Posted on 10/19/2008 1:38:11 PM PDT by neverdem
For a guy who just four years ago was running his first statewide campaign, Barack Obama has made startlingly few missteps as a presidential candidate.
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I was surprised, then, when Webb told me that while he was enthusiastic about Obama and would campaign for him, he did not intend to vouch for him on social issues. “I believe that Barack Obama has the temperament and the intellect and the ideas to be president,” Webb said. “But I don’t talk about his positions, and I don’t defend his positions.” When I commented that Webb wasn’t where Obama was on gun rights (Obama favors what he calls some “common sense” restrictions), Webb cut me off. “No, he’s not where I am on guns,” he said pointedly. It occurred to me that this was probably the kind of validation Obama could do without. (Webb appears to have softened his stance. A few weeks later, he decided to tape an ad promising voters in southwestern Virginia that Obama would not, in fact, confiscate their guns.)
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“I am convinced that if there were no Fox News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls,” Obama told me. “If I were watching Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me, right? Because the way I’m portrayed 24/7 is as a freak! I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal. Who wants somebody like that?
“I guess the point I’m making,” he went on, “is that there is an entire industry now, an entire apparatus, designed to perpetuate this cultural schism, and it’s powerful. People want to know that you’re fighting for them, that you get them. And I actually think I do. But you know, if people are just seeing me in sound bites, they’re not...”
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That was the subtitle in the index section for the NY Times Sunday Magazine. They didn't use in the story, but it was on top in the border of the window. I had to change it to fit.
WHERE ARE THE 527-s???
NRA, Right to Life, etc.
Considering how much the NYT despises gun owning, religious white males it really bewilders me how they would even want their support. It speaks volumes about how stupid they really think they are.
“Will gun-toting, churchgoing white guys pull the lever for Barack Obama?”
As one of those so-called knuckle-dragging morons (albeit with an Ivy League education on an under-graduate and graduate level, for which I am mortified), the answer is not only No, but hell No.
Not only no, but, Hell no.
Bittlerly clinging to guns and religion,
NRA LIFE
Concho
They NRA has been running tons of ads, you have not been paying attention, Obama tried to intimidate radio stations in PA to stop running ads about Obama’s gun grabbing positions.
Looking forward to their article on: Will church going, gun toting black guys vote for McCain?
I’m sure they’re studying every angle of how different races will vote, right?
Few missteps?? You mean, few REPORTED missteps, don’t you there fellas!
I guess they just aren’t running here in Florida. I’m glad they are doing it!
The answer is obvious to everyone but the NYT - NO! No American (regardless of color) is going to vote for Obama. The media and the pollsters are just setting up for riots - gives the media more job security. It’s not real. It’s not true. So many of us know that.
I personally saw ads he was running in Amarillo, TX that were crafted to look like NRA ads supporting him. I did contact HQ about that, and I think that they have been pulled. We dont need Obama bin Lyin in the big chair.
...is why we won'y buy your bullsh!t.
Webb sold his soul to the devil (obama). Anything for power. He’s going to mighty surprised when he has to vote for banning those guns that he promised those Virginians would not be banned.
“Will gun-toting churchgoing white guys pull the lever for Barack Obama?”
Let me think,,,,,,, NOPE, We aint that stupid.
Which lever would that be?
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
Also the guns don't go till after I have no ammo.
“Working for the Working-Class Vote (Will gun-toting, churchgoing white guys vote for Barack Obama?)”
No.
*THIS* gun totin’ white guy ain’t voting for brak...
They will if they don’t want to work but still get paid.
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