Updated: Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, 9:49 am -- At an Idaho rally this weekend, Barack Obama said he'd been "praising Jesus" for 20 years and had "no intention of taking away folks' guns." Hillary Clinton accused him of flip-flopping, noting that in 1996 he'd been in support of a handgun ban."
Clayton Cramer calls Barack Obama "a liar." "He claims that he wants more laws to keep guns out of the inner cities. Why? Does he think black people lack the sense that white people have? He was a member of the board of the Joyce Foundation, the primary funder of extreme gun control measures in the United States. And he claims that he isn't trying to disarm Americans?"
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Glenn Reynolds has linked to recent statements by Mitt Romney on gun control. Romney is currently saying he will veto any gun control bill that comes across his desk. But when he appeared on Meet the Press on December 16, 2007, his statement was slightly different. Of course, the charge from the left and right, is that he was flip-flopping.
His campaign office then put out a statement on December 28, 2007 to "clarify" his remarks.
Combine this with John McCain's historic support of gun control measures, and his ridiculous sponsorship of free speech infringement (so-called campaign finance reform).
Combine this with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's apparent opposition to individual firearms ownership and historic support of outside-the-mainstream registration schemes.
What are conservative and liberal firearms owners to do?
h/t to Pete Stryjewski, Dave Buda, Glenn Reynolds, Clayton Cramer
03 February 2008
Romney, Clinton, McCain, Obama On Gun Control
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The fact is Romney is the least bad of the available talent.
For all his failures, he at least has done something other than feed at the public trough. He is not likely to be a closet marxist. He implemented a universal health care scheme in MA that is rocketing out of its budget and regrets his handiwork.
A notable trait is his inability to emulate a "rock star", "media darling" or the engineer of a train of "straight talk". This seems to me to be in line with a more complete and secure personality that does not seek power for the sake of it or to address character failings. This is a good thing in a President, methinks.
Harry I agree. I was telling a friend on the telephone over the weekend that I have come to the conclusion that Romney is "least dangerous" to our nation. The concern is whether he is electable by a national electorate?
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