The President claims he did not support building the Mosque at Ground Zero. He supported their right to do so.
So he went to great lengths to support something no one was discussing. We know what their rights are. We were discussing the appropriatness of the project.
As reported here,
Pres. Barack Obama’s ringing statement in favor of the Ground Zero mosque had a gaping escape clause: He didn’t necessarily support the mosque.
Not that he bothered to spell that out for his entranced listeners at an iftar dinner at the White House last Friday night, or to those of his supporters who rushed to hail the “finest moment” of his presidency. “Moment” turned out to be the right word. Less than 24 hours later he was telling reporters he hadn’t taken a position on the “wisdom” of the mosque project, only on the organizers’ “right to build a place of worship and community center on private property in lower Manhattan.”
So, all the uproar is our fault because we could not parse his words the way HE was parsing them.
Shame on us!
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