Democrats Just Attacked Republican Rhetoric on Islam Using the Last Person You'd Expect

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Democrats Just Attacked Republican Rhetoric on Islam Using the Last Person You'd Expect

Mic

Tom McKay 20 hours ago

Hawkish rhetoric about Islamic extremist groups and Muslims in general has reached a fever peak in the week following a terrorist gun and bomb massacre in Paris on Nov. 13, which killed at least 130 people and wounded more than 350 people.

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Within several days, 31 mostly-Republican governors signed off on orders saying they would refuse to cooperate with efforts to resettle Syrian refugees fleeing the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, in Syria and others fleeing violence in the Middle East and Afghanistan. GOP presidential candidates attacked President Barack Obama's stance for not using the term "radical Islam," which the administration says would legitimize ISIS' claim to represent Muslims.

This week, the Democratic National Committee fired back. The DNC launched an ad titled "Inciting fear isn't presidential," juxtaposing clips of Republicans today using the term "radical Islamic terrorism" with clips of President George W. Bush saying "We do not fight against Islam. We fight against terrorism."

Edited November 23, 2015 by Janelle2002

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

I remember this. I really hope this rhetoric dies down soon.

[eieio 1,594]

So now Bush is the poster child for the DNC?

They spend 8,10? years ripping him and now he is their voice of reason??

Soon the DNC will be talking about how great Trump is.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

So now Bush is the poster child for the DNC?

They spend 8,10? years ripping him and now he is their voice of reason??

Soon the DNC will be talking about how great Trump is.

We know the GOP would rather forget Bush existed, but he is right. No matter how much you don't want him to be since you have an issue with Muslims.

[eieio 1,594]

We know the GOP would rather forget Bush existed, but he is right. No matter how much you don't want him to be since you have an issue with Muslims.

Huh…not me. I think he was a great president and an even better man. Unlike the DNC I have never said otherwise.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Huh…not me. I think he was a great president and an even better man. Unlike the DNC I have never said otherwise.

So, if you think he's great, do you agree with his statement?

[JohnR! 5,495]

In all fairness, the entire country wishes W had never been appointed president; but that is history.

It will be interesting to watch the GnOP disavow W, now that the DNC found one point of commonality. Interesting, I say, but not surprising. Event W's harshest critics would agree he is an American, and despite the disaster his administration proved to be, we all know he meant well, whereas the motley crew seems to actually believe Obama has some plan, or hidden agenda against them. Paranoia at its best.

The clip of W speaking against terrorism, not Islam, or any other religion was played over and again, on the days that followed 9/11, but being as misinformed as the GnOP has become, chances are they will claim the clip is doctored up, and they will deny W, as they now do Reagan - their memories shorter than their IQ points converted to inches.

In any case, presidential is as presidential does. In that sense, both W and Obama rose to the occasion, at the moment when the nation needed a leader. Perhaps, it goes to prove presidents are just humans and not gods, as the GnOP likes to portray Obama.

We know the GOP would rather forget Bush existed, but he is right. No matter how much you don't want him to be since you have an issue with Muslims.

Edited November 24, 2015 by JohnR!

[eieio 1,594]

So, if you think he's great, do you agree with his statement?

His biggest weakness was public speaking. I do agree that radical Islam is the correct term. I would like to know how he would describe it now since we have many more years and experience dealing with it.

Sometimes people change their tune as they get more experience.

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His biggest weakness was public speaking. I do agree that radical Islam is the correct term. I would like to know how he would describe it now since we have many more years and experience dealing with it.

Sometimes people change their tune as they get more experience.

The US had just experienced the worst terrorist attack in history. Not one of the, the worst. And he refused to demonize Islam, which is what people want to do.

And since he's still alive, there's nothing from him coming back and retracting his original statement.

[eieio 1,594]

And since he's still alive, there's nothing from him coming back and retracting his original statement.

oh jeez.

I am sure he realizes the term "radical Islam" is appropriate 14 years later.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

oh jeez.

I am sure he realizes the term "radical Islam" is appropriate 14 years later.

Then why isn't he saying it? I mean, since you want the question answered, if Bush really changed his mind on the subject why not speak on it now since he made the original statement?

So either he's wrong, or he's right. Which do you think it is?

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

In all fairness, the entire country wishes W had never been appointed president; but that is history.

It will be interesting to watch the GnOP disavow W, now that the DNC found one point of commonality. Interesting, I say, but not surprising. Event W's harshest critics would agree he is an American, and despite the disaster his administration proved to be, we all know he meant well, whereas the motley crew seems to actually believe Obama has some plan, or hidden agenda against them. Paranoia at its best.

The clip of W speaking against terrorism, not Islam, or any other religion was played over and again, on the days that followed 9/11, but being as misinformed as the GnOP has become, chances are they will claim the clip is doctored up, and they will deny W, as they now do Reagan - their memories shorter than their IQ points converted to inches.

In any case, presidential is as presidential does. In that sense, both W and Obama rose to the occasion, at the moment when the nation needed a leader. Perhaps, it goes to prove presidents are just humans and not gods, as the GnOP likes to portray Obama.

It's funny because they wanted Obama drawn and quartered for Benghazi but refused to blame Bush for 9/11. The paranoia is just ignorance and racism at it's worst. It's how they tolerate him in the White House.

If Bush had said radical Islam, the streets would run red with innocent Muslim-American blood. Just like Pearl Harbor, folks in a panic will do whatever it takes to seek security, even if it means turning on other American citizens, as long as they don't look like them.

[eieio 1,594]

So either he's wrong, or he's right. Which do you think it is?

This was a new situation for us and most people had no inkling this could happen to us. Furthermore Bush does not contradict the term radical Islam. He says this is not a war against Islam or Muslims. A war against radical Islam is only a war against a certain segment of Islam. I see Bush as right and the term Radical Islam further defines it.

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This was a new situation for us and most people had no inkling this could happen to us. Furthermore Bush does not contradict the term radical Islam. He says this is not a war against Islam or Muslims. A war against radical Islam is only a war against a certain segment of Islam. I see Bush as right and the term Radical Islam further defines it.

So how can he be right if he didn't say radical Islam? It's a war against terrorism, which can mean anybody since Christians, Buddhist or any other faith can be terrorists?

[eieio 1,594]

It's a war against terrorism

Its just the politically correct way of saying we are fighting radical Islam. Everybody with half a brain knows the war on terrorism is directed against radical islam. Who else have we attacked in the war on terrorism?

Does anybody wonder who we are talking about when we hear "the war on terrorism"? No. We all know it is against radical Islam.