During his first run for elected office, Barack Obama played a greater role than his aides now acknowledge in crafting liberal stands on gun control, the death penalty and abortion — positions that appear at odds with the more moderate image he has projected during his presidential campaign.
The evidence comes from an amended version of an Illinois voter group’s detailed questionnaire, filed under his name during his 1996 bid for a state Senate seat.
Late last year, in response to a Politico story about Obama’s answers to the original questionnaire, his aides said he “never saw or approved” the questionnaire.
They asserted the responses were filled out by a campaign aide who “unintentionally mischaracterize[d] his position.”
But a Politico examination determined that Obama was actually interviewed about the issues on the questionnaire by the liberal Chicago nonprofit group that issued it. And it found that Obama — the day after sitting for the interview — filed an amended version of the questionnaire, which appears to contain Obama’s own handwritten notes added to one answer.
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Both versions of the 1996 questionnaires provide answers his presidential campaign disavows to questions about whether Obama supports capital punishment and state legislation to “ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns.”
He responded simply “No” and “Yes,” respectively, to those questions on both questionnaires.
But a fact sheet provided by his campaign flatly denies Obama ever held those views, asserting he “consistently supported the death penalty for certain crimes but backed a moratorium until problems were fixed.” And it points out that as a state senator, he led an effort to reform Illinois’ death penalty laws.
On guns, the fact sheet says he “has consistently supported common-sense gun control, as well as the rights of law-abiding gun owners.”
After Politico’s story on the first questionnaire, Clinton aides seized on the handgun-ban answer in particular, which a campaign press release asserted called into question Obama’s electability.
In short, the lying SOB is the most antigun politician to ever run for public office in the United States. Plus, unlike Hillary Clinton, he's never been under fire! Whoops...another lying DOB!
In other gun matters, a good piece from Jeff at Alphecca on guns as entertainment:
There are a lot of things in this country that can and are misused. What’s the total cost to society of alcoholic beverages? Lost days at work, crime and rape committed under the influence? Spousal abuse? DUI highway killings? Medical problems (and attendant costs to society) with prolonged misuse? A better case could be made for a ban on alcohol. Been there, tried that. Didn’t work.Here's another cool link from Jim Rawles' Survival Blog — daily reading, if you have any sense — written by novelist Michael Z. Williamson, on what the Will Smith character in I Am Legend did wrong and right:
I've seen a lot of discussion over his [use of a] M4 [Carbine as his primary weapon]. I have to say for that type of fighting, I'd prefer a shotgun. However, a shotgun doesn't reload fast enough. He might be better off with a good .308 self-loading carbine, if he can find adequate soft-point ammo. In New York City, that's unlikely. National Guard armories would only have ball ammo, and likely wouldn't have anything other than standard duty weapons. Add in that he was likely at least familiarized with the M4 as a military surgeon and officer, I think the M4 was about the best practical choice under the circumstances, though inadequate. Lesson: Obviously, for those preparing for any of various disasters, this is a reminder to plan ahead.Finally, this fun HK Fan Boy Fact from SayUncle:
The H&K MK23 is so named because it’s operators must have 23 inch biceps to wield the foot long, four pound monstrosity.That's all for today, folks! Except to say that I feel sorry for the gun guys getting laid off tomorrow AM from that lever action rifle company....
Which lever gun company is laying people off? Henry? Marlin? Marlin was recently sold so that would be my guess.
ReplyDeleteThat's too bad.
p.s. I just bought my first gun, a Marlin 981T.
The people were lied to just before the French Revolution. Their reward? Servitude and an age of inquisition. The Russians, my people, were lied to by Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin. Their reward? Death to sixteen million and enslavement to most others. Only the ruling class lived the ideal life. My grandfather, one of thirteen children, was lucky that he got out just before it all happened. He made it out alive. For the rest of the people of Russia, history speaks for that. Add Cuba, South America, and others to the pile of socialist countries and the equation is the same. Lie to the people and make promises that give the illusion that you're doing something for them. "Give" them just enough to enslave them. Keep them ignorant by controlling the media and the education system. When the party is threatened by sanity and freedom, a. k. a. capitalism, threaten to take away the entitlements, like "free" health care. Promise to over-throw the very people that are supporting the country and you have modern socialism. It's all sounding familiar.
ReplyDeleteLong live freedom! Long live capitalism!
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Obama misleading people on his position on guns? I'm SHOCKED. Who would ever think that a democrat running for president would lie to get votes. Next thing you'll tell me is that Hillary Clinton didn't duck sniper fire in Bosnia.
ReplyDeleteI think that you're simply a hater, Mr. Bane.