The amount of venom that is being spewed over this issue is shocking, though not surprising. Spengler at the
Asia Times has some
interesting comments:
Popular antipathy to a proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero is so fierce that even President Barack Obama, the nation's Islamophile-in-chief, "clarified" his August 11 statement supporting the plan to say, "I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there." It is not just a mosque, of which there are two in the neighborhood, but a symbol of Islamic presence. The most recent CNN poll shows an overwhelming 70%-29% margin of opposition.
Yikes. Even setting aside some of the
more hypocritical examples, that's worrisome. More worrisome is this:
What is surprising is how passionately Americans oppose the Ground Zero mosque. A revolt is brewing against America's liberal political elite.
If this continues to take hold, I have a bad feeling about what might happen in the midterms in the fall, not to mention the next presidential election. Huckabee-Palin 2012? Still not out of the question...
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