{"id":5062,"date":"2012-08-11T20:09:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T02:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5062"},"modified":"2012-08-11T20:09:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T02:09:39","slug":"president-obama-uses-lftar-dinner-to-promote-religious-freedom-the-capitol-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/president-obama-uses-lftar-dinner-to-promote-religious-freedom-the-capitol-column\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama uses lftar dinner to promote religious freedom | The Capitol Column"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Obama uses lftar dinner to promote religious freedom | The Capitol Column<\/a><\/p>\n

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During a Ramadan dinner at the White House last night, President Barack Obama condemned the attack on a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin.  He said any assault on religious faiths \u201cis an attack on the freedom of all Americans\u201d and has no place in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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President Obama also said at the dinner that no American should ever have to fear worshipping in public.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read more: http:\/\/www.capitolcolumn.com\/news\/president-obama-promotes-religious-freedom-at-iftar-dinner\/#ixzz23IGHmBz5<\/a><\/p>\n

Just the headline must be causing strokes and militia meetings all over the country. And the President defending someone accused of thought-crimes by a lunatic — appalling.<\/p>\n

I do appreciate the writer explaining what McCarthyism was. And the House Republican who says don\u2019t judge all House Republicans — who vote as a monolith — by a few loons. OK. Let\u2019s give them the Senate and the White House, while we\u2019re at it.<\/p>\n

Kudos to the commenter who spells out the Iron Rule: Do onto others as you think they would do onto you. (The Golden Rule is for wimps and deadmen.) Perhaps progressives should follow conservatives: git a gun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Obama uses lftar dinner to promote religious freedom | The Capitol Column During a Ramadan dinner at the White House last night, President Barack Obama condemned the attack on a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin.  He said any assault on religious faiths \u201cis an attack on the freedom of all Americans\u201d and has no place … Continue reading President Obama uses lftar dinner to promote religious freedom | The Capitol Column<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5063,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions\/5063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}