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Barak Obama is a pure politician.  If you don’t think so, just look at how he responded to the Supreme Court’s decision on the D.C. gun ban versus John McCain’s view.   The two candidates could not be more different as McCain hails the decision while Obama waffles…again.  Conservative does not mind telling everyone they support an individual’s right to keep and bare arms, while a liberal tries to have it both way by both supported a gun owners right to keep his weapon and the state’s right to take it.

In a way I sympathize with Barak Obama.  If he supports the High Court’s decision, he risks the antipathy of the left.  If he comes out against the Court’s decision, he risks alienating the gun owners of the country.  Therefore he rides the fence trying to act like a liberal while not being a liberal. 

In the past Barak Obama has advocated the government’s right not just to regulated gun ownership, but to confiscated them if the action is somehow justified.  Now that Obama has won the Democrat nomination for President, he feels the need to obfuscate his views.  Just look at how Obama words the following statement.

“I have always believed that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to bear arms, but I also identify with the need for crime-ravaged communities to save their children from the violence that plagues our streets through commonsense, effective safety measures,” Obama said.

Huh!?  Maybe Obama needs a little more straight-talk and a little less political talk. 

When pressed on the issue, neither Obama nor his campaign seek clarify the Senator’s position.  As a politician, I guess that is the way he wants it.  That way any statement can be refuted by simply stating: ‘that is not what the Senator said.’  Obviously Barak Obama does not want his position posited.  Either way he loses votes.  But in this case, someone who equivocates on the issue is against private gun ownership.  From previous statements, Barak Obama is against the private ownership of firearms. 

John McCain, while not a staunch conservative, has reacted jubilantly to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision.

McCain, the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting, heralded the justices’ action as “a landmark victory for Second Amendment freedom.”

Obama has run a campaign on change, but in the end he has shown himself to be a pure politician by being able to talk out of both sides of his mouth at the same time.  So much for the Senator’s passion for change.

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The Senate is set to pass a renewal of the FISA law, which has also been called the Warrantless Wiretapping Law.  For years Democrats have blocked its passage for a number of spurious reasons: the law is too broad giving the President too much power to tap phones, all wiretaps must go through the FISA courts first, the law allows the government to spy on the American people, the law gives the phone companies immunity from lawsuits for cooperating with the government, and a number of other bogus reasons.  The ultra-liberal John D. Rockefeller is a big backer of this law.  So what changed in this law from other previous attempts—nothing significant.  

This may be the most important bill we pass this year,” said Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), an architect of the bill crafted over four months of negotiations between congressional leaders and the White House.

If this bill were as important as the Senator says, why did they wait so long?  The answer is simple—politics.  But don’t think all liberals are folding as easy as Rockefeller.  Senators Feingold and Dodd are not going away quietly.  And the liberal Netroots organization is not happy with their fellow Dems either, especially Barack Obama.  

The FISA debate marks the presumptive Democratic nominee’s first serious break from the liberal Netroots in the general election. He is still their candidate, but the FISA issue has reignited skepticism among major bloggers, who had largely pushed aside doubts about Obama when Edwards, their favored candidate, ended his bid in February.

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Obama’s decision to support the bill with the immunity provision was not surprising, she said. Republicans frame critics of such security measures as soft on terrorism, and the presumptive Democratic nominee probably does not want it used against him.

Obama is a typical politician, he supports bills he not normally vote for because of politics.  Typical, but at least the bill looks like it will pass.  It will pass years too late, but at least it will pass.

On a positive note many Dems are about as happy with Barak Obama as Republicans are with John McCain.

Still, the disillusionment goes only so far. The liberal blogosphere’s most recognizable name, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, founder of Daily Kos, said Monday on MSNBC’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann”: “Let’s be honest, it is either Obama or John McCain. So we really don’t have much of a choice.”

It aught to be an interesting election.

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Wow! The Supreme Court struck down the D.C. gun ban. This is a significant development. For years there has been a debate between gun rights supporters and anti-gun activists on the meaning of the 2^nd Amendment to the Constitution. Anti-gun activists have long viewed gun rights as belonging not to individuals but to the militia or another words to individuals empowered by the government to provide defense during times of national or state emergencies. The Supreme Court has struck down this argument saying gun ownership is an individual right. This is great news!

According to Justice Scalia, the 2^nd amendment gives an individual a right to own a gun.

Anti-gun activists have been targeting gun ownership for years. They have attacked the meaning of the 2^nd Amendment, they have attacked gun manufacturers, and they have a whole host of lawyers who are willing to work for free to deny gun owners their rights. These lawyers have gun so far as to blame guns for violence instead of the gun wielder. They have sued gun manufacturers for making defective guns because a criminal will sometimes use a gun to commit a crime. What a crock!

Thank Goodness the US Supreme Court finally took a stand on the Constitution.

More updates later.

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