Who is Driving this Wagon?

Gov. Palin has President Obama right where she wants him and people are starting to notice.  By bringing the Cordoba Mosque into the national discussion on her Facebook page, Sarah Palin said what a president of the US should have said if they were representing the people and a nation that had been attacked by militants acting in the name of Islam.  She put the president to shame (politely) for not having stated a position on the mosque, but it didn't start there.

Gov.Palin had just finished criticizing Obama for inaction on protecting us from illegal immigration, stating that he lacked "cojones" to enforce the immigration laws. The kick in the cojones was closely followed with bringing up the mosque issue.  He knew he must show that he had the courage to respond and he did by telling a Muslim audience that he supported the Mosque.  Reaction from democrat candidates across the nation prompted a next-day clarification that defies understanding.  He was agnostic toward the mosque before he was for it, and he was still agnostic.  Gov. Palin had painted him into a corner.  She then proceeded to show him an escape path, a plan by Gov. Paterson to encourage the building of the mosque at a different location.  All he has to do is add his encouragement to that of Gov. Paterson.  She has imprisoned him and is now dangling the keys in front of him.

Gov. Palin has been driving the wagon of public discussion for some time now beginning with her "death panels" comments on the health care bill.  Now that the bill has passed and we can find out what was in it, we find many boards and panels politically appointed and composed of non-medical personnel that determine standards of care, and in individual cases determine who will get care and who won't.  In other words, death panels.

Gov. Palin is starting to raise questions in the heads of even NY liberals.  Why am I agreeing with what Sarah Palin is saying about the mosque while I'm disagreeing with my president?  Why do I think she's more right than he is about our relationship with Israel?  Am I starting to think that she has better judgment than Obama?  Am I starting to doubt that she's a stupid woman and if so, am I starting to doubt what the media has been repeating over and over.  Am I starting to realize that her daughter's pregnancy was irrelevant to whether Gov. Palin would be a good president? 

Equating building the mosque at Ground Zero to an issue of freedom of religion is a major error that the democrats are now being forced to buy into.  We have the freedom to own a gun, but not to take it on an airplane.  We have the freedom to speak but not to threaten.  Muslims have the freedom to follow their religion but not to gloat at the site where nearly 3000 people lost their lives while celebrations erupted in Muslim nations across the globe.