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Obama's True Feelings: fathers and sons bond over hunting.

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I'm repeating this post because I think it needs to be heard by ALL.

Remember those famous 'Bitter' comments about guns that Barack Obama made that made the media and some voters get into a tiffy about awhile back in Pennsylvania?  Well it seems Obama had said something much more acceptable just prior to that fundraiser:

In the private event just prior to his infamous San Francisco fundraiser, Obama offered an interpretation of Second Amendment rights likely to go over smoother with rural America.

"We need sensible gun laws," said the Senator. "I just got back from Montana where just about everyone has guns. In that culture, fathers and sons bond over hunting. You can't take that away from rural America. But the inner city is different, and we should tighten the laws on gun purchases and close the loopholes in gun show sales to unscrupulous buyers. The gun control people and the right to bear arms people are talking past each other about disconnected topics."

The remarks, delivered at an event in Silicon Valley and shared with The Huffington Post by an attendee, suggest that even in private, Obama's view of gun ownership is far from the condescending anti-Second Amendment characterization that his critics have painted. Rather, they imply that Obama actually does view the right to bear arms as a personal tradition passed through generations, but one that does not necessarily comport to every geographic region...

It's too bad the man that handed this to HuffingtonPost.com couldn't have done so during the time it was being widely discussed.

 


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It's also too bad Obama didn't hit back hard with these words. It bothers me that he doesn't do that.

It's also too bad Obama didn't hit back hard with these words. It bothers me that he doesn't do that.

Ever consider the idea that he does that on purpose?

He is perfectly capable of writing and speaking in any manner he desires. He has even shown himself to be willing to lecture and dis' certain demographics, like DKos fans when he feels it is important for him to do so.

More and more, I read things like this about him, from supporters:

Still, Mr. Khalidi said ascertaining Mr. Obama’s precise position was often difficult. “You may come away thinking, ‘Wow, he agrees with me,’ ” he said. “But later, when you get home and think about it, you are not sure.”
from Pragmatic Politics, Forged on the South Side, New York Times, May 11, 2008

This is something which was also often said of Bill Clinton as president, that people came away from meeting with him thinking he agreed with them, and it turned out later that that was not exactly the case.

Another quote from the Times article to think about:

His willingness to negotiate — the interrogation law ended up with a host of exceptions — gained him a reputation as a pragmatist who could sell compromise as a victory to all sides, said Peter Baroni, then the legal counsel to the Republican caucus.
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This not the first time I have read those statements by Obama, and I am sure MSM knows his views on gun control, but as with all the other schemes, MSM is hell-bented on dividing the nation and is using Obama as the instrument to justify "their rationale" this is country will not just sit back and let an educated, smart, "articulate", personable, good-looking, "likable" BLACK man become POTUS.

I think you are a bit naive about how candidates can get out messages if they really want to. Campaign donations partly go to P.R. consultants to do precisely that, they call 'em "war rooms." When it's the topic of the day, there's your chance to spin what your message on the topic is, as Liberal Elite's opinion on it "It's also too bad Obama didn't hit back hard with these words" implies.

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