Last week the president's campaign launched AttackWatch.com, a website ostensibly aimed at countering anti-Obama "smears" with "facts." In reality, the site is a thinly veiled attempt to spread misinformation and whip up anger against anyone who disagrees with Obama.
Visitors to the site are asked to submit a detailed report of any "attacks" on President Obama to his campaign.
Obama supporters are also urged to give his campaign the private email addresses of anyone they know "who needs to know the facts" so the campaign can send those dissenters an email message.This attempt by Obama to create an online enemies list must be another example of his incredible web savvy the media keeps telling us about — Obama's 21st century rendition of President Nixon's paranoia.
The site also includes Obama's best effort to portray himself as a friend of gun owners, and declares at the top of its Second Amendment page,
"President Obama believes in common sense gun control laws compatible with Second Amendment rights."
common sense and gun control don't even belong in the same paragraph littleone the same sentence.
As gun owners and freedom advocates know, whenever a serial anti-gunner like President Obama says he wants common sense gun control, you can be sure that gun-ban policies are around the corner. Former President Clinton used this same "common sense" rhetoric to help sell his gun ban in 1994.
Thank you for the offer
, Mr. President, but the Second Amendment and our Bill of Rights already contain enough common sense and your editing isn't needed here.
As for proof that Obama supports the Second Amendment, the site repeats his claims from the 2008 campaign, when he said: "There's nothing I will do as president of the United States that will in any way encroach on the ability of sportsmen to continue that tradition."
Apparently, our president still doesn't understand that
the primary function of the Second Amendment is to protect the fundamental and individual right of all law-abiding Americans to keep and bear arms in order to defend ourselves, our families, our property, our communities and our country. It is not to protect "sportsmen."
It's understandable that Obama would have to go back to his 2008 campaign to find anything that remotely resembles pro-gun rhetoric, because his more recent actions have put his antipathy for the Second Amendment on full display.
In addition to appointing two Supreme Court justices with clear records of contempt for our right to keep and bear arms,
Montanan's Jon Tester helped to do this,appoint sotomeyer and kagan to the supremes, tester has got to go
Obama has also stacked his administration with anti-gun zealots like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder and far too many "czars" who are lifelong opponents of legal gun ownership.
You won't find this on AttackWatch.com, but the Obama administration also launched an initiative to ban the importation of popular sporting and defense shotguns. You know … because he cares so much about sportsmen.
