'I Should Not Express My Own Views'
Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 09:51 AM
With Ground Zero as a backdrop, Michael Bloomberg was on Good Morning America today defending the Park51 project - a proposed Islamic cultural center slated to open two blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood.
"The government should never get involved in restricting what you can say…this is a first amendment issue," Bloomberg said.
On whether he personally supports the plan, Bloomberg said, "I'm the government. And I should not express my own views."
Which sounds like what Obama said.
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Bloomberg and :Big Brother" Obama opened "Pandoras Box, and disregarded the warning place by "the gods" they did this as the "Government" nice cop out.But if anyone thinks this is going away the day after election day, I have a bridge named Brooklyn to sell you.Before there was the “Oracle at Delphi” there was Count Vampire J. MachiavelliVJ Machiavelli www.vjmachiavelli.blogspot.comNo More Schumer, Pelosi, Rangel, Engel"After Four Years of Scandals it is time for the Lazio Team"
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