The Company He Keeps

[MikeC]

What do a radical South Side Chicago priest who has demanded that law-abiding firearm dealers and state legislators be “snuffed out,” and Chicago’s political boss, who is “livid” and “outraged” over the Supreme Court’s recognition of the Second Amendment, have in common?

Influence over Barack Obama.

In the case of Mayor Richard S. Daley--who heads the toughest, most powerful urban political machine in the nation--his early primary endorsement of freshman U.S. Senator Obama’s bid for the Democratic nomination for the presidency requires a big political payback. And I suspect that payback will involve our gun rights if Obama takes the White House in November.

With the extra-ordinary victory for
the nation’s gun owners, the Supreme Court recognized that all peaceable law-abiding Americans should indeed have that choice.

When the Supreme Court issued its historic landmark decision in June striking down the District of Columbia gun ban as violating the individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Mayor Daley issued a five-minute diatribe.

As the Chicago Tribune, which immediately demanded the repeal of the Second Amendment, put it: “In railing against the Supreme Court ruling, Daley stressed the danger of private gun ownership .”

Alluding to the urban gun-ban cabal headed by his New York colleague Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Daley sputtered, “Every mayor will be outraged over this. Why should we allow more and more guns in our homes? Could you see everyone having guns in their home?”

With the extraordinary victory for the nation’s gun owners, the Supreme Court recognized that all peaceable, law-abiding Americans should indeed have that choice.

If Daley had his way, he wouldn’t “allow” a single gun in any home. Recently, in Los Angeles, he said, “It is about time that America wakes up and says . . . we can outlaw smoking in a bar so quickly, yet you cannot outlaw guns in America.” And at another rally he screamed:

“NO GUNS IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA!”

Daley is a defendant in NRA’s lawsuit to throw out the Chicago gun ban, which is virtually identical to the unconstitutional D.C. ban.

Time and time again, Obama has said the Chicago ban is in line with his vision of the Second Amendment.

No matter how much Obama wraps himself in empty words about the Second Amendment, know him by the friends he keeps--like Dick Daley.

When it comes to the Second Amendment, the company Obama keeps speaks more than his own words. They would destroy the Second Amendment and so would Obama, the candidate.

And that brings me to the radical priest, Michael Pfleger.

On May 27, 2007, with a mob of 1,000 gun-ban radicals cheering him on--blocking the entrance to Chuck’s Gun Shop and Range in Riverdale, Ill., a suburb of Chicago--Pfleger screamed a clear death threat against the owner.

“John Riggio. R-I-G-G-I-O. We’re going to find you and snuff you out . . . like a rat--we’re going to catch you and pull you out . . . whatever it takes to shut this gun store down . . . We’re gonna snuff out John Riggio . . .

“We’re gonna snuff out legislators who are against our gun laws.”

I have never encountered such hatred. Pfleger’s words were recognized as death threats by Chicago’s Cardinal George who issued a rebuke--saying, “publicly delivering a threat against anyone’s life betrays the civil order and is morally outrageous, especially if this threat came from a priest.”

Why is this radical priest so important with the coming election? Because Fr. Pfleger is a key long-time advisor to Sen. Obama, who in turn procured for Pfleger a $225,000 grant from the state and a $100,000 earmark from the federal government. Pfleger is a financial contributor to Obama’s campaigns.

In a Chicago Sun-Times article touting Obama’s faith--in which he stressed the importance of close advisors in “maintaining your moral compass”--the newspaper declared:

“Friends and advisors such as the Rev. Michael Pfleger . . . who has known Obama for the better part of 20 years, help him keep that moral compass set, he [Obama] says.”

Most Americans never heard of Michael Pfleger until videotapes surfaced of a racist rant on Obama’s behalf mocking Hillary Clinton. The performance by Fr. Pfleger was at the invitation of Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ, made infamous by its America-hating pastor Jeremiah Wright, with his diatribes declaring, “God Bless America? No! No! No! God D--- America.”

After weeks of dithering as to whether to leave Wright’s Trinity, it was only Fr. Pfleger’s Hillary-smearing rant that ultimately caused Obama to quit.

Yet Obama was silent on Pfleger’s “snuff” threats.

But then closing down law-abiding gun stores is part of Obama’s real Second Amendment vision. He has proposed a law banning federally licensed firearm dealers from operating within five miles of a school or park. Think about almost any community in America and what that would mean.

There are those who say guilt by association is unfair. To them I would say, 20 years with these men as Obama’s closest confidants and spiritual advisors cannot be discounted.

When it comes to the Second Amendment, the company Obama keeps speaks more than his own words. They would destroy the Second Amendment and so would Obama, the candidate.




Posted: 8/11/2008 4:18:38 PM


http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/R ... &issue=047

[steelincotton]

LOL. Keep trying Mike. Keep trying. But, if that's the best you got, it ain't good enough.

Big Bill Clinton just said, he thinks Barack Obama is going to win handily!!! Check out the elctoral college maps guys, that's what matters, not these conservative lead polls. In every EC map on every single website you can find, it's all about Barack Obama! Why esle do you think McCain's campaign is so darn ugly now, their grasping at straws, throwing up hail-mary's in a last ditch effort from tasting a complete blow-out!

[shawnsegler]

What does the Diebold company have to say about it?

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[Michael]

They're fair and impartial, with impeccable IT security and hack-proofness certified by Haliburton. Why worry?

[DeusTrismegistus]

LOL. Keep trying Mike. Keep trying. But, if that's the best you got, it ain't good enough.

Big Bill Clinton just said, he thinks Barack Obama is going to win handily!!! Check out the elctoral college maps guys, that's what matters, not these conservative lead polls. In every EC map on every single website you can find, it's all about Barack Obama! Why esle do you think McCain's campaign is so darn ugly now, their grasping at straws, throwing up hail-mary's in a last ditch effort from tasting a complete blow-out!

That article just guaranteed that I will vote for McCain, if for no other reason than to keep Obama out. Anyone who is a threat to the second amendment is a threat to this nation. Obama's voting record shows that he is not a friend of the second amendment and this article shows that he may be more extreme in his personal views and goals on the second amendment than he declares publicly. I will take war and freedom over peace and servitude any day.

[steelincotton]

What does the Diebold company have to say about it?

S

I'm sure their hard at work finding some new way to steal this election.

The programmers have already said these machines have so many vulnerabilities it's scary. And are they still using them in Ohio which was the scene of the biggest electronic theiving in voting history, and Bush's biggest supporter ran the whole thing? Did you see the HBO movie? Yikes.

We gotta go back to paper and pen - one vote at a time. None of this electronic computerized crap, or this hanging chad stuff. Nothing else is really trustworthy.

[MikeC]

LOL. Keep trying Mike. Keep trying. But, if that's the best you got, it ain't good enough.

Big Bill Clinton just said, he thinks Barack Obama is going to win handily!!!

LOL. They said that about Kerry four years ago...

[steelincotton]

LOL. Keep trying Mike. Keep trying. But, if that's the best you got, it ain't good enough.

Big Bill Clinton just said, he thinks Barack Obama is going to win handily!!!

LOL. They said that about Kerry four years ago...

You're right Mike. I gotta admit, the republican know how to win races. The problem is on HOW they win races. McCain's latest slander against Obama is just way beyond the pale. The ad is almost calling him a pedophile.

It's down and dirty politics, and I hate it, but that's the way the game is played today. Thank you Karl Rove.

Luckily for us Americans, Obama seems willing to give it right back, while still keeping his gentleman demeanor. If he wins, it's going to make the republicans rethink their ugly politics of hatred and fear and smear swiftboating like they did to poor John Kerry. If Kerry responded immediately and vigorously with something like, "If anyone questions my military experience or my character, be a man and say it to my face, and I'll knock your block off!!!" - If Kerry said something like that, for example, he may have won. Obama is smarter than that. He will win this race and he will do it by being tough, responding daily and diligently to the McCain perversion of politics, and he will remain a gentleman AND STILL WIN!!!! GO OBAMA GO. I"M ALL FIRED UP AND READY TO GO!

[meeks]

Anyone who is a threat to the second amendment is a threat to this nation.

Yes, because without everyone owning guns you have PURE CHAOS (fearmongering)

I will take war and freedom over peace and servitude any day.

good call - as soon as I can buy and own a gun, I no longer need to pay taxes. I no longer need to wait in line like everyone else. I no longer need to abide by the other laws thrust on me for my own protection. And also, in defiance of the servitude, I'll no longer present a valid driver's license or passport when I travel - screw you, servitude!

[MikeC]

Maybe it's an American thing, I dunno. Canadians and Europeans sit idly by while their leaders control more and more aspects of their lives. While their leaders live in total defiance of the very laws they put into action. And the people are fit to be succumbed, like good little sheep...shame.

[Buddy]

"It's down and dirty politics, and I hate it, but that's the way the game is played today. Thank you Karl Rove."

Hahahaha. Read some history.

[Darth Rock&Roll]

so we have 6 votes for McCain and about 1000 for Obama here then?

lol

[MikeC]

And none of them are Canadian

[Walter Joyce]

That article just guaranteed that I will vote for McCain, if for no other reason than to keep Obama out. Anyone who is a threat to the second amendment is a threat to this nation. Obama's voting record shows that he is not a friend of the second amendment and this article shows that he may be more extreme in his personal views and goals on the second amendment than he declares publicly. I will take war and freedom over peace and servitude any day.

We all know my view of the second amendment, despite the boneheaded decision handed down by the nine "wise persons" in DC.

But the point I'm trying to make is that there are many different points of existence between "war and freedom" and "peace and servitude" if you care to step back from the rhetoric and examine the choices life offers us. I'd even argue that the state of war and the state of freedom can not truly exist at the same moment for the same person.

War is a state in which one must focus ones efforts on the task of surviving.

Freedom is the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action.

One may engage in warfare in an attempt to establish or preserve freedom, but while doing so one is hardly free.

[MikeC]

Why was it a bone-headed decision?