fundamental human right - the right to a free conscience. The Quran says in one place 'There shall be no compulsion in religion.' And in another it says, 'To you your beliefs and to me, mine.'"- Same as above.

"Rauf was one of the few Muslim leaders who appealed for calm and tolerance after the Regensburg speech." From the New Yorker, April 2, 2007, regarding Pope Benedict's 2006 lecture where he quoted a Muslim-hating Byzantine emperor. Riots ensued.

Young Muslims "are deeply frustrated by what's going on in the name of Islam. They feel they are paying a price for actions done by a very, very negligible minority, but which capture the attention of the media. Terrorism done in the name of Islam has hurt Muslims as much, if not more, than it has hurt Westerners." - From a June 2006 U.S. State Department press release on a conference regarding Muslim youths.

"This is why we have been looking for, calling for so long for democratic regimes, for societies where people are empowered in much of the Arab and Muslim world. We are seeing massive changes going on right now in the Arab and Muslim world. When you have a disempowered people, you have things like this going on." - From a February 7, 2006 interview on ABC regarding the protests over the Danish cartoons depicting Mohammed.

"The Qur'an needs to be the backing of our activism towards human rights"- From Islamic Horizons, November 2004, at a conference on religion and peacebuilding held at the College of Notre Dame.

"It's because they love what we have here, and we have prevented them from having it there. We have supported regimes that have been authoritarian and oppressive to their own people. This is why people are angry with us. If we had encouraged democracy in Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden would have run for political office there." - From a July 10, 2004 interview with the Dallas Morning News, upon being asked if terrorists "hate our freedoms."

"This what we call 'a no-brainer.'" - from the Guardian, September 3, 2002, on the need for just the type of center to be build at Park 51 because, in 2002, there were "25 centres for Jewish-Christian understanding in the United States, only two for Muslim-Christian understanding, and zero for Muslim-Jewish understanding."

Those who are convinced that jihad is at the heart and soul of Islam will never believe it anyway. But good try, LJ.

By embracing Islam in the peacemaking process, Obama has laid down a challenge to Muslims. Live up to the tenets of our religion, embrace Shariah law as conceived by the Prophet, and see what happens.

You're actually asking whether or not our Lord, who is a Warrior,

...

Have you suffered a head injury,

It should go without saying, the attacks on the WTC was tragic and shook our entire nation. Those innocent lives lost and the acts of heroism... the whole thing still hits us on an emotional level. I get that. I feel that. But is the ground sacred? If so, why?

Ailing 9/11 responders slammed President Obama on Tuesday for sounding off on the Ground Zero mosque while keeping silent on a $7.2 billion health care bill.

"Why have you failed us? We thought you would be our champion" in pushing the legislation, John Feal wrote to Obama.

One of the thousands who worked at The Pile after the World Trade Center attacks, Feal heads the Fealgood Foundation supporting the responders.

The plight of the Ground Zero heroes, still suffering and dying from illnesses brought on by the toxic cloud over the twin towers' ruins, has taken a backseat to the political posturing over the mosque, Feal said.

The mosque's location "is not an issue for us," he told Obama.

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The GOP made clear yesterday it will keep hammering on the mosque issue in a drive to take back Congress.

"It's important to voters right now," said Tory Mazzola, spokesman for the National Congressional Republican Committee. "President Obama's decision shows just how out of touch he is."

Funky, you post things that make me wonder why you bother to call yourself a Christian.

You're actually asking whether or not our Lord, who is a Warrior, and who set an example for us by showing compassion upon an adulterous fornicator, protecting her from those who wanted to kill her for her failure to keep the OT Law, is any better than those who flog and stone human beings today under Sharia Law in the name of Allah???

Have you suffered a head injury, or are you denouncing Jesus Christ?
That is not a rhetorical question.
I'd really like to know.

His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him. So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.

<lengthy bloodthirsty rant snipped>

No, I'm simply denouncing your strange logic.

Or the fact that Imam Rauf advocates Sharia Law according to Muhammad for the United States (which btw, would kiss our Constitution good-bye) and I'm not at all in favor of that scenario?

The revealing thing is that the same people who have tried and failed for 230 years to turn the US into a Christian theocracy, appear to think that imminent Sharia law is a realistic scenario.

Do you feel no responsibility to protect your progeny of future generations?

Would you be against the proposed Park 51 project if you learned that anti-American terrorists were funding the project, and sedition against the United States would be taught and encouraged there?

The developers behind the Islamic center planned for a site near Ground Zero won't rule out accepting financing from the Mideast -- including from Saudi Arabia and Iran -- as they begin searching for $100 million needed to build the project.

Americans increasingly are convinced - incorrectly - that President Barack Obama is a Muslim, and a growing number are thoroughly confused about his religion.

Nearly one in five people, or 18 percent, said they think Obama is Muslim, up from the 11 percent who said so in March 2009, according to a poll released Thursday. The proportion who correctly say he is a Christian is down to just 34 percent.

Iran will be part owner, watch.