Well, it didn’t take long for President Obama to get his backfield in motion concerning his position on the Ground Zero Mosque.
Here is a video of what he said on Friday at the White House
Everyone in the audience and virtually all of the main stream media took those comments as Obama lending his support for the building of the mosque near Greound Zero.
I can’t find one media outlet or blogger who understood his comments the way Obama is singing a different tune today. Namely, he was only referring to the right to build without specifically endorsing building said mosque near Ground Zero.
Does your hair hurt yet?
Here’s the deal.
Obama saw the CNN poll that says that nearly 7O% of Americans DO NOT SUPPORT the building of the GROUND ZERO MOSQUE!
Opps, I better become neutral again.
Too late, Mr. President, the horse is out the barn, the genie is out the bottle, you farted and you can’t take back the smell anymore.
The Hill reports that President Obama said that his statement on Friday didn't express support for the “wisdom” of building a mosque two blocks from the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Manhattan, but rather the right the group has to build it.
"My intention was simply to let people know what I thought. Which was that in this country we treat everybody equally and in accordance with the law, regardless of race, regardless of religion," Obama said.
“I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there. I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding,”
Obama told reporters Saturday after delivering remarks in Panama City Beach, Fla. “That's what our country is about."Obama said Friday that Muslims shouldn’t be forbidden from building a mosque on account of where it’s located.
On Saturday, Obama admitted it was a “difficult” issue, but said his stand was consistent with American values. “I think it's very important as difficult as some of these issues are that we stay focused on who we are as a people and what our values are all about,” he said, according to the pool report.
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