At first, I gave Mr. Obama the benefit of the doubt. But as the thing reverberates and draws fire, I think it may be among the first indicators of what this country is in for, once he is elected to the Presidency (and in my mind that's a given).
I think it gave us all a peek at the man's brand of Chicago Liberalism and the probability that he is a danger to liberty. Check what the NRA says about it.
There's a piece in National Review Online by Mark Steyn entitled "God and Guns." It's over-written, but worth your time if you care about freedom and what's happening to it in Europe and America.
It says, in part: "Senator Obama’s remarks about poor dumb bitter rural losers 'clinging to' guns and God certainly testify to the instinctive snobbery of a big segment of the political class. ... What Michelle Malkin calls Crackerquiddick ... is not just snobbish nor even merely wrongheaded. It’s an attack on two of the critical advantages the U.S. holds over most of the rest of the western world. In the other G7 developed nations, nobody clings to God’n’guns. The guns got taken away, and the Europeans gave up on churchgoing once they embraced Big Government as the new religion."
"Maybe one day a viable society will find a magic cure-all that can do without both, but Big Government isn’t it."
