Theo
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Example: I saw in the Pigsty that someone posted Palin's statement about the preacher who wanted to burn the Koran.
Palin said:
Obama would probably be doing better in the polls if such simple, reasonable, and obvious statements came out of his mouth as naturally as they come out of Palin's. But they don't, and that's part of the reason Americans don't relate to this President.
Punk rocker Ben Weasel, of The Riverdales and Screeching Weasel fame, blogged:
Well said.
Palin said:
"People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero."
Obama would probably be doing better in the polls if such simple, reasonable, and obvious statements came out of his mouth as naturally as they come out of Palin's. But they don't, and that's part of the reason Americans don't relate to this President.
Punk rocker Ben Weasel, of The Riverdales and Screeching Weasel fame, blogged:
So. When people get upset because an Imam wants to build a mosque at Ground Zero, the president has nothing at all to say about the appropriateness of it; he merely notes that the Imam has a legal right to build it.
When people get upset because a Christian preacher wants to burn a Quran, the president has nothing to say about the legality of doing so; he only comments on the inappropriateness of it.
Again: huh.
I think the Quran-burning stunt is silly and stupid. But I'm much more concerned that our President not only can't be bothered to defend his fellow citizens' first amendment rights, but that he actually discourages this symbolic (if asinine) speech on the grounds that it will make violent wackos more violent. As if they needed a reason.
I guess this is the sort of thing that's bound to happen when you elect as President the guy with the most liberal voting record in the Senate.
Well said.