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Originally Posted by JPhillips
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.
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If that's all he said then that's fine. But I still maintain that a large part of his problem is that he's been too reactive and not proactive enough with things like this - letting the GOP and the right-wing media define the battlefields.