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The Rights and Wrongs of Bearing Arms
May 4th 2008 3:45PM
Filed Under:eHillary Clinton, Barack Obama, 2008 President, Guns
In anticipation of the Supreme Court's looming decision on the constitutionality of Washington D.C.'s handgun ban, Hillary Clinton has brought the issue of gun rights to the forefront with a severe mailing ad attacking Baradsack Obama.

Hillary skillfully attacks Obama's character while reminding readers of his disastrous remarks about "bitter" Pennsylvanians "clinging" to their guns. As well, Clinton may be attempting to posture in preparation for the Supreme Court's ruling. Though she has favored gun control throughout her career, Clinton is now attempting to move to the right of Obama on the issue.
Gun rights will likely flare as a political issue when the Court rules - regardless of the Court's decision. Both sides on the issue are loud and passionate. Clinton is attempting to capture the middle ground, assumably so as to cast both of her opponents as extremists. Yet, as the issue is only a priority to those who have extreme positions, Clinton may prove so cunning that she outsmarts herself.
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(Page 2 of 3)Katherine8:41PMMay 4th 2008
In case you missed it:
New Photograph surfaces of BILL AYERS STOMPING on the AMERICAN FLAG:
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/03/stomp-on-this/
Bubslug8:53PMMay 4th 2008
Reminds me of the fellow who said, "You have the right to say whatever you want, and I will defend to the death my right to own a gun to blow you away for saying it!"
Menon10:18PMMay 4th 2008
Can anyone tell me what Barack Obama believes in? He flip-flops on the Second Amendment. I know he is an extreme GUN CONTROL supporter. He supports the BAN ON ALL GUNS, RIFLES-he wants to ban the manufacture, use of all handguns.
He also opposes a bill that prohibited the early release of violent sex offendors. Unbelievable!!
Obama also wants to ban all concealed weopens.
Those who support the Second Amendment, please DO NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA in Indiana and North Carolina.
HILLARY SUPPORTS OUR SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS. All Hunters, shooters, outdoors men and women, farmers, rural people who like to hunt for food-please vote for HILLARY CLINTON. She is from a family-her dad taught her to hunt at a very young age in Pennsylvania and Illinois.
Please Indiana and North Carolina voters -cast your vote and give Hillary a Double Digit WIN on Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Hillary is on our side- she will protect the Second Amendment. Thank you!!
Davidg10:28PMMay 4th 2008
Imay, I understand completely. I have been a liberal democrat most of my life.
I don't trust Barack Obama.
I really don't trust Barack Obama talking about taking away guns.
I just don't know why this internal alarm is not going off in more people about Barack Obama. It could be that it does, but then people feel so guilty about it because of his skin color that they dismiss it.
Something is wrong, wrong, wrong about that man.
kaye c.11:38PMMay 4th 2008
It is clear Obama is for disarming the American People. What is his real motive??Ask yourself...
charles Monaghan11:43PMMay 4th 2008
GUESS WHAT....VERY BAD NEWS FOR OBAMA....His affiliations with terrorist(Ayers), Nazi Ferrakhan, Tony Rezko, Terrorist and murderer Odinga and many other such associations now make him not qualified to be a US Senator much less the President of the USA...Say BYE Obama...you SOB....the Law finally caught up with you. Spread the word...clinton supporters...OK Howard Dean...now you can give him the news. Guess what folks...with his background...he could not even be a State Trooper !!!!!!
Hako12:00AMMay 5th 2008
Barack Obama is a self-important man with delusions of grandeur. Notice how he seemed more offended by his Pastor's suggestions that he was just a politician, than he was offended by the anti-American, anti-white statements? He finally got angry because HE was being disrespected.....not his country or white people.
His vanity was wounded. Senator Obama sees himself as a kind of saviour or messiah on a sacred mission.....certainly not a mere "politician". The magic
act is over, the man behind the curtain is no wizard.
GBrownfromAbq2:14AMMay 5th 2008
Never mind the rights and wrongs - how about the rights and lefts of guns. Look closely at the image of the gun in the Clinton mailing - I mean apart from the fact that it is a very expensive German gun that no common sportsman in the US would use for hunting (or could afford). The bolt is on the left hand side of the gun - it is a mirror image used for asthetics, but apparently gun owners who received this mailing got quite a laugh. Read Smith's column on Politico. Seems Clinton's people aren't the common man types they claim to be. At least, they have no idea what a gun looks like or what type of gun is typically used to hunt. Speaking strictly as the daughter of an avid hunter from the Midwest - no one I knew there had a gun like this. Probably Dick Cheney hunts with a gun like this, but no one else.
James3:33AMMay 5th 2008
ITS TIME LONG OVERDUE TO BAN HANDGUNS.....NOT HUNTING RIFLES OR SHOTGUNS USED FOR SPORT.....HANDGUNS.
gw4:59AMMay 5th 2008
James
I fought for the right to have freedom of choice, speech and the constitution. Try to take my guns from me and you have a declared war. I will not hesitate to kill anyone who tries. I have noproblem with registering, have attended gun classes, believe in background checks and think there should also be a mental evaluation to buy guns, but i will never give up my right to bear arms. To try to take them from the gun owners of this counttry is the quickest way i know to start a revolution.
JOHN6:38AMMay 5th 2008
Trinity United Church of Christ
Obama mentioned his church during his appearance with Oprah. It's the 'Trinity United Church of Christ'.
It is very alarming. Barack Obama is a member of this church and is running for President of the U.S. If you look at the first page of their Web site, you will learn that this congregation has a non-negotiable commitment to Africa. No where is America even mentioned. Notice too, what color you will need to be if you should want to join Obama's church? Does this surprise anyone?
Doesn't look like his choice of religion has improved much over his Muslim upbringing. This guy wants to rule America while his loyalty is totally vested in a black Africa !
I cannot believe this has not been all over the TV and newspapers. This is why it is so important to pass this message along to all our family and friends. To think that Obama has even the slightest chance in the run for the presidency is really scary.
Brutuss1008:37AMMay 5th 2008
Obama can't handle his OWN domestic issues. Clueless on Rev Wright, Michelle cutting him off in the middle of an interview on TV to answer the question for him, Mishelle working alongside William Ayers wife/partner in the same law firm then introducing them to Barack shortly after, the Tony Rezko scandel.... Man! how can you expect him to know what's right for our country? Is he gonna ask Michelle, "What do I do?".
And as far as the Gas Tax Holiday... I'll take what I can get right about now. We all know that it's short-term, we're not stupid like Obamanites. But at least someone is interested in doing something for now to help. Who cares if it's a political move! Everything politicians do is politically motivated, including faking a separation from a pastor. But Obama voted for the same tax holiday in Indiana... not once, not twice, but three times (when it was to his advantage) in Indiana. He's only trying to LOOK different. The real truth is that most of the representatives in Washington are against the tax holiday, the economists and the especially the oil companies and lobbyists are against it, so.... who sounds more like the typical assholes in office now?
Anybody notice that the gas prices started to steadily rise the minute they announced the rebate checks were in the mail? Another stimulus package will only raise them again. This is what Obama is suggesting [which he takes credit for, but was really concocted by House Speaker Pelosi with him by her side at a far-right Liberal meeting].
The Gas Tax Holiday will attempt to lower prices between 18-24 cents per gallon. And although Obama would trivialize it by saying it's worthless and it's pandering, I say Pander Me Baby! But if you really think it's a trivial amount of money ask yourself this.....
HOW MUCH WOULD YOU BE BITCHING IF THE GAS PRICES WERE GOING UP ANOTHER 18-24 CENTS PER GALLON?
Obama cares about the voters about as much as he cares about his pastor. So whether it was a true act, or political one.... he'll throw us under the bus, too.
Katherine9:45AMMay 5th 2008
James wants it so that only POLICE have handguns?
James wants it so only the GOVERNMENT has handguns??
What if we elect someone who winds up being a communist dictator? Like OBAMA?
Guns are power to the people.
It's obvious Obama does NOT want power to the people, and he wants to disarm America too, completely destroy our super-power status and dismantle the United States of America.
He HATES America. THINK, people!
NOELJ210:58AMMay 5th 2008
Katherine,
The problem with people like you is you'll need to grow up. In most of the developed countries in the world one has no rights to bare arms only in this country so that people could kill and get killed. Your rights is to use your brains so that your jobs are not outsourced. Just imagine, countries like India and China, what i presume you would consider as third world countries are taking your jobs. You know why? Education is free in these countries one can get a college degree without spending a dime whereas people like you are still talking about the rights to bare arms. Just think, What good is it!!!
Katherine11:27AMMay 5th 2008
Noelj2:
Your argument is very flawed, if it's an argument at all, you are all over the place--you mingled guns and the second amendment with jobs and education in China and India.
You are all over the place.
America is not a socialist or communist nation.
Taking away guns from Americans so that only the government is in control on all levels is one of the worst things that could happen to America. Maybe THE worst. How do you think people like Hitler and Stalin came to achieve such power?
NO. Americans need to have their guns. It wouldn't be America if only the government had guns.
How exactly would America be able to defend itself from foreign dangers? How would America be able to revolt against a take over and regime change....even from within?
NO WAY.
John11:41AMMay 5th 2008
And is the gun pointed at Obama's head for litigious reasons, as well?
Those of you opposed to BANNING handguns, please speak to the widow and three children of the police officer who was just murdered in Philadelphia this weekend. Talk to Governor Ed Rendell, Hillary supporter, who also seeks a ban; talk to Philadelphia Mayor Nutter, a Hillary supporter, who also supports a ban. America is the only country in the world where hunting takes place on a full stomach. We should and must revisit the second amendment in relation to handguns, just as we should and must revisit the electoral college in relation to the way we elect a president. The Constitution is not unamendable. The designers did that by design.
John in Philadelphia
OBAMA '08
[Katherine, Communist?!? Senator Joe McCarthy is cheering from his assured place in hell.]
4CAROLINA1:52PMMay 5th 2008
OBAMA SPENT 20 YEARS WITH WRIGHT AND LIED ABOUT IT.
HE HAS TIES TO ANTI-AMERICANS AND TERRORISTS AND LIED ABOUT IT --- DON’T FORGET 9/11, REZKO, AYERS, FARRAKHAN, HAMAS AND OTHERS!
OBAMA HAS RUN HIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN ON LIES. FINALLY THE MEDIA IS REPORTING THE TRUTH. IS IT TOO LATE? WHAT ELSE IS HE STILL HIDING?
REMEMBER — PELOSI WANTS TO BE THE FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT! SHE AND OBAMA, ALONG WITH HIS ANTI-AMERICAN FRIENDS, WILL DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.
THE DNC HAS WORKED OUT A “DEAL” FOR OBAMA TO GIVE PART OF HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY! WHAT ARE THEY OFFERING OBAMA IN RETURN? MAYBE THE SUPER-DELEGATES?
HE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO “BUY” OUR COUNTRY.
WE HAVE 50 STATES --- COUNT FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN!
VOTE HILLARY!
PROUDAMERICAN2:20PMMay 5th 2008
FRANKLY, BELONGING TO A “HATE CULT” FOR 20 YEARS SHOULD DISQUALIFY YOU FROM SERVING IN ANY OFFICE!
IF OBAMA DOES NOT KNOW ALL THE DETAILS ABOUT BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY --- HIS WIFE DOES. THEY ARE PARENTS OF TWO GIRLS WHO LISTEN TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE CHURCH? DID THOSE GIRLS HEAR "GOD DAMN AMERICA" AND WRIGHT'S OTHER ANTI-AMERICAN RANTS?
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IS SIMPLY NOT PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL.
HE HAS ALREADY PUT THIS COUNTRY THROUGH TOO MUCH DRAMA DUE TO HIS RECKLESSNESS, POOR JUDGMENT, NUMEROUS LIES AND HYPOCRISY.
STOP THE DRAMA --- NO OBAMA!
VOTE HILLARY 2008!
PROUDAMERICAN2:48PMMay 5th 2008
FRANKLY, BELONGING TO A “HATE CULT” FOR 20 YEARS SHOULD DISQUALIFY YOU FROM SERVING IN ANY OFFICE!
IF OBAMA DOES NOT KNOW ALL THE DETAILS ABOUT BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY --- HIS WIFE DOES. THEY ARE PARENTS OF TWO GIRLS WHO LISTEN TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE CHURCH? DID THOSE GIRLS HEAR "GOD DAMN AMERICA" AND WRIGHT'S OTHER ANTI-AMERICAN RANTS?
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IS SIMPLY NOT PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL.
HE HAS ALREADY PUT THIS COUNTRY THROUGH TOO MUCH DRAMA DUE TO HIS RECKLESSNESS, POOR JUDGMENT, NUMEROUS LIES AND HYPOCRISY.
WE HAVE 50 STATES --- COUNT FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN.
STOP THE DRAMA --- NO OBAMA!
VOTE HILLARY 2008!
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lmay8:38PMMay 4th 2008
Yep...first they take our handguns away...next thing you know the government comes busting through the door of your home.
What is wrong with you people voting for Obama.
I am a liberal democrat lifelong..but this guy scares the heck out of me. I dont trust him and Americans should not trust him.
Wake up..let the loser African Americans vote for him, but for those of us who are basing this on something other than the color of his skin....The only vote is for Hillary!!! If not I am voting for Mccain..no doubt!!!