Obama Double Speak On Gun Control...Flip Flop?

"All Obama statements come with an expiration date. It's just a matter of when." - Jim Geraghty

Here we go again. Yesterday, after the Supreme Court ruling striking down the Washington, D.C. gun ban, Obama said that he has always supported an individual right to bear arms (or cling to them, I suppose). The problem is that he is also on record as saying that the D.C. gun ban is constitutional. This, my friends, is pure double speak. By straddling this issue he can claim to support the court's decision no matter what it is while his supporters blindly (or deafly) watch as he says a gun ban that meets his criteria for what is unconstitutional, actually is constitutional. Sound confusing? Listening to him trying to keep his stories straight will do that to you. Add this to the list of things that remind us of the "old politics" from this "new politician".

Ladies and gentlemen, the video:


The problem, Mr. "I teach constitutional law", is that if an individual right to arms is in the constitution, as you claim it is, then the D.C. gun ban, which you support, is necessarily unconstitutional as it bans that right completely. Either Mr. Obama is lying to us or he is the worst and most inconsisitent constitutional scholar in America.

I would love at this point to go into a long, drawn out novella-length rant on what a phony this guy is. But what's the use? His Manchurian Supporters certainly won't bat an eye at this amazing feat of political expediency, a theme upon which the entire Obama campaign appears to be based.

Then again, as a Hot Air reader pointed out, the theme of his campaign is "Change", so this is actually to be considered remarkably consistent with that message.