Democrats Approach To CAIR Will Be A Winner

NRO"s Andrew McCarthy takes a look at the unfortunate relationship between the Transportation Security Administration and terror supporting CAIR, the Islamic ACLU. Into that convolution he compares Bush's "you're with us or you're with the terrorists" statement with Boxer's cancellation of an awards event with CAIR, specifically because of their relationship to terrorists. Not only does McCarthy find Bush wanting, but sees the Democrats setting up a "Sister Souljah Moment" for themselves.
First, the TSA gets cozy over the Imam fiasco, ahead of the Islamic hajj.

As if snuggling up to CAIR, coercing our law-enforcement and intelligence professionals to endure CAIR’s Islamic “sensitivity training,” and inviting CAIR to weigh in on our nation’s foreign policy were not enough, we now have a Bush-administration agency publishing an unedited CAIR press release on publicly subsidized, official government Internet space.

After bringing us up to date on the many noxious Hamas and Al Queda linked organizations that brought CAIR to us, and the activities they've engaged in, McCarthy then shows how the Dem's will, as they said in the campaign, "fight smarter."

THE DEMOCRATS BEGIN A DIFFERENT APPROACH
While the Bush administration continues to enrage its supporters by romancing this besotted organization, top Democrats — having just run rings around GOP strategists in the midterm elections — are mobilizing in a different direction with the 2008 campaign already in swing.

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Boxer indicated that she had been “influenced by previous critical statements about CAIR made by her Democratic colleagues Sens. Richard Durbin of Illinois and Charles Schumer of New York.” She’s right. As Pipes notes, “Senator Charles Schumer ... describes [CAIR] as an organization ‘which we know has ties to terrorism.’... Senator Dick Durbin ... observes that CAIR is ‘unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with groups that are suspect.’”
The more the American people learn about CAIR, the more odious they are going to find it, and the more outraged they are going to be that the Bush administration — which for now embodies the Republican party in the public mind — has cozied up to it. Along those lines, the Newsweek article features a picture of President Bush with CAIR executive director Awad right after 9/11 — notwithstanding Awad’s by then solid record of statements supporting Hamas and its atrocities.

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