…blaming the Mosque opponent for everything from Bigotry to trouble in Afghanistan are missing the most important card in the deck.
As we speak the Ground Zero Mosque is functioning as…a Mosque. Americans Muslims are currently worshiping there. It is right now a Mosque.
Americans are not going to force other Americans to vacate a place of worship without their consent. We who oppose the mosque like myself are not about to kick people out of the place where they are praying.
We will do our best to persuade them it is a bad idea, we will likely offer private and public concessions to try to get them to move, but if they choose to stay, then they will stay.
One of my husband’s friends–hated Bush, loved Obama and defended him vociferously for the first year, less passionately the second–told him over lunch this week that he’s done with Obama and “I never thought I’d say this but I miss Bush. We knew that he said what he meant, even if we didn’t want to hear it. We knew who he was, even if we didn’t like him. And we never had to wonder whether he liked us. He always did.”
And that is it, in a nutshell. Bush is missable, because we miss having a president whose affection for his country and its people–even the ones who hated him–was never in doubt.
We miss Bush because he never lectured us or harangued us, and when people disagreed with him, they were not immediately called names in an attempt to simply shut up debate.
This is an awful lot like a person who sick of the faults of their Husband of wife takes off with someone who promises them something different and exciting. For a time different and exciting is fun, but sooner or later the hard work of actually living together takes place and reality takes over.
George W. Bush was and is a decent and honorable man, who did what he thought was right and never went after people who absolutely despised him. Remember this?
Do you think that Obama could have shaken that kind of thing off like President Bush did? I think not.
btw: The title and first line of this post is in keeping with my plan of writing posts in the style of the New York Times Editorial page in the hopes of landing a plum writing job.
I know there are times when I hit the publish button much too fast, or accidentally erase a word or two but this is the New York Times, they have you know editors?
But many of Mr. DeLay’s actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them.
and just to show they are fair minded they point out that Nancy Pelosi is also not breaking the law in the very same way! Does that mean they want her to resign?
Hey once we start permitting actions just because they aren’t illegal where will it end? Apparently in Nicaragua.
All last week we heard about Blago, being “vindicated” after he was found guilty of a single charge out of over a dozen, There has been commentary hitting the prosecution for bringing such a poor case. We won’t hear the same complaints about what happened to Delay because as an effective republican he meets the “Just Because” standard.
Can someone please explain to me why these people have a writing job and I don’t?
Two more videos from last Sunday’s festival. The first is the procession about to enter the Church:
There was already a pretty packed church at this point.
The final video is of the closing song in Italian at the end of the Rosary and the litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It should not be forgotten that for all the food and pastry and music this is a religious devotion.
The funds raised that you see pinned to the banner were enough to seed us for next year’s festival. Hope to see you there.
