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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 1528 Views
wow, that was an interesting read - 20/08/2010 02:03:52 AM 883 Views
Gingrich thinks he is a deep thinker? - 20/08/2010 09:42:15 AM 730 Views
We've been through this, too, haven't we? - 20/08/2010 10:12:15 AM 1020 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He makes historical references as often as possible, or at least in pretty much everything I've seen - 20/08/2010 12:37:02 PM 879 Views
As he was a history professor and writes histories and alternate histories, this is not surprising - 20/08/2010 05:33:48 PM 1029 Views
I'm aware of that - 20/08/2010 11:47:32 PM 754 Views
Re: I'm aware of that - 21/08/2010 12:40:29 AM 1035 Views
Re: I'm aware of that - 21/08/2010 01:19:37 AM 901 Views
Re: I'm aware of that - 21/08/2010 01:59:48 AM 783 Views
Conservatives love Rome. I don't know why. - 21/08/2010 01:20:27 AM 835 Views
Rome was more often than not governed by aristocrats and did, after all, invent the republic. - 21/08/2010 04:50:53 PM 1165 Views
"One man, one vote" always reminds me of Pratchett - 21/08/2010 05:03:35 PM 810 Views
Me too *NM* - 21/08/2010 06:53:22 PM 502 Views
Except there doesn't seem to be any conflict between either position. - 20/08/2010 10:06:20 AM 979 Views
When has logical consistency trumped politics? *NM* - 20/08/2010 01:50:55 PM 407 Views
True, but it does mean there's no "there" there. - 20/08/2010 02:41:49 PM 795 Views
He has to learn he needs to be crystal clear on sensitive issues - 20/08/2010 02:03:43 PM 1031 Views
In Washington, one must always present the APPEARANCE of integrity... - 20/08/2010 02:40:24 PM 922 Views
Clinton lied about the BJ but what is your airtight proof that Bush lied? - 20/08/2010 07:44:53 PM 992 Views
Ask and ye shall receive: - 21/08/2010 06:42:50 PM 1168 Views
This is a bit along the lines of what I have been thinking. - 20/08/2010 07:49:15 PM 1010 Views
that sort of illustrates the problem - 20/08/2010 08:56:42 PM 854 Views
It does - 22/08/2010 04:56:54 PM 770 Views
Can't find anything now on the context of the second statement. - 21/08/2010 05:05:51 PM 899 Views
I didn't see the problem either. He was simply stating the obvious. - 21/08/2010 01:39:44 AM 743 Views
maybe - 21/08/2010 02:49:40 AM 993 Views
Wow that is probably the best Dowd column I have ever read - 21/08/2010 01:35:36 AM 773 Views
Yes, his backtracking was quite pussy-ish. *NM* - 21/08/2010 04:00:31 AM 377 Views
How did he "backtrack" exactly? - 21/08/2010 04:35:33 PM 1069 Views
c'mon Joel. are you being intentionally thick? - 21/08/2010 05:02:27 PM 1086 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 1028 Views
*NM* - 22/08/2010 01:37:23 PM 408 Views
did you take into your consideration - 22/08/2010 03:50:59 PM 770 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 962 Views
that would be - 22/08/2010 04:02:08 PM 1053 Views
But quote B just reiterated what he said the first time. - 22/08/2010 04:13:21 PM 885 Views
I agree he is not backtracking - 22/08/2010 06:49:36 PM 871 Views
I agree with you, Joel and Tash on this one. - 22/08/2010 07:52:34 PM 951 Views
While we're picking sides, I'm with Mook and Roland. - 22/08/2010 08:20:11 PM 798 Views
I never fail to be impressed with your intelligence - 22/08/2010 08:25:11 PM 949 Views
I like how he's got rhetorical talents when it works - 22/08/2010 08:32:15 PM 821 Views
nope just human *NM* - 22/08/2010 08:37:17 PM 433 Views
that's not what Paul just said. - 22/08/2010 08:42:24 PM 886 Views
He couldn't stay out, no. - 22/08/2010 08:56:47 PM 951 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 940 Views
key word: seem - 22/08/2010 09:06:40 PM 875 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 758 Views
good thing - 22/08/2010 09:39:52 PM 1157 Views
he could have and should have stayed out - 22/08/2010 09:57:57 PM 898 Views
I think he's certainly got rhetoric talents... - 22/08/2010 08:54:11 PM 1326 Views
You don't really seem like you're taking a side to me. - 22/08/2010 09:14:02 PM 981 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 497 Views
Except, of course, that you just did. - 22/08/2010 12:30:00 PM 894 Views
Joel - 22/08/2010 05:37:45 AM 1078 Views
That last line was golden. *NM* - 22/08/2010 05:40:56 AM 460 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 994 Views
nonsense - 22/08/2010 03:39:30 PM 935 Views
I still don't see how it can be misinterpreted except by intent by the listener. - 22/08/2010 04:08:52 PM 914 Views
so we have reached the point of no return... - 22/08/2010 04:18:46 PM 923 Views
In your case it would have to be number 2. - 22/08/2010 07:38:20 PM 896 Views
ah, but I have no agenda here... - 22/08/2010 07:41:59 PM 729 Views
lol.<3 - 22/08/2010 08:49:35 PM 905 Views
that it is... - 22/08/2010 08:57:05 PM 915 Views
Tash you are very much a fair person in this world - 22/08/2010 08:34:38 PM 1000 Views
Or there is another option: 3) He was using tact. - 22/08/2010 09:01:49 PM 933 Views
On the off chance that this: - 23/08/2010 12:38:48 AM 1094 Views
I do remember your reply... - 23/08/2010 02:57:29 AM 1324 Views
Lies, prevarication and deceit again, eh? - 22/08/2010 01:17:45 PM 1387 Views
that was a decent explanation.... - 22/08/2010 05:18:18 PM 837 Views
Thanks. - 22/08/2010 05:41:28 PM 899 Views
I do feel bad for them - 22/08/2010 08:40:36 PM 798 Views
Re: Joel - 22/08/2010 07:53:51 PM 949 Views
Agreed. *NM* - 22/08/2010 08:25:38 PM 561 Views

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