Obama channels … Sean Connery??
posted at 1:00 pm on June 14, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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For a guy who doesn’t want to show up for town-hall debates, Barack Obama certainly likes to talk tough. Yesterday in Philadelphia, Obama tried to macho up at a rally by implying that he could out-fight John McCain. He lifted a line from The Untouchables that sounds risible in the context of the impasse over debates:
He warned that the general election campaign could get ugly. “They’re going to try to scare people. They’re going to try to say that ‘that Obama is a scary guy,’” he said. A donor yelled out a deep accented “Don’t give in!”
“I won’t but that sounded pretty scary. You’re a tough guy,” Obama said.
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said. “Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”
They put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue, Sean Connery said when he completed that thought in the stylized (read: fictional) account of Eliot Ness’ efforts against Al Capone. The difference between Connery’s character in The Untouchables and Barack Obama is that Connery was prepared to confront his opponents anywhere at any time. Obama not only doesn’t like a good brawl, he can’t even take an open-forum debate unless it takes place on the Home & Garden Channel at 2 am on a holiday weekend.
Let’s take a look at Obama’s analogy, though. Is he endorsing concealed-carry and the right of people to defend themselves with firearms? Or are people only allowed to “bring a gun” to defend themselves in debates, rather than in life-and-death situations? Obama would “bring a gun” to argue that people shouldn’t have the guns in the first place.
Maybe Obama should quote movies that come closer to his own political sense. Anyone have any good quotes from Reds?
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I hope he buys that gun from a store no closer than five miles to the nearest school or park.
raybury on June 14, 2008 at 9:52 PM
Hillary just offered to loan Obambi Vince Foster’s handgun.
viking01 on June 14, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Me thinks John McCain has been shot at and hit, by a far moe dangerous foe than a 1/2 black, jug eared, henpecked, leftist moron from an America hating church in Chicago Illinois.
If’n I’m McCain I’m sayin bring it on big ears. Bring your concealed carry permit, your pea shooter and your pea brain and meet me at dusk at the townhall meeting.
Then you decide, do we debate, shoot-it-out, or do I just bi…slap you back to Chitown so’s Daley can let you grow up a bit before he sends you out on your own agin.
dhunter on June 14, 2008 at 11:54 PM
Obambi is pathetic. McCain is a 20 year military veteran and Obambi was a community agitator. Pa. Theh. Tic.
…Heh.
Mojave Mark on June 15, 2008 at 12:20 AM
The recoil of a 22-cal. handgun would snap Bambi’s wrist like an overdone wishbone.
T J Green on June 15, 2008 at 12:23 AM
McCain mingles with Clinton supporters
Is there anything to the last part of this story? I don’t know, but if there is then McCain may just have blown his right arm off.
MB4 on June 15, 2008 at 2:41 AM
Has anyone else npticed Obama has been ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK before he even picks a VP? Seriously, what the hell kind of rookie is this guy?
I very much doubt Obama brings anything to a fight other than a white flag.
BKennedy on June 15, 2008 at 2:46 AM
Most jobs, if not all, require from new employees to have experience.
But you don’t need experience to give the order to “press the Nuclear button.”
That’s how America is run these days.
What Constitution are you proud of when this is what you get?
There should be an Amendment stating that candidates for the presidency must have at least 12 years experience in the executive branch, in making tough decisions.
These days Blacks vote for Blacks, Whites vote for whoever is incompetent, and in the mean time, America is screwed.
Indy Conservative on June 15, 2008 at 7:20 AM
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/an-illustrated-guide-to-obamas-gun-grabbing/
Taster:
Buried deep in his official campaign website’s “Issues” page, under “Additional Issues,” is a vague nod to sportsmen, noting that Obama has never been one, and a link to the candidate’s position paper, “Barack Obama: Supporting the Rights and Traditions of Sportsmen.” A sharp observer would note that the document is named “Obama_FactSheet_Western_Sportsmen.pdf,” which makes one wonder if the campaign recognizes the rights of hunters in the southeastern and northeastern United States as well, and non-hunting gun owners nationwide. This is far from a petty observation; the candidate himself cited his spouse, traveling though rural eastern Iowa, saying, “You know, I can see why if I was living out here, I’d want a gun.”
Out here? What about everywhere else?
It is rather ironic that Obama chose to use a firearms metaphor at a fundraiser this weekend when speaking about countering Republican attacks. “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama is reported to have said.
Ironic – because the fact of the matter is that the Obama campaign recognizes no constitutional right to own firearms for personal or community defense. His website claims a position of:
Respect the Second Amendment: Millions of hunters own and use guns each year. Millions more participate in a variety of shooting sports such as sporting clays, skeet, target, and trap shooting that may not necessarily involve hunting. As a former constitutional law professor, Barack Obama believes the Second Amendment creates an individual right, and he greatly respects the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms. He will protect the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own, transport, and use guns for the purposes of hunting and target shooting. He also believes that the right is subject to reasonable and commonsense regulation.
Obama’s campaign explicitly only recognizes the right to own firearms for “the purposes of hunting and target shooting,” and insists on “commonsense regulation.” What is commonsense regulation according to Barack Obama? It depends on which Barack Obama you believe is telling the truth.
Read the whole thing…
Keemo on June 15, 2008 at 8:46 AM
The only “hope” and “change” this jackass is contemplating is that he “hopes” he can get his “gun” before they “change” the laws. This phony incompetent makes a $3 bill look legitimate.
rplat on June 15, 2008 at 9:02 AM
Barry’s quip would have been a whole lot more effective if we hadn’t seen him bowl. I suspect his shooting would be just about as “on target.”
swiaGunToter on June 15, 2008 at 10:25 AM
How about some quotes from “Reds”?
Louise Bryant: I’d like to see you with your pants off, Mr. Reed.
Michelle Obama: Pick your socks up ‘rack, time for church.
Shivas Irons on June 15, 2008 at 10:37 AM
Says it all, doesn’t it?
a capella on June 15, 2008 at 10:46 AM
ThackerAgency wrote:
1980.
noblejones on June 15, 2008 at 11:27 AM
If you’re Jews, I love Jews!
If you’re Palestinians, I love Palestinians!
If you’re bros from da Philly hood, I LOVE bros!
If you’re socialist anarchistss or Baptist gun-huggers, I LOVE You!
Behold The Incarnation of the Four-Faced Man.
(Or Machiavellian Multiplex?)
profitsbeard on June 15, 2008 at 12:06 PM
No bigger load of BS ever postulated.
Obama is a bigger fraud than Cornel West.
Beto Ochoa on June 15, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Obama just wants the word “arms” to be taken “in its MOST originalist meaning” and to be interpreted literally.
As human arms.
You may keep the bodily appendages known as “arms“, but nothing like a gun could be owned in the hands.
(It follows, that if Clinton can screw with IS, Barry can handle ARMS.)
profitsbeard on June 15, 2008 at 2:41 PM
GUN = Bridezilla Michelle
moonsbreath on June 15, 2008 at 3:37 PM
rplat,
Me-thinks the hope and change this Post Turtle envisions is HOPE that he can con his way into the POTUS and then shake all the CHANGE out of your pockets and redistribute it to his all black 1/2 brothers and Muslim terrorist supporters.
He and his supporters in a little over 1/2 the senate and house might just pull it off if McCain and the Republican party doesn’t find their balls soon.
I just wonder if the Chicago Daley/Mob machine really wants this to happen and how much control they have over him.
dhunter on June 15, 2008 at 5:20 PM
A liberal just cant be manly, they just cant pull it off. they just come off acting more sissy.
I remember that line from the Untouchables. Connery: “Just like a ***, bringing a knife to a gun fight.”
I’m sick of Obama already.
abcurtis on June 15, 2008 at 5:49 PM
A preponderance of evidence is that Pat Tillman was a liberal.
MB4 on June 15, 2008 at 8:45 PM
exception to the rule… exception to the rule..
DaveC on June 16, 2008 at 1:04 AM
sure he wasn’t confused about being at an Oakland Raider’s game?
DaveC on June 16, 2008 at 1:09 AM
Now this is one time I would like to hear what Mike Huckabee has to say.
RushBaby on June 16, 2008 at 12:01 PM
re: townhall debates and etiquette
John McCain dispatched a messenger to hand-deliver the invitation to Obama to join him at a series of town hall meetings. Bill Burton, Obama’s press secretary, told the courier, “You know, you could have just e-mailed this.” WTF Obama’s big baby Burton felt UNCOMFORTABLE. How little it takes.
That rude reception was followed by PoliticsOnline Phil Noble’s presumption that “It’s the difference between a horse and buggy and a NASA space ship,” failing to note McCain’s personal contact contrasted by the cold technological and totally impersonal Obama e-mail. Now Noble goes over-the-top: “Obama has given people the tools to create and run their own campaigns,” as if attributing the invention of the internet away from Gore’s claim into Obama’s lap, claiming falsely to be the first to use the internet in campaign efforts ignoring Thompson and Paul, et.al. Finally, to insult experience that includes leadership in the military, Noble says, “McCain is still a command-and-control, top-down candidate” attributed to his “difference in age.”
So alongside the stoopid Obama attempt to sound macho threatening to terrorize American opponents with a gun and riots, we see that Obama would only deceitfully say that he’d meet McCain at the OK Corral while only willing to send a drone to kill on sight. You would think that Obama’s supporters at least could recognize that McCain has the guts enabling him to literally face down his opponent in dialogue, holding back on the shoot-out until the showdown actually comes to that. Beyond combat readiness, regarding diplomacy and self control, McCain has more than Obama.
maverick muse on June 16, 2008 at 12:50 PM
That’s a metaphorical gun Ed, you have to be able to think in that symbolic way while you read in between the liberal lines.
Who woulda thunk that superior knowledge of lines from movies would be necessary to understand what a candidate says.
Christine on June 16, 2008 at 12:51 PM
…or not understand what a candidate says.
Christine on June 16, 2008 at 12:54 PM
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