Over the weekend, Barack Obama weighed in on the horribly important issue of the proposed Mosque two blocks from Ground Zero. This is already taken up too much air time and maybe this was his attempt to take control of the news cycle. Yes, they have a right to build a mosque there on private property (of course). The problem is he just mentioned it quickly and didn't offer an alternative story to cover. Well his real problem was that he went back to it the next day and muddled his message saying that while they have a right to build, perhaps it wasn't wise. Yesterday and today, Republicans managed to coordinate their new message as "Obama attempted to have it both ways" (insert Daily Show segment of various people repeating this same phrase on different news shows). Ugh.
The News Hour tonight tried to have a segment on it and had two minor politicians debating it. The Democrat called it for what it was, political posturing to a radicalized base to raise funds and to avoid talking about the real issues, like the economy. He then asked what his counterparts economic plan was and looked foolish trying to change the subject from what they were brought on TV to talk about.
The last question was about a
Newt Gingrich quote, "Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington." Now this pisses me off, because Gingrich knows they do. And if he doesn't he needs to lookup the 1977 Supreme Court case
National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie. If Nazi's can march in a Jewish town with swastikas, they could put them up in Washington near the Holocaust museum too. And to all the idiots that think theres some Jewish conspiracy with the ACLU, the ACLU was on the side of the Nazis in the case.
As usual, Jon Stewart said everything that needs to be said (and he said it a week ago).
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