Ridiculous. What does this have to do with a building being built a few blocks away? If it was being built on ground zero they might have a point but as it stands they have nothing.

I understand these peoples pain but they are wrong. Just because they lost love ones on 9/11 does not make them right about this. These people are blaming an entire religion on what happened that day and that is not fair to the 99.9999999% of Muslims that are not associated with Al Qaeda.

Lizard Cheney and Bill Kristol should we have expected anything else.

And you are correct LIZard, we do remember!...but, it's not what you think!

I spoke to one more New Yorker today about what this "mosque" was. Where it was really located, what it was going to be used for. His reaction - Really? I didn't know that. I asked him if he knew about the Muslims who have been threatened. He said no, he didn't know.

Cheney, Rove, Gingrich.

Who is this country is more evil than these three? Did their ancestors come to this country just so these 3 stooges could spill their nonstop hateful comments all over the place? Because it seems it's all they know how to do.

Cheney, his daughter nor any one from this organization should say anything about this. Not after what we did in Iraq. Gingrich the same. They don't know what they're talking about. They are arrogant. They are blind. They are full of hate.

If just ONE Muslim said half the things the GOP WHITE CHRISTIAN AMERICANS say, heaven help us all. It would be nonstop news on Fox Propaganda, with just about every single pundit repeating it over and over and over.

As someone on DK said, the terrorists are winning. What their goal was, was to make us afraid. When are we going to open up our hearts and minds? When? Does everything with Gingrich, Rove, Cheney and all the others have to be about hating some one or some group?

The GOP is ruining this country. Fine if people want to turn a blind eye to it. But it's unfair to the children growing up now. They will never have the democracy we grew up with. Never. All because of cowards like Cheney, Rove & Gingrich.

"A lie has speed, but truth has endurance." ~Edgar J. Mohn

After all the "wrong" that old Cheney did to We the Peeple of the United States and the rest of the World it takes a set of brass ones for any body named Cheney or any body assoiciated with any thing Cheney to say that any thing is wrong.

Always remember 9/11.......was an inside job. Brought to you by Dick Cheney and company.

Can anyone tell me who Liz Cheney is? Is she some past political figure who has done good works for this country or some city, state administrator who fillled a leadership role and perfomed good works for her state or community? Is she highly eductaed in mid-eastern affaris and has been used by past administrations in an advisory capacity that helped to direct this country's middle east policies? Just who is Liz Cheney and how are her comments or opinions worth any more than your average citizen as yourself and me?

One of the finest moments of Obama’s presidency- Greg Sargent

A few quick thoughts about Obama’s forceful speech yesterday expressing strong support for Cordoba House, which will go down as one of the finest moments of his presidency.

Obama didn’t just stand up for the legal right of the group to build the Islamic center. He voiced powerful support for their moral right to do so as well, casting it as central to American identity. This is a critical point, and it goes to the the essence of why his speech was so commendable.

Many opponents of the project have been employing a clever little dodge. They say they don’t question the group’s legal right to build it under the Constitution. Rather, they say, they’re merely criticizing the group’s decision to do so, on the grounds that it’s insensitive to 9/11 families and will undercut the project’s goal of reconciliation. The group has the right to build the center, runs this argument, but they are wrong to exercise it. In response, Obama could have merely cast this dispute as a Constitutional issue, talked about how important it is to hew to that hallowed document, and moved on.

But Obama went much further than that. He asserted that we must “welcome” and “respect” those of other faiths, suggesting that the group behind the center deserves the same, and said flat out that anything less is un-American . . . .

"As a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country. And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in Lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America. And our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country and that they will not be treated differently by their government is essential to who we are. The writ of the Founders must endure."

Obama's core declaration here is as simple and clear a statement about what's really at stake in this fight as one could have asked for. Obama argued that an "unshakable" devotion to the notion that all faiths are "welcome" is "essential to who we are," thus casting this as a larger argument over the bedrock moral principles that are the foundation of American identity.

Obama issued this statement in the full knowledge that his opponents have been itching for him to wade into this battle. The right is engaged in a concerted effort to make it politically toxic to stand up for the rights of Muslims -- and to simultaneously insinuate that Obama is on "their" side, and not on ours. This dispute fits the bill perfectly. It's the stuff of Liz Cheney's dreams. Polls show overwhelming opposition to the project, and as Glenn Greenwald notes, there would have been no political downside to sidestepping this morass.

Yet Obama entered the fray anyway, in dramatic fashion, asserting that our identy rests on "our capacity to show not merely tolerance, but respect towards those who are different from us." Crucially, Obama also cast support for the religious freedom of Muslim Americans as key to winning the battle with Al Qaeda, even as he hailed the service of Muslim Americans in our military. In so doing, Obama directly confronted the demagoguery at the core of much of the opposition to this project.

Republicans are reportedly gleeful that Obama entered this dispute. Maybe they're right to be gleeful: Obama's entry will only further stoke passions and ensure that the battle continues, perhaps to his political detriment. But in another sense, this couldn't have come at a better time for Obama. His core supporters, frustrated, were badly in need of a display of presidential spine. They got one.

Ultimately, though, Obama's speech transcends the politics of the moment, and will go down as a defining and perhaps even a breakthrough performance. Obama recognized that this dispute is a seminal one that goes to the core of our running argument about pluralism and minority rights and to the core of who we are. He understood that the gravity of the moment required an equally large and momentous response. And he delivered.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/08/obama_takes_on_the_demagogues.html?hpid=topnews

In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock. ~Thomas Jefferson

Wait, wait, wait... I just read the article by Greg Sargent above. Look at this quote:

Rather, they say, they're merely criticizing the group's decision to do so, on the grounds that it's insensitive to 9/11 families and will undercut the project's goal of reconciliation.

Got that? "Insensitive." What are conservatives always yammering about "politically correctness" and such? And what exactly are they doing there? Being "politically correct." To the families. Never mind that pesky Constitutional issue. They are being "politically correct."

So the next time you hear one talking about "political correctness" just point out "NYC MOSQUE."

cheney and his group wouldn't recognize the first amendment to our constitution if it SLAPPED THEM IN THE FACE !!! as a WAR CRIMINAL cheney should express no opinion about FREEDOM OF RELIGION !!!

Who would of guessed that the Cheney's are against the Bill of Rights. Could it be that they already trampled on the 4th Amendment against unreasonable search and seizures (illegal wiretapping), the 8th Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment (waterboarding)?

What does it mean to be a Republican vs. a Democrat? Just read the callous and uncaring posts from democrats in this comment section.