Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Obama supports gun rights?

So says a letter to the Editor in Baker City, OR. Here are some of the 'facts' ( and I use the word loosely) that are presented:

Good

Fact: It is demonstrably untrue to assert that Barack Obama wants to confiscate firearms, a blatant lie.

RealFact: Yes he does.

Good Fact: Obama, who received the endorsement of the American Hunters and Shooters Association, a non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting hunting and common-sense gun policy, is on record as affirming gun ownership rights.

RealFact: Oh don't even get me started.

Good Fact: At a press conference in Watertown South Dakota on May 16, 2008, Democratic candidate Barack Obama unequivocally makes clear his support for gun ownership in his clear and direct statement: "It is an individual right, the people have the right to lawfully bear arms" ... You can't make it much clearer than that.

RealFact: Unless you include his long history of opposing said right.

One should really try telling the truth before one starts calling others 'ignorant' or "just wanting to confuse voters' minds' when the very organization that Obama financially supported as a board member of the Joyce Foundation openly advocates using ignorance and confusion to attempt to ban guns.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Obama is starting to feel the heat about his voting record. He was just in Nevada at a small town rally and NPR had a short audio clip of him...

Paraphrasing: "I want you to reach out to republicans; argue with them. When they say they're not sure where I stand on guns, tell them that I strongly support the 2nd Amendment."

I think he realizes that in a Palin/Biden debate(which I believe will be before the Presidential ones), the 2A is gonna come up and come up hard. Not that I trust the crap sandwich he's trying to sell, but he's being forced to address this concern in his stump speeches.

Oppurtunity comes a knockin'.

Anonymous said...

The lies that they tell while we are still armed are nothing compared to the lies that they would tell us if we allowed them to disarm us.