President Obama never seems to learn.    Back in the presidential campaign the candidate Obama we thought learned that in today's rapid media you can't tell a group in San Francisco that the folks in Pennsylvania are clinging to their guns and their God without expecting the folks in Pennsylvania to hear about it the next morning.

Still, over the weekend the president spoke to an audience of muslims and told them they had a "right" to build their mosque wherever they want in New York City, a statement of the obvious but when asked for clarification when 1,000 miles away the president seemed to back off his statement and indicated he would make no moral judgment.   Excuse me Mr. President but you opened that door.  The issue has never been whether backers of the mosque have a right to build their building in New York City, the question is not a legal one.   The question is one of propriety.   Is it appropriate for this imam to build a mosque so near Ground Zero where more than 2,000 Americans lost their lives on September 11, 2001 at the hands of radicals of the muslim faith?   This has been the question from the beginning.  Obama inserted himself into that question before muslims and he provided them an answer that persons miles away didn't like.   Now, just as with the God and guns comment, the folks back in New York don't particularly like that answer.  Specifically they would like to have the president speak with a moral clarity that tells us what he believes about this particular mosque in this particular location.   But currently, mum is the word.

There is a second bit of moral clarity that needs to be addressed here.   Many in the cable media talk about Ground Zero like it is a particular issue only for those persons who live in New York or who may have had loved ones killed on 9/11.    This is not true.   On this generation's day of infamy, there were people killed in an empty field in Pennsylvania and people killed at the Pentagon.  There were also all those passengers of each of the airlines that reached their targets who were from many different corners of the country.    I had no friend or family member that I know of killed on 9/11.  Yet, I felt the same feelings of anger fill me on that day.   I felt just as much a target of that dastardly attack as every other patriotic American.    So, yes, I also have an interest and an attitude about whether that mosque should be allowed to be built on that location.   I do not argue against the "right" to build there.  Like stated before, I believe that as we discuss rights we must also take into account the attitudes of Americans both direct victim and indirect victim to emphasize that such a project is unconscionable.   I feel no need to confirm to the world how open minded Americans are regarding those who might share the same faith as those who are our sworn enemy.  I regard such a confirmation as a testimony that we would be a bunch of blithering idiots.   To hell with them.   This is tantamount to a shrine to the Japanese emperor at Pearl Harbor.   It sticks in my craw and I believe the project should be fought by both we citizens and our government.   If government will not address the problem I would suggest that the unions and the local contractors be made to realize this will be their last project in New York if they should decide to make a bid on construction or work on that mosque.   It is time to play hardball and high time the American public gets their dander up enough to tell government what we insist they do.    Kill the idea of this mosque.   Rezone that area if necessary, but kill that mosque.  If they don't, then I would make prostitution legal only on that block in New York City.  Women on the one side of the street, male prostitutes on the other.   I think it time the imam's sensibilities are stirred and he is told what Vice President Cheney appropriately told Senator Patrick Leahy a few years ago.   What was that quote?