Dancing in the Streets?

When a bigot like Steve King comes out and offers us his verbal diarrhea, its up to us to spend our time repudiating, denouncing, and/or rejecting his comments as offensive, or making him eat his own words by pointing out that his entire argument is INCORRECT.

Radical Islamics want to hit america, and what they want is to strip Americans of being "The land of the free, and the home of the brave!" Electing a president whose middle name is Hussein does nothing to make them dance.   If this man, whose middle name is Hussein, would make the best president, a president some of us could only dream of, a president who would ring a death bell for Al-Quaeda for the superior judgment and unifying force he brings, IF we want to vote for him with every ounce of our judgment and choose NOT to because of what Al Quaeda will think, now that would make them declare victory over America's freedom, that would made them dance in the streets, and that would make them defeat us. Dont let it happen.

Steve King, GOP Congressman: "The radical Islamists, the al-Qaida ... would be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on Sept. 11 because they would declare victory in this war on terror," If Obama wins coz his middle name is Hussein.

As the media and all the analysts correctly jump on: The statements are fear-mongering, divisive, racist and push the election into the exactly the negative area that they have been in the last two elections. Yes, the statements should be repudiated, denounced and rejected, whichever word is preferred. However, the biggest issue to me is not that the statement is offensive, it is the statement is Stupidly INCORRECT, and I would rather have that hammered on than the offensive part of it.

Yes, Al Qaeda danced in the streets on 9-11, and they will dance in higher numbers when they feel that they have done more to defeat the United States of America. That being said:

What is victory for radicals like Al-Quaeda:

I don't know the correct answer to this but it really seems

1. Loss of American lives, as some sort of revenge for their presence and influence in the Middle East, and because of the difference in the democratic (land of free) philosophy, versus their radical views.

2. Expanding their base to include in their efforts every person in the world who opposes the US, and believe that they have been wronged by the US.

3. To hit the US at the heart of the very principles they stand for ie, slowly start to strip away the freedom of the people in the land of the free.

4. Witness ways in which their attacks and constant threat and terrorizing american people, causes them to change their decisions, way of life, and even more watch their politicians use Al -Quaeda's threat and presence against the people to get elected.

Without getting into details and just looking at the events of the last 8 years, Al Quaeda made some headway on 1) through 9-11, made some headway on 2) when a group of people in Iraq who were involved in internal turmoil nothing to do with the US, got invaded by the US and might have joined with Al Quaeda in a common purpose, made some more progress on 1) by having tons of young american soldiers thrown in front of em to fight.

But nothing will be a victory like 3 and 4 to Al Quaeda, of watching how republican commentators are using the fear of Al quaeda to create fear of Obama by using his middle name. This attacks the freedom of Americans, and even more, if the American people want to vote for Obama for all his pros, uniting them, bringing new voters in, hope, change, judgement, and if they have to change their vote just because they are being conned into thinking that electing a man whose middle name is Hussein could be dangerous because of Al Quaeda, now that would make the radicals dance. They would have managed to strip the Land of the Free and home of the brave, of both their freedom, and their bravery!

Update on Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 08:24PM by bandy

I sincerely hope that Steve King and his ridiculous comments are not significant enough to make it onto TV in foreign nations. Because if they are, I am sure his comments made Al-Quaeda members dance, coz they must have celebrated stripping the freedom of a US Congressman. Coz the day they affect the freedom of our minds, and our choices, they can add one person to their victory column. And the day they hear a US Congressman utter radical irrational sentences like they do, well they probably stripped his freedom and made a friend. Congrats, Steve King, you're the star, and Al-Quaeda is dancing with YOU!