Obama: Change For The Sake Of Expediency

Obama: Change For The Sake Of Expediency

Friday, April 11, 2008

When it comes to the Second Amendment, it's somehow appropriate that Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is running on a platform of "change." Because when it comes to his rhetoric on the issue of gun rights, "change" is an apt description.

Last month, we reported on Obama's hypocrisy. We detailed his advocacy of a law to forbid federally licensed gun dealers from legally selling constitutionally-protected products (firearms) in huge geographical areas, without holding purveyors of pornography to the same standard.

Last week, we reported on Obama's attempt at reassuring pro-gun voters by telling them, "I have no intention of taking away folks' guns," then telling the Pittsburgh Tribune "I am not in favor of concealed weapons," and that he favors "…reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure[s]…."

Obama is savvy, and he's a quick study. His politically expedient stance on the gun issues has morphed from "a ban on all handguns" to his now frequent use of phrases like "protecting sportsmen."

Lately, in an effort to curry votes from America's gun owners, he's even claiming to believe in the Second Amendment. A recent campaign "fact sheet" touting Obama's support for sportsmen claims that Obama "greatly respects the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms" (note the failure to say "keep" and bear arms). But read further--to the "fine print" at the end of the statement--and you'll see his political safety net…an easily down-played but highly significant "qualifier" that he almost always includes in some form. It reads, "He also believes that the right is subject to reasonable and commonsense regulation." In other words, "I support your gun rights, so long as that includes "reasonable" restrictions (wink, wink)." Very slick.

The next time you hear Obama talking about "protecting sportsmen's rights," remember that, among other things, he endorses the D.C. gun ban--which outlaws armed self-defense in the home--declaring that the ban doesn't violate the Second Amendment. And that in a "1998 National Political Awareness Test," he pledged to support a "Ban [on] the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic weapons." That includes most handguns and many rifles and shotguns.

Obama's alleged support of the Second Amendment is utterly cynical and false. Barack Obama is not for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms; he's out to destroy it.

(From the NRA)

Hillary's Gun Control Record

What does Hillary's gun control record look like?

Well, to be frank, It’s not good.

In a recent article, National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre wrote that, "As a ‘progressive’ senator, [Clinton] ranks among the handful of the worst ‘F’-rated gun banners who voted to support the kind of gunpoint disarmament that marked New Orleans’ rogue police actions against law-abiding gun owners in the anarchistic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina."

Clinton has also supported legislation to create a national registration for handguns and lent her face and name to the anti-gun Million Mom March.

Yet as a presidential candidate, Clinton claims to support the Second Amendment. She’s called for a vague gun summit, in which "everybody comes together on all sides of this issue." When pressed on the question of gun control, she admitted only to opposing "illegal guns."

Maybe Clinton's record on guns is best summed up by New York Times columnist Gail Collins, who recently wrote, "Clinton used to be very vocal about gun control when she was running for Senate in New York, but now [that she’s a presidential candidate], there's nothing about it on her Web site."

Durka Durka Obama Jihad!

A picture is worth a thousand words, aint it?

"Barack Obama’s campaign is expressing outrage at a new photo attributed to Clinton campaign sources that depicts the Democratic presidential candidate dressed in Somali garb.
The picture, which appeared at the top of Monday’s Drudge Report, says Clinton staffers circulated the 2006 photo over the weekend."


It shows the Illinois muslim senator fitted as a....... surprise........MUSLIM elder, during his visit to northeastern Kenya that was part of a five-country tour of Africa.

We posted awhile ago about Obama's being a muslim. Read it here: http://grumpysgunblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-is-muslim.html


Grumpy

Election Update! Obama Likes Hunters But Dislikes Handguns?

Election Update! Obama Likes Hunters But Dislikes Handguns?
This story is from the Gun Digest the Magazine Web site forums.

While campaigning in Idaho the weekend before Super Tuesday, presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told a crowd, "There are people who say, 'Well, he doesn't believe in the Second Amendment,' even though I come from a state — we've got a lot of hunters in downstate Illinois. And I have no intention of taking away folks' guns."

Yet according to Jake Tapper, ABC News' senior national correspondent, "In 1996, however, Obama said in a questionnaire that he 'supported banning the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns' — a fairly extreme position. However, it should be pointed out that this appears to be yet another example of Obama not being able to get good help. You guessed it — his campaign says this questionnaire was filled out incorrectly by a staffer.

Gun Owners; Brace Yourself

Yesterday was "Super Tuesday". Woo Hoo!

Right now all we hear about in the news is the latest in the presidential primary elections.

But lets look ahead, shall we. With no real pro-gun candidate that stands a chance in Hades of winning, The near future could be grim.

If you are a gun owner, get ready. The new president will be sworn in before 12 short months have come and gone.

Do you think your hunting rifle will be immune from new gun legislation? Wrong.
How about your trap and skeet gun? wrong.

Law abiding citizens who hunt, collect or otherwise engage in firearms activities will all end up being demonized for the owning of a firearm.

As I watched the news,just five hours after an idiotic criminal went on his killing spree at Virginia Tech., it was already starting.
The press was already calling for more gun control. More gun laws.
See, that's the problem with criminals. They do not follow laws.


Typical of the Liberal mainstream press such as CBS, ABC, NBC and even Fox News,
all legal and law abiding gun owners are too often chastised.
When was the last time you saw anything good reported by these useful idiots concerning gun ownership or protecting our constitutional rights?

We are almost without exception portrayed as stupid rednecks and members of some radical militia group,hell bent on drinking Jack Daniels and overthrowing the government.

Come 2009, Liberals will be hell bent on trading our constitutional rights for the illusion of safety. Most of the 80,000,000 gun owners in this country will be too limp wristed or weak spined to even try to do something about it.

I started hunting when I turned 11 years old. I have owned firearms all of my life. Right now I own over 40 of them, Including
AK-47's, Glocks, SKS's and a whole lot of other guns that the press has demonized over the years.

In my 43 years of existence, I have never seen a firearm jump up of the table or out of a closet and try to kill somebody on it's own.
It just doesn't happen. It cannot happen. a gun is nothing more than an inanimate object. It is a tool that is used for certain situations for which it is required.
Nothing more, nothing less.
People kill people, period. They have been killing each other since Cain and Abel. Oh yeah, that's right. the liberals don't want the Bible mentioned either. Sorry about that slip up. Not really.

When you made breakfast this morning, Who did the cooking? The frying pan? Nope. The Spatula? Not a chance.
YOU DID. You provided the aforethought. You grabbed that Chicken fetus out of refrigerator and violently cracked it up side the pan and watched as it slid out of the shell and sizzled on hot steel. Take some responsibility, people. Jeesh.

Every single time I have fired any of my firearms, I have done it. The firearm never fired on it's own.
I have fired each and every one of the literally hundreds of thousands of rounds that I have fired on purpose.
Not one was fired in anger. But the point is that I, Myself fired them. The firearm did not.

I believe people should be held responsible for their own actions. I dont believe that a certain job or income level absolves a person from responsibility.

We do have a problem in this country, but it does not have anything to do with guns. It has to do with morality.

Nuff said. - Grumpy