[Sub-Driver]

Not voting present?

[edcoil]

“Kerry, however, said the administration still has concerns that the U.N.’s various translations of the pact don’t include the same language.”

Only a government hack would sign an agreement that varies so much between the parties signing.

[Uncle Miltie]

He’ll wait until after 2014 mid-terms.

He’s stuck enough sticks into the hornet’s nest (NRA).

He needs to shut up for 1.5 years to keep the NRA from overwhelming the polls and his hopes for Her Lordship Nancy.

[apillar]

President Obama will not immediately sign a United Nations arms trade treaty opposed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) but is committed to doing so shortly,

He's got to stage another school shooting first...

[Darren McCarty]

Sadly, one of the smartest comments Hanoi John's ever made. Read it first.

In actuality, I expect Obama to wait until the press is done and then sign it quietly thinking he can avoid riling up gun owners.

[Sender]

I have a question for the UN arms control people. Are they claiming that as things are now, the US is arming "violent extremists and human rights abusers" around the world?

If not, then why all the pressure for the US to sign it? Just to pressure Russia and China to sign it (which they won't)? The devil is in the fine print I'm sure.

[Billthedrill]

Advocates for the pact had hoped the president would sign the treaty as soon as it became open for signatures on Monday, arguing that such a public display of support would create pressure on major arms dealers, such as Russia and China, to get on board.

Yeah. Because the Chinese and Russian governments are well known for falling in line when the UN snaps its collective fingers. What planet are these people from?

[Smokin' Joe]

"As a humanitarian organization, we’ve seen firsthand the impact of the global arms trade on innocent men, women and children in places like Syria and South Sudan. The time is now for the United States to lead by example and sign this treaty as swiftly as possible to stop dangerous weapons from reaching violent extremists and human rights abusers. There is no time left to wait.”

What dreck!

The violations are being perpetrated upon the unarmed.

Any student of history will recognize the pattern.

ONLY either providing the means for the defenseless to defend themselves or providing others to defend them will work, at least until the oppressors are removed.

There is no guarantee that the oppressed will not become oppressors, and they need not have firearms to do so. (Many slaughtered in Rwanda and Burundi were killed with machetes.)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Kerry pushed back against those concerns, saying the treaty would in no way infringe on Second Amendment rights.

Well, there it is. I feel better already.

[Joe Brower]

Well, well, well...

[Vendome]

He’ll sign it on Friday June 30th.

The 4th of July falls on Tuesday and the news will be replete with celebrations of the anticpated 4 or5 day weekend and we’ll be entertained with the cost of gasoline and AAA guess as to how many people will travel on this holiday.

Heck, I bet they run stories about alternative plans by people who are not celbrating

[Southack]

0bama signing a Treaty that stops him from arming his jihadi buddies in Syria?!

LOL!

[WayneS]

Advocates for the pact had hoped the president would sign the treaty as soon as it became open for signatures on Monday, arguing that such a public display of support would create pressure on major arms dealers, such as Russia and China, to get on board.

Barack Obama? "Create pressure" on China and Russia?

In what universe would that happen?

[WayneS]

Advocates for the treaty suggest the delay is, in part, politically motivated, and that the administration may wait until Congress is in recess this August to sign the treaty when few people are paying attention.

No way! Not possible. I simply refuse to believe that the most transparent presidential administration in the history of our nation would behave that way...

/s

[pabianice]

1. Kerry is a traitorous scumbag whose shameful naval record was expunged by the vicious anti-Semite Carter.

2. Obama knows he cannot get a 2/3 vote in the Senate, so why why further infuriate Repubs now while his gangster administration is being dismantled by the House?

[cherokee1]

“Kerry pushed back-—” Kerry doesn’t even push on his own colon——the krap just runs out of him. He thinks everybody will take his word that his fake treaty doesn’t hurt the second amendment? Woops! there goes another load!

[ZULU]

He is a bastard. Probably wants to hype it on TV when he does sign.