What Made Obama Change His Gun Stance Between Urban And Rural Pennsylvania?
I can see if one changes his position over a matter of years, but from city to city? Really Obama?
>”I am not in favor of concealed weapons,” Obama said. “I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.
And:
The campaign has asked gun rights advocates like state Rep. Dan Surra, a Democrat from rural Elk County with an “A+” rating from the NRA, to form a coalition of supporters who can vouch for Obama.
“It is clear out there that I am for Obama, and they have reached out to me as a sportsman and a gun owner,” Surra said Thursday. “There has been an outreach to pro-gun legislators, pro-gun people who are sympathetic to Obama’s message.”
The campaign sent an e-mail this week to the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, saying it would “appreciate all sportsmen taking time to learn the facts: Our candidate strongly supports the right and traditions of sportsmen throughout Pennsylvania and the United States of America.” …………………….
…………… two-page white paper on Obama’s website doesn’t mention his voting record.
Instead, he introduces himself as a former constitutional law professor who “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,” the paper states. “He also believes that the right is subject to reasonable and common sense regulation.”
Melody Zullinger, the executive director of the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs who received the Obama campaign e-mail on his gun record, said Obama sounds like he is “speaking out of both sides of his mouth.”
“I was at one of our county meetings last night and I mentioned this to [federation members],” Zullinger said Friday of the Obama outreach. “Everyone basically blew it off and weren’t buying it.”
Obama’s approach is similar to one advocated by Third Way, which issued a seven-step blueprint in 2006 to close the “gun gap” with Republicans. In a memo on its website, the group urges progressives to avoid silence on gun issues, and instead “redefine the issue in a way that appeals to gun owning voters.”
Among the key steps, according to Third Way: “Own the Second Amendment” and “Take Your Message Directly to Gun Owners ” Don’t Let Your Opponent Define You.”
The National Rifle Association posted an article on its website in February warning members against buying into Obama and Clinton, who were using the “scripted rhetorical tricks in the Third Way playbook to the letter.”
April 7, 2008 - 12:46 PM on April 7th, 2008
Sounds like he is trying to pull off the same stunt JOHN KERRY tried to pull off in 2004 i mean the same bunch of decite and lies this jerk dont trust people to have concealed carry WE DONT NEED THIS DEMACROOK IN THE WHITEHOUSE
April 7, 2008 - 01:04 PM on April 7th, 2008
Wow, he even has HilLiary beat with his situational core principles! What a phony! What a double-talking liar!
Young Obama, if not a typical politician already, sure is catching up fast! Now if he can polish his scandal response (which has been lacking) and learn to lie prolifically with a straight face, he’ll be a solid DemokRat candidate in every way!
“Change we can believe in!”
SUCKER!!!
April 7, 2008 - 11:47 PM on April 7th, 2008
The really sad part of all this is that the vast majority of those gun club members in western PA are union members and will almost certainly vote Democrapic in the fall elections