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Home Front: Politix
Mayor Bloomberg: "It's good to be king"
2010-08-31
It's probably a coincidence that Obama and Bloomberg are among the few officials in America defending the mosque, just as they defended holding the 9/11 trial in lower Manhattan.

Both see themselves as citizens of the world who ascribe ugly motives to anybody who disagrees with them.
Elite of the world, unite!
It's the "good to be king" syndrome and Bloomberg is no piker, as he showed in his first over-the-top mosque speech. With the Statue of Liberty helpfully framed behind him for TV cameras, he called the mosque a life-or-death test of religious freedom.

It is not, but mission accomplished. Liberals loved it -- Obama's State Department posted it on a website and The New York Times swooned.

New Yorkers and the rest of America, not so much. The speech turned a simmering location controversy into a holy war as the mayor tarred as bigots anybody who opposed the mosque or dared to question its $100 million financing.
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#5  Both see themselves as citizens of the world who ascribe ugly motives to anybody who disagrees with them.

And the number in disagreement grows daily.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero-

Posted by: Besoeker   2010-08-31 18:30  

#4  Ahh, maybe those racists shouldn't spend their money in NYC!

Posted by: anonymous2u   2010-08-31 14:39  

#3  "It's good to be king"

But some days are better than others.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-08-31 11:16  

#2  The speech turned a simmering location controversy into a holy war as the mayor tarred as bigots anybody who opposed the mosque or dared to question its $100 million financing.

HOWARD DEAN ON GLENN BECK: What I see is, these folks are kind of, and I don't mean this in a mean kind of way, but they're a little like lost souls in the sense that they really do, they're at sea, the country's changed a lot, they don't, they're in the middle of a horrible economic downturn which has probably affected a lot of them personally. So they follow this guy who is like Father Coughlin from the 1930s. He's a racist, he's a hate-monger.

Same old tired out rhetoric by the left. Spouted so often that all the meaning has been sucked out of the words. In fact, when someone is called a bigot, you'd better look for a person who loves America, favors the Constitution, is a caring patriot and is for equal rights for all. It's getting to be a badge of honor to be called a bigot.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-08-31 08:52  

#1  Bloomberg and Obama: Nanny and Ninny
Posted by: Frank G   2010-08-31 07:52  

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