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First of all there are not only black gangs in America!
“I don’t want to wake up four years from now and discover that we still have more young black men in prison than in college.”
--Barack Obama, fund-raiser in Harlem, NY, Nov. 29, 2007. Simply untrue, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. There may be a case for arguing, as some Obama supporters have done, that the total number of black prisoners is slightly higher than the total number of black students. But I can only fact check the comparison the candidate actually made, which was between young black men in prison and in college. Rather than acknowledge the error, the Obama campaign declined to provide statistical support.
Source: GovWatch on 2008 Pinocchio Awards for Biggest Fib of 2007 , Jan 1, 2008
No extra penalty for gang association
Obama voted against a proposal to criminalize contact with a gang for any convicts on probation or out on bail
Obama opposed making gang activity eligible for the death penalty. “There’s a strong overlap between gang affiliation and young men of color.... I think it’s problematic for them to be singled out as more likely to receive the death penalty for carrying out certain acts than are others who do the same thing.
Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment
While the evidence tells me that the death penalty does little to deter crime, I believe there are some crimes--mass murder, the rape and murder of a child--so heinous that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment. On the other hand, the way capital cases were tried in Illinois at the time was so rife with error, questionable police tactics, racial bias, and shoddy lawyering, that 13 death row inmates had been exonerated
Source: The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama, p. 58 , Oct 1, 2006
The Left have dodged and weaved and tried to forget about Obama's anti-gun record. They want everyone to think he woke up on Saturday, December 15th a man rattled by the Newtown tragedy and thus conjured up a new philosophy on guns. You know....because he's a father and all.
But the rest of us.....we know that Barack Obama (not so secretly) despises the 2nd Amendment and would love nothing more for those of us who "cling to our guns and our Bibles" to shut the hell up so he can do away with that pesky right to bear arms.
The Left have dodged and weaved and tried to forget about Obama's anti-gun record. They want everyone to think he woke up on Saturday, December 15th a man rattled by the Newtown tragedy and thus conjured up a new philosophy on guns. You know....because he's a father and all.
But the rest of us.....we know that Barack Obama (not so secretly) despises the 2nd Amendment and would love nothing more for those of us who "cling to our guns and our Bibles" to shut the hell up so he can do away with that pesky right to bear arms.
Not gonna happen.
Oh I know it is all faux outrage on his part he has always wanted our guns and the liberals are using and exploiting this terrible terrible incident to try to further their agenda!
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