Update (4:40 p.m.): Robin Carnahan did answer questions about the mosque today. Update below the original post.
Original post (2 p.m.): In this era of reading and riding the tea leaves, it was only a matter
of time before heartland politicians were asked where they
stand on the "Ground Zero Mosque," the Muslim community and worship
center planned for a private development a couple of blocks away from
where the Twin Towers crumbled.
Roy Blunt spoke up recently, and his answer will surprise you, if for some reason you always thought Roy Blunt was a Muslim cleric.
In today's Star, Steve Kraske reports that both Blunt, who's running for U.S. Senate, and Kit Bond, whose seat Blunt is gunning for, have spoken out against the proposed mosque.
While campaigning in Kansas City today for the U.S. Senate,He's right, of course: Our time-honored freedom of speech makes it totally appropriate to talk about what should be near Ground Zero, just like our time-honored freedom of religion makes it appropriate for New York Muslims to worship and study in the same neighborhood as the former World Trade Center complex, just as our time-honored freedom of debauchery makes it appropriate for strippers and gamblers to congregate in the same neighborhood.Republican Cong. Roy Blunt was asked by reporters whether a mosque
should be built near the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
No way, Blunt said.
"Weconstantly talk about what's appropriate to put next to a 150-year-old
Civil War battlefield," Blunt said at Union Station. "I think it's
totally appropriate to talk about what should be near ground zero from
9-11...I do not think it should be built there."
"If your goal is to do that and bring all
faiths together it might make sense to put this someplace else because
it's clearly become divisive.
"Again, it's not a decision that I am going
to make for those folks, but it's something I hope they will seriously
consider as they decide how to move forward."
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@ ground zero Roy: You have now shown your true self. A ZERO. It's a shame there isn't a good independent candidate to trounce you.
Ben,
Is it that third pitcher of Kool-Aid or is your water bad? Idiot or shill for....?
Inconvenient Fact:
http://minnesotaindependent.co...
Carnahan NOW backs Bush tax cut extension
Yawwwwnnn! And Missouri is surprised by Carnahan's nod to the right because?!?!? She knows that she will have to shed the far left party line & Dingle Barry. Prop C woke most dems up - well, all but those still Kool-Aid drunk. Missouri promises the USA a November to Remember!!
Don't Tread on Missouri
Ah, it's hilarious watching Republicans/Conservatives piss all over everything they claim to believe about private property and the rights of property owners. Hypocrisy - it's not just their job, it's a way of life for these morons.
Robin Carnahan stated, ..."Missouri, that mecca of progressivism, in the middle of the country, could have TWO Democratic women senators..." I thought she didn't want to take a position on the mosque in New York.She stated,"Again, it's not a decision that I am going to make for those folks." Yet, she uses the term mecca. Doesn't she know that is the city the Muslims pray to? To this day, Mecca remains strictly closed for persons not of the Muslim faith. Robin does not want to take a position on the mosque, yet she wants to be a US Senator. I say the mosque should not be built at Ground Zero, it would be a symbol to the Muslim world of the conquest of 9/11. If Robin does not want to take a position on difficult issues she should not be running for Senate and people should not vote for her.
Greg Zotta
Republican Candidate for MO Senate 22
Trencherbone, I hope you get paid to type to crap you do. Only an idiot or a shill would be so pathetic.
The Victory Mosque is just the visible tip of a very large iceberg. Beneath the surface of Western societies, Muslims are waging a campaign of infiltration, subversion, sedition and social sabotage, with the objective of destroying our countries and way of life from within.
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