Why did President Obama choose tolerance (yet again) as the subject of his speech at the Pentagon on 9/11? Wasn't this day to express our deep regret for the lost lives of the murdered Americans? When will he stick up for us, for Americans instead of preaching that we should forgive and tolerate Muslims?
Then again, we are talking about President Obama here. He is the same person whose response to the beheading of Daniel Pearl (on the Internet no less) has to do with( freedom of press. No, it was because the man was Jewish! Hello. Anyone home?
Stop the dumbass spin. Stop trying to convince us that we do not see what we really see! How arrogant of you.
Then comes the Ft. Hood shootings. Obama gave an unrelated (and head-scratching) shout-out" to Dr. Joe Medicine Crow, who has absolutely nothing to do with the subject at hand – and the reason Obama was there.
I mean, the killing of 12 soldiers and a security guard by U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood is a mere footnote to him and he is more concerned with the Muslim Hasan than the Americans shot down and their grieving families.
Don't even get me started on the Cole incident in Yemen. He just refuses to do anything on the matter leaving the victim families justifiably bitter and angry.
But it's not Obama's curiously bloodless behavior and strange disconnectedness (as British journalist Toby Harnden put it) that is most vexing. It's his reflexive instinct to lecture Americans, when they're not the ones who need lecturing. Perhaps he is the ultimate illegal alien – like from "out there"?
His first reaction, for example, when Americans protested the building of the ostentatious mosque at ground zero was to assume Americans were being intolerant and bigoted. He came out strongly in favor of the mosque and the importance of religious tolerance. He later pretended he was talking about the Muslims' and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's First Amendment rights, but no one was suggesting they didn't have the right to build.
You will note that when Pastor Terry Jones threatened to burn the Koran, Obama didn't come out stumping for his First Amendment rights — so his double standard ad favoring of Muslims is clear.
He and Defense Secretary Robert Gates thought they had to personally contact Jones to dissuade him from engaging in his gratuitously provocative act, but they didn't similarly feel the need to contact Rauf to dissuade him of his grossly insensitive act.
You would think that if Obama wanted to lecture someone on the need for tolerance, it would be the imam, who denies that Ground Zero is a cemetery.
If he truly wants to make a point about tolerance, especially religious tolerance, why hasn't Obama even considered pointing his finger at the Muslim world, asking them why they are so uniformly intolerant in their countries? Why they don't permit churches? Why they don't permit Muslims to convert to Christianity? Why they commit so much violence against Christians and Jews?
Is it not the United States that permits virtually unfettered religious liberty for Muslims, as well as all other religious people — except for the persistent discrimination against Christians? Is America not the home of some 2,000 mosques?
While leftists are congratulating themselves on their moral superiority in mouthing tolerance, more people's lives are at risk as a result of their refusal to consider radical Islam a motive in many murderous attacks, which is hardly the same thing as categorically indicting the entire Muslim religion — as Obama implies.
Surely it should be obvious to Obama and his ilk by now that Islamists don't attack us because of our alleged "intolerance." They don't even respect tolerance. They don't aspire to it. They reject it. And they reject us — and will continue to, regardless of how nice and "tolerant" we are.
– based upon David Limbaugh's Tiresome Tolerance Lectures
