John “straight talk express” McCain may be busy kissing the babies of “moderate” voters and chastising supporters for the use of the name “Hussein,” but Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King is busy fighting for the values and the security of a nation by insisting on a dose of reality.
During a recent radio interview with an Iowa radio station, King had the following to say.
“I’ll just say this, when you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected president of the United States, and I mean. What does this look like to the rest of the world? What does it look like to the world of Islam?”
“I will tell you that if he is elected president, the radical Islamists, the al-Qa’ida and the radical Islamists and their supporters will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11th. Because they will declare victory in this War on Terror.”
“They will say the United States has capitulated because we will be pulling our troops out of any conflict that has to do with al-Qa’ida anywhere.”
“And additionally, it does matter. His middle name does matter. It matters because they read a meaning into that, the rest of the world,—it has a special meaning to them.”
“They’ll be dancing in the streets because of his middle name. They’ll be dancing in the streets because of who his father was and because of his posture that says, “Pull out of the middle east. Pull out of this conflict.””
According to Fox News, spokesman Brian Rogers for the McCain camp has said that “John McCain rejects the type of politics that degrades our civics … and obviously that extends to Congressman King’s statement.”
This is not the first time that King has refused to pander to a warped sense of political correctness.
On October 2, 2007 members of the House voted on a resolution to recognize “the Islamic faith as one of the great religions of the world.” The measure passed 376-0.
On Oct. 29, 2007 the House voted to recognize the Indian celebration of Diwali, in which members of the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Jain religions participate. The measure passed on a 358-0 vote.
On Tuesday, December 11, 2007 the members voted to recognize Christianity as one of the world’s greatest religions. It did not receive the same unopposed victory. Nine Democratic members voted against the measure. King sponsored the bill and the hypocrisy of the situation did not escape his attention.
“The [nine] naysayers didn’t make it to the floor to debate. I would like to know how they could vote Yes on Islam, Yes on the Indian Religions and No on Christianity when the foundation of this nation and our American culture is Christianity…I think there’s an assault on Christianity in America,”he said.
While some politicians on both sides of the aisle are busy pandering to interests that are a slap in the face to America’s founding principles, it appears that others are busy showing their true colors-red, white and blue.