GOP mailing on guns a pure lie
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Peter Ham
Albemarle County
Published: October 12, 2008
I am a hunter, gun owner and sportsman. I received a pamphlet in the mail recently from the Republican National Committee depicting a giant hand reaching to snatch a rifle out of a hunter’s arms. The card warned that Barack Obama wanted to take away my guns.
Everything I found about Obama’s policies on guns suggest this mailing is completely false and a scare tactic.
With both parties’ absurd posturing over who’s to blame for the economic crisis, it’s kind of refreshing to get such a pure, desperate political lie in the mail to remind me how to vote.
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Posted by ( mikmat ) on October 14, 2008 at 9:12 pm
The Republicans will say anything to scare people into voting for them. They used these same tactics to “win” the last two elections, and look where they/it has gotten us. Heading McCain’s presidential transition team is William Timmons, who in 1992 was doing a private backroom deal with Saddam Hussein for oil. Remember Saddam, our “enemy”, who the President in 1992 swore had WMD, insisted we had to wage war against, a war which has cost the lives of more than 5,000 of our sons and daughters. McCain’s head of his presidential transition team was doing business with this guy at this very time! On McCain’s team I see Texas ex-Senator Phil Gramm, who sponsored the legislation that led to the downfall and $124 Billion bailout of our Savings & Loans industry, and sponsored the 2000 legislation that allowed banks, financial institutions to trade our mortgages and debt like baseball cards, which we are now bailing out to the tune of $700 Billion, for starters. Big Oil companies, who receive government subsidies, (our tax money), have made record vast profits for the last 8 years, and have given McCain more than $2 million dollars for his campaigns. For 8 years the Republicans have been yelling, constantly, “Beware, Terrorist”, while they pick our pocket, spend our tax money on their corporate friends, while the average American gets deeper and deeper in debt. Haven’t we had enough of this old trick McCain is pulling now? We had better educate ourselves to the truth, people, instead of believing sound bite labels, like Terrorist, National Security, words that should have meaning, but have been turned into distractions Republicans use every time, while fleecing us.
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