March 19, 2008
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Obama and Gun Control
David Bernstein, February 18, 2008 at 9:48pm
Obama and Gun Control:
His record isn’t likely to win back the rural “pro-gun” voters who’ve fled to the Republicans in recent years, likely costing Gore the election in 2000. From the Chicago Defender, Dec. 13, 1999:
Sweeping federal gun control legislation proposed by Sen. Barack Obama (D-13th) would increase the penalties on gun runners who are flooding Chicago’s streets with illegal weapons.
At an anti-gun rally held at the Park Manor Christian Church, 600 E. 73rd St., headed by the Rev. James Demus, Obama also said he’s backing a resolution being introduced into the City Council by Alds. Toni Preckwinkle (4th), Ted Thomas (15th), Leslie Hairston (5th) to call for a “shot-free” millennium celebration.
Obama outlined his anti-gun plan that includes increased penalties for the interstate transportation of firearms. The maximum penalty now for bringing a gun across the border is 10 years in prison. Obama is proposing to make it a felony for
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Supreme Court looks at Second Amendment To restrict or not, that is the question
As the Supreme Court gets ready to render a decision this Spring on the challenge to the District of Columbia’s stringent hand gun law, I was curious what people think about the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. It follows:
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
I interpret this as stating the necessity of an armed militia and the need for keeping arms. The people make up the militia in their bearing of their arms. At that time in history your neighbor literally was the militia. Today your neighbor may have weapons at home but it probably has nothing to do with the country’s defense. I don’t believe the 2nd Amendment states that all citizens have the right to bear arms. In my mind if that were the case there would be no need to mention militia, all people would bear arms. To me it seems more like the legal guarantee to create and arm a standing army if necessary rather than a grant for everyone to own a gun.
What do you think?
Quote of the Day
“No one could have predicted that letting a semi-retarded dry drunk with a history of abject business failure run the country for 8 years might end up having negative economic consequences.”
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The size of the lie
“The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies, but would be ashamed to tell big lies.” Adolf Hitler
Obama again repudiated the remarks made by his Chicago pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Wright was removed as the “spiritual adviser,” to the campaign.
In Wright’s sermons over the years, which have been circulated in the media and on the YouTube Web site, he has called the September 2001 attacks retribution for U.S. foreign policy, cited the U.S. government as the source of the AIDS virus, and railed against a racist America.
“Most recently you heard some statements from my former pastor that are incendiary and that I completely reject, although I knew him and know him as somebody in my church who talked to me about Jesus and family and friendships,” Obama said.
After being a member of this anti-American, radical, hate spewing racist church for twenty years we are supposed to believe Obama didn’t know???
Obama Tries To Cover His Lies About Jeremiah Wright
So finally some shit has stuck to Obama. His lame excuses over the last two days over bigoted and racially insensitive comments by his pastor Jeremiah Wright may be enough to sink his chances to win the Democratic nomination at the convention in August. Today, Barak Obama tried to diffuse the situation but all he ended up doing was acknowledging that he had lied two days ago when he said he never heard Wright utter these types of rants in church.
For 20 years Obama sat in Wright’s church in Chicago. When the story of Wright’s bigotry broke, Obama denied hearing any of these kinds of words from Wright that are in constant rotation on Youtube and the news. Now, today, in a speech in Philadelphia he says he did hear some blatant racist and inflammatory comments from Wright but took his bad with his good. Sorry Obama, having your pastor, the man who married you and baptised your children say that America should be damned by god, is completely inexcusable and shows again that your judgement is poor. There is NO WAY white America is going to get past this.
Whatever chance Obama had being the Democratic nominee and beating John McCain in November are now gone. Obama may well still get the nomination but he can not beat McCain with clips of who he now calls “his former pastor” spitting out anti-white and anti-America rhetoric flashing on tv screens across America. Or as Wright called the country, the US of KKKA.
It is interesting that when Obama wasn’t running for president Wright’s comments were okay, but now that he is running, Wright is no longer his pastor. A convenient political decision of the kind that he criticizes Hillary Clinton for.
Now the Democratic Party must move and move fast to ensure that Obama is not the nominee. The GOP will play the race card no matter what, and now Obama himself has provided them with the anti-white, anti-America rants from Wright, his pastor, that they can use to scare white people from voting for him. Call it what you want but that is politics. The smart thing for Obama to do now is to leave the race and help to unite Democrats behind Hillary Clinton.