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WASHINGTON — After skirting the controversy for weeks, President Barack Hussein Obama is weighing in forcefully on the mosque near ground zero, saying a nation built on religious freedom, simply, must allow it.
“As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country,” Obama told an intently listening crowd gathered at the White House Friday evening to observe the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
“That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances,” he said. “This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable.”
The White House had not previously taken a stand on the mosque, which would be part of a $100 million Islamic community center two blocks from where nearly 3,000 people perished when hijacked jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001. Press secretary Robert Gibbs had insisted it was a local matter.
It was already much more than that, sparking debate around the country as top Republicans including Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich announced their opposition. So did the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights group.
Obama elevated it to a presidential issue Friday without equivocation.
While insisting that the place where the twin towers once stood was indeed “hallowed ground,” Obama said that the proper way to honor it was to apply American values.
Harkening back to earlier times when the building of synagogues or Catholic churches also met with opposition, Obama said: “Time and again, the American people have demonstrated that we can work through these issues, and stay true to our core values and emerge stronger for it. So it must be and will be today.”
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an independent who has been a strong supporter of the mosque, welcomed Obama’s words as a “clarion defense of the freedom of religion.”
But some Republicans were quick to pounce. “President Obama is wrong,” said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. “It is insensitive and uncaring for the Muslim community to build a mosque in the shadow of ground zero.” Entering the highly charged election-year debate, Obama surely knew that his words would not only make headlines in the U.S. but be heard by Muslims worldwide. The president has made it a point to reach out to the global Muslim community, and the over 100 guests at Friday’s dinner in the State Dining Room included ambassadors and officials from numerous nations where Islam is observed, including Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
While his pronouncement concerning the mosque might find favor in the Muslim world, Obama’s stance runs counter to the opinions of the majority of Americans, according to polls. A CNN/Opinion Research poll released this week found that nearly 70 percent of Americans opposed the mosque plan while just 29 percent approved. A number of Democratic politicians have shied away from the controversy.
Opponents, including some Sept. 11 victims’ relatives, see the prospect of a mosque so near the destroyed trade center as an insult to the memory of those killed by Islamic terrorists in the 2001 attacks.
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Barack Hussein Obama. What has he done for me, lately? How has this man ‘Changed’ my life?
Barack Obama
I am kept up at night due to stress caused by our President. Our country is in trouble! Big trouble! We are falling so very fast with Obama leading the way. We are told one thing- with a smile, nod and lots of BS about how he is working for OUR best interest but, the proof is in the pudding- so to speak. It looks more like he is in bed with our enemies and leading the lambs to slaughter! (that would be us…the lambs! LOL)
This whole Obamacare bill has, already, effected our financial stability. Our insurance company (Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield) has hiked the rates up to over an additional $200/mo (total taken out of paycheck is over $500.mo, now) in an attempt to ‘get ready’ for this bill to go into effect.
They (Obama Team) say that they will cap all insurance premiums so that these companies won’t be able to jack their prices up (and then we are MADE to pay whatever they charge) but, the real tid-bit on this is that they see this coming (because Obama gave the heads up to them, already, of course) and have started jacking the prices up NOW- before they have everyone ‘locked into’ our new premium costs for this plan. Our deductible (for the same plan as we’ve always had) has, also, been raised by another $500/year because of this super-awesome healthcare plan that is being shoved down our throats!
Because of all of this extra money coming out of our paychecks, right now…I can tell you, Mr. *cough* President, that you have successfully brought us down from ‘barely making ends meat’ to NOT making ends meat! My fridge is empty as are my cabinets, today..right now! We will not be able to purchase any food or beverages for another week and a half because of this ‘extra money for healthcare’ that is, already, being taken from us!
I have been forced to go without 5 different prescriptions that I, actually, need because we can no longer afford to purchase them anymore. I can not make the appointment to my neurologist for the results of the testing that was done to diagnose why I am having seizures so very often and so badly when I have never had them before in my life! All of this is due to the fact that we have lost over $100 per paycheck (every two weeks) to the insurance company because of OBAMA!
So, I ask you. Mr. Obama…what are you going to do for us? When were you taught that it is okay to become a czar in the democracy that the USA has established long before you came along? You are running this country with a whip and a smile splashed across your face and belting out ‘this change is GOOD for you’! Do you expect us to kiss your ass and praise your name all the way to the freakin poor house???!! Not gonna happen!
I think you deserve to have your name spoken within a circle, alright…just not the oval table where you are sitting and strategizing how to go about bringing my country to its knees like we are a bunch of ‘suckers’ that will bend to your Will just because you are smiling and telling us to believe in you and that you will ‘show us the way’!
I will NEVER follow such a man or pseudo-Gawd as you, Obama and will do everything in my Power to save my country and my people from your false promises and the slaughter that you are wishing upon us- financially and otherwise!
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