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Can't find anything now on the context of the second statement. Joel Send a noteboard - 21/08/2010 05:05:51 PM
"'I was not commenting, and I will not comment, on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there,' he said the morning after he commented on the wisdom of making a decision to put a mosque there. 'I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding. That’s what our country is about.'"


Is that all he said? And what was he asked? Because I keep thinking he must have said much more if people find it confusing. I just haven't had time to look up any kind of transcript.

As you mention, I think it would have been a mistake to give any words for or against the mosque, even just to assuage some people.

Probably because there are too many hits for the first statement when I do a search; best I can do between shifts is a link to the video and transcript of that, and in its entirety the tone is a little less skeptical of the planned mosque.

http://enduringamerica.com/2010/08/15/video-and-transcript-president-obamas-speech-on-the-mosque-at-ground-zero/

It's still a long way from an endorsement or "supporting the mosque" as members of both parties and factions have called it; supporting the right to something isn't supporting the act itself, but part of the Dems problem has been their failure to articulate that combined with the countrys unwillingness to accept it. Too often it seems when people say, "just because you think something is morally wrong doesn't give you the legal right to ban it" what they mean is "just because you think what I'm doing is wrong doesn't make you any less full of it, and the law is on my side. " Of course, the moment the shoe's on the other foot all that noble cerebral logic is out the window; if you want abortion to remain legal, you must fantasize about strangling infants; if you want homosexual marriage to be legal, you must be Liberace back from the dead. I mean, what kind of idiot would support someones RIGHT to do things that disgust him? :rolleyes:
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An amusing column on the NYC mosque by Maureen Dowd.... - 20/08/2010 12:33:27 AM 1538 Views
wow, that was an interesting read - 20/08/2010 02:03:52 AM 899 Views
Gingrich thinks he is a deep thinker? - 20/08/2010 09:42:15 AM 745 Views
We've been through this, too, haven't we? - 20/08/2010 10:12:15 AM 1044 Views
He makes historical references as often as possible, or at least in pretty much everything I've seen - 20/08/2010 12:37:02 PM 898 Views
As he was a history professor and writes histories and alternate histories, this is not surprising - 20/08/2010 05:33:48 PM 1041 Views
I'm aware of that - 20/08/2010 11:47:32 PM 772 Views
Re: I'm aware of that - 21/08/2010 12:40:29 AM 1050 Views
Re: I'm aware of that - 21/08/2010 01:19:37 AM 913 Views
Re: I'm aware of that - 21/08/2010 01:59:48 AM 808 Views
Conservatives love Rome. I don't know why. - 21/08/2010 01:20:27 AM 853 Views
Rome was more often than not governed by aristocrats and did, after all, invent the republic. - 21/08/2010 04:50:53 PM 1185 Views
"One man, one vote" always reminds me of Pratchett - 21/08/2010 05:03:35 PM 822 Views
Me too *NM* - 21/08/2010 06:53:22 PM 508 Views
Except there doesn't seem to be any conflict between either position. - 20/08/2010 10:06:20 AM 997 Views
When has logical consistency trumped politics? *NM* - 20/08/2010 01:50:55 PM 413 Views
True, but it does mean there's no "there" there. - 20/08/2010 02:41:49 PM 822 Views
He has to learn he needs to be crystal clear on sensitive issues - 20/08/2010 02:03:43 PM 1051 Views
In Washington, one must always present the APPEARANCE of integrity... - 20/08/2010 02:40:24 PM 940 Views
Clinton lied about the BJ but what is your airtight proof that Bush lied? - 20/08/2010 07:44:53 PM 1013 Views
Ask and ye shall receive: - 21/08/2010 06:42:50 PM 1186 Views
This is a bit along the lines of what I have been thinking. - 20/08/2010 07:49:15 PM 1030 Views
that sort of illustrates the problem - 20/08/2010 08:56:42 PM 871 Views
It does - 22/08/2010 04:56:54 PM 788 Views
Can't find anything now on the context of the second statement. - 21/08/2010 05:05:51 PM 916 Views
I didn't see the problem either. He was simply stating the obvious. - 21/08/2010 01:39:44 AM 760 Views
maybe - 21/08/2010 02:49:40 AM 1004 Views
Wow that is probably the best Dowd column I have ever read - 21/08/2010 01:35:36 AM 783 Views
Yes, his backtracking was quite pussy-ish. *NM* - 21/08/2010 04:00:31 AM 382 Views
How did he "backtrack" exactly? - 21/08/2010 04:35:33 PM 1085 Views
c'mon Joel. are you being intentionally thick? - 21/08/2010 05:02:27 PM 1103 Views
Having read those quotes I don't think he was backtracking on anything. (With link to speech) - 22/08/2010 06:27:06 AM 1039 Views
*NM* - 22/08/2010 01:37:23 PM 412 Views
did you take into your consideration - 22/08/2010 03:50:59 PM 785 Views
I can't imagine why they would express concern over it. It wasn't controversial. That is on them - 22/08/2010 03:58:32 PM 972 Views
that would be - 22/08/2010 04:02:08 PM 1067 Views
But quote B just reiterated what he said the first time. - 22/08/2010 04:13:21 PM 918 Views
I agree he is not backtracking - 22/08/2010 06:49:36 PM 884 Views
I agree with you, Joel and Tash on this one. - 22/08/2010 07:52:34 PM 961 Views
While we're picking sides, I'm with Mook and Roland. - 22/08/2010 08:20:11 PM 810 Views
I never fail to be impressed with your intelligence - 22/08/2010 08:25:11 PM 963 Views
I like how he's got rhetorical talents when it works - 22/08/2010 08:32:15 PM 830 Views
nope just human *NM* - 22/08/2010 08:37:17 PM 442 Views
that's not what Paul just said. - 22/08/2010 08:42:24 PM 899 Views
He couldn't stay out, no. - 22/08/2010 08:56:47 PM 963 Views
I don't want to argue with you on a Sunday, my religion says I have to relax. - 22/08/2010 09:03:54 PM 954 Views
key word: seem - 22/08/2010 09:06:40 PM 883 Views
I was only using that term for you guys. I don't feel like beating you with a rolling pin until you - 22/08/2010 09:14:39 PM 770 Views
good thing - 22/08/2010 09:39:52 PM 1170 Views
he could have and should have stayed out - 22/08/2010 09:57:57 PM 910 Views
I think he's certainly got rhetoric talents... - 22/08/2010 08:54:11 PM 1345 Views
You don't really seem like you're taking a side to me. - 22/08/2010 09:14:02 PM 991 Views
I'm not even taking the time to comment on something so obvious as what he did. *NM* - 22/08/2010 02:53:10 AM 506 Views
Except, of course, that you just did. - 22/08/2010 12:30:00 PM 909 Views
Joel - 22/08/2010 05:37:45 AM 1095 Views
That last line was golden. *NM* - 22/08/2010 05:40:56 AM 470 Views
His phrasing in the first speech implied that it was a bad idea. But legally they have the right. - 22/08/2010 06:32:59 AM 1005 Views
nonsense - 22/08/2010 03:39:30 PM 951 Views
I still don't see how it can be misinterpreted except by intent by the listener. - 22/08/2010 04:08:52 PM 925 Views
so we have reached the point of no return... - 22/08/2010 04:18:46 PM 934 Views
In your case it would have to be number 2. - 22/08/2010 07:38:20 PM 910 Views
ah, but I have no agenda here... - 22/08/2010 07:41:59 PM 740 Views
lol.<3 - 22/08/2010 08:49:35 PM 919 Views
that it is... - 22/08/2010 08:57:05 PM 927 Views
Tash you are very much a fair person in this world - 22/08/2010 08:34:38 PM 1011 Views
Or there is another option: 3) He was using tact. - 22/08/2010 09:01:49 PM 942 Views
On the off chance that this: - 23/08/2010 12:38:48 AM 1113 Views
I do remember your reply... - 23/08/2010 02:57:29 AM 1348 Views
Lies, prevarication and deceit again, eh? - 22/08/2010 01:17:45 PM 1397 Views
that was a decent explanation.... - 22/08/2010 05:18:18 PM 848 Views
Thanks. - 22/08/2010 05:41:28 PM 927 Views
I do feel bad for them - 22/08/2010 08:40:36 PM 819 Views
Re: Joel - 22/08/2010 07:53:51 PM 960 Views
Agreed. *NM* - 22/08/2010 08:25:38 PM 565 Views

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