“I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it,” (Franken formerly resided in NYC for many years)

Franken got in a joke, as well: “It’s a community center. They’re going to have a gym. They’re going to have point guards. Muslim point guards.”

“They (Republicans) do this every two years. They try to find a wedge issue, and they try to work it.”

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) is slamming conservative opposition to the Muslim community center project near Ground Zero.

TPM

“Do you support or oppose the proposal to build the Cordoba House, a 15 story Muslim Cultural Center in lower Manhattan 2 blocks from the site of the World Trade Center?” Here the top-line answer is 27% support to 63% opposed. As we’ve seen before, opposition is lower in New York City itself, where 36% support it and 56% are opposed.

A follow-up question asked: “Regardless of whether you personally support or oppose the proposal to build the Cordoba House, do you believe the developers of the Cordoba House have a Constitutional right to proceed with the construction of the mosque and Muslim cultural center or not?” Here the answer is 64% yes, to only 28% no.”

A new Siena poll of New York state finds voters oppose Muslim Center — but back the right to build it

- tpm

“If the purpose of this mosque, as we are led to believe, is to create this tolerant environment, to avoid anything like a 9/11 ever repeating, you have to ask why didn’t one of those 100 [existing] mosques already accomplish such a thing.”

Sarah Palin - politico

I just died. Yup, I am dead from an overdose of moron.