Washington – President Barack Obama’s endorsement of the “Ground Zero mosque” during a speech on Friday night spurred some hope among supporters that a forceful case could be made for both the project’s constitutionality and its larger geopolitical impact.
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That hope was short-lived. By Saturday, the president clarified that he was not speaking about the “wisdom” of the Islamic cultural center per se, just the right of the group to build the Cordoba House in downtown Manhattan.
And on Monday the highest-ranking Democrat in the Senate officially came out against construction of the mosque in its current location
“The First Amendment protects freedom of religion,” reads a statement from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office (D-Nev.). “Senator Reid respects that but thinks that the mosque should be built someplace else. If the Republicans are being sincere, they would help us pass this long overdue bill to help the first responders whose health and livelihoods have been devastated because of their bravery on 911, rather than continuing to block this much-needed legislation.”
Combined, Obama’s clarification and Reid’s opposition represent a double dose of bad news for progressives and even Republicans who believed that a strong case could be made in favor of Cordoba House. If anything, it’s clearer now than it was last week (when Democrats were mostly silent on the matter) how deeply the party just wants this entire issue to go away. Reid, after all, only issued the above statement after his Republican opponents began hitting him for going silent on the matter.
Dumb american politics at its peak…
Can someone clarify why everyone who has access to a public microphone has to put his stupid opinion on thus topic?
thank you Harry Reid for permitting the muslims to build a mosque ‘someplace else’. it takes a true politician, with an in-depth understanding of our country’s values, to come up with a solution as such! The Four Freedoms par excellance!
Typical politician can amyone explain what the masque has to do with ground zero responders health?
This statement makes Reid look and sound like a bigger jerk than that woman he is running against, who in turn, makes Sarah Palin look like a brain surgeon.
Sorry Harry you are not gonna gain any R votes with this. Just keep your focus on Nevada u have more issues to deal with over there
So Dirty Harry has to get his 2 cents woth of comment in. All of a sudden this left wing liberal cares about what is going on in NYC? Give me a break. He is just trying to get re-elected in Nevada, which by the looks of things will not happen. Yidden wake up! You are seeing the begining of the end for President Obamination. He will go down in history as the worst 1 term president. George W looks like a genius next to this guy! And Ms. Pelosi you are next to go. Watch out Socialists, November is coming and the working people of America will be making their voice heard, Dirty Harry, remeber if it looks like a duck & walks like a duck & sounds like a duck it must be a duck & you are a liberal socialist, no amount of backtracking will fool the American voter.
Opinion based on polling data. These guys are all frauds. Through the bums out!