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The Obama Watch
Barack Obama, Gun Enthusiast
Dive for cover — his aim is off!
One of President Obama’s greatest political strengths is his ability to convince people that he understands them not in the abstract, but through shared experiences. You have to struggle to get by? Boy, does he know what that’s like. You’ve had bad experiences with your health insurer? He had to sue his mother’s insurer over improperly denied coverage. You’re a gun enthusiast? Hey, he goes shooting all the time!
Obama used such biography-based narratives to great effect in 2008 and 2012. Sometimes they are true, or at least based in truth. Obama did not grow up rich or privileged, whereas Mitt Romney grew up both and John McCain, the son of an admiral, later became a millionaire. Others are greatly exaggerated.
In his campaign for health care reform, Obama relayed the touching story of how he helped his mother, who was dying from cancer, fight her insurance company. As he told it, she was denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. Through the reporting of New York Times reporter Janny Scott, we discovered that Obama’s mother was never denied health insurance coverage because of a pre-existing condition. She had coverage the entire time she was being treated for cancer.
During the 2008 presidential campaign and on into the fight for Obamacare, Obama described watching his mother die of cancer in the hospital. As he put it in a 2009 speech to the American Medical Association, he was “watching… as she fought cancer in her final days, spending time worrying whether her insurer would claim her illness was a pre-existing condition.”
The cancer part was true. The rest was fabricated. Obama’s mother died with health insurance coverage and without her son, who remained in Chicago preparing to run for the state Senate. He never watched her fight cancer in her final days. He arrived in Hawaii the day after she died.
As he presses hard for new gun control measures that are broadly unpopular in many states, Obama has turned again to his “I’m-just-a-regular-guy-like-you” routine. Despite having famously expressed his true feelings about gun enthusiasts to a group of wealthy San Francisco donors in 2008 — “they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations” — Obama believes (because it has worked so well for him before) he can belay fears about his real intentions by intimating a genuine kinship with gun owners. He told the New Republic that he “shoots skeet all the time” when at Camp David.
Then the fun started. Had anyone ever seen Obama fire any kind of firearm at all, much less a shotgun at a skeet range? People began asking, and the White House clammed up. As the Washington Post’s fact-checker wrote early last week, there seemed to be no evidence that the president had ever shot skeet.
Under pressure, the White House released the instantly famous photo of Obama supposedly shooting skeet at Camp David. His stance and grip are those of a novice shooter holding a gun with little kick (and aiming horizontally rather than upward, where skeet usually are thrown).
Clearly, the president does not shoot skeet “all the time.” (I’ve shot since I was about 15, for what it’s worth.) That would be no big deal, except that the president said he was a regular shooter, and he said it while pushing for tough gun control measures.
As Hillary Clinton might say, who cares whether he shot skeet once in his life or sneaks away in the middle of the night to get his fix, what difference does it make? Not much, really, except that it reveals again the dishonesty on which Obama likes to base his emotional appeals for controversial policies. Emotionally, it makes a difference whether the person pushing for gun restrictions is an avid shooter or someone who doesn’t know a magazine from a muzzle. Believing that a proposal comes from someone who is on your side causes people to lower their guard. Obama is banking on this to make a difference in the gun control debates in Congress. Gun control opponents now know not to let it influence their thinking. They should act as though the man pushing these measures is not at all one of them — because he is not.
Andrew Cline is editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader. You can follow him on Twitter at @Drewhampshire.
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Appleby| 2.4.13 @ 6:43AM
Apparently someone at the WH instructed the world not to photoshop the obviously staged PhotoOops above. Hundreds of photoshopped versions of this nonsense bloomed immediately. Is there anybody anywhere who takes this guy seriously anymore?
Pecos Pete| 2.4.13 @ 6:46AM
Village Idiots take him seriously.
Otis, my man!| 2.4.13 @ 6:50AM
Obama likes to play low-information voters for suckers - because it works.
vtwin| 2.4.13 @ 9:08AM
Like the McCain supporter that said “Obama is an Arab?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YIq5Q15L1o
sickofit5| 2.5.13 @ 9:55AM
no, vtwin, like these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI two to one all day long
Von Mises Jr| 2.4.13 @ 10:42AM
It works since the liberal low-information voters can't do math. The camera registered the photo being taken at 10:19 PM EST when it was a pitch black night: http://www.breitbart.com/Insta.....Data-Shows
BTW, Rush coined the term low-information voter as the politically correct version of "stupid" to make fun of the drones like twitvin.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.4.13 @ 7:33AM
Why wouldn't village idiots love him? He courted their votes, and promised them the wealth of others (who got rich by stealing it from the people the idiots were entertaining with their befuddlement), and he governs through policies that only they could love.
TLP| 2.4.13 @ 8:15AM
That's not a very nice thing to say, Pesco. Only Village Idiots take him seriously?
Really?
RCV takes him seriously. DRed takes him seriously. Jackass from London, Purp and Arnie take him seriously. Are you saying that they're all Village Idiots, just because everything he puts his fingerprints on, turns to SH-T overnight, that people should step back and take another look at this guy?
Are you saying that just because he's added over $6 Trillion in Debt, with Trillion$ more on the way, that people who continue to sing his praises are the SUCKERS that P.T. Barnum told us are Born Every Minute?
Just because he Ran Guns to Drug Cartels, and playing Beer Pong at Jay Z's House while Benghazi Burned, people should wake up to this guy's Schuck and Jive B*llsh*t?
Just because he's Printing our Money into Worthless pieces of paper and letting our Energy Rescources remain Locked Up Underground, while Foreclosures, Unemployment, the Misery Index and the Apathy of the American People continue to Grow, even as the Obama Economy SHRINKS, along with the Household Incomes of American Families, people should somehow WAKE UP to the Big Con? To the Flim Flam Man? To the Music Man?
Just because he will Decimate our Armed Forces with Less Money and Less Weaponry, while diluting its Manpower with Girlpower and Gaypower, we shouldn't believe him when he talks of his Love for the Military. And, if we do? We're somehow Idiot Morons who should be Euthenized for the good of the Country?
Okay.
TLP| 2.4.13 @ 7:38AM
"One of the President's greatest Strengths is his ability to convince people that he understands them, not in the abstract, but through shared experiences."
Really?
Atheist Communist Mother, Muslim Marxist Father. Father dies Drunk, in a Gutter in Africa, riddled with Aids.
Atheist Communist Mom Marries(?) Muslim Man from Indonesia. Raised in Muslim Indonesia's MUSLIM Schools and Mosques, until the age of 11. ADOPTED by his Muslim Stepfather.
Atheist Communist Mother Runs out on him (Like his Muslim Marxist Father had, years earlier) and he's raised by his Communist Grandparents, in Hawaii. He goes to the best Schools, then the best Colleges, where he does so well, that he spends MILLION$ keeping his Report Cards locked up in a Vault, far from Prying Eyes. Occidental, Harvard, the Gay Bathhouses in Chicago. Yet NOBODY seems to have known him. Like the Real Jesus, this Liberal Leftist Anti-Jesus, seems to have a GAP in his life. Missing years, when nobody seems to remember seeing him. No friends. No Aquaintances. No Girlfriends.
He's NEVER HAD A JOB in the Private Sector, unless you count Organizing for the White Hating/Jew Hating/America Hating: Louis Farrakhan for his Million Future Convicts March, and Agitating for ACORN.
Never had a job in his life. Never had Unemployment. Never was on Welfare. So, how did he live?
I see no shared experiences between him, and ANYBODY.
All I see is a Prophesy being Fulfilled by a Creature that, by all rights, shouldn't exist.
Bob Grant| 2.4.13 @ 8:31AM
"He's NEVER HAD A JOB in the Private Sector,..."
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You are wrong sir!!!!
He's had a private sector job. He spent 6 months at an investment firm handling the company's newsletter. He said it felt like being behind enemy lines.
So he DOES have experience in the private sector.
TLP| 2.4.13 @ 9:25AM
Sorry.
I meant: REAL JOB.
One that requires WORK.
SUBVET| 2.4.13 @ 11:48AM
Tim.....did Bob say hand..........?
TLP| 2.4.13 @ 12:46PM
Not exactly.
But that may have been his intention.
Nice Car Show, by the way.
Thanks.
davidh| 2.4.13 @ 2:11PM
Hillary has the same "strengths"
“I certainly do remember that trip to Bosnia,” she said last week. “There was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn’t go, so send the First Lady.
“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
She is an American hero....her service to our nation is selfless
Her integrity is unquestioned, literally
TLP| 2.4.13 @ 3:13PM
We missed you at The Contest.
Just so you know.
sickofit5| 2.5.13 @ 10:01AM
Wow Bob, take a deep breath, that's not much of a gotchya. Your comment has to be tongue in cheek. Six months doing a company newsletter, with his education, is not much to crow about.
vtwin| 2.4.13 @ 9:01AM
Too bad Obama is lacking the private sector job experience of say Reagan. Reagan had worked his whole life in the private sector as actor and story teller in the make-believe industries of film and radio before entering politics.
Bob Grant| 2.4.13 @ 9:13AM
We was a spokesman for GE (before it became Government Electric) and didn't spent every waking hour trash talking the private sector or devising ways to destroy it.
You gotta love obama supporters obsessive attempts at portraying him as the democratic version of Ronald Reagan.
Bob Grant| 2.4.13 @ 9:14AM
Correction: "he" was a spokesman....didn't "spend" every...
Maxwell| 2.4.13 @ 9:25AM
That was when GE's motto was 'Progress is our most important product'.
irish19| 2.4.13 @ 9:13AM
It was still the private sector. Had he not performed (pun intended) satisfactorily, he would have joined the ranks of unemployed actors & actresses waiting tables whilst awaiting that one big break.
Dave Williams| 2.4.13 @ 9:28AM
.....and was the greatest President of our lifetimes, you lefty half-wit.
Anthony| 2.4.13 @ 9:30AM
Oh well, so much for troll free Friday, THEY'RE BACK. Vtwin's in a snit this morning as his beloved San Fran team couldn't quite make the final push into the endzone. Oh well, better luck at the Bath House boys.
Dear Leader attempting to emulate Elmer Fudd with a shotgun is quite a hoot. I bet Obozo didn't learn that in the Chicago hood, or with the Chom Gang. We're hunting wabbitts haahahahahahaha.
Obozo shoots a shotgun like the girlyman that he is. It would be an insult to call him a girl, especially the way Sarah Palin can handle a shotgun. Hell even the Muslim Brotherhood wouldn't allow fellow Muslim Marxist Obozo to join the ranks with a shooting style like that.
Hey vtwin, speaking of story telling pols with no private sector experience, have you heard the one about Al Jazeera Gore and his millions from the oil rich Quatar?
Humm the boy's carrying quite a carbon footprint these days, ain't he ?
Russel| 2.4.13 @ 10:46AM
Admiral Hallsy remarked " Tell him he couldn't hit a barn with a bass fiddle " . He's wearing Mommy jeans , and yes , aiming at a ground something . Good grief the boob is pathetic .
vtwin| 2.4.13 @ 11:37AM
Obama managed to fire a round without shooting anyone else in his shooting party. That’s more than you can say for Dead-Eye Dick.
Anthony| 2.4.13 @ 12:06PM
Hey vtwin, that's because nobody in their right mind would go out hunt'n with Barry "Elmer Fudd" Obozo, except John "hunt'n license" Kerry.
Typical leftist, Obozo blows his one shot and his trolls get all excited about it. Don't worry vtwin, Barry is planning a trip to San Fran, and you boys can greet "one shot" the San Fran way.
TLP| 2.4.13 @ 12:48PM
vtwin's just pissed that His Boy didn't "Blow his one shot" all over his face.
Bob Grant| 2.4.13 @ 4:56PM
vtwin,
You don't have a comeback so you resort to worn-out 2005 memes?
How pathetic.
The bottom line is your boy has no business being behind that shooting rifle. It's a beautiful piece of art and his bony fingers wrapped around the stock is akin to someone pissing on the Mona Lisa.
Occam's Tool| 2.5.13 @ 3:49PM
vtwin: Chaney shot an attorney. Take that back. :-)
(With apologies to my favorite attorneys here, especially my favorite Italian attorney.)
spike59| 2.6.13 @ 5:29AM
I'm pretty sure he never managed to hit anything else, either; as the pic shows, the moron doesn't even know how to hold a shotgun properly
Anne Mclaughlin| 2.4.13 @ 8:24PM
His stance is on par with that famous photo of him pitching the first baseball to open the season. The average Girl Scout could do better.
Anthony| 2.4.13 @ 11:03AM
vtwin, baby, the only truly make believe films that I know of are "An Inconvenient Truth", Fahrenheit 911" and "Bowling for Columbine".
Oh wait, I forgot, "Barry does Chicago".
Bob Grant| 2.4.13 @ 11:48AM
"Oh wait, I forgot, "Barry does Chicago"."
That's only the working title. The actual title is Dreams From My Father.
Samuel L. Jackson plays the drunken, irresponsible, oversexed, communist "father"
Danielle Spencer (the girl who played Dee Dee on What's Happenin') plays the young, impressionable Michelle Obama
Sean Penn plays the role of Bill Ayers
Esther Rolle plays the role of Aunt Zeituni
...and, of course, Jaleel White (the guy who played Urkel on Family Matters) will play the young, ambitious obama.
Anthony| 2.4.13 @ 12:10PM
Oooh, who's the director Bob? Oliver Stone?
Bob Grant| 2.4.13 @ 12:16PM
Obama, of course. Don't you know. He's got mad skillz. At any game, at any level.
You should be proud he's our leader.
Ingrate!
TLP| 2.4.13 @ 12:51PM
Too late.
You coulda used that one, yesterday.
SUBVET| 2.4.13 @ 10:47AM
This is another JOE WILSON moment........"you lie!"
benny havens| 2.4.13 @ 7:26AM
The consummate liar is at it again.
First of all, who wears diddle-bop shades while skeet shooting?
Second, where is his ammo-vest? Or is there a secret service agent standing to the side reloading?
Third, where is the shooting stall? It looks like he is standing and shooting in the driveway.
Why don’t they ask him directly, What gage, style and manufacturer are his favorites? If he answers H-O, freight & Lionel, then we know.
benny havens| 2.4.13 @ 7:32AM
Also, the stock is a little too high in the shoulder. Someone needs to teach him to look down the barrel and not to sight through the fore-grip.
chuck| 2.4.13 @ 7:58AM
The picture was obviously set up. He's never shot a shotgun before. No one who shoots skeet regularly looks like that. Whoever set up the picture was toying with him, setting the gun too high on the shoulder, not leaning into the shot, and having him shoot straight out, not upward.
I bet Obozo's shoulder still hurts. I hope someone shoved a 00 buckshot shell in there for some extra kick!
Jacob McCandles| 2.4.13 @ 9:58AM
I would like to see him on a tank with the helmet. He would make Dukakis look like a seasoned Panzer commander.
TLP| 2.4.13 @ 10:50AM
I would like to see you at the next Contest.
Jacob McCandles| 2.4.13 @ 11:22AM
I try only to show up when I'm clear-headed and sober. I'm an angry drunk- would probably say things I'd regret the next day.
TLP| 2.4.13 @ 12:53PM
"I'm an angry Drunk - would probably say things I'd regret the next day."
At The Contest?
That's Impossible.
Warrior| 2.4.13 @ 3:43PM
You would have to be drunker and angrier than Hank. Link provided.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.....nken_Dwarf
irish19| 2.4.13 @ 12:54PM
Actually, if you go to thedonovan(dot)com, you can find just such a picture. It's a hoot.
Anthony| 2.4.13 @ 10:07AM
A weekend with the boys at Camp David and Obozo's shoulder ain't the only part of his body hurting.
Yes, we all can sleep peacefully with our Elmer Fudd Commander-in-Chief at the helm.
Wonder how sharp shoot'n Barak could see those skeets with those dark sun glasses on?
Oh, I forgot, Barak is used to the dark shadows of Swanky Gents.
Russel| 2.4.13 @ 10:50AM
I've been picking off the invasive specie the collared Dove with Gramps old hogleg 12 ga.. I pretend each one is U-no Whoo .
Petronius| 2.4.13 @ 12:19PM
We call 'em roof ptarmigan.
Cobalt| 2.4.13 @ 11:00AM
The shotgun looks like an "over & under." Also, it looks like the Great Mulatto Hunter might not have his trigger finger properly placed on the trigger.
http://thefiringline.com/forum.....p?t=515051
Cobalt| 2.4.13 @ 11:02AM
Look how his face is pressed into the stock.
Joellen| 2.4.13 @ 8:01AM
I would LOVE to see a contest between him and Governor Sarah Palin?
He is his mom's jeans pants.
Maxwell| 2.4.13 @ 8:53AM
Actually Joellen, with all due respect, I'd love to see Barry go shooting with my sister too. She is over 70 now & holds a Florida CCW. Not all Jersey people are anti gun. Well, Chris Christie is but that is to be expected.
I just have a few questions, as usual. Were the loads a 'baby' load so Barry doesn't piss in his pants when he pulls the trigger? Why didn't he use a .45 ACP? Even my wife likes the .45! How about stepping up to what the big boys use, 50 BMG. If the 50 is to big how about the 308?
Ok, just for Barry the girls bike rider, curtain hanger, & choom sucker, the .22lr could be his speed & limit.
irish19| 2.4.13 @ 9:11AM
Not to put too fine a point on it, but .45 ACP is not the caliber of choice for skeet.
Also, I doubt that there was any ammo at all in that gun. The smoke was probably 'shopped in afterwards.
Maxwell| 2.4.13 @ 9:21AM
Irish, point taken, with a smile too!
Pecos Pete| 2.4.13 @ 9:22AM
irish: You make an excellent point about the PhotoShop illustration of King O. Somebody on another forum made the point that to capture the EXACT moment of firing is virtually impossible unless he was filmed in a movie and the appropriate frame was used in the above image. Not to mention everything else that is wrong with the image.
Drunken Sailor| 2.4.13 @ 9:34AM
Is it just me or does the exhaust gas that appears to be blowing off to one side of the barrel look odd as well?
Maxwell| 2.4.13 @ 9:39AM
Yes, it must have a side port! Sailor, you are correct!
John Navratil| 2.4.13 @ 9:34AM
Pecos Pete,
Pay no attention to the boy behind the barrel. I am the great and powerful Obama. I always shoot a little skeet between the front and back nines. I even shoot skeet out of the back of Air Force 1 on those long trips to Hawaii.
TLP| 2.4.13 @ 10:49AM
The Gas Port?
What about the Piss Stain on the front of his pants?
Petronius| 2.4.13 @ 12:23PM
Nonsense! We used to shoot at station 8 targets with 45 shot cap loads.
Job| 2.4.13 @ 12:01PM
left handed but looks like he's right dominant eye.
Mike G| 2.4.13 @ 7:55AM
Since this article touches on the gun debate, has anyone heard about the latest mass killing? Another tour bus in an accident; eight killed. Anyone have any ideas how to prevent these killings?
chuck| 2.4.13 @ 7:59AM
Ban old farts from taking bus tours?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.4.13 @ 8:37AM
Mass transit means mass killings. Save the masses.
TLP| 2.4.13 @ 12:59PM
Ban old farts from taking Bus Tours to Happy Hour/The Early Bird Dinner.
Moe Blotz| 2.5.13 @ 2:32PM
PPACA wants to ban old pharts, period. Our days are numbered Tim.
fmm| 2.4.13 @ 8:32AM
The addiction to power overrides all else.
Nancy in NC| 2.4.13 @ 8:57AM
I wonder what michelle serves with all that skeet obama kills.
Drunken Sailor| 2.4.13 @ 9:34AM
Snipe
SUBVET| 2.4.13 @ 10:41AM
Hey...........your talking about me..........sailor
Drunken Sailor| 2.4.13 @ 11:22AM
Wrong snipe. I meant the land based one you catch with a burlap bag. Not the seagoing one that drinks to much on liberty, gets in fights and spends over 50% of their life underwater in a metal tube breathing recycled air.
SUBVET| 2.4.13 @ 12:04PM
Sailor..........that would be diesel recycled air. Oh the forgotten joy of "snorkeling" and when the vaccum hits 7 inches the engines automatically shut down. 7 inches of vaccum is like someone pushing a pencil into ones ear.
With the head valve cycling open and shut it played havic on my hair spray.....but all was soon forgotten sittin in subic with a san magoo in one hand and the local talent in the other.
Gee ......I am glad peggy sue doesn't read these thoughts.
TLP| 2.4.13 @ 12:58PM
That "Vacuum" and its Consequences, explains a lot.
SUBVET| 2.4.13 @ 1:13PM
Ya.........peggy sue says I need a hearing aid....the rest is genital......oh sh@t genetic.
your welcome on the car show.....
mike 3/505| 2.4.13 @ 1:14PM
San Miguel! I'm thirsty...is it 1700 yet? Somewhere?
Drunken Sailor| 2.4.13 @ 1:49PM
19:49 In Rome. Drink up.
PJ| 2.4.13 @ 8:59AM
When I saw the above picture yesterday, I started laughing out loud. Even my 3 young kids, who all have shooting experience explained why this picture is so wrong after I explained to them what Obama was supposedly doing.
Frank Drackman| 2.4.13 @ 9:08AM
Does John Kerry know EICSSOTUS(Evolver in Chief Skeet Shooter of the United States)took his "Huntin Gun"???
Remember that "Beverly Hillbillies" Episode where Jed, Jethro, and Granny thought "Skeet" was some kind of game animal???
Frank
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.4.13 @ 9:35AM
A young woman I work with informed me that "skeet,skeet" has apparently been used as a sound effect in rap music as an audio cue for male sexual climax.
I would bet that the current POTUS is much more likely to have that tune on his I-Pod than anything by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs.
PolishKnight| 2.4.13 @ 9:20AM
Actually, Obama's upbringing should demonstrate that he's not connected with most of the electorate. Raised by his white grandparents, then then turned around to throw them under the bus and praise an absent father who abandoned him. OK, maybe it is a lot like much of his electorate.
Louis Jenkins| 2.4.13 @ 9:31AM
Oh well, don't photo shop the picture. If this man shoots skeet I'm Jess James.
http://co-ironwill.blogspot.co.....ule-5.html
Pecos Pete| 2.4.13 @ 11:18AM
Louis: That's some funny stuff!
Bill8472| 2.4.13 @ 9:33AM
Does anybody know why there's a stream of gas coming out from the side of the shotgun barrel? What is that? Is that shotgun safe?
Drunken Sailor| 2.4.13 @ 9:36AM
I mentioned the same thing. Should have read down to your post first. Weird isn't it?
rjh| 2.4.13 @ 9:43AM
It is (or maybe the photo shop people were trying to show) a ported barrel.
Bill8472| 2.4.13 @ 9:43AM
If it's a gas port of some kind, seems like it's in a funny place. I don't know very much about shotguns, though, so maybe I have it all wrong.
irish19| 2.4.13 @ 12:59PM
Actually, you're right. It looks like a port on one side-the side his face is on-not safe. Again, however, this assumes that there was actually a round in the gun.
JonCarry| 2.4.13 @ 10:58AM
He is shown firing a Browning Citori 12 gauge over/under. If you can ignore the black powder smoke coming out of the barrel, look at the compensator ports. Smoke is only coming from the right side. The pic has been Photoshopped for some reason. There are no 12 gauge rounds for sporting clays that produce that much smoke, and you can't get smoke out of only one side of a compensated barrel.
TLP| 2.4.13 @ 1:07PM
You spelled John Kerry, wrong.
Bill8472| 2.4.13 @ 9:39AM
What kind of shotgun is that? What's that white-looking pluggy kind of thingie at the end of the barrel? Doesn't the barrel seem kind of small-diameter for a shotgun?
Bill8472| 2.4.13 @ 9:45AM
Maybe it's a .410.
Bill8472| 2.4.13 @ 9:53AM
Maybe it comes from the Toy Bin at Wal-Mart.
JonCarry| 2.4.13 @ 11:21AM
It is a Browning Citori over/under 12 gauge. The thing at the end of the barrel is a choke. Different chokes help make tighter/looser shot patterns. The real question is why a choke on the top barrel and not the lower? Skeet is two shots, the clays rise from the shooter's left and right, crossing in front. The fact that Øbama has only one barrel choked is because he is not shooting skeet. I don't know what he is doing, but then neither does he...
Stephie| 2.4.13 @ 9:42AM
And in politics, perception is everything. The followers of the obama cult will see him once again as their "everyone's man". A regular Joe. A guy you could have a beer with.
If that photograph is real, which now days you never know if what you're looking at is real or photoshopped, it's apparent he's never held a shotgun in his life.
TLP| 2.4.13 @ 1:09PM
Even his Beer was a Fake.
If my memory serves me?
He was drinking a Non-Alcoholic Beer.
Like a Punk.
Jim Adcox| 2.4.13 @ 9:44AM
"You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"
Frank Drackman| 2.4.13 @ 10:06AM
I bought 3 cases of Beer Saturday.
No, not for me, my wife(after 4 glasses of Wine she's a Yenta Foster Brooks) or my teen daughter(don't ask, don't smell), but for the Superbowl Party I throw annually in my Diverse(90% Asian) Upscale gated community.
And did you know there was no Forms, Applications, background check, waiting period, mental health check, damn dot-head didn't even check my ID, you know some 19 year olds do look 50...
Guy just took my money, gave me the Beer, I could have drunk it right out in the parking lot if I'd wanted...
Frank "the first step is getting drunk" Drackman
Kingofthenet| 2.4.13 @ 9:36PM
I bet you had a ball with all those HOT drunk Asian ladies, I know I would.
Hardcard| 2.4.13 @ 10:15AM
Man ! That's some shotgun king O be a toten it fires straight ahead and to right angles mid-bore at the same time.
JimP| 2.4.13 @ 10:41AM
My initial reaction to this photo was that it looked like it was a photoshop job. I'm not a "skeet shooter" so I'm not familiar with skeet shotguns, but the gun looks too long to my untrained skeet gun eye. Paticularly given Obama's 6'1" height and long lean arms and legs. These characteristics usually make a long gun appear shorter in the hands of someone with these traits. Not this gun. It looks oversized despite Obama's physique. Look at the size and length of the stock. That looks huge & long to me. What's the length of pull for a man 6'1" tall anyone? I've gone skeet shooting exactly three times in my life and the shotguns were never as long as this gun appears to be. As I said, I'm not a "skeet shooter" and don't really know a lot about skeet guns, but if any skeet shooters out there could give more information I'd be interested to know.
BackToBasics| 2.4.13 @ 10:42AM
It's a politically correct photo op. Only white men with guns need be feared and the left's solution will be a national registry of all legal gun owners. The laws they have planned will will be designed so that eventually all legal guns will be confiscated because the "grandfather clause of ownership" will expire when the current owners die and they cannot legally Will their guns to others or even just give them away. It will be tough to enforce it but that is the left's hope.
JonCarry| 2.4.13 @ 10:57AM
He is shown firing a Browning Citori 12 gauge over/under. If you can ignore the black powder smoke coming out of the barrel, look at the compensator ports. Smoke is only coming from the right side. The pic has been Photoshopped for some reason. There are no 12 gauge rounds for sporting clays that produce that much smoke, and you can't get smoke out of only one side of a compensated barrel.
C Smith | 2.4.13 @ 11:24AM
Nothing feels right about this video frame capture, the grip, the line of site, or the trigger finger. He seems to be waiting for the "skeet' to land before shooting.
If the marginal shoulder contact were slightly more accentuated, the shotgun could have become the projectile and the President could have seriously hurt himself. Also, it virtually always inappropriate to shoot near roadways.
For his own safety as well as others, I hope he secures an NRA trainer.
C Smith | 2.4.13 @ 11:44AM
Also, it is not good to shoot near what appears in the low resolution video frame to be a bird feeder or possibly a Wood Duck nesting box.
Drunken Sailor| 2.4.13 @ 1:52PM
"He seems to be waiting for the "skeet' to land before shooting."
That's the only way he can hit them.
junkyard infidel| 2.4.13 @ 11:55AM
does lil' berry hussein shout "allahu akbar" before each shot ?
TLP| 2.4.13 @ 1:11PM
And, is he shooting a Picture of Bibi Netanyahu?
Or, The Constitution?
Butch| 2.4.13 @ 4:52PM
That one (the Constitution) has already been photoshopped. Saw it on Drudge yesterday. He published a bunch of hilarious ones.
Stan Redmond| 2.4.13 @ 4:39PM
Aloha Akbar!!!
Stan Redmond| 2.4.13 @ 5:47PM
"FORE!"
Petronius| 2.4.13 @ 12:31PM
He couldn't break a low house 7 with a stance and hold like that. Yes. He is an absolute disgrace to that Browning 725.
OregonBuzz| 2.4.13 @ 1:39PM
"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie." --Russian communist Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The 2nd Amendment is not about hunting or sport shooting. It was put in the Constitution as a check against tyranny.
Jim Adcox| 2.4.13 @ 4:06PM
Respect the 2nd, and the rest remain safe!
Barracuda| 2.4.13 @ 2:23PM
With all of the speculation about the photo, has anyone already pointed out this obvious flaw in the article itself?
RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT OBAMA is accused of lying about the death of his mother, to wit:
"The cancer part was true. The rest was fabricated. Obama’s mother died with health insurance coverage and without her son, who remained in Chicago preparing to run for the state Senate. He never watched her fight cancer in her final days. He arrived in Hawaii the day after she died. "
Author Cline is VERY CONFUSED. The instance of fighting with insurance companies involved Obama's mother. However, she died ion 1995 - not during the campaign.
It was his grandmother who died during the 2008 campaign. Big difference - more than a decade apart - and I don't recall there being anything said about her insurance or lack thereof.
This is an obvious error that would be apparent to those who read with comprehension and without blinding biases.
Drunken Sailor| 2.4.13 @ 3:11PM
Speaking of reding comprehension and bias.
"preparing to run for the state Senate". His mother died while he was running for the Illinois Senate seat.
Who is confused?
SUBVET| 2.4.13 @ 3:21PM
Just herd today that the IRS posted that barry care will cost a family of 5....20K a year by 2016.
Stan Redmond| 2.4.13 @ 4:38PM
"One of President Obama’s greatest political strengths is his ability to convince people that he understands them not in the abstract, but through shared experiences."
There is just so much comedy gold to be made from this clown and liar.
To the gays... "I play the meatflute all the time."
To the drug users..."I smoke pot and sniff coke all the time"
To the baseball players..."I play ball all the time in my mom jeans."
To the basketball players..."I play basketball all the time"
To the Iranians..."I hate Israel and America all the time"
To the golfers..."I play golf all the time"
To Larry Sinclair...."xxxxxxx"
Is there ANYTHING this man can't do? He's just so cool. He deserves more titles than Kim Jong Il.
Goldwater Girl| 2.4.13 @ 4:59PM
Stan,
Don't forget:
To the gun crowd... "I do skeet shooting all the time"(in my Mom jeans)
Stan Redmond| 2.4.13 @ 5:45PM
GG,
Take a gander at urbandictionary.com for the definition of "Skeet Shooting"
7-08| 2.4.13 @ 7:25PM
Dear Lord, go watch the "Photoshopping POTUS" slide show at National Review Online. (sit down first)
Kingofthenet| 2.4.13 @ 9:29PM
You don't need a 12ga to shoot clay pigeons. So wrecking your shoulder just to say you shoot that way is stupid.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 2.4.13 @ 10:04PM
At last, your majesty, something we might concur on. Obama looks stupid in this referenced photo.
Bob Grant| 2.4.13 @ 10:29PM
...not to mention, look at how hard he pushed his face against the butt.
It would be just a damn shame it he injured his cheek on recoil. A damn shame indeed!
Perhaps next time he could wear that dorky looking bike helmet he seems to be fond of wearing.
Kingofthenet| 2.4.13 @ 10:55PM
That looks like a 20 gauge to me, and a pretty heavy gun, I am sure he will survive, and I know that is important to you ;)
Bill8472| 2.5.13 @ 10:05AM
When the cheek is pressed against the stock as Obama is depicted doing in the photo, with a rifle it's called a "spot weld." It's supposed to aid in stabilizing the aim.
Stan Redmond| 2.5.13 @ 12:37PM
How dare anyone question lord and savior, kind of a god, the one we've been waiting for, Obama's [pbuh] legendary shooting skills! If Obama [pbuh] is doing it, it is the way it is done. And don't you dare photoshop "the one." He is wearing fabulous robes of the finest silk and beyond ridicule.
Karlo Bones | 2.5.13 @ 5:17PM
This is true.
Karlo Bones | 2.9.13 @ 9:52AM
Gun buyers swamped retailers nationwide last year, prompting a record 16.4 million instant criminal background checks of potential owners, up 14.2 percent from 2010, according to FBI figures.
Botek Teleno | 2.9.13 @ 10:01AM
Relaxed gun laws are likely a factor behind the boom in sales, although not the only reason and perhaps not the primary one, industry experts say.