NRA has Obama in its sites

By GottaLaff

Ready... aim... Obama!

The National Rifle Association plans to spend about $40 million on this year’s presidential campaign, with $15 million of that devoted to portraying Barack Obama as a threat to the Second Amendment rights upheld last week by the Supreme Court.

“Our members understand that if Barack Obama is elected president, and he has support in the Senate to confirm anti-gun Supreme Court nominees, [the District of Columbia v. Heller decision] could be taken away from us in the future,” Chris Cox, head of the NRA’s political arm, told Politico.

Yes, NRA, all your guns will be confiscated. Then Big Bad Barack will take over the U.S., round you all up, and do the unthinkable:

Point and laugh.

“We look forward to showing him ‘bitter,’” Cox said, referring to Obama’s statement this spring that some in rural America “cling” to guns and religion out of bitterness.

A little hostile, are we Chris? You know, and this is something you'll find in any Psych 101 book, hostile people probably shouldn't load the guns that they own.

Indeed, the day Heller came down, [Obama] issued a carefully worded statement that indicated neither support nor opposition to the decision but clarity on a broader point meant to assure gun owners that he’s not a threat. McCain voiced enthusiastic support for the Heller decision.

Hmm, let's see... Obama is the poised, measured, unruffled one, and McCain is the volatile, hotheaded, temperamental one. Obama assured gun owners that he's not a threat. McCain ... is the volatile, hotheaded, temperamental one.

“You put a microphone to his face and ask: ‘Do you support the Chicago gun control laws?’” said Grover Norquist, an NRA board member, envisioning how to prolong the story and make the Illinois senator squirm.

Grover Norquist, huh? Of Obama is "Kerry with a tan" fame? And now he wants to make Obama squirm. By all means, let's keep increasing his visibility by sharing more of his wisdom and gentility.

“We’ve probably still got 800,000 going afield opening day of deer season,” said Mike Bouchard, a former Michigan state Senate leader and gun rights advocate in a state where some schools on the Upper Peninsula still close on the first day of deer season. “And we’re very suspicious of people that pretend to be supportive of Second Amendment rights and hunting.”

“We can create a wedge in unions by highlighting his anti-gun background,” Paul Erhardt, a GOP strategist who works closely with members of the gun rights community, said of Obama.

Obama: "As president, I will uphold the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun-owners, hunters, and sportsmen. [...] I know that what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne."

These guys are like Norquist, only with less of a tan.

But if Cox and the NRA have anything to do with it, some of those traditional moderates will be stuck on “bitter” and Obama’s past support for strict gun-control measures.

“Apparently, he thinks gun owners are either fools or have short memories,” Cox said. “I can assure him he’s wrong on both.”

I can assure Cox that if he thinks Obama is that stupid and undiplomatic, he's wrong on both.