Posted by
Bill Crawford on Monday, August 16, 2010 7:07:19 PM
Obama isn't alone in this disaster. Maxine Waters is fighting for her life in the Hosue Ethics Committee by claiming all of it's investigations are against Black Congressmen at a time when "The Daily Show" runs skits about the race card being "maxed out". And Charlie Rangel, instead of "retiring with dignity" as the party leadership is begging him to do, is not only looking forward to an open Ethics trial a month before Election Day, he tops it off by holding an opulent birthday party for all his party supporters and invites the cameras in.
So, Obama decides to replay his career as a Constitutional Law Professor and sticks his two cents into the whole Mosque near Ground Zero debate, when nobody was asking him to. He could have just shut up, and nobody would have been the wiser.
No, he had to make it a national issue. Saying what? Nothing really new. I am a limited government conservative, and a libertarian. Telling me that building that Mosque is within their rights is not something I would argue with. That isn't the point. It's about the insensitivity of building it where they want to. Hell, 70% of NYC residents think it is out of line.
After the firestorm hit him, Obama backpedaled a bit and said that he was specifically not comenting on the "wisdom" of building it there. My question is, why didn't he add that to his original remarks?
I have an idea. I think it is possible that he isn't that politically dense. I think he made this statement at a Ramadan dinner because he still thinks he can talk to these people, and solve the Middle East intranisgence through a diplomatic dance.
If that is the case, it is very important to him, because he is sticking to his guns on this, even after he is learning that stepping into the debate like this is making the Democrat election battles a steeper climb this year.
If this is the case, for all our sakes, I hope it works. I think hell will freeze over first, and I think optimism like that, in the face of what we are facing is as dangerous as it is ignorant. If I am right, at least there is something there that he is willing to go down in flames with, and you have to admire that.