He doesn't understand that it isn't about hunter and sportsmen's rights!
Oh, he understands. Obama, like many others, knows exactly what he's doing in wording it certain ways.
1. Obama is extremely intelligent. He knows exactly what he is doing.
2. Obama is very constitutionally literate. He taught constitutional law.
3. Obama is not prepared to allow the Constitution to get in the way of what he wants to do. He's an intellectual elite who agrees with the wisdom of the Founding Fathers when it aligns with his own personal beliefs, but when it does not, it is just a sign that we have "progressed" beyond the narrow view of 1780s America. He believes what he believes, and it does not include guns in private hands.
I'm torn on whether or not Obama is more dangerous than Hillary. Obama is more
electable than Hillary, and is in some ways more dangerous because of this fact. He is also a powerful orator and can sway public opinion (a skill that no top-tier politician since Reagan has truly mastered, though Bill Clinton came close). I don't know if he has the contacts/allies/machinery to be effective once he's in.
Hillary, on the other hand, is less electable (lots of people, including some Democrats, simply hate her). She cannot speak without sounding shrill and manipulative. But she has the moves, the allies, the political infrastructure to be very effective (domestically) once she's in. She may, however, be a lightning rod for opposition.
And then there's McCain, whose slogan should be "I'm not quite as bad as the other two." The best we can hope for with him is that the NRA and other groups keep on him hard enough that he keeps his head down and mouth shut.
I cannot believe that in an election that is supposed to be about change we're looking at McCain and Hillary as the top two candidates. There's nothing more "Business as Usual" than those two. Obama is the only electable "candidate for change" out there, and his style of change is NOT what we want or need.
Mike