Posted on 06/28/2008 10:17:19 PM PDT by Red Steel
WHEN IT comes to gun control, the Democratic Party is a house divided against itself. That helps explain Barack Obama's dizzyingly inconsistent positions on District of Columbia v. Heller, the landmark Second Amendment case decided by the Supreme Court last week.
As a candidate for the Illinois Legislature in the 1990s, Obama had supported legislation to "ban the manufacture, sale, and possession of handguns," so it wasn't surprising that he endorsed the gun ban being challenged in Heller while campaigning for president. In November, for example, his campaign told the Chicago Tribune that "Obama believes the D.C. handgun law is constitutional." In February, when a questioner during a televised forum said, "You support the D.C. handgun ban," Obama readily agreed: "Right."
By March, however, his spokesman would no longer say whether Obama considered the gun ban constitutional, and when the senator was asked about it in April, he refused to give a clear answer on the grounds that "I obviously haven't listened to the briefs and looked at all the evidence." Still, when the court issued its 5-4 ruling last Thursday, Obama claimed that his views had been vindicated. "I have always believed," his statement began, "that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to bear arms." Then again, reported the Associated Press, "the campaign would not answer directly . . . when asked whether the candidate agreed with the court."
This is not just the customary political choreography whereby Democratic presidential candidates dance to the left during the primary election season, then pirouette back to the center for the general election. (Republicans twirl the other way.) Guns are a particularly thorny issue for Democrats, who have long been the party of gun control,
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Not really the best choice for a headline...
Anti-Lycan insensitivity?
Vote against this POS’s history versus his pandering promises........Doom on this socialist domestic enemy !
"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
Jacoby is correct.
This, like many other Conservative issues, is NOT a winner for McCain.
Then again, find me a Conservative issue that McCain DOES agree with..
Class... Class... Bueller?
Hmmm....global warming? No
holding executives “accountable”? No
stopping illegal immigration? No
keeping Gitmo open as long as it takes? No
making tax cuts permanent? No
I give up. Please tell me.
A silver bullet for Count Half Blackula
” Guns are a particularly thorny issue for Democrats, who have long been the party of gun control.”
add the following after gun control, ‘following the dictat of the Communist Party USA Central...’
Somewhere the dimRATS lost their spine, when their young leftist, commie loving voters in the 60s and 70s started pulling them to the CP USA party line and the RATS willingly went as if ‘blowing in the wind’ towards the maelstrom of chaos...The dimRAT party now follows it’s own manifesto as written by the Communists here and around the world...Shameful...
Keep it up, Jeff.
LOL
I just watched a video clip in which Bambi denied ever saying that he considered the DC law constitutional.
Next thing you know, he’ll deny that he’s ever talked about his grandmother in a speech.
He will ride his deceptions all the way to the General Election, and it's up to the folks on talk radio and online forums to stop him.
Yet. Wait until the Dems hold a majority in congress
and the oval office.
Followed by a majority on SCOTUS.
That will be $12.50, er, $25.00, please.
I think it's a riot.
oops.
p.s. /s
Why silver when lead would do.
Why silver when lead would do.Maybe they know something we don't? Isn't the election also the night of a full moon this year?
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