Obama: “My Policies, Actions and Decisions… Will Advance the Goals of Hunters and Anglers.”
October 16, 2008
*Note* Much of the material in this article was sent to me by readers. A big thanks goes to Bitter Bitch of the Bitch Girls and “jes”.
The above words in the title of this piece where those used by Barack Obama in his email interview with Outdoor Life back last month. Those written words and most of his others on hunting, fishing and Second Amendment are absolute lies meant to deceive the American people!
I have probably shared this story before but I’m going to again because I can. I visited my brother’s house one day about midday several years ago. When I arrived he was attempting to get his son, about four at the time, to eat his lunch, a task nearly every parent has had to deal with at some time or other.
My brother gave his son some simple instructions that he had to eat what was on his plate and then he could get down and play. The two of us migrated to the living room to chat.
After a few moments, my nephew appeared in the living room, big-eyed and sucking for air and explained to his Dad, “I’ve finished eating all of my lunch, Dad, but don’t go look!”
Politicians today have taken on that same childish thinking when it comes to dealing with the voters. They believe, and in most cases can, say anything they want and they know that voters “won’t go look”.
Barack Obama has, throughout this entire campaign, repeated that he supports the Second Amendment. He believes that, providing that the Second Amendment reads and is changed to read the way he wants it to. More on this in a moment.
He has also said, although not as often, that he supports hunters and fishermen. In his email interview with Outdoor Life that I linked to above, Obama says there weren’t too many opportunities to hunt and fish on the South Side of Chicago. He’s never hunted but has fished some while living in Hawaii. He also says he “recognizes” the conservation legacy of hunters and fishermen and what he does as president will advance those goals.
While I did not grow up hunting and fishing, I recognize the great conservation legacy of America’s hunters and anglers. Were it not for America’s hunters and anglers, including the great icons like Theodore Roosevelt and Aldo Leopold, our nation would not have the tradition of sound game management and an extensive public lands estate on which to hunt and fish. There are close to 40 million Americans who hunt and fish. Hunting and Fishing plays an important part in our economy and our heritage as a nation. I am courting sportsmen because my policies, actions and decisions as President will advance the goals of hunters and anglers.
This is where I should insert, but don’t go look!
While Barack Obama was an Illinois State Senator, it seems he did absolutely nothing to support hunting, fishing and outdoor activities, including some programs designed to encourage kids to get outside – even when asked.
Here is a YouTube video of a recent Sportsmen for McCain Rally held in Oley, Pennsylvania. Aaron Hobbs, National Director of Sportsmen for McCain, shares with the crowd on hand the blatant lack of support by Obama toward the Illinois DNR and hunting and fishing opportunity programs.
It makes it a bit difficult to believe that a man with a past such as this can now claim that his “policies, actions and decisions will advance the goals of hunters and fishermen”.
Just a reminder, don’t go look!
I have spent a fair amount of time working to reveal the lies perpetrated by Obama about his support of the right to keep and bear arms. Once again, it is easy to say pretty much what you want to when you believe nobody is going to exert any effort to see if it’s true. The real truth comes from his past, which requires going and looking. I’ll help you out a bit.
If interested, you can begin here by reading past articles I have done on Barack Obama. You may have to scroll down through some of them to find those specifically about guns and gun rights. Also, check “related articles” at the bottom of the page.
Who better to tell us about Obama’s past record on Illinois gun issues than that states biggest gun lobbyist? On October 10, 2008, Rich Pearson, Executive Director of the Illinois State Rifle Association and chief lobbyist for that group, sent a letter to his fellow sportsmen relaying some of his past experiences in dealing with Barack Obama as a state Senator.
Much of the letter confirms much of what I have written in past articles about Obama’s past voting record on gun issues. There are two parts of the letter that need a bit further attention. Part one:
I lobbied Barack Obama extensively while he was an Illinois State Senator. As a result of that experience, I know Obama’s attitudes toward guns and gun owners better than anyone. The truth be told, in all my years in the Capitol I have never met a legislator who harbors more contempt for the law-abiding firearm owner than Barack Obama.
Coming from a person who I would have to agree has first hand experience in dealing with Obama on gun issues, this confirms all previous reports of his desire to rid his world of guns.
The second part that needs attention will lead us into another article that was sent to me by a reader.
Obama has shown that he is more than willing to use other people’s money to fund his campaign to take your guns away from you. While a board member of the leftist Joyce Foundation, Barack Obama wrote checks for tens of millions of dollars to extremist gun control organizations such as the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence and the Violence Policy Center.
We can add to this list the Handgun Control, Inc., now commonly known as the Brady Campaign.
David T. Hardy of Pajamas Media, earlier this month wrote an article investigating Barack Obama’s past involvement with the Joyce Foundation, of which he was director from 1994-2002. He asks why Obama has kept this so quiet?
During Obama’s tenure, according to Hardy, the Joyce Foundation spent millions of dollars creating and supporting anti-gun organizations, some of which have already been listed. But Hardy spends more time sharing his discovery of Obama’s efforts to target the Supreme Court. The goal? “The plan’s objective was bold: the judicial obliteration of the Second Amendment.”
You must read the article. It is eye opening and definitely frightening. This man is a liar who has been successful in keeping from the public the truth about him and his past.
Barack Obama claims to understand the importance of our hunting and fishing heritage. He also says his “policies, actions and decisions as President will advance the goals of hunters and fishermen”. He claims he is a supporter of an individual’s right to keep and bear arms.
And his biggest hope for his future is that you “WON’T GO LOOK!”
Tom Remington
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Here in Idaho the Repubs are about to take 5 million acres of roadless forests out of 9.3 (largest in the lower 48) for mining and timber harvest for special interest corporations. They are taking away land that brings in over $60 million annually from anglers alone. They are doing this despite the united outcry from hunters, anglers, backpackers and other outdoor enthusiasts. Democrats want to protect it all!!! Repubs want to harvest it. Simple. Just look at the Roadless rule – Dems want to protect it all NATIONWIDE. Repubs want to develop it all NATIONWIDE. It’s simple. If you want land to hunt on go Dems. If you want polluted streams, sick wildlife and little land then Repubs.
HSG,
Have you ever heard of “oversimplifying”?
Most notably with a partisan bent!
Son, I would like to think that it was that simple, too! But right now, we have a economic problem with oil and gas that needs to take precedence…if that wasn’t the case, I would be right there with you!
HSG Isn’t that what killed Bruce Lee?
It won’t matter after awhile You want change. I bet things are going to change. Wonder what you would get for having it off in a hot spring!
A British couple whose drunken escapade involving sex on the beach led to tabloid headlines — and a clash between Western permissiveness and Islamic values — were sentenced Thursday by a Dubai court to three months in prison.
Vince Acors and Michelle Palmer were each sentenced to the prison term, fined $272 for drinking alcohol and ordered to be deported immediately upon leaving prison.
The pair was found guilty of having unmarried sex after a taxi had picked them up from a champagne brunch at a five-star hotel and drove them to Jumeirah beach in the United Arab Emirates’ most culturally-tolerant emirate of Dubai.
So that’s why whenever I see all those photos of Dubai, all the people are never outside, enjoying themselves in the sun or the swim…(they’re probably afraid to be seen in swimming suits)…the morality police are taking notes!
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Richard Pearson: In closing, I’d like to remind you that I’m a guy who has actually gone nose to nose with Obama on gun rights issues. The Obama I know cannot even begin to identify with this nation’s outdoor traditions.
The Obama I know sees you, the law abiding gun owner, as nothing but a low-class lummox who is easily swayed by the flash of a smile and a ration of rosy rhetoric.
The Obama I know is a stony-faced liar who has honed his skill at getting what he wants – so long as people are willing to give it to him. That’s the Barack Obama I know.
The ISRA is the state’s leading advocate of safe, lawful and responsible firearms ownership. Founded in 1903, the ISRA has represented the interests of millions of law-abiding Illinois firearm owners.
Great article Tom, It’s all there for the reading.
HSG is right on!
Jes says “But right now, we have a economic problem with oil and gas that needs to take precedence”. I feel it far more important into the future to have public lands that have not been compromised for economic gain now. Are you suggesting that there is oil and gas to be had on Idaho’s public lands? I think not.
The fundamental point of contention—and a key difference between conservatives and environmentalist liberals—is preservation versus conservation.
Conservatives favor conservation, which views the environment as a resource, while environmentalists favor preservation, which views the environment as an end unto itself: like an object in a museum, to be kept just as it is.
Preservation is for museums, historical sites, communities and sacred places;
conservation is for our forests and waters, the land and the wildlife, and other natural resources.
The liberal democrats, are forcing rural citizens to pay for a radical environmentalist agenda, and that’s not right.
Debate all you want, but the practical effect of the “roadless†rule was to prohibit any activity on 58.5 million “roadless†acres that would not otherwise be allowed in a “real,†Congressional capital-W wilderness.
In early 1998, starting with an advance notice of rulemaking in the federal register January 28, the Clinton Administration began taking steps to give this administrative move a gloss of bureaucratic and procedural legitimacy.
Political legitimacy for this effort came almost-solely from the so-called Heritage Forests Campaign. HFC was not a spontaneous public call for wilderness, but a directed political campaign funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, which in turn was Joseph Pew’s Sun Oil fortune.
Member organizations included the Wilderness Society, Sierra Club, Earthjustice, Natural Resources Defense Council, Ralph Nader’s U.S. PIRG, Defenders of Wildlife and Audubon.
Audubon was the “fiscal agent†for disbursement of several million dollars in Pew funds to the other groups for HFC campaign purposes. HFC, incidentally, is now apparently defunct with their website domain up for renewal.
Notably lacking from HFC’s “partner†list were sporting groups, although there were plenty of Earth First! spinoffs such as the American Lands Alliance and Wildlands Center for Preventing Roads.
Despite the thin political veneer, in a time when even the dinkiest timber sale gets tied up for years, the “roadless rule†process began October 13, 1999 and was implemented in record time, hitting the Federal Register January 12, 2001, a week before George W. Bush would become President.
The general public perception was that sportspeople as a whole did not support the roadless initiative.
The biggest sportsmen’s group of all, the National Rifle Association, was taking the position, as “roadless†supporter-writer Ted Kerasote cited: “No roads, no access, no hunting.†Other groups, such as the Safari Club, also opposed the Clinton rule.
The “roadless initiative†was widely perceived as a “green†thing that lacked genuine legitimacy, especially in the West where its impacts would be felt and where so many sportsmen and women live – and work — where just enough votes were cast to help Bush barely squeak by Albert Gore in the Electoral College.
Had Gore been elected, the Clinton roadless rule would likely be closer to permanent law than it is today.
The above post was a segment of a much larger article about the take over of the political spectrum surrounding “HUNTING AND ANGLING” Interesting Read:
http://www.newwest.net/citjo/article/hunting_for_an_angle/C33/L33/
The vast majority of the roadless areas, at least in the Northwest, are roadless for a reason. Too rocky, too steep, low timber volume, slow growth rate . . .
It amazes me that so many hunters are in favor of more extractive activities – it has been shown that elk stay away from roads. Do the hunters just want more roads to run around on?
I am glad that Idaho and Montana have large intact wilderness areas. Murphy Flat on the Southfork of the Flathead in Montana has a magnificant stand of very old yellow pine – they are actually old enough to live up to their name. On my first trip down the river, 10 days, we saw no other parties on the water or trails. We used to float the NF Clearwater before Dworshak Dam. Never saw another party. Used to go on the Middle Fork of the Salmon and the Selway before permits were required. Now you are lucky if your party can draw a permit for one of these or the Main Salmon rivers. The use of this and other wilderness areas has greatly increased over the past few years. With increased population more land is needed for wild land recreation – fishing, hunting, packing, rivering, hiking, solitude . . .The forests are filled with logging roads – lots of places for motorized recreation and road hunting.
Manage the forests in areas that have already been roaded and logged. Leave the marginal lands roadless.