Obama’s board helped fund handgun-ban efforts
posted at 6:07 pm on April 19, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Lately, the political world has buzzed about Barack Obama’s tenure with the Woods Foundation, where he worked with domestic terrorist William Ayers and which issued a $75,000 grant to Yasser Arafat toady Rashid Khalidi. However, Politico has found another paid foundation gig which may raise even more questions about Obama’s positions and honesty. While working as a director at the Joyce Foundation, the organization funneled almost $3 million in grants to political groups opposing gun rights:
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.
Seven of the grants were awarded when Obama served on the board. Where did the money go?
- $2.5 million went to the Violence Policy Center, which has campaigned for a national ban on all handguns.
- $20,000 paid to publish Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns
- $10,000 went to another gun-banning group, Handgun-Free America
Does anyone else see a pattern? If Obama doesn’t want to ban handguns, he certainly chose the wrong foundation to help run. Once again, his track record speaks in opposition to his blandishments towards the benighted and embittered gun owners that he wants to rescue through bigger federal government.
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Obama wants guns taken out of the hand of Americans, and he and his bomb throwing “Intellectual” friends mean business.
Illegals, Islam, The Weathermen and Reverand Wright concur.
Hening on April 19, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Come.
And.
Get.
Them.
TinMan13 on April 19, 2008 at 6:13 PM
Hypocrisy thy name is Barack Hussein Obama.
This “new” kind of politician lies and dissembles just like the old kind.
AZCoyote on April 19, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Ed, I kinda thought the Woods Foundation board preferred bombs to handguns.
see-dubya on April 19, 2008 at 6:18 PM
I know that front pic is a Photoshop…right?
baldilocks on April 19, 2008 at 6:18 PM
I so hope his trolls come back to HA and explain this to us. It seems almost as if he says one thing but acts in an opposite manner. Is this possible? Is this the way true intellectuals act? Secretive about their true agenda? Perhaps he isn’t what we all hoped,..a black man who would be a good president.
Chum is now in the water.
a capella on April 19, 2008 at 6:19 PM
Thank you George Bush for my $600. I will stimulate the economy and buy another fine American made handgun.
infidel on April 19, 2008 at 6:20 PM
Every week another revelation about Barry. It makes you wonder if he saw all this stuff (Wright, anti-guns, ect) as a problem that he should prepare a decent explanation for. It sure seems like he never considered it at all.
If the press did a decent job of vetting this guy, he wouldn’t have come this far, in my opinion. The dem’s have got to be worried about any other skeletons so it doesn’t look like, in the long run, the MSM has done him any favors.
thatcher on April 19, 2008 at 6:21 PM
Not a photoshop, baldilocks
RushBaby on April 19, 2008 at 6:21 PM
Wait a minute? You mean you are going to talk about another mere DISTRACTION? Typical neo-con. When are you going to start talking about substantive issues like how much everyone hates Bush. Or how sad everyone is that any American dies much less an American soldier doing his duty to country with honor. How about how much money he’s going to take from those mean ole rich people - he’s just like Robin Hood that ole Barry, but he ain’t no fairy tale.
Typical bitter conservative clinging to those guns again to provide another distraction.
(just in case I actually have to. . . /sarc)
ThackerAgency on April 19, 2008 at 6:21 PM
Everybody knows that the good guys wear white cowboy hats.
CyberCipher on April 19, 2008 at 6:22 PM
This is getting old, how big does the fork have to be before we can stick it in him and say he’s done? We had our first really nice Saturday in central Mass. today, I had sometime to jaw with the neighbors while trying to avoid all the yard work that needs to be done and not a single one of these folks is even considering voting for the Messiah if he is the nominee. Most will hold their nose and vote for Juan.
dmann on April 19, 2008 at 6:23 PM
Like this.
CyberCipher on April 19, 2008 at 6:24 PM
That picture is so brokeback.
Buddahpundit on April 19, 2008 at 6:28 PM
It’d be good if we all fully get hold of the idea that Barry’s so slick he makes Willy look like sandpaper.
I don’t see one word in there about self defense.
And you know what? I’ve never owned a gun in my life. I could probably count on my fingers the times I’ve ever shot a gun and have some left over. In other words, I’ve just never personally had a dog in the fight of the whole issue of guns.
But you don’t go f**king with my Constitution, bub, and I think the Founders understood good and well that on some level the power of government that can corrupt men who wield it is held in check to no small degree by the idea of an armed citizenry.
This guy Barry’s bad news. I hope the Dems nominate him and he takes a bigger drubbing than McGovern. ‘Cause I’m thinking he may just be as far left of McGovern as McGovern was of Reagan.
Typhoon on April 19, 2008 at 6:28 PM
Is there any question why BHO complained about the questions from ABC about his “Character”? The more his past is studied the more his socialist underpinnings comes to light. God help this country if he becomes our President!
hpk1942 on April 19, 2008 at 6:30 PM
In a nutshell.
baldilocks on April 19, 2008 at 6:31 PM
This man is not going to be elected — mark it here.
Richard Romano on April 19, 2008 at 6:31 PM
It’s almost as jarring as seeing him wearing an American flag pin. (And, no, it isn’t because of his dark skin.)
baldilocks on April 19, 2008 at 6:33 PM
RACIST!!!1!
Oh, wait…
amerpundit on April 19, 2008 at 6:35 PM
Heh.
baldilocks on April 19, 2008 at 6:36 PM
Well Hi-Ho BO.
rplat on April 19, 2008 at 6:36 PM
Gun Control = to hit what you’re aiming at.
When they come for the guns, they’ll get the bullets first.
SwabJockey on April 19, 2008 at 6:37 PM
I had to buy my first handgun since childhood recently. A lunatic with dangerous tendencies towards physical violence has been threatening to break in my house at night. I don’t know how much I can think the NRA for getting rid of the waiting period or else I wouldn’t have slept for a few nights. It’s when you need a gun, you suddenly realize how great the NRA is.
The strange thing is that I’ve spent most of life with the same type of “intellectuals” that Obama has. I’m don’t live in some town where I stew in bitternesss because the government hasn’t made my town wealthy.
thuja on April 19, 2008 at 6:41 PM
No need to quit him. Most of us never liked or supported him in the first place.
My collie says:
It’s Ed’s thread. What about YOUR ears collie? Kinda’ hairy aren’t they?
My collie says:
CyberCipher on April 19, 2008 at 6:42 PM
“Every Handgun Is Aimed at You:”
I thought us gun owners were supposed to be the paranoid ones.
exception on April 19, 2008 at 6:43 PM
That’s so Racist!
(/s)
AZCoyote on April 19, 2008 at 6:46 PM
Guns don’t kill people. Terrorists kill people.
Niko on April 19, 2008 at 6:46 PM
Don’t look now.
Pablo on April 19, 2008 at 6:50 PM
Today is Patriots Day. It celebrates the patriots at Lexington and Concord who, when they learned of the Crowns intent to disarm them and their militias in order to more fully subjugate them, fired the shot heard round the world. The second amendment is framed about this day. Hunting and target shooting is nowhere to be found in any of the language. To claim you are a constitutional scholar and not understand this fundemental element is pathetic.
Beto Ochoa on April 19, 2008 at 6:53 PM
I can’t believe how this guy is even in it. He HOPES he can CHANGE America into something so far removed from our foundations as to make it unrecognizable from Europe.
WisCon on April 19, 2008 at 6:57 PM
A communist in favor of gun control? I’m shocked!
mred on April 19, 2008 at 6:58 PM
Oh, so that settles it, then.
mikeyboss on April 19, 2008 at 6:59 PM
Is that picture from Blazing Saddles??
Where all the white women at ?
redrock on April 19, 2008 at 7:02 PM
Thanks for that link, Cyber, whether it was you or your collie who provided it. I’m saving that pic.
mikeyboss on April 19, 2008 at 7:03 PM
Nothing like Sunshine to clear away vermin.
Of course, no one that has been paying attention believed this Gun Grabber was going to support our second ammendment rights.
JayHaw Phrenzie on April 19, 2008 at 7:04 PM
I don’t get it.
baldilocks on April 19, 2008 at 7:05 PM
BO has pretty good comedy trope: BO(straight man)(geez I need a sex neutral term here), Michelle, Rev Wright, Bill Ayers, Arianna Huff. This has possibilities. A political Green Acres.
mred on April 19, 2008 at 7:09 PM
It seems like Obama’s campaign suffers one major disaster every three days.
GogglesPisano on April 19, 2008 at 7:09 PM
All the flags in the background, Maybe? I dunno either.
Oldnuke on April 19, 2008 at 7:14 PM
A little OT, but it seems Ayers is just the tip of the iceberg. Obama is a commie!!!
chief on April 19, 2008 at 7:14 PM
Well, I’m not surprised. Libs like Obama always say they’re for gun rights…for hunters, which of course is an incomplete interpretation of our 2nd Amendment right.
Whatever you think of him overall as a candidate, Mike Huckabee has been a strong advocate in favor of gun rights. I thought his defense on the Glenn Beck Show was solid.
CP on April 19, 2008 at 7:19 PM
Just love the Obama picture in the cowboy hat. Appropriate caption:
Big hat. No cattle.
Sugar Land on April 19, 2008 at 7:24 PM
My Kimber .45 is waiting for the government to come get it. “It all depends on what the definition of it is.” William Jefferson Clinton.
trs on April 19, 2008 at 7:31 PM
Maybe he only wanted Weather Men to have guns…
right2bright on April 19, 2008 at 7:41 PM
Assuming an Obama candidacy, this comes at the worst possible timing. The SCOTUS will probably decide the major issue in June, 2008. We’ll talk/write about it bofore, during, and straight into Nov. 2008.
Mise en temp!
Entelechy on April 19, 2008 at 7:45 PM
All Democrats know, raise taxes, fund socialism and gun control. It’s left to the reader to put the pieces together.
tarpon on April 19, 2008 at 7:45 PM
is this really that surprising that a democrat feels this way?
Defector01 on April 19, 2008 at 7:49 PM
All the wrong places.
Zorro on April 19, 2008 at 7:51 PM
Do not walk,Run like Hell from OBAMA!
Canada has gun registry,implemented by Liberals!
It was to cost $119 million,It’s actual cost$1 Billion!
We got done screwed good on that deal,for another 2 Billion
we could of bought a B-1 Bomber!
The game is as Rush would say slow incrementalization,
slow but sure,over time the Liberals will one way or
another get,change the law,sue or whatever and however,
it takes and they won’t give up!
You see the(Liberals)know more than you do on your own safety and protection when it comes to firearms(guns)and
Liberals really don’t believe anybody in the US has the
right to bear arms(Its in the constitution)!
You see without single-shots,revolvers,semi-automatics,
fully automatics and sharp pointy sticks,Liberals viewing
through rose tinted spectacles see a Utopia were no one
gets hurt accept for the criminals.Illegal or not they will
find a way to get a gun and do you in!
Now don’t you feel much better that Liberals have your back and best interests in mind! Now I’m going to step away from the key board and LMAO on this Liberal gun thingy idea from brought to you by Obama,and Obamamaniacs! (Sarc.)
canopfor on April 19, 2008 at 7:54 PM
Bullseye.
Today is also the 15th anniversary of ~80 deaths in the fire at Waco.
Rodent on April 19, 2008 at 7:59 PM
Lets examine Liberal logic,I know it doesn’t exist,
however if Hillary had a gun,Billy would of got a 21
gun salute that day Hillary and Bill had a fight!
Instead thankfully,the secret service said that a high
speed projectile ashtray missed the President’s head!
I would still love to know what that fight was about!
canopfor on April 19, 2008 at 8:04 PM
That photo…. Ten gallon hat on a half-pint head.
Which perfectly matches his understanding of the Constitution. Ten gallon words, half-pint understanding of what they really mean.
LegendHasIt on April 19, 2008 at 8:08 PM
The Joyce Foundation continues to fund studies also through Harvard Medical School-oddly, seems like the same authors are at work and the conclusion is always the same-ban guns for one reason or another.
The last study was technically flawed, using data from different years to establish a cause and effect relationship proving the conclusion…gun population in this year with deaths in another, IIRC. John Lott blew it out of the park…basic method failure. That is a measure of how desparate the doctor was to keep the grant money coming, IMO.
So, no, Obama is going to take the guns if he can. It is like saying he heard nothing radical from Wright in 20 years, well, nothing he objects to.
The sop to hunters is really dumb. In the background of the law and philosophy that led to 2A, and in the writings of the Founders, there is the barest connection to hunting, a mere observation that people need to hunt for meat and arms have a role in hunting, therefore in daily survival.
The overwhelming focus and intention was to take the means of effective self-defense by individuals against oppression, from petty criminals or government run amok, away from the discretion or whim of government. The difference they saw between the types of tyranny is the scale of response by the people. Only.
For Obama or Clinton to miss this simply comes of ignoring an inconvenient truth, if in fact they really have read up on both sides of the issue.
My grasp of the obvious is quite firm…
Harry Schell on April 19, 2008 at 8:10 PM
The First Amendment may be the mouth.
But the Second Amendment is the teeth.
Barry Obama wants a toothless populace.
He has more skeletons than an ossuary.
profitsbeard on April 19, 2008 at 8:15 PM
Obama’s campaign seems to come down to “Don’t believe what I do; Believe what I say.” Since he hasn’t done very much in his political career, those who want to can suspend disbelief in his words without too much strain on their conscience. I happen to think choosing the leader of the free world requires a bit more analysis than that used to buy a nifty kitchen gadget from a fast-talking salesman on the Home Shopping Network.
Socratease on April 19, 2008 at 8:18 PM
Molōn labe ….
AZ_Redneck on April 19, 2008 at 8:32 PM
B
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Barack
Hussein
Obama
Ban
Handguns
Outright
HarryBalzac on April 19, 2008 at 8:33 PM
Barack Hussein Obama ‘08
mred on April 19, 2008 at 8:41 PM
Are the American people really this stupid to like this Guy?what do they teach all those city slickers? must be something in the water within the cities to drug people into stupidity.
unseen on April 19, 2008 at 8:43 PM
My thoughts exactly!
+1
http://armyaunt.johnmccain.com/
ArmyAunt on April 19, 2008 at 9:12 PM
Does anyone know who his followers are?
Age/sex etc?
Besides blacks.
ArmyAunt on April 19, 2008 at 9:13 PM
This may be the “blockbuster” that the Clintons were supposedly going to spill just before Pennsylvania, to make Pennsylvania a blowout for her, and make all the superdelegates seasick at the thought of nominating Barack.
RBMN on April 19, 2008 at 9:14 PM
Don’t you see, people?
It’s for your own good!
Gosh, You’re so clingy…
Rhinoboy on April 19, 2008 at 9:18 PM
Barack Hussein bin-Obama may or may not succeed in stripping law abiding American citizens of their Constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms, but if he does, it will be under the guise of “safety” and “anti-violence”. It’s the old bait n’ switch.
The fact is, they (the liberal politicians) want to strip law abiding decent American citizens of their rights and their guns so Americans won’t be able to rise up and revolt againt them and be armed while doing so once they strip us of nearly all our Constitutional rights that they deem dangerous, or that they deem might enable thought crimes to be perpatrated, like freedom of speech and press and so on.
France has long ago already outlawed private ownership of guns, and at this very moment they are prosecuting a high profile celebrity citizen, Brigitte Bardot, for “inciting racial hatred” because of a letter Bardot wrote to French officials in 2004 in which she alluded to Muslims as “this population that leads us around by the nose, [and] which destroys our country.” As an animal rights activist, she had written that letter (FOUR YEARS AGO) to one solitary person within the French government in protest of the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Kabir. One may or may not agree with her stance, but you’d think she’d have the right to speak her mind and express her thoughts as long as she’s not inciting riots. Heck no. Not in Europe buddy. Plus, she’s been prosecuted for thought crimes four previous times… and she’s not alone. The French have prosecuted many people speaking their minds outside the boundry of political correctness, as has Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, etc ad nauseum.
People in the United States better start using their friggin’ heads and start using some foresight, or we’ll end up just like the stinking EU and have our gun rights and definitely our freedom of speech and press (and God only knows what other rights) ripped from our very souls by our despicable liberal government well within our own lifetimes.
SilverStar830 on April 19, 2008 at 9:28 PM
My theory is that city life is dehumanizing. So many towers of glass, concrete and steel in the cities themselves and row houses packed together in the suburbs, governed by neighborhood associations, all of it ruled over by ever expanding local governments. Most universities are in or near metropolitan areas and these, as are large corporations and the courts in which they’re sued, are significant sources of politically correct thought.
When people remove themselves so far from nature they unlearn self-reliance and instead rely on government as a crutch. This, in turn, leads to other unnatural pathologies such as homelessness, panhandling and gangs, to name a few. People delude themselves into thinking that government can protect them in every aspect of their daily lives, so when they look around at others, who’ve been most impacted by the pathologies born of the city and have turned to crime, instead of taking personal responsibility for their own safety they turn to still more government to make them safe.
It becomes a cycle:
1) Cities, largely the dependence on liberal government, breeds crime
2) People want something done typically leading to an increase in the size of the government
3) More crime results
4) Return to 1 and repeat
Many of the pathologies born in the cities are then gradually spread outward through our public school system, technology and the migration of city dwellers, sick of the crime and the hectic lifestyle, into the country where they hope to be closer to the natural order of life. Unfortunately, they usually bring some of their pathologies with them, and while they may be happier in the country, the people who were already there pay an inevitable price. One notable example is that small conservative communities become larger liberal communities, providing fertile grounds for the pathologies to begin anew.
FloatingRock on April 19, 2008 at 9:36 PM
When your legislative career is a tabula rasa filled with ‘present’ votes, and you are a Presidential frontrunner, your associations, writings and words become an issue. Surely Demnocrats, who have turned ‘advice and consent’ for Supreme Court openings into the world’s largest rectal exam, understand.
thirtypundit on April 19, 2008 at 10:01 PM
If a candidate is going to LIE to you about what ONE article of the Bill of Rights is about, then they will LIE to you about the rest.
Why trust someone with the First Amendment when they lie about the 2nd?
I can (almost) respect someone who wants to repeal the 2nd, but lying about it earns you my contempt.
There are ZERO contemporary sources that place such limits on the 2nd, numerous that expound upon its wider application.
If you make statements like Obama’s, you’re either lying about the Amendment or your qualifications to speak publicly about it.
Merovign on April 19, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Conservatives have to totally destroy this lowlife in this campaign. Not because he will ever get this close again but because if we don’t we will have to listen to him spew his nonsense for the next 25 years he is in the senate because this campaign has given him an aura of faux gravitas..
peacenprosperity on April 19, 2008 at 10:16 PM
The cowboy hat picture is good, but the one with the cigarette is priceless. It makes him look as if he’ll ask you for some “change”.
THE CHOSEN ONE on April 19, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Is Hillary a true Patriot? Falling on the sword of Deanonian desperation (to finally win the big game) in order to open the eyes of America, keep the focus on the Messiah so the electorate can make the right choice even if it isn’t her?
Na….don’t think so, time for another Stoli and cranberry!
dmann on April 19, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Molon Labe, Mister Obamajeebus. Just you try.
Sekhmet on April 19, 2008 at 10:30 PM
Aw, come on ! Give the guy a break. I am sure he was not aware of the fact or otherwise he was the lone voice against it. /Sarc
Can’t wait for him to explain it.
SIJ6141 on April 19, 2008 at 10:37 PM
You too?
Banning handguns is a sure fire way to build some new prisons. Lots of new prisons. It’ll be good for the ecomony.
Revenue from fines and penalties. Construction jobs. Guard jobs. Adminstrators. WhoooooooAhhhhhhhhhh! Utopia is just around the corner.
Limerick on April 19, 2008 at 10:44 PM
You would think that with all of the oppression and hate spouted by Rev. Wright that the good Rev. would want Barack to keep guns legal so the Black community defenders like the Nation of Islam, New Black Panthers, United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, and the Nation of Yahweh would have the firearms they need, oh wait, now I get it, when guns are outlawed…
Speakup on April 19, 2008 at 10:47 PM
Leftists have to outlaw firearms before they can ever hope to achieve their ultimate objective. Otherwise at some point the very people they pretend to represent will undo any “progress” that’s been made.
I’m not sure if it’s a new tactic or not, but leftists seem to be trying particularly hard to split hunters away from the greater community of 2nd amendment supporters. I hope and suspect that hunters are smart enough to realize that together we stand and divided we fall. The very fact that leftists are employing this tactic should reveal to all 2nd amendment supporters the devious nature of the enemy.
FloatingRock on April 19, 2008 at 11:05 PM
Limerick on April 19, 2008 at 10:44 PM
There is no accounting for good taste…Bottoms up brudda!
dmann on April 19, 2008 at 11:09 PM
Speaking of good taste, has anybody tried mixing Absolut with Yak urine? It tastes just as bad as it sounds—the Absolut ruined the flavor.
FloatingRock on April 19, 2008 at 11:14 PM
Politico is doing a bang up job of delving into Obama’s past.
I loved the way Barry the constitutional law professor said in the ABC debate that he didn’t “hear” the briefs on the 2nd Amendment case. No doubt that is true, since briefs are read and not heard. A lawyerly dodge?
Here is Discover the Networks page on the Joyce Foundation.
Buy Danish on April 19, 2008 at 11:15 PM
No doubt, but I don’t think his dodge was as nuanced as that. He doesn’t have to read anything but the Constitution to realize that the DC gun ban is clearly unconstitutional. His nuance was just a means for him to decline an answer without it being obvious to the average American voter. He surely has an opinion and it’s that the DC gun ban doesn’t go far enough. He just doesn’t want to say that because his campaign would be over.
FloatingRock on April 19, 2008 at 11:29 PM
BHO makes me very bitter! i am praying right now
custer on April 19, 2008 at 11:50 PM
I believe gun owners pretty well handled any potential split following that ill advised comment made by the author of hunting articles in one of the outdoor magazines. He did a mini-rant on why “assault rifles” shouldn’t be used by hunting purists, and his little world fell in on top of him. Seems no one agreed with him and he ended up making apologies to the whole gun world. I don’t know if he even got his job back.
a capella on April 19, 2008 at 11:57 PM
I don’t recall the word hunters being in the 2nd Amendment.
Limerick on April 20, 2008 at 12:04 AM
Did this happen online somewhere so that there might be a link or was it a write-in campaign to a traditional magazine?
FloatingRock on April 20, 2008 at 12:06 AM
HEY! come on, he is a leftie!NO self respecting leftie ever, ever speaks the truth! speaking truth would be a disgrace!
allrsn on April 20, 2008 at 12:19 AM
redrock on April 19, 2008 at 7:02 PM
:-)
funky chicken on April 20, 2008 at 12:19 AM
Hee hee theres always a way.
Check it out.
-Wasteland Man.
P.S. Here’s another link :)
WastelandMan on April 20, 2008 at 12:37 AM
The left knows a well armed public stands in the way of their ultimate goals.
The Buzz on April 20, 2008 at 1:05 AM
Bombs, yes. Guns, no.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on April 20, 2008 at 1:15 AM
please, for the love of God, no more Obama articles! i can’t take anymore! is there truly nothing more in the world going on?
RMC1618 on April 20, 2008 at 1:20 AM
Did you know that Lex Luthor wears Obama under-roos?
FloatingRock on April 20, 2008 at 1:28 AM
OK, there was basically a snowball’s chance in hell of me ever voting for him in the first place, but I will NEVER, EVER vote for someone with an active anti-gun past history (or present; obviously)
MannyT-vA on April 20, 2008 at 1:30 AM
RMC1618 on April 20, 2008 at 1:20 AM
Just sent an impassioned plea for the same via: Send tips to tips@hotair.com. Its only April, a long slog to November!
Limerick….outta cranberry what do you suggest besides shots? Need a chaser dude………….
dmann on April 20, 2008 at 1:41 AM
I’m not Limerick but I’d advise against the Yak urine—it’s nearly as bad as the Absolut.
FloatingRock on April 20, 2008 at 3:58 AM
It was writer Jim Zumbo in Outdoor Life. Just type “Jim Zumbo assault weapons” into google and you’ll find lots of links.
‘Terrorist’ Remark Puts Outdoorsman’s Career in Jeopardy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/23/AR2007022301709.html
Afterimage on April 20, 2008 at 4:44 AM
The new politician, with 30% more hypocrisy flavor!!!
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on April 20, 2008 at 6:07 AM
This was said elsewhere but bears repeating. If you think electing Obama means your guns will be taken away, you are an idiot.
Nonfactor on April 20, 2008 at 6:28 AM
How many other boards did Obama sit on?
The Woods foundation is a liberal foundation as well.
davod on April 20, 2008 at 6:47 AM
I’m John McCain and I’d like to personally apologize for this blog and this post! Barack Obama is a close personal friend of mine who I have crossed the isle to work with on behalf of the American people on many occasion to pass meaningful legislation. Personal attacks against fine Americans like Senator Obama have no place in this campaign and I will not stand for them! I was in Vietnam and was a POW, by the way!
sabbott on April 20, 2008 at 7:32 AM
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