Jeb Bush says it took too long for Obama to visit a mosque as president

Jeb Bush.
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President Obama visited a mosque for the first time as president Wednesday, and Jeb Bush reacted by asking what took him so long.

"I'm surprised it took his eighth year to do it," Bush said Thursday. He took a very different stance from his rival Marco Rubio, who said by visiting the Islamic Society of Baltimore, Obama was "basically implying that America is discriminating against Muslims," and the "bigger issue is radical Islam."

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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.