Reviving Us-Versus-Them Politics
Eleanor Clift, Newsweek
Mosques in America: Protests, Arguments and Attacks. Click to view photos.In defending the right of Muslims to build an Islamic cultural center in lower Manhattan, two blocks from Ground Zero, President Obama said the right thing, but sometimes the right thing is not enough. Perhaps forgetting he is no longer a constitutional law professor and that his words would be amplified by the context in which he said them, Obama seemed genuinely surprised at the parsing of his words, and the debate over whether his subsequent rumination about separating the "right" to build from the...
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