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Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo
Yeah - the mayor and the local authorities can say what they want. I agree that it was a mistake for Obama to go and get himself involved. He doesn't really have a say in it, and because the right-wing media was up in arms about it and trying to rally support against it and essentially calling him out for allowing it, he decided that he should make it his business, when he really should have just made a statement saying "it's a local issue...i have no influence in it" and left it at that. instead, he tried to do too much (yet again), and let somebody else dictate the battlefield.
weak.
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He basically said, "it's a local issue and we have freedom of religion, so get over it." Bloomberg and Obama only spoke out because it became the mainstream opinion of the GOP that the government should stop Muslims from building houses of worship. If the outrage wasn't so pronounced and high profile there wouldn't have been a response. Personally I admire both men for standing up and defending one of our core founding principles.