Good article on Obama's time as a director of the Joyce Foundation. The article documents the underhanded tactics the foundation financed and apparently even conceived to influence law reviews.
One thing that is not addressed is how Senator Obama voted when he was on the board. Neither are the minutes of the meetings discussed. It would
make a great deal of difference if he was there arguing against these
proposals and voting against them. On the other hand, if he is voting
for these proposals it is all the more damming. As it is his supporters
will surely say that he should not be held responsible for what the
majority voted for. To hold him responsible in that way would have the
effect of penalizing a person for serving on the board of an
organization that did anything they disagreed with.
Still, the questions almost ask themselves. Do you support the efforts to serruptitiously influence academic publications? Did you support their efforts to bar opposing voices from speaking on campuses that took your foundation's money? And why, if you are a supporter of an individual's right to bear arms, vote for a campaign to have it read out of the Constitution in the first place?
One thing that is not addressed is how Senator Obama voted when he was on the board. Neither are the minutes of the meetings discussed. It would
make a great deal of difference if he was there arguing against these
proposals and voting against them. On the other hand, if he is voting
for these proposals it is all the more damming. As it is his supporters
will surely say that he should not be held responsible for what the
majority voted for. To hold him responsible in that way would have the
effect of penalizing a person for serving on the board of an
organization that did anything they disagreed with.
Still, the questions almost ask themselves. Do you support the efforts to serruptitiously influence academic publications? Did you support their efforts to bar opposing voices from speaking on campuses that took your foundation's money? And why, if you are a supporter of an individual's right to bear arms, vote for a campaign to have it read out of the Constitution in the first place?
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Even if Barack Obama did vote as a board member against the Chicago-Kent Law Review Symposium on the Second Amendment edited by Carl Bogus AND the establishment of the Second Amendment Research Center under the directorship of Saul Cornell at Ohio State University, he most assuredly did not go out and warn the American people that his fellow Joyce Foundation directors were surreptitiously attempting to undermine everyone's rights by influencing judges with slanted historical information.
The Obama campaign has been very slipery with the facts about Obama's past views on gun control and the Second Amendment. At least in Bill Clinton's case, his pro-gun control views were not deceptively packaged as just the opposite of what they really were.
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