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Chicago Snub: Gun rights advocate and former Obama colleague: President used to treat him as 'evil'
Daily Caller ^ | April 8, 2012 | Jamie Weinstein

Posted on 04/09/2012 10:01:50 PM PDT by Bobbys1963

Economist John Lott, noted for his academic advocacy of gun rights, says that when Barack Obama was his colleague at the University of Chicago, the future president treated him as if he were “evil.”

Lott relates his interactions with Obama in his new book, co-authored with Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist, “Debacle: Obama’s War on Jobs and Growth and What We can Do Now to Regain Our Future.”

“The book relates a couple out of the dozen-and-a-half conversations that I had with him,” Lott told The Daily Caller. ”But they were all very short, cut off by Obama turning his back on me and walking away.”

“He wouldn’t shake hands. It was very clear that Obama disagreed on the gun issue and acted as if he believed that people who he disagreed with were not just wrong, but evil. Unlike other liberal academics who usually enjoyed discussing opposing ideas, Obama simply showed disdain.”

Lott and Obama were colleagues . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; economy; gunrights; jamieweinstein; johnlott; obama

1 posted on 04/09/2012 10:02:03 PM PDT by Bobbys1963
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To: Bobbys1963

Sounds familiar.


2 posted on 04/09/2012 10:05:23 PM PDT by Thebaddog (Remember, Obama said he's only 60% done with his agenda.)
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To: Bobbys1963
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2869760/posts
3 posted on 04/09/2012 10:06:11 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
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To: Bobbys1963; JohnLott
Totally believable given the embarrassing lack of class that has been exhibited by our dear leader.

I don't know if he's around anymore but let's ping Mr. Lott for his thoughts.

4 posted on 04/09/2012 10:30:59 PM PDT by voteNRA (A citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized)
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John Lott is brilliant and articulate - He never needs a teleprompter

He is also really clean - unlike Der Führer Obama.....

I have had hunting dogs that were cleaner and much more intelligent than Der Führer -

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5 posted on 04/09/2012 11:29:13 PM PDT by devolve (- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - you can*t do that with a WebTV - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -)
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To: Bobbys1963

6 posted on 04/09/2012 11:45:50 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Bobbys1963
“He wouldn’t shake hands. It was very clear that Obama disagreed on the gun issue and acted as if he believed that people who he disagreed with were not just wrong, but evil. Unlike other liberal academics who usually enjoyed discussing opposing ideas, Obama simply showed disdain.”

People get mad when we call Obama "Man-Child" but there's no better way to describe him.

The man has lived his entire life cocooned in leftist theory, and, because he's always been given advancement without having to do any work, he's never, even once, had to match his core beliefs against reality.

He's like that mentally disturbed little prince in Game of Thrones, screaming at his underlings to make the bad man go away.

7 posted on 04/10/2012 12:08:54 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt one has for others.-Tocqueville)
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To: Bobbys1963

Obama is not only stupid; he has n class.


8 posted on 04/10/2012 1:36:43 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: freekitty
Obama is not only stupid; he has n class.

AH HA!

"n class," huh? What kind of class were you *going* to say, huh?

Racist, racist, racist! She was gonna say the n word! You all saw it!

Call the press! Give out her address! Beat up her children! Racist, racist, racist!

9 posted on 04/10/2012 1:47:14 AM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: papertyger

I hate that word. Always have and would never use it. I meant to say and you know i he has NO class.


10 posted on 04/10/2012 1:52:46 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: freekitty

Please excuse my typing. I am wheel chair bound right now and getting over a bunch of seizures.


11 posted on 04/10/2012 1:54:32 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: freekitty

Good God, please tell me you knew I was being sarcastic.....


12 posted on 04/10/2012 1:55:28 AM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: freekitty

oh I am sooooo sorry.

I thought it would be obvious I was using your post as a springboard to mock the President’s myrmidons.


13 posted on 04/10/2012 1:57:57 AM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: Bobbys1963

Obama doesn’t hate guns - he only hates the average American citizen that has a gun, and people like John Lott who have the balls to tell the real truth. When guns are outlawed, only the outlaws will have guns - and that’s exactly what Obama wants.


14 posted on 04/10/2012 10:59:47 AM PDT by LibertyRocks
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To: papertyger

Don’t worry about it. Sometimes it is hard to tell. I am on some strong medicine now and it is hard to type. I hope to be walking again; but the seizures I don’t know about.

Thank you for apologizing and I apologize to you for jumping the gun. It was wrong of me. I just hate that word. It is so vulgar. I do think cracker is kind of cute. :)

Thanks again and I am sorry for assuming.


15 posted on 04/10/2012 11:18:10 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: papertyger

Again don’t worry. I am just as much at fault for assuming..


16 posted on 04/10/2012 11:19:41 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Bobbys1963
It was very clear that Obama disagreed on the gun issue and acted as if he believed that people who he disagreed with were not just wrong, but evil.
That is a fundamental difference between conservatives and leftists. We think they are wrong about a lot of things. They think we disagree with them because we are evil, stupid, or usually both.


17 posted on 04/10/2012 1:56:33 PM PDT by Peet (Cogito ergo dubito.)
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