Posted
2:23 PM
by Gene
Few would argue that defending liberal principle serves Obama’s short-term interests. Americans oppose the mosque 61 percent to 26 percent, according to one recent poll, and support the Arizona law by an even wider margin. But even if some people don’t like Islam, or illegal immigrants, or gay weddings, they may respond to admonitions that our society is built around freedom of conscience and equal treatment under law. If he applied his oratorical gifts to these principles, Obama could remind a grumbling nation what it liked about him in the first place.Jake, people do not respond to hectoring -- especially when the hectoring is for their own good, and the hectorers are always right. Look at HONORARY MAYOR MIKE's.
You still in the running to edit SIDSWEEK? Sounds it.P. S. PREDICTION: If Jake's "promoted"
MR. JOURNOLIST takes his place at Grate.com. Knee-jerk lockstep independent thinking marches on!