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Showing posts with label National Rifle Association. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Rifle Association. Show all posts

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Video: Montana Town Hall - President Obama takes question from skeptical conservative and NRA member


At President Obama's town hall meeting in Belgrade, Montana, Obama takes a question from Randy, a "proud NRA member" who says he gets his news from "cable networks", to which Obama says, "be careful". Skeptical about who will foot the bill for health care reform, Randy asks the President how he doesn't expect to raise taxes on the middle class.

Obama says: "You're absolutely right that I can't cover 46 million people for free... We're going to have to find money from somewhere." But he stood by his promise that the middle class would not see their taxes raised. And he also explained why some of this is the problem of the Bush administration.


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Friday, May 15, 2009

What are they good at? It's BS 101. Are we going buy it once again? Hell no!

They're taking your guns away. They're coming to get you and Obama is sending them. That's the line they are using now. I should not say 'using'. Reviving is more like it.

We call it bull shit where I come from.

From Think Progress, it's RNC Chairman Michael Steele to The National Rifle Association:

It is ironic, to say the least, that at the same time Democrats in Congress are threatening to deny Americans their second amendment right to own a firearm and defend their families and homes, they are considering bringing terrorists like 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other Al Qaeda detainees to our communities once the President follows through on his campaign promise to close Guantanamo Bay.
I will say that Steele said exactly what the NRA wanted to hear. Whether he believes what he says is an entirely different matter. It's still bull shit.



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