[quote]bigflamer wrote:
Professor X wrote:
bigflamer wrote:
However, the question arises; why would a potential employer give two shits if someone he might hire owned a gun? The only reason said potential employer would give a shit, is if there was a personal bias against gun ownership. I mean, as long as the potential hiree understood that firearms are not welcome at work, then it should be left at that.
There is a very good reason because this is politics. That is why he is concerned about My Space pages and whether someone is carrying LEGALLY. Think about that for a second, do you think it is smart for a person in politics today to hire someone without paying attention to who they are in cyberspace as well as whether they own a gun with all necessary paper work and have never been in trouble based on it?
The moment he ignores some issue like that, the media or critics (or both) will be all over it. Who the hell would NOT ask these questions today if they operate on a very public political stage?
Who said anything about MySpace pages? I thought this thread was about Opies anti gun track record and his hiring policies w/r/t his staff positions?
Listen, I understand that the president can appoint whomever he damn well pleases; a presidential perogotive that the left skewered Bush for using. And I also understand that he can ask whatever questions he wants in his interviews. Nobody is questioning his right to this. However, those of us who cherish our second amendment rights are rightfully fearful of Obama’s anti gun track record and consider these questions to be further proof that he is not as comfortable with the second amendment as we are.
According to the article, he was asking if the individual owned guns, not if the individual owned any guns illegally. There’s a big difference there. His inclusion of the gun question is definitely a window into his ideology. To ignore this is ignorance of the obvious. I believe that he’s trying to avoid the embarrasing moment when a reporter might hit him with “but Mr. President, how can you work to ban assault rifles when one of your staff members owns several of them?”
On a side note, I’m excited to be purchasing my first pistol soon. A Glock 30 that I can’t wait to try out this week at the range.
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The gun question is there because he doesn’t want pro gun, in other words pro constitution, people. We’ll see that soon enough.
On you other points.
I will be very disappointed if he does not appoint people everywhere that are every bit as waaay out left as he is. If he does not it will show a lack of conviction in his vision to “fundamentally change” this country.
I actually have some respect for people I thoroughly disagree with if they demonstrate some overt consistent conviction in their principles which is why I always respected Osama Bin Laden more than Bill Clinton. Ho Chi Minh more than LBJ. William Ayers than Barack Obama. It’s also why Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is my favorite liberal. I gag on just about every syllable that falls from his lips, but he’s a leftist believer and owns it like a man.
Respect is not in any way the same as allegiance.
Now that Obama is POTUS I’m hoping for a Dem super majority in the Senate and that they hold true to form in their militant quest to recreate this country in the image of our enemies for 1 major reason with 2 possible outcomes either of which is becoming preferable to what we have now.
The major reason is that it would finally display the leftist agenda for what it is.
The 2 possible outcomes are the people rejecting it or embracing it. We have to make up our minds already. Either we are going to be the United States of America in more than name only or we are going to expunge the principles that made us the envy of the world and embrace those with a long consistent history of survival at best and disaster at worst.
This bastardized Frankenstein’s monster of constantly trying to define America in socialistic, collectivist, they the government instead of we the people terms is flat down ugly and poisonous.
If we do not want to live by our constitution then let’s just stop pretending we do.