Obama Steps In Doodoo

By Semperpapa

President Obama walks around with his arrogant nose so far up in the air that he just plain stepped into a political doodoo on Friday, when at a dinner celebration for the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, he stated his support for the building of the Islamic mosque next to Ground Zero in Manhattan.

The statement, made in front of a Muslim audience, has created a literal storm of reactions overnight. The liberal media was quick pointing out that the President’s words turned a local issue into a National one. Apparently, the liberal media is not aware of the fact that the mosque issue has been a National one for some time already, and that one does not have to be a New Yorker to be absolutely incensed by the Cordoba Initiative project.

News flash to the media: the attacks of 9-11 are still remembered by the vast majority of the American people in spite of your efforts to cancel those horrible memories on behalf of your boss Obama; and the attacks of 9-11 were perpetrated against a whole Nation, not just one city.

Today, a day after Obama’s statement, the media is on a all out blitz to tell the American people that what Obama said was not really what he meant and, practically, that those who read his words as they were said are really too stupid to understand what he really meant.

The amusing part, if there may be one, is the reaction of some of the Democrats who are running for election or re-election in November, who are not too happy with Obama at the moment.
Granted that they were not happy even before Friday’s statement, they are now facing constituencies that have a firm opinion on the issue of the mosque and who are now questioning those candidates about their position on the controversy. Those Democrat candidates now are in a conundrum regarding having to take a position either with the President, which would put them at perilous odds with the majority of the American people, or against him facing the wrath of the DNC.

No comments are being heard from the Nancy Pelosi office or from Harry Reid’s, as complete silence is coming from many of the other Democrats who are facing tough re-election campaigns. Some off the record comments have come from campaign aids of some of the candidates who expressed their frustration toward the land mines that the President appears to be adding to their already seemingly difficult campaigns.

And this is one of the reasons I could never be in politics. The Democrat candidates are upset at the obstacles Obama is creating for them in their election bids, not at the outrageous comments he made. They see the mosque issue as a political hot potato, not as an issue of decency and morality, proving to me, once again, that a politician has to be, by definition, amoral. And I am not insinuating that Republicans are much better at standing up for anything that does not involve getting re-elected.

The issue of the mosque is very simple for me. Those who have come up with such a brilliant idea, tell us that their goal is to build a symbol of tolerance between the Islamic world and the American people. It is supposed to be a bridge between the Muslim faith and the Judeo-Christian majority of Americans and a way to bring those who share their religion with the 19 hijackers of 9-11 closer to the point where we can all live together in bliss tolerance. All this is great and makes for good slogans and talking points.
But in reality, just the fact that the project is fomenting so much animosity on the part of the American people, should be the driving force to find a place for their mosque that is not so offensive to the American psyche. Insisting on the location at Ground Zero and arrogantly thumbing their noses at the American people is, I believe, extremely counter-productive to the justifications used.

I am, therefore, not placing much credence on the statements of Rauf or any of his supporters or in the words of Bloomberg or Obama regarding the alleged good intentions of the Cordoba Initiative, because all the indications are that the location of the mosque appear to be of much greater importance to them that the message they are alleging to be proponing.
So, while President Obama has stepped in Bo’s doodoo once again, and while his droids and the MSM is trying to clean the doodoo off his designer shoes, the problem of the mosque still remains, with all the issues associated with it.

But at least I am enjoying watching the politicians squirm.

Just my thoughts!