THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND OBAMA'S CHURCH
Posted on 04/19/2008 2:45:21 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama board funded gun control efforts By: Kenneth P. Vogel April 19, 2008 05:38 PM EST
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has worked to assure uneasy gun owners that he believes the Constitution protects their rights and that he doesn’t want to take away their guns.
But before he became a national political figure, he sat on the board of a Chicago-based foundation that doled out at least nine grants totaling nearly $2.7 million to groups that advocated the opposite positions.
The foundation funded legal scholarship advancing the theory that the Second Amendment does not protect individual gun owners’ rights, as well as two groups that advocated handgun bans. And it paid to support a book called “Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns.”
Obama’s eight years on the board of the Joyce Foundation, which paid him more than $70,000 in directors fees, do not in any way conflict with his campaign-trail support for the rights of gun owners, Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for Obama’s presidential campaign, asserted in a statement issued to Politico this week.
LaBolt stressed that the foundation, which has assets of about $935 million, doesn’t take “detailed policy positions,” but rather uses its grants to “fuel a dialogue about how to address public policy issues like reducing gun violence.”
As with most foundations, Joyce did not record how individual board members voted on grants, but former Joyce officials told Politico that funding was typically approved unanimously.
LaBolt said Obama, an Illinois senator, “does not remember each of the over 1,500 individual grant requests and his assessment of their merits, but he considered all requests in light of the foundation's goal of developing a robust public dialogue around reducing gun violence.”
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Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has worked to assure uneasy gun owners that he believes the Constitution protects their rights and that he doesn’t want to take away their guns.
But before he became a national political figure, he sat on the board of a Chicago-based foundation that doled out at least nine grants totaling nearly $2.7 million to groups that advocated the opposite positions.
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Nothing short of a lying liberal socialist hypocrite. Is there any other kind ???
Sure. All they wanted was to "fuel a dialog". So how many grants did they give to pro-gun groups?
If you expect me to believe that, than I have the Zilwaukee Bridge to sell you. The Joyce Foundation creates gun control organizations, and among the primary funders for VPC, along with the Tides Foundation, Tsunami Fund, and George Soros.
Just go the Joyce Foundation link and click on gun violence. There's no dialogue when only one side is funded.
I'll take $0 for $1000, Alex
Gutless prediction: Obama will blame his staff for a whole lot of things before this is over...
But, thanks to Center-Left blog Politico.com for doing original research on Obama.
And, thanks to Hard Left blog HuffingtonPost.com for having the integrity to print Obama’s “bitter” comments.
“that he believes the Constitution protects their rights”
Obama is a LIAR....
Obama said...
“But just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can’t constrain the exercise of that right”
but on Abortion does he feel the same? Just because the SCOTUS said a women has the right to Abortion does he supports states rights to constraing the exercision of that right? What about religion? Constitutional scholar my butt. Obama does not believe in the constitution at all.
“But just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can’t constrain the exercise of that right”
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And this is EXACTLY how the liberal socialist mindset views OUR CONSTITUTION. America MUST keep this nut case out of the White House.
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In 2004, he voted against the right of a person to have or use a handgun for self-defense in their home ( DeMar case 2004)
Voted against letting people argue self-defense in court if charged with violating local weapons bans by using a gun in their home. (2004)
Second Amendment Bump!!!
“I don’t totally blame them for being bitter,” Obama went on. “I’m articulate, clean and charismatic—everything that they’re not. And I’m a millionaire, to boot. It’s got to be hard on these rednecks to see a Black man outshine them by such a wide margin.”
Obama said that despite the animosity, he plans to be magnanimous with such people once he is president. “While it wouldn’t be safe to continue to allow them to cling to their guns, I believe we can tolerate letting them keep their Bibles as long as they don’t start any trouble,” Obama promised.
read more...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
They wanted to fuel the dialog and fund the Pro-Gun groups but the Pro-Gun groups were so “bitter” about the exchange as they were “clinging” onto guns at the time. Ha ha, perhaps Obama noticed that the NRA has a ton of members in Pennsylvania, maybe that is why he has tried to call “a great compromise”.
No word on the last debate about the causes of young people joining gangs, just how illegal guns suddenly get into the hands of them and corrupt them. Lord of the Rings anyone?
Absolutely: A lying RINO pro-amnesty, anti-gun hypocrite.
AWESOME!
“Nothing short of a lying liberal socialist hypocrite. Is there any other kind ???”
Not when they are runnig to get the votes of ‘bitter’ Typical White Person’ and ‘small-town’ America voters.
A taxpaying, gun-owning Christian voting for Obama is a like a chicken voting for Fox for henhouse guard.
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