Posted on 01/22/2014 9:09:49 AM PST by kristinn
David Remnick, author of the new nearly 17,000 word profile of President Barack Obama in the New Yorker, revealed in a podcast interview this week that a dispirited Obama told him that he misread the “moment in political history” and was shocked he could not get gun control measures passed in the wake of the December 2012 Newtown, Ct., Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in which a lone gunman killed twenty children and six adults.
Remnick left this revelation out of his 18 page article which was based on numerous in depth interviews with Obama. Remnick did not devote anything of substance in the article to Obama’s gun control failure except to note he couldn’t get it done. This is curious because the way Remnick describes it, this was an enormous political failure that took a toll on Obama . Remnick should have explored this further and reported on it.
Remnick spoke about Obama’s reaction to his failure on gun control in a New Yorker podcast interview about the article with Executive Editor Dorothy Wickenden and Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza that was taped on Monday.
In describing Obama’s reaction, Remnick sounds just as shocked as he says Obama is about the failure to pass gun control after Newtown. Remnick made his comments while speaking about Obama’s ambitious second term agenda, including gun control, that he laid out in his Inaugural address one year ago this month.
Remnick: “Well look at gun control. You had the ruthless slaughter of school children played out in front of the American public in Connecticut. If ever there was a moment emotionally and politically that serious gun control would take hold of Congress it was then. Eighty-three percent of the public was for at least some minimal gun control. The NRA was a mockery in a lot of quarters and who won? The NRA and the right.
“I think this sh.., I know this shocked Obama. He said along this trip that I followed him on that one moment in political history where he really misread what would happen was on gun control. It was a terrible failure. And I think really dispiriting.”
Obama made an angry speech in the Rose Garden after he was defeated in the Senate last April. He called it a “shameful day for Washington.”
Given the impact he says this political miscalculation had on Obama, it is curious Remnick chose not to include it in his profile but instead buried it in a podcast.
“I think people are beginning to suspect that the WH is involved in staging many of the shootings that have become increasingly more common under his administration in order to get gun control initiatives passed”
Crazy people, maybe.
That squirrelly little fudge packer is mad because he finally found a bad law he couldn’t force onto us.
WRONG.
‘Shocked’, Obama may have been, but it didn’t and wouldn’t stop him from his goal.
We haven’t even scratched the surface yet on what he may have done or intent to do.
Nutwalking?
It doesn’t really matter if Sandy Hook was a conspiracy or not. The important thing is that no one trusts what Uncle Scam has to say about the matter. That’s the way it needs to be right now.
“One thing the left has been successful at is putting the blame for shootings on the shoulders of all gun owners.”
Yes! Blame the gun owners for the actions of a few crazies, impose massive controls on them.
Yet- just the opposite when a Muslim crazy does something like yell Alahu Akbar while driving a pickup truck into a crowd. Mustn’t rush to judgement, must not blame a reasonable majority for the actions of a few crazed individuals....
And something even worse is at hand.
Dipshlt believed his own “80% of America wants more gun controls”. What a dope. Smart people want more guns and less criminals.
Would this White House stage shootings to pass gun control if they thought they could get away with it?
Then I guess the only answer is to strive to assure that he stays perpetually dispirited.
I’m shocked that this POS Brown Clown is still POTUS!
I’ll say it again, February 2013 had way too many 24/7 incidents that almost perfectly filled the month with no overlap or gap:
- crazy old guy in Alabama that grabbed a kid off the school bus and took him into an underground bunker
- Christopher Dorner vs LAPD
- Army “King of the Snipers” shot by a nut at a gun range
- South African “Blade Runner” shooting of his girlfriend
- Sandy Hook
That’s so good, it ought to be on a bumper sticker.
Sandy hook is the only false flag that i am convinced of.
if they cant pass gun control after that, it aint gonna happen. not in his term.
When Obama is unhappy I am happy. When Obama is happy I am unhappy. There are no exceptions to those two rules.
Do you think that they have?
“I think people are beginning to suspect that the WH is involved in staging many of the shootings that have become increasingly more common under his administration in order to get gun control initiatives passed.”
I have been thinking that, but as we know, the sheeples generally believe all the media propaganda.
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