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At no point has "Gun Control" been brought up here that I have seen and I have yet to see much misrepresentation or misleading of Obama's statements.
And you KNOW this how? Because that is what he said?
So a politician has never said one thing and then done another?
...is that really the goal or is that what you are being told to move you closer to another agenda?
Really???...
a country that finds that it has no need to a 'right to bear arms'.
I am sure an unarmed nation who may need to take on it's corrupt Government would also have no need for firearms. They could easily take on a military force armed to the teeth with rocks and bottles.
Originally posted by MikeboydUS
We would have a coup d'etat and/or civil war before that ever happened.
Once President elect Obama is in office he'll see that the office of the President is not as powerful as people think it is. He will have to deal with bureaucrats who have worked in various agencies and departments from the last 40 to 30 years.
This is especially true of the military where you have senior brass who have served in the military since the late 1960s.
No civilian national security force will ever equal the power that military and the military industries wield.
I am sure that our military, the intelligence agencies and even the Secret Service would ensure there would be no dictatorship by anyone in the office of President.
[edit on 10/11/08 by MikeboydUS]
Special interests In January, the Obama campaign described union contributions to the campaigns of Clinton and John Edwards as "special interest" money. Obama changed his tune as he began gathering his own union endorsements. He now refers respectfully to unions as the representatives of "working people" and says he is "thrilled" by their support.
Public financing Obama replied "yes" in September 2007 when asked if he would agree to public financing of the presidential election if his GOP opponent did the same. Obama has now attached several conditions to such an agreement, including regulating spending by outside groups. His spokesman says the candidate never committed himself on the matter.
The Cuba embargo In January 2004, Obama said it was time "to end the embargo with Cuba" because it had "utterly failed in the effort to overthrow Castro." Speaking to a Cuban American audience in Miami in August 2007, he said he would not "take off the embargo" as president because it is "an important inducement for change."
Illegal immigration In a March 2004 questionnaire, Obama was asked if the government should "crack down on businesses that hire illegal immigrants." He replied "Oppose." In a Jan. 31, 2008, televised debate, he said that "we do have to crack down on those employers that are taking advantage of the situation."
Decriminalization of marijuana While running for the U.S. Senate in January 2004, Obama told Illinois college students that he supported eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana use. In the Oct. 30, 2007, presidential debate, he joined other Democratic candidates in opposing the decriminalization of marijuana.
These attacks upon Obama arise from his controversial thoughts on gun control, and just like a bunch of Iagos, those that do not want gun control are obsfucating, misrepresenting and misleading the statements Obama has made. I have already said it once, but it is worth stating again...Obama is not out to create a civilian army for enforcing law. He wants to create a civilian social infrastructure based on service to others. In other words, everybody helping each other out, and in this manner, bringing the nation back to a strength and cohesiveness based on community, all throughout the land. He does not want to train people to fight but to serve each other in various and diverse social fields. This plan of his, its noble aims, are being misrepresented by paranoid gun owners who are too scared to embrace a better and more community-based country, a country that finds that it has no need to a 'right to bear arms'.
In other words, everybody helping each other out, and in this manner, bringing the nation back to a strength and cohesiveness based on community, all throughout the land. He does not want to train people to fight but to serve each other in various and diverse social fields. This plan of his, its noble aims, are being misrepresented by paranoid gun owners who are too scared to embrace a better and more community-based country,
a country that finds that it has no need to a 'right to bear arms'.
It seems it is not only Obama you like to quote and assume out of context, but also posters to this thread. Why have you not quoted my statement within its qualifying wholeness? Why have you not included elements of the paragraph following the one from which you take the quote? I refer other readers to my post on page 11, for qualification and edification.
Originally posted by Lucid Lunacy
The ignorance in this thread is astounding.
Originally posted by Lucid Lunacy
The ignorance in this thread is astounding.
Originally posted by tgambill
Zbigniew Brzezinski will be the current president in a covert position.