Republican Ted Olson, the former Bush administration Solicitor General Ted Olson whose wife Barbara died on the hijacked airplane that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11, says President Barack Obama did the right thing in defending plans to build a mosque two blocks away from Ground Zero:
Once again: this points out the difference between those participating in what I call the talk radio political culture and those who analyze issues without the polemics. Consider him the polar opposite of Newt Gingrich.
UPDATE: MSNBC’s resident former Republican House member Joe Scarborough also blasts Gingrich:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.