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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 760579" data-attributes="member: 1940"><p><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41069.html" target="_blank">Mosque controversy swirls around Obama</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Obama’s comments placed him in the middle of the controversy over a Muslim group’s plans for a mosque near the site of the 2001 attack — and in turn, transformed an emotion-laden local dispute in New York into a nationwide debate overnight.</span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000">The Friday statement and Saturday clarification were consistent in a literal sense, but they sent sharply different signals that may have called into question how clearly the president thought through his intervention in the controversy or how his words would echo. </span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000">The legal right to build the mosque is one even many critics of the mosque have not contested — <strong>claiming mainly that the project was inappropriate on grounds of taste and local sensitivities and therefore should be strongly discouraged.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tonyexpress, post: 760579, member: 1940"] [URL="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41069.html"]Mosque controversy swirls around Obama[/URL] [LEFT][COLOR=#000000]Obama’s comments placed him in the middle of the controversy over a Muslim group’s plans for a mosque near the site of the 2001 attack — and in turn, transformed an emotion-laden local dispute in New York into a nationwide debate overnight.[/COLOR][/LEFT] [LEFT][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000]The Friday statement and Saturday clarification were consistent in a literal sense, but they sent sharply different signals that may have called into question how clearly the president thought through his intervention in the controversy or how his words would echo. [/COLOR][/COLOR][/LEFT] [LEFT][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000]The legal right to build the mosque is one even many critics of the mosque have not contested — [B]claiming mainly that the project was inappropriate on grounds of taste and local sensitivities and therefore should be strongly discouraged.[/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][/LEFT][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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