ElKabong
02-03-2013, 12:02 PM
His approval rating will be 10% by the time his term is done....
http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_22500269/joe-soucheray-twin-cities-dont-need-obamas-gun
Joe Soucheray: Twin Cities don't need Obama's gun speech. Chicago does.
President Barack Obama is coming to Minneapolis on Monday, Feb. 4, to advance his proposals to reduce gun violence, which is a little bit like taking a boat out into the middle of the ocean to discuss the risk of fire in Joshua Tree National Park.
Why doesn't he go to Chicago, where there is gun violence?
And then, once in Chicago, why wouldn't he discuss that city's problem of gang violence?.....(snip)
Chicago is a much more dramatic backdrop, but a backdrop that would force the president to address political difficulties that have nothing to do with guns -- moral decline, a corrupted sense of entitlement, lack of integrity, broken families, absent fathers and deep generational voids in just the simple understanding of what is right and what is wrong.
Politically, it is much easier to stand around in Minneapolis and call for more gun control, which would not accomplish very much at all to address the problems that have made Chicago a corrosive murder capital.
And how could he call for more gun control in a city that has the toughest gun laws on the books? There isn't even a gun shop in the city of Chicago. They are outlawed.
The White House sent condolences to the family of Hadiya Pendleton. He does her and the next innocent child shot a disservice, disingenuously showing up in Minneapolis. He knows what the problem is.
http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_22500269/joe-soucheray-twin-cities-dont-need-obamas-gun
Joe Soucheray: Twin Cities don't need Obama's gun speech. Chicago does.
President Barack Obama is coming to Minneapolis on Monday, Feb. 4, to advance his proposals to reduce gun violence, which is a little bit like taking a boat out into the middle of the ocean to discuss the risk of fire in Joshua Tree National Park.
Why doesn't he go to Chicago, where there is gun violence?
And then, once in Chicago, why wouldn't he discuss that city's problem of gang violence?.....(snip)
Chicago is a much more dramatic backdrop, but a backdrop that would force the president to address political difficulties that have nothing to do with guns -- moral decline, a corrupted sense of entitlement, lack of integrity, broken families, absent fathers and deep generational voids in just the simple understanding of what is right and what is wrong.
Politically, it is much easier to stand around in Minneapolis and call for more gun control, which would not accomplish very much at all to address the problems that have made Chicago a corrosive murder capital.
And how could he call for more gun control in a city that has the toughest gun laws on the books? There isn't even a gun shop in the city of Chicago. They are outlawed.
The White House sent condolences to the family of Hadiya Pendleton. He does her and the next innocent child shot a disservice, disingenuously showing up in Minneapolis. He knows what the problem is.