Sep 07 2008
Like I Said
very savvy — and it’s working. Turn the sound down before you watch this clip. Allahpundit calls it roaring. That’s pretty accurate.
The media estimate a 10,000 turnout for the rally in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
Meanwhile, when Obama’s not whining or begging Hillary to take on that mean ol’ lady from Alaska, he’s making an ass of himself trying to get those bigger, clingy Pennsylvania votes.
A woman in the crowd told Obama she had “heard a rumor” that he might be planning some sort of gun ban upon being elected president. Obama trotted out his standard policy stance, that he had a deep respect for the “traditions of gun ownership” but favored measures in big cities to keep guns out of the hands of “gang bangers and drug dealers’’ in big cities “who already have them and are shooting people.”
“If you’ve got a gun in your house, I’m not taking it,’’ Obama said. But the Illinois senator could still see skeptics in the crowd, particularly on the faces of several men at the back of the room.
So he tried again. “Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress,’’ he said. “This can’t be the reason not to vote for me. Can everyone hear me in the back? I see a couple of sportsmen back there. I’m not going to take away your guns.’’
So let’s do an English translation. First, he claims not to be a gun-grabber. Then, when he sees that he’s not fooling people, he says even if he’s lying through his teeth and really is a gun-grabber, he can’t do it.
Tell me again, please, who decided this man was intelligent, and based on what evidence.
One response so far
Prof,
I think he’s only half smart (or ‘average’ as I referred to him recently) and his supposed intellectual prowess is promoted by the mainstream media as a given. I haven’t seen him say anything smart yet.
I have a saying, intelligence does not wisdom beget, and Obama is a shining example of a man with little wisdom.