Mosque dispute takes Obama off-message on Gulf Coast

[Bozita]

Source: Tribune Washington Bureau

Mosque dispute takes Obama off-message on Gulf Coast
The frenzy over his remarks muddles his main mission of showing the beaches are open for business.

By Peter Nicholas, Tribune Washington Bureau
August 15, 2010|7:41 p.m.


Reporting from Panama City Beach, Fla. — It was meant to be a quick family trip to the Gulf Coast to show that local beaches are safe for swimming and that the Obamas can vacation as humbly as the next family.

But President Obama's visit was overshadowed by his foray into the dispute over the mosque planned near the former World Trade Center site, once again drowning out what was supposed to be a sharp, focused message.

The night before leaving Washington, the president defended plans to put an Islamic community center two blocks from where Manhattan's twin towers fell.

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After arriving in the gulf Saturday, he met privately with local business people and assured them he would alert the world that the region was "open for business." That he did.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-0816-obama-vacation-20100816,0,3338767.story

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The headline that defines a week.

[bluestateguy]

1. Only because the media chose to make it that way

Not Obama's fault in the least. This was the corporate media's choice, and only their choice.

[msongs]

2. yes the white house is helpless when it comes to media spin lol nt

[Bozita]

4. And because the MSM loves the story, the GOP is making it a campaign issue.

I just read here in LBN.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. The Media and the GOP are one

[babylonsister]

3. FUCK the LAT, always. They are a r/w rag, and take every

opportunity to slam it to Obama. This should be a forbidden source for the most part. I read and saw plenty about the Obamas in FL. And FTR, what this President said about religious freedom was righteous, so FUCK Peter Nicholas, too!

:grr:

[saltpoint]

5. There wasn't a whole lot of reporting in that LATIMES

piece.

What do they pay that "reporter" anyway?

Too much, would be my guess.

[butterfly77]

6. So the media says..

[DonCoquixote]

7. At this point

Does anyone trust the media, really?
The MSM are beginning to rival Pravda circa the Stalin era.

[sandnsea]

8. They've rivaled Pravda since the swift boat liars n/t

[iamthebandfanman]

10. they just wont be happy

until they destroy the constitution that they 'love' so much.

[grahamhgreen]

11. Go shopping! WTF

Hey - now no one is talking about the gulf - therefore the problem has gone away.

Surely the Obama camp knew what would happen if he came out for the mosque...

[JJW]

12. Sensationalized news

I mean this whole thing isn't even news. President supports Constitution. Next story!

[groundloop]

13. This isn't "news", it's editorializing

Big fuckin' deal, we finally have a President who understands the Constitution.