Posted on 06/26/2008 6:59:41 PM PDT by melt
· Candidate's stance at odds with former position
· Democrat backs death penalty for child rapist
Barack Obama intensified his campaign to appeal to voters on the life-and-death issues of the American heartland yesterday by stepping away from his past support for gun control.
In the latest in a series of policy reversals for the Democratic presidential candidate, Obama came out in support of yesterday's supreme court decision overturning a gun ban in the city of Washington that had been a model for fighting urban crime.
He had previously supported the Washington ban, the strictest in the US.
It was the second time in 24 hours that Obama had shifted towards a more conservative position. On Wednesday, he took issue with the supreme court for striking down the death penalty for cases of child rape that do not involve murder.
In yesterday's decision, judges struck down Washington's 32-year-old gun ban by a five-to-four margin, saying it was incompatible with the second amendment of the constitution. "Whatever the reason, handguns are the most popular weapon chosen by Americans for self-defence in the home, and a complete prohibition of their use is invalid," the conservative Justice Antonin Scalia said. However, the judges defended the need for firearm bans in schools and public buildings.
Immediately after the ruling Obama and the Republican candidate, John McCain, both sought to exploit one of the most emotive political issues. McCain tried to revive charges that Obama was out of step with smalltown values. Obama ran into controversy last April for telling a fundraiser that Americans in small towns clung to guns and religion out of bitterness.
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that’s not going to get him many votes from those red necks
in indiana and west virginia that voted for hillary!
Flip- flop I can use.
He is going to lose the U.K. vote if he keeps this up .
Obama lies. He will say anything to get elected.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
And he supports the (quick) reversal of his own position on the issue.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Another happy day. Keep on atruckin’ and amuckin’
So when Bammy Whammy puts his hand on the Kor-er-Bible IF he is sworn in as Pezident, then when he is asked to swear that he protects and defends the Constitution of the United States, we know NOW that it is a LIE.
Barry throws HIMSELF under the bus! "That's not the Barack Obama I knew. . . ."
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
In the world of the UK’s Guardian, even pocket knives would be outlawed.
A picture’s worth a thousand words.
,i> when Bammy Whammy puts his hand on the Kor-er-Bible IF he is sworn in as Pezident, then when he is asked to swear that he protects and defends the Constitution of the United States, we know NOW that it is a LIE.</I><P.
No more I lie than when McCain’s swears the oath. McCain has nothing but contempt for the Bill of Rights, including the first and second amendments. I prefer Bob Barr to either of these jokers.
In the opposite of John Kerry, on the 2nd Amendment, he was against it before he was for it!
Notice how Barry is trying to move ever-rightward as November approaches?
Don’t be fooled. It won’t last.
Just like McCain. No point in counting flip flops for either of them.
I get the feeling that Suzanne Goldenberg and Elana Schor
of The Guardian are displeased and disillusioned with their Communist Messiah. They’re really piling on here.
Yes
And they are buying it...........
He’s got the Left in the bag, now he’s moving to the right.
Who thinks he’s going to take Hillary! along for the ride?
“Obama supports supreme court reversal of gun ban”
NO he doesn’t.
What this black racist supports is stealing votes though bald-faced lies.
Pandering.
That’s it.....
Kerrypalooza 2008!
Only the criminally insane buys that bull!
Obama supports NOTHING Constitutional in the way of individual rights. He says what ever is convenient. If the communists on the SCOTUS had voted to support banning guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens, he would have lauded it with mounds of praise that his CHANGE was taking place.
Communist bastard.
A one-vote shift on the Supreme Court.
Do you realize just how fragile that margin is? So far, the Supreme Court has not had to face a filibuster (like they do in the Senate) by the minority on any of the judgments passed, but later gatherings on the bench have been known to overturn earlier rulings. There used to be a demand made upon the usurpers that they at least provide a reasoned explanation of WHY there may be a reversal, but more and more, those “reasoned explanations” turn to means not found within settled case law or plain Constitutional language, going so far as to deem themselves expert pollsters who “know” the pulse of the country. Or they pick and choose among conclusions made by the law courts of foreign countries, where there do not exist the same parameters of what constitutes “justice” and “parity”.
In an honest world, this should have been a unanimous finding SUPPORTING the Constitutional rights contained within the Second Amendment. But four (FOUR!) of the justices had reservations of such nature, they could not see the incongruity.
How would one of his SCOTUS appointees have voted on this case?
"It's not the gun ban I thought it was."
though = through
We could have a pool on the over/under.
Obama is changing his story now for political reasons. If, and when, he is elected he will revert back to being the hard core leftist that we all know he is.
politically correct for a democrat,
but it will cost him the election.
100% flim flam. This is the best the Democrats can offer.
Sounds like MYTH ROMNEY.
Cost him the election? Obama will win, probably in a landslide. That raving statist, luny McCain is doomed.
Obama voter? That looks more like a McCain voter. After all, wasn’t he the guy who traveled in the “straight Jacket” express in 2000.
look, mcdole was not my choice.
but, that’s all we got.
i am hopeful.
i think obama will trip and fall.
this is one issue. yes, white red necks voted for hillary, but do you
honestly think they’ll vote for a gun grabber?
We know what LIEberals mean when they claim to "support the war on terrorism"...
LIEberals leave no doubt about what they mean when they "support the troops"...
Obama is not the "favorite candidate" of the LOONEY left. Their favorite is Nader who is scoring a relatively strong four percent.
If anyone is likely to “trip and fall,” on the stage it is the grumpy old man. Gun grabber? Which one? McCain not only supported the Brady Bill but also assault weapon’s ban.
I thought there were going to be shots of obama with a duck!
I love those pictures!
Not to mention an anti-American militant and abject marxist.
He has some inconsistencies.
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