marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 9/6/2008
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The case for Barack Obama's consistency about the DC gun law rests on the following argument. (a) A spokesman gave an incorrect statement on whether Obama supported the DC law. (b) several questionnaires got it wrong -- including one with Obama's handwriting on it. (c) When Obama responded to ...
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Seeing Is Not Believing
JustOneMinute —
... , it's hard to see what meaningful restrictions the Second Amendment imposes on gun control if something like the D.C. law can pass constitutional muster. Marc Ambinder : It's true that Obama regularly says and has said that he interprets the 2nd amendment to hold secure an individual's right to bear arms while being constrained by the rights of the community to "maintain public safety," as he put it today. It's just that, with regard to the DC law, it seems clear that Obama was OK with how DC government balanced those rights and is now OK with the see-saw swinging in the ...
Classic Obama On Guns
Flopping Aces —
... Can everyone hear me in the back? I see a couple of sportsmen back there. I’m not going to take away your guns.’’
So he is suddenly someone who doesn’t want to take away guns but he does qualify that with the fact that if he did flip-flop, as he has been known to do, he has concluded he doesn’t have the votes so that shouldn’t be the reason not to vote for him.
Sound about right? Oh, maybe he didn’t flip-flop….maybe it was everyone else’s fault:
The case for Barack Obama’s consistency ...
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