Obama: Riding Tall In The Straddle

IBD ^ | 6/27/08 | Staff

[pissant]

Gun Rights: Obama claims he believes the Second Amendment says you can own a gun but that local communities can still opt out of the Constitution. What will he say as his political hometown is sued by the NRA?

While campaigning in Pennsylvania earlier this year, Barack Obama was having breakfast with his Democratic Senate colleague Bob Casey. A reporter asked Obama about Jimmy Carter's trip to see the terrorist group Hamas. Obama responded: "Why is it that, like, I can't just eat my waffle?"

There's going to be another waffle Obama's going to eat as he tries to explain his simultaneous support for the District of Columbia gun ban he called constitutional and the Supreme Court decision in the Heller case that said it wasn't. Obama has developed an almost Clintonesque ability to take both sides of an issue.

That ability will be put to the test as gun-rights groups sue to overturn similar gun bans in Chicago and nearby suburbs. Hours after the high court's 5-4 ruling was made public Thursday, the Second Amendment Foundation and the Illinois State Rifle Association sued Chicago and its mayor in an effort to overturn the city's 26-year-old ban on handguns.

[pissant]

Can't wait to see Obama's snipe hunting picture like the one of Kerry...

[reasonisfaith]

If Obama is truly a Marxist, the fact that he can’t campaign on it shows he is not a man and his cause is not worthy.

Same goes for the Nation of Islam types paid by Obama’s campaign, who seek to advance their cause while slithering and sneaking in the shadows like animals. If they’re real men, and their cause worthy, they will advance it in full public view.

[ken21]

bambi acts like he’s already president.

[DmBarch]

Gun murder rates have little to do with local bans. They rise and fall on general demographic factors, mainly when the majority of next generation of thugs reaches a certain age. Nationally, unless things changed in the last five years, gun murders rise and fall at about the same rate as total murders - and have done so since about 1913.

And while the Chicago handgun ban started officially in 1982, it was a De facto ban since about 1975. Residents then who wanted to buy a handgun needed to go to City Hall to pick up the purchase form. When the normal citizen went to the office to pick up the purchase form, they were told it was not available. No form - no handgun. Of course, handgun forms were given to friends and members of the Dem Party machine...

[pissant]

And to the dem thugs who killed Donald Young, no doubt.

[DGHoodini]

Barack loves being on the winning side, as long as it doesn’t involve any risk for himself.