Where does Barrack Obama really stand?

[fbc]

blast from the past, 05/04/08

Hillary Clinton has re-opened her sharp attack on Barack Obama's position on guns, with a mailer in Indiana that seeks to raise questions about him with both supporters and opponents of gun rights.

The mailing -- perhaps the sharpest-edged of Clinton's five negative mail pieces in Indiana -- casts him as a typical politician, saying different things to different audiences. It also revives his damaging comments in San Francisco that small town people cling to guns.

Then, making the harsh case more broadly, the mailer asks: "What does Barack Obama really believe?"

The piece is particularly striking coming from Clinton, who has been seen for most of her career as a firm advocate of gun control, but more recently has emerged -- without dramatically shifting her stance on specific issues -- as a defender of the Second Amendment who fondly recalled being taught to shoot by her grandfather in Scranton.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/05/clinton-mailing-attacks-obama-on-guns-008390

[SoapBox]

1. The Weathervane spins and spins and spins...

Who knows where it stops.

And she sure is launching into the negative.

[virtualobserver]

2. Winning is the only important thing

She is the answer, not any particular policy.

It is going to be fun. Batten down the hatches.

[Ed Suspicious]

3. It's all inconsequential so long as policy favors corporations over little people.

[Cassiopeia]

4. It's our job to overcome all of the propaganda coming Sanders way.

Inform the voters, don't worry about the vocal opponents here.