Bush Official and 911-Widower Says Obama Was Right On Mosque.

So much for those gas bags at the GOP, who are using the 9-11 tragedy as a wedge issue. Ted Olson, a Republican, a former U.S. solicitor general in the Bush Administration, and a 9-11 widower, who on 9-11 lost his wife, the late conservative author and activist Barbara Olson, a passenger on the plane that the terrorists smashed into the Pentagon, said the ground zero mosque issue should not be a partisan issue and that President Obama is right to support the right of American Muslims to build a mosque two blocks from New York's ground zero. Mr. Olson understands Americans First Amendment rights.

Mr Olson said on MSNBC, "Well it may not make me popular with some people, but I think probably the president was right about this.I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build edifices, or structures, or places of religious worship or study, where the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of thing, and that we don't want to turn an act of hate against us by extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith. And I don't think it should be a political issue. It shouldn't be a Republican or Democratic issue, either. I believe Gov. Christie from New Jersey said it well -- that this should not be in that political, partisan marketplace." See the video.

There's the answer to Gingrich, Palin and to the other GOP-Tea Party kooks, the voice of reason from a man who really defends the Constitution and does not pretend.