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Quote of the day–Barack Obama

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But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in the society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted…


Barack Obama
Chicago Public Radio Interview — 2001
[H/T to Kevin and Say Uncle.


This may be the deciding factor in the election. My guess it will be a very tight race between “spreading the wealth” quotes and the voting fraud as to which will ultimately decide the election.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Albert Einstein

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My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.


Albert Einstein
[Idolized? Does that remind you of someone? Perhaps Einstein, like me, would have voted against Barack Obama.–Joe]

Muggers for Obama

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I doubt this is part of their official campaign:




A knife-wielding man robbed a McCain-Palin campaign volunteer and etched a “B” into her face after he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the woman’s car, Pittsburgh police said.


But socialism does inspire and in fact outright demand (read Karl Marx) violence to achieve Utopia.


So I’m not surprised.

In 2004 there were hundreds of reports of Republican campaign offices being vandalized and worse. There was something like 10 or 20 Democrat campaign offices damaged in the same time frame.

In the big scheme of things–think about willingness of Stalin, Hitler, Chairman Mao, Pol Pot, etc. and their followers to use force to implement socialism. Barack Obama and his followers come from a long line of violent political ancestors. That doesn’t even count the “white collar” crime activities they engage in like the governor’s election in Washington state last time where in King County (Seattle area) there were more votes counted than there were registered voters.


Democrats and crime? Typical. Who do you think some of the most dependable democrat voters are? Why do you think democrats want to register people to vote in prison and those with criminal records?


And the gun bans? If you wanted to get put on your tin-foil hat you could hypothesis they want to enable criminals so the political “leaders” can acquire more power to “protect the little guy”. Hitler sent his goons out to break things then claimed he needed more power to “protect the people”. What Schumer, Feinstein, Obama, and the others are doing is just a low level, indirect means of accomplishing the same thing. That they have supporters taking it to the next level is just showing us the trend and their roots more clearly.


They hate us and they hate freedom and they are certain they are right. That gives them justification for anything they do that furthers their cause. Think I’m exaggerating? Then read this. Here is a sample:



If a kid in a red state finds his daddy’s handgun and blows his head off, we’ll feel terrible (we’re like that), but we’ll try to look on the bright side: At least he won’t grow up to vote like his dad.


This is the mindset of the socialists. This is the mindset that resulted in socialist governments murdering tens of millions of their own citizens in the 20th century. This is the mindset of muggers for Obama.


Update: The attack on the girl was probably a hoax (H/T to Sebastian).

Spreading the Wealth Around

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When I heard BO talking to Joe The Plumber, saying that when we spread the wealth around, everyone benefits, I agreed with his words.  Any time you help to produce or deliver products or services, you are “spreading the wealth around”.  Anytime you trade products or service with another person, both parties in the transaction are “spreading the wealth around”.  Any time you buy stock in a company, you help finance that company and you’re spreading the wealth around.  Any time you put money in a savings plan, you’re helping to finance others, and you’re spreading the wealth around.  If you hire someone, you’re spreading the wealth around. If you go to work for someone else, you’re spreading the wealth around.  Even if you’re a miser and you buy gold to bury in your back yard, you’re supporting the gold mining and processing industry and all the people they employ throughout the supply chain, and you’re spreading the wealth around.


But we all know that Obama wasn’t talking about peaceable, voluntary exchange of goods and services between free citizens.  He was talking about spreading the wealth around using force and the threat of force.  To put it another way, Obama, and all who think similarly, does not trust you to produce they way HE thinks you should produce, so he wants to tell you how to do it.  He doesn’t trust you to make your own purchasing and financing decisions, so he’s going to do more of that for you.


Obama and socialists everywhere are jealous of your abilities to produce and they’re jealous of the freedom you’ve had in spreading your wealth around.  Make no mistake about it– that jealousy leads to anger and hatred.


We can look at the political struggle in this country in this way; Either you favor spreading the wealth around through peaceable, voluntary exchange, or you favor spreading the wealth around through the use of force and the threat of force.


Lest you be tempted to demand a look at history to find which method of spreading the wealth has a better record of success, I would warn you that the two sides (socialists and capitalists) have incompatible measures of “success”.  You may think that success means more people living at higher standards, with more choices in life, more mobility, a better life span and so on.  You’d be wrong if you think socialists will see that as a desirable outcome.


Update; Of course there is a whole lot more to participation in a free market beside “spreading” wealth.  In fact you are creating wealth– something the socialists have never been able to comprehend.  In the mind of a socialist, to become rich is to deprive someone else.  In fact, and as with virtually all socialist beliefs, the opposite is true.  In the process of building your own wealth in a capitalist market, and in the process of using it in a capitalist market, you are invariably benefiting others.

Random Obama facts

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In the right column of this blog in the “Politics” section is a new addition I found at The Peoples Cube–“Random Obama Facts”. Each time you refresh the page a random “fact” will be displayed. Some of my favorites:



Obama visited Benjamin Franklin in a dream and told him how to live his life serving the community, but all that Franklin could remember was, how to fly a kite.


Any sentence containing the name “Obama” and ending in a question mark has been determined to be racist.  The only exceptions are rhetorical sentences such as “Is there any way that Obama could be more perfect?”


Obama can calculate your guilt just by looking at the numbers in your checkbook.


Big government is like a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but efficiency is always an inch beyond the hook. Every time you realize this, Obama wants you to believe that the government must grow an inch bigger.


Obama smokes so you don’t have to.


Obama always overpays his taxes because he believes that the government will find a better use for his money than he ever could.

Obama and rights

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Barack Obama says that health care is a right. Which apparently, in his world view, means government should make it possible for everyone to obtain health insurance via tax credits and forcing employers to provide it. He also says he believes gun ownership is a right. Therefore one should reasonably be able to conclude he also believes similar measures would be appropriate to pay for guns and ammo for everyone, right?


Odd, he doesn’t say anything about that in his policy statement.

Barack I Like Guns Obama

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Barack Obama is now running ads telling us that he supports gun rights:



He bases this claim in the fact that he voted for SA4615 the bill which has the purpose:



To prohibit the confiscation of a firearm during an emergency or major disaster if the possession of such firearm is not prohibited under Federal or State law.


Good. But not good enough. This ignores all his other votes and support for the complete handgun ban in Washington D.C., and support for a ban on “assault weapons”. Hunting, which is what Obama and Biden focus on, has nothing to do with the Second Amendment. Unless you include hunting government employees in the definition of hunting. Hunting is not a protected right except under some state constitutions. Yet that is what Obama and company seem to think is the entire basis of the Second Amendment.


Check out the rest of the story before you believe this weasel.

Blunder or not?

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I hope they are right but I just don’t know. I don’t have a very high opinion of the ability of people to think for themselves. But could it be The Left’s Big Blunder?


Via Ry.

Ignore the man behind the curtain

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From Nevada Appeal (ignore the error about Biden being the presidential nominee instead of the vice presidential nominee):



Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware said Friday that Nevadans shouldn’t listen to claims he and Barack Obama would take away the right to bear arms.

“I get a kick out of, sometimes, the NRA saying we’re going to take your shotguns away,” he said in a telephone interview with the Nevada Appeal.


…


“Both of us believe strongly in the Second Amendment,” Biden said. “We do not believe in registration. We do believe in limits on some of the weapons. You can’t have your own flame-thrower or bazooka. And legislation in relation to assault weapons doesn’t affect hunters or sportsmen.

“We are two Democrats who voted against gun control,” he said.

But, Biden said, there is room for common-sense laws relating to such things as carrying concealed weapons.


That’s right. You shouldn’t listen to what people are saying about his record. Listen only to what he wants you to hear. “Assault weapons”? Concealed carry? You’re just a hunter. You don’t need to concern yourself with those things. We’ll send those people off to the prison camps first and you don’t need to worry about them because your gun is a good gun. Those other guys have bad guns.

The NRA and the Brady campaign agree

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The NRA website has the details. The basics are:



This week, in a testament to his anti-gun record, Barack Obama also received a presidential endorsement from the Brady Campaign.


So, once again, the Brady Campaign and NRA are in total agreement—Barack Obama is, by far, the most anti-gun presidential nominee in history and he certainly deserves the endorsement of one of the most outspoken anti-gun organizations in the country.


NRA-ILA has repeatedly documented Obama’s anti-gun stance; but if any doubt remains about Obama’s true position on the Second Amendment, his endorsement from the Brady Campaign should dispel it.


Voting for Obama will be asking for a return the era of Bill Clinton only worse. Bill Clinton and his policies were significant motivators for me to buy my first gun. It was Diane Feinstein that motivated me to manufacture my own explosives. You don’t want to know what Obama will motivate me to do.

Quote of the day–Senator Everett Dirksen

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A billion here, and a billion there, and pretty soon it adds up to real money.


Senator Everett Dirksen
[I should have posted this two weeks ago.–Joe]

Preemption in Washington State stands–for now

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The back story is here, here, here, here, here, and here.


An email from Joe Waldron to the WA-Guns email list:



The Attorney General has issued Opinion Number 2008 — 8 that defines
state preemption as it applies to Mayor Nickels attempt to ban guns on
Seattle city property.


In a nutshell, the AG says “preemption means preemption.”


The AGO reads in part:


The question: “Does a city in Washington have the authority to enact a
local law that prohibits the possession of firearms on city property or
in city-owned buildings?”


The answer: “The answer to your question is no. RCW 9.41.290 “fully
occupies and preempts the entire field of firearms regulation” and
preempts a city’s authority to adopt firearms laws or regulations of
application to the general public, unless specifically authorized by
state law. Accordingly, RCW 9.41.290 preempts a city’s authority to
enact local laws that prohibit possession of firearms on city property
or in city-owned facilities.”


He then uses a dozen pages of legalese to explain why the Cherry and
PNWSPA cases (state Supreme Court decisions that went against us) do not
apply here.


AG Opinions are published on the AG’s web site at
http://www.atg.wa.gov/uploadedFiles/Another/About_the_Office/AGO_Opinions/AGO_Opinion_Archives/Indices%20Yearly%20Report%202007.pdf


AGO 2008-8 is not posted yet, but should be shortly.


In all, to these non-lawyerly eyes, a well written stick to poke in
Mayor Nickels’ eye.


Another win for the good guys.


We need to thank Senator Morton (R-7), Representative Van De Wege (D-24)
and those other legislators who made the formal request to the AG for
this opinion.


And now for the down side: We can expect a frontal assault on
preemption in Olympia when the legislature goes back into session in
January. They’ve tried it before, and didn’t have quite the number of
votes they needed to pass. With ACORN & Co working overtime to register
fraudulent voters for the presidential election, we can anticipate
Democrat gains in the 2009-2010 legislature. That MAY be enough to push
them over the top.


Joe W

Quote of the day–Richard Pearson

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I’d like to remind you that I’m a guy who has actually gone nose to nose with Obama on gun rights issues. The Obama I know cannot even begin to identify with this nation’s outdoor traditions. The Obama I know sees you, the law abiding gun owner, as nothing but a low-class lummox who is easily swayed by the flash of a smile and a ration of rosy rhetoric. The Obama I know is a stony-faced liar who has honed his skill at getting what he wants – so long as people are willing to give it to him.


Richard Pearson
October 15, 2008
Illinois State Rifle Association Executive Director Richard Pearson Issues Open Letter to Nation’s Sportsmen Regarding Obama’s History in the Illinois Senate
[H/T to Sebastian. See also GunBaNObama.com. And that totally ignores his anti-First Amendment activities and his apparently complete disregard for the U.S. Constitution as a whole. See also The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate. That book will really open your eyes. He won at least two of his state legislative offices by kicking his opponents out of the race–Chicago politics at their finest. You can be sure he will bring change you can believe in to Washington D.C.. There is also his close relationship with Reverend “Snuffy” Pfleger (not to be confused with Reverend Wright) and so many other unsavory things that people that should know greatly fear his rise to power.–Joe]

I heard McCain talking today

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… on the Glen Beck radio show.  If you know Glen Beck at all, you know he’s a capitalist.  He gets it.  In discussing the “Bail out” scam, he asked McCain why he voted for it the second time, after having opposed it earlier and after decrying earmarks and pork.  Now, I’d say it was a dumb question, because there is no possible decent answer other than, “I’m a sucker and I have no principles.  What can I say?”  Taking probably his best way out, McCain answered, and I paraphrase;


“Everyone was telling me it was the right thing to do.”


Now that’s leadership, baby!  Wow, what balls!  Everyone told him to do it.  And just who is this Everyone person?  I’d like to meet him.  We’ve known McCain for a long time, so this is nothing unexpected.  Apparently this Everyone person is a lot smarter and a more forceful decision-maker, ’cause he turned McCain around on a dime.


We are so screwed.


And for those who think it untimely of me to bring this up right before the election; I see it as a matter of how quickly we’re gonna get screwed, so it’s hard to keep a dog in this fight.  Frog-in-the-pot model and all.  It’s McCain’s to lose.  Hopefully this Everyone person, whom he trusts more than himself, will give him some better advice in the coming weeks. 

More Obama ads from the NRA

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Obama is trying to trample on the first amendment. And then Obama saying, “Don’t tell me words don’t matter” in combination with saying people with “traditional values” cling to their guns and religion.

I know that guy

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Say Uncle says he knows the guy quoted in the newspaper article. The article is about the NRA ad being correct when it says Obama voted for a bill that would have outlawed most common hunting ammo. Obama and others on the left say the NRA ad is a lie. The reporter quotes a gun blogger as a reference to support the NRA’s claim. I know that guy too.


That blogger would be me and this blog post.


Sebastian also noticed.


What I noticed was that the headline to the article wasn’t something to the effect that “NRA is right–Obama tried to ban hunting ammo” but instead, “NRA ad draws fire for dubious claims”.


What media bias?

Quote of the day–Ben Franklin

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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and more frequently fall into than that of defrauding the government.


Ben Franklin
[Socialized medicine anyone?–Joe]

Quote of the day–Ly Chho

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I am a new NRA member. I have been a citizen for only fourteen years. I believe in the Constitution and the Second Amendment, and when I see Obama, I see Communism, and I am afraid. I believe he is going to win the election. Do you have any plans in place if this happens?


Ly Chho
October 9, 2008
A question for NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre.
Via Kevin Baker.
[Kevin reports Mrs. Ly Chho, was born of Chinese parents in Cambodia, raised and schooled in Taiwan, and hence “she should know”.–Joe]

Full court press until election day?

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One might reasonably speculate that the NRA is going to engage in a full court press against Barack Abomination Obama starting today and continuing until election day.


Here are some hints of what we will see today:



The news should be out of the bag by now. It’s 8:00 in PA but I haven’t seen what is being said yet and I really need to get back to bed and get some sleep.

Quote of the day–Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.


Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
[Ebner-Eschenbach is apparently the originator of the “stopped clock is right twice a day” quote:



Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.


Which wouldn’t be a bad QOTD during this political season as well. But back to fear and dodging…


Obama dodges. What does he mean when he says the following?



“I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country.” (gun ownership and restrictions on guns)
Politico, 2/11/08


“I think that local jurisdictions have the capability to institute their own gun laws.”
BaltimoreSun.com, 2/15/08


He could settle all this by promising, as President of the United States, to veto any gun control restriction bill that reaches his desk. But he doesn’t.


Gun owners have something to fear in Obama as a person in power.–Joe]