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NRA Targets Obama

It falsely claims in mailers and TV ads that Obama plans to ban handguns, hunting ammo and use of a gun for home defense.

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  • Posted By: Political Pluralism @ 10/17/2009 12:32:10 AM

    Lace up those working boots and don't forget your gloves America, because Uncle Sam wants you to volunteer in your community. Earlier today while speaking at the community service forum, President Obama stated, "While there's plenty that government can and must do ... there's a lot that government can't and shouldn't do and that's where active, engaged citizens come in." Now I'm not proclaiming community service isn't a righteous deed to partake in, my issue is that of the government. President Obama should be relaying to Congress and his administration, that upholding the law and serving the people is the essence of liberty. Obama should record, then playback his own messages, and realize that there are numerous things the government can???t fulfill, such as running a successful health care operation. Or the ability to promote democracy to individuals that don't want anything to do with western civilization. Helping your neighbor and your community, promote peace and prosperity throughout the country. The one issue that keeps this country divided, is the importance placed on political party affiliation. We are all one, and a donkey and an elephant shouldn't keep us apart. Staying righteous to your country and its people is of the upmost importance of our political leaders. (www.politicalpluralism.com)

  • Posted By: Nins @ 10/15/2008 6:09:08 PM

    To all of the conservatives out there who think that Obama is a flaming liberal, I would like to remind you of what he did when he was elected President of the Harvard Law Review. The Law Review President gets to name ten individuals to write articles for the Review, and these ten people also get to control the content of the publication. All of the minorities and the liberals thought they finally had it made, that Obama would appoint ten left wing editors. Instead, Obama appointed three conservatives, three liberals and four moderates. That year the Law Review was critically acclaimed as the best run and best written Harvard publication in decades.

    So when he wins in November, don't freak out. Obama is a centrist and will appoint a balanced cabinet full of active people who will really get things done. Kind of like the way our multi-cultural society is supposed to be.

    • Posted By: Braes @ 11/12/2008 11:34:08 PM

      I tend to believe this. I also think that the 2nd Amendment flaming is a way to keep us Southerners completely freaked out about the agenda for 70+ days. I got push-polled on this and abortion even after the election. Someone is paying for this stuff.

  • Posted By: Billysson @ 10/16/2008 9:05:40 PM

    Jim Johnson, you're an idiot.
    Are you still reading your anti-communism propaganda? Beware the Reds.
    "(National Socialism)"?! That doesn't even makes sense! The Nazis were fascists. Most countries in Europe exhibit some form of your dreaded socialism, in the form of nationalized healthcare and education. I thought it amounted to common decency, ethics and morals. If one cannot feed himself, you help him. If one cannot afford medicine, you help him, and so on.

    And I like your point about the virtuous capitalists. Thank god for the good fat cats on wall street in all their virtue. Definitely no vice in their greed that lead to this crisis. Because "business ethics" is not an oxymoron.

    Learn something before you post again please.

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/16/2008 1:18:18 PM

    Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!!


    Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.

    The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
    Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."

    Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.

    Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.

    Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.

    Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.

    It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.

    Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luck­being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}

    Capitalism is the only social system that rewards virtue and punishes vice. This applies to both the business executive and the carpenter, the lawyer and the factory worker.

  • Posted By: melandmike @ 10/13/2008 3:46:39 PM

    Have you seen the commercials put out by the National Redneck Association? Big jimbos in flannel shirts and tractor caps talking about how Obama is not going to let them hunt or "defend their families".

    What a bunch of asses. The person you need to worry about is Sarah Palin.

    Sarah Palin is a traitor to America and to her party.

    Palins un-American activities
    http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/10/07/palins_unamerican/index.html

    Alaskan Independence Party chairwoman Lynette Clark talks about why she does not identify herself as an American, and about her kindred spirit Sarah Palin.
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/10/alaska_secession/index.html

    The pastor who clashed with Palin
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/15/bess/index.html

    Troopergate Report Concludes Palin Abused Power. Full 263 Page report here???
    http://download2.legis.state.ak.us/DOWNLOAD.pdf

    Palins Attack On Obamas Patriotism Legitimizes Questions About her Association With Group Founded By America-Hating Secessionist
    http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/palins_attack_on_obamas_patrio.php

    Palin And The Alaska Independence Party
    http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/the_alaska_independence_party.php

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 10/11/2008 9:01:48 PM

    The NRA is full of horseshit, as usual. This is nothing new, they pull it on every Democratic Candidate, at every election. Just more fear politics

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 10/11/2008 9:00:58 PM

    Sarah Palin is a traitor to America and to her party.

    Palins un-American activities
    http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/10/07/palins_unamerican/index.html

    Alaskan Independence Party chairwoman Lynette Clark talks about why she does not identify herself as an American, and about her kindred spirit Sarah Palin.
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/10/alaska_secession/index.html

    The pastor who clashed with Palin
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/15/bess/index.html

    Troopergate Report Concludes Palin Abused Power. Full 263 Page report here???
    http://download2.legis.state.ak.us/DOWNLOAD.pdf

    Palins Attack On Obamas Patriotism Legitimizes Questions About her Association With Group Founded By America-Hating Secessionist
    http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/palins_attack_on_obamas_patrio.php

    Palin And The Alaska Independence Party
    http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/the_alaska_independence_party.php

  • Posted By: vanrowan @ 10/11/2008 11:28:04 AM

    You liberals can't stand for someone to try & tell the truth about Obama & get it to the press or circulate any thruth about Obama. You try to hide the truth under a blanket of changing the subject when someone finds something about Obama that is bad. If the truth be known, which probably won't come out until after the election. The real reason the stock market is about to collapse is because most people are afraid that the democrats might win & surely the market will nose-dive to nothing if that happens.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/09/2008 7:58:20 PM

    They harassed her until she registered to vote six times!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3145562&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/09/2008 12:07:04 AM

    "Not all Democrats agree with Mr. Frank that such policies are off-limits to criticism. Last week Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama said in a statement: 'Like a lot of my Democratic colleagues I was too slow to appreciate the recklessness of Fannie and Freddie. I defended their efforts to encourage affordable homeownership, when in retrospect, I should have heeded the concerns raised by their regulator in 2004. Frankly, I wish my Democratic colleagues would admit when it comes to Fannie and Freddie, we were wrong.'

    "Mr. Davis is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus."

    'Rank snobbery'

    Camille Paglia, who supports Sen. Barack Obama, has nothing but scorn for the way the media has treated Sarah Palin.

    "The mountain of rubbish poured out about Palin over the past month would rival Everest. What a disgrace for our jabbering army of liberal journalists and commentators, too many of whom behaved like snippy jackasses," Miss Paglia writes at www.salon.com.

    "The bourgeois conventionalism and rank snobbery of these alleged humanitarians stank up the place. As for Palin's brutally edited interviews with Charlie Gibson and that viper, Katie Couric, don't we all know that the best bits ended up on the cutting-room floor? Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality."

  • Posted By: Peesh08 @ 10/08/2008 11:40:56 PM

    It makes more sense to root out and eliminate the causes of crime, than to keep throwing more guns and anger at the problems. Hence, vote for Obama.

  • Posted By: TangentMan @ 10/08/2008 10:41:59 PM

    If the boys who wrote this article had checked out the questionaire that Mr. Obama filled out when first running for public office in his home state (it's online) they would see (hand written) that Mr. Obama is FOR banning handguns. This article is a bunch of political hype. I guess we know where News Weeks political interests lie. One less subscription to pay for. How come Mr. Obama won't directly answer the question????

  • Posted By: TangentMan @ 10/08/2008 10:38:16 PM

    If the gentlemen who wrote this article for Mr. Obama had checked the questionaire Mr. Obama filled out when first running for public office (you can find it onlline), they would have seen that he indicated on the form that he was FOR the banning of handguns. This article is a bunch of political hype. I guess we know where News Week stands in the election. So much for objective reporting. One less subscription to pay for.

  • Posted By: ICYEYES800 @ 10/08/2008 4:13:33 PM

    I believe it may have been Hitler who banned weapons.....IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN HERE....without a WAR...In case the naive segment part of our society hasn't noticed...THE BAD GUYS, REGARDLESS OF PERSONAL HISTORY CAN AND WILL BUY GUNS!!!!!! They can buy them on any street corner...just like drugs..does anybody truly believe that banning handguns is going to lower crime???? IT WILL NOT...It will on make descent, honorable, and honest people easier prey for the hoodlums!!!! McCain/Palin '08

  • Posted By: Kingsway @ 10/08/2008 1:12:00 PM

    I have always wondered why gun owners are the poster child for fear, cowardice and irrationally. The latest Supreme Court decision makes it clear that anyone who is not a felon can possess a gun for self-defense inside their home, the Court did not speak to whether or not that includes the contiguous property.
    I suspect more people will be pawning their guns to buy to food for their children and gas to get to their jobs,if they srill have one

  • Posted By: jmboomer11 @ 10/08/2008 12:57:26 PM

    His statements all say he dosen't think he could get it done(ban handguns,hunting ammo,etc). He never says he is against banning guns, ever. I gather from his evasive answers that if he thought he could get it done, he would. Look at all the instances that have been quoted!

  • Posted By: chris s. @ 10/08/2008 10:08:37 AM

    So, Ayers didn't work, Rev. Wright didn't work so now this? Desperate times call for desperate measures. When will the republicans get it that nobody wants to take away their guns.The sad part is, that my 92 year old neighbor, when discussing the election, always comes back to "they want to take away our guns". So, I suppose it does work on some. It's going to be interesting to see what else Rove and co. come up with in the next few days. I for one, certainly don't underestimate them We should have seen this coming.

  • Posted By: mlumphinee @ 10/08/2008 9:58:30 AM

    All firearms are registered with the federal govermnment when manufactured. Obama has a previous history of legislative action as cited by the NRA. The 2nd amendment is a civil right. By publishing this article without checking the facts or reviewing the background and political bias of the organization or the writers, Newsweek has shown the same bias.

  • Posted By: adult liberal @ 09/30/2008 8:34:18 PM

    There is a reason that many noticed that factcheck is biased, and not checking Obama's voting record closely. Factcheck is owned by the Annenberg Foundation, that just so happened to have Barack Obama on the board from 1995 to 2000, so why would they want to make one of their own look bad? They are hoping that nobody notices the conflict of interest by ignoring full disclosure.


    Researching further, you will find that obama biden laden

    • Posted By: orion12 @ 10/07/2008 10:40:50 AM

      I am sorry but your comment does not make any sense. What is the basis for you to say that these people who are tying to point out the facts are biased. I guess all you want to hear are comments that are anti-Obama. This election should be based on facts not on biases. I am glad you do not have a factcheck outfit.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/06/2008 6:18:21 PM

    The Antichrist!:
    When George Soros failed to obtain the election of his candidate, John Kerry, in 2004, he brooded for a while, even said he might get out of politics altogether, but he just couldn???t stop himself. He has stated publicly that he wishes to burst the ???bubble of American supremacy,??? because he says our preeminence in the world is a detriment to global ???equilibrium.??? So far, he has failed, but he keeps on trying.

    And Mr. Soros has made no secret either of the fact that he sees the shortest way to effect political shake-ups, what he terms ???regime changes,??? is through very difficult economic conditions.

    America has not yet felt the full force of Soros style economic shock treatment. But others have.

    Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England. He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically in comparative worth almost overnight.

    When the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 threatened to spread globally, George Soros was right in the thick of it. Soros was accused by the Malaysian Prime Minister of causing the collapse with his monetary machinations, and he was branded in Thailand as an ???economic war criminal??? who ???sucks the blood from the people.??? Right in the middle of this crisis, Soros dashed off his book, The Crisis of Global Capitalism, which demanded a ???third way??? toward economic stability.

    Wake up, America, before it is too late!!!!

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