In his new ad Brown tells of a woman leaving church choir practice who was killed by gang gunfire while shielding her 6-year-old daughter, a 15-year-old boy beaten with bricks after a gang member crashed into his car, and a 14-year-old boy shot five times in the back for refusing to flash a gang hand sign.
“They all died in 2001. In Chicago,” the voice-over declares.
That same year, Barack Obama ” then an Illinois state senator ” voted against expanding the death penalty for gang-related murders, the ad points out.
The ad concludes, “When the time came to get tough, Obama chose to be weak. So the question is: Can a man so weak in the war on gangs be trusted in the war on terror?”
Fred Marcano explains:
He joined only two other senators in voting against a bill to forbid convicts on probation from having contact with street gangs, and he voted against a bill to expand the death penalty to gang-related murders.
Time:
Obama has written that he supports the death penalty for some crimes that are “so heinous” and “so beyond the pale.” But in Illinois he worked to put in place more safeguards to prevent wrongful convictions, including a law that required police to tape interrogations and confessions. The Obama campaign did not offer any immediate comment on Brown’s ad. John McCain supports continued use of the death penalty, as does Hillary Clinton, though she has also called for more procedural safeguards to improve legal representation for death row inmates.
Ed had pointed out that Obama’s board helped fund handgun-ban efforts. The article that is cited states:
Obama’s eight years on the board of the Joyce Foundation, which paid him more than $70,000 in directors fees, do not in any way conflict with his campaign-trail support for the rights of gun owners, Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for Obama’s presidential campaign, asserted in a statement issued to Politico this week.
Ed rightly asks Where did the money go?
Does anyone else see a pattern? If Obama doesn’t want to ban handguns, he certainly chose the wrong foundation to help run. Once again, his track record speaks in opposition to his blandishments towards the benighted and embittered gun owners that he wants to rescue through bigger federal government.
This came out yesterday: Bloody Weekend: At Least 21 Shot, 4 Dead But Police Point Out Shootings, Murders Down So Far In 2008
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Obama truly has accomplished NOTHING in his political career.
Gosh, I just put up the video. You wrote a whole daggone article about it! Are you trying to make me look bad? Have you been reading my mind again? (lol) Great job!!!
You can never look bad Rosemary
These guys talk tough on the war on terror but, act dumb. It’s dumb to fight a war in the wrong place. Al Qaida is in Pakistan not Iraq. The people how started the War are still at large. I love our troops we have the best military in the history of man. But when it’s lead by dumb people who are not able to lead them to policy that leads to a clear victory, than we only embolden our enemies. How did going into Iraq bring justice to the families and the nation for the atrocities of September 11th? How did hanging a despot like Saddam Hussein undercut the appeal of Al Qaida? Tough talk – dumb actions from a fake cowboy who could not think his way out of a wet paper bag. Willie Horton!? Please.
Hey Tough Talk is Cheap-
Even a fake cowboy who could not think his way out of a wet paper bag knows that AQ is in Iraq. Sadr is sitting in Pakistan as are a number of terrorists..