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National Rifle Association — Two Anti-Obama Ads

By Charles Lemos on October 3, 2008 at 8:44 PM in Barack Obama, Gun Control

The NRA has released the same ad in English, above, and in Spanish, below. The ad is a 45 second spot. The ad is running Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania.

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  • athena

    Great ad. Hear the purchase of safe, guns and ammo has gone up recently.

    • pasmalltowngirl

      I’m buying mine and also one for my children on Monday.

      • Zeke

        Please,
        Anyone deciding to exercise this right, if you haven’t been around weapons, take a qualified class on gun safety. If you have been around them, keep the rules.
        All firearms are loaded. Period.
        Never assume otherwise. Gun safety is paramount. Next is hitting the target. Learn how to aim.
        My teacher taught to focus closely on the front sight through the back sight and line those two on the fuzzy target in the distance. It really works! Enjoy!

  • Clara Barton

    I have trouble on NQ getting any of the posted tapes to run continuously. Instead, they stop and start spontaneously and its harder to follow the ad – loses its impact. I’m glad to see some powerful and hard hitting ads going out. I’ve heard nothing about putting more ads or resources into Virginia. In the last day or so, it hasn’t been mentioned as one of the battlegrounds. Please say it ain’t so.

    • http://www.theindependentview.com Matthew Weaver

      Suggestion: Make sure the page has fully loaded before you start a YouTube video. Also, try other Web sites with YouTube, you may find it a similar problem with teh download time of videos. I have problems everywhere when I’m using my wireless connection and my laptop, but not with my wired desktop computer.

    • Typical Bitter Whitey Woman

      try turning your firewall down

    • PurpleDragon2

      If you click twice on the vid itself it’ll take you to the vid at YouTube.

      • SnarlingCur

        This will sound strange, but I’ve found that if I move my mouse around, like in a little circle, for some reason the Youtube videos load faster.

  • kcfromtx

    They should run it on univision in Texas. It might turn a few dem controlled counties that went for HRC big time. These people don’t like barky.

    • kcfromtx

      By these people, I mean voters who supported HRC.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82qCwLX9piE Woman Voter

    Obama Youth

    http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/more-soetorobma-youth-creepiness-this-time-wearing-military-fatigues/
    …………………………………….

    You have got to check this out, it is worse than the children singing, these ones are marching and chanting in military garb. I don’t want to live in Obama Land…I don’t. :-(

    • http://www.governuts.us Agust304

      Hey Woman Voter.

      That YouTube Video is great. Did you make it?

      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82qCwLX9piE Woman Voter

        Surely you gest. I would never tell any child that because of a particular candidate they were able to achieve X or Y. Manipulation of children if offensive and most destructive.

        A children need tutoring centers, not indoctrination centers. Need I say more?

    • jbjd

      Send this to Steven Spielberg.

    • HARP

      Hahahaha…These punks had better get in better shape than that or they will never make it in ANY military….Hahahahah…..They are just embarrassing themselves. Maybe this is the military Obama THOUGHT of joining…….Hahaha. What a joke Obama is.

    • Niiora

      Because of Obama, I’m inspired to Super Size it.

      • vinnie

        Because of Obama, this former Dem is voting McCain/Palin.

        What a weird video. Yikes.

    • Docelder

      There you have it… when Obama says every kid who is willing to do some “community work” can go to college. So who wants their kids to have four years of “Camp Obama” indoctrination? Then we have Obama’s references to an inner city militia… as well armed as the regular military. Can you see these kids coming into your homes with automatic weapons and doing searches and shakedowns… I can see it. Then, could you make the case that having a citizen militia supplants for the second amendment? Who needs theor own guns… when we have a well armed citizen militia… right? Tell me this is not the plan?

    • Jackie

      Whoa, that was too scary.

      I lived in Berlin before the fall of the wall. I saw crap like that in the East half of the City regularly.

      In my mind the ONLY militias in the nation must swear an oath to the Constitution. NEVER a PERSON.

      People who survived the holocaust or escaped from the USSR, Romania, Albania, North Korea, China or Cuba will have nightmares tonight.

      • A Woman for Palin

        Jackie,

        I wish I could own a gun when I was in China. If millions of Chinese could own guns, Chairman Mao would not have the Cultural Revolution so easily.

        You need to appreciate your new freedom in this great country. Owning a gun and knowing how to use it is a surviving skill, like knowing how to swim.

    • Kal

      Who made this?

      Is it real?

      It is totally frightening!

  • http://www.theindependentview.com Matthew Weaver

    I am surprised that there have not been more ads on Obama’s positions against gun manufacturer and ownership. More needs to be said on this.

    • Anonymous

      That is possibly because BHO team is too busy harassing the NRA via the feds/prosecutors, complaining about truth issues. In other words, complaints filed simply to drag things down – run the clock down – until the feds/prosecutors say, there is no merit to the complaint.

      http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=76308

  • http://www.despair.com/changewinds.html Smilin’ Jim

    There were two attack adds in Field & Stream as well. It was the very issue that interviewed both Obama and McCain.

  • tek

    Well, I have to say, I don’t like Obama, but I hate the NRA. They sell death for profit.

    • Andy

      same here tek.

    • Artemis

      Sell death for profit? You must be confused. The Second Amendment guarantees our right to bear arms, and I, for one, am thankful. Our Founding Fathers guaranteed us that right, and they weren’t members of the NRA.

      • http://www.despair.com/changewinds.html Smilin’ Jim

        “Our Founding Fathers guaranteed us that right, and they weren’t members of the NRA”.

        Some things I am thankful for.

  • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

    Oh God help us…Obama Land, with Obama Camps and the Obama Truth Squad and the Youth for Obama…and we’ll probably have to stand every day at noon and face in the direction of his Chicago mansion while we sing an anthem to Dear Leader. :-(

  • benny

    This is a good, hard-hitting ad.

  • http://www.governuts.us Agust304

    I will give you all a whole lot of NRA update in a few.

    Right now I have to report that I cried when I watched the video connected to WomanVoter above.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82qCwLX9piE

    I am seriously not over it. I gotta admit it.

    • jbjd

      Hear; here.

    • PhxNickD

      I am with you to.

      What a loss for us, our country and the planet we inhabit.

    • Jackie

      this was and is a remarkable speech.

      Let us carry Hillary’s baton across the finishline in November and Put a Woman in the VP’s House just for her.

      And make sure that Obama knows that Women are amazing and do not back down.

      For our daughters lets do this.

      And Hillary can work for the people and prepare to run in 2012 with a real DNC with out Obama, Pelosi,Reid, Dean, and Brazile. And the voices of people can be heard again.

    • Kal

      This video is transcendent. We lost so much as women and as a nation. We must have Hillary back. She has so much depth of knowledge, understanding, wisdom, connection, she is such a leader.

      PUMA!!

      Hillary whenever she can get into the WH!!

  • A Woman for Palin

    Great ad. Wonderfully done. McCain must make ads like this: forceful, effective, right at the point.

  • Ted Kennedy’s Swim Coach

    Great ads! McCain/palin are pulling out the “big guns” in the last stretch.

    Sarah won last night.

    McCain/Palin will be victorious. President McCain and Vice President Palin. Sounds good to me.

  • Perry Logan

    In poll after poll, a vast majority of Americans want more gun control. So this ad will only be effective with the minority of people know affectionately as “gun nuts.”

    A note on strategy for fellow NQers. If we want to beat Obama, we can’t keep using issues that only fly with people on the right. For example, it’s fun to call Obama a communist. But I assure you, normal people aren’t afraid of communists or people confiscating their guns.

    • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

      You must be referring to all those bitter “abnormal” people like me who are clinging to our guns and our religion.

    • Typical Bitter Whitey Woman

      They are aimed at people in the middle

    • Above My Pay Grade

      A few points:

      Most Americans are in favor of reasonable gun control laws. Obama stated on a questionaire in 1996 that he supported a total ban on handguns. (He has of course tried to deny it, despite the fact that his hand written notes were on the first page of the document).

      I have no doubt that most Americans are in favor of allowing law abiding Americans to keep hand guns in their own homes, for protection. Concealed and open carry laws are much more controversial of course.

      This ad is being run in NM, CO and PA, all states that have large numbers of hunters and gun owners. It should be very effective in those places.

      I’m sure their a great number of “Reagan Democrats”, who are hunters, in PA who this ad will appeal to. (You know the bitter folks, who cling to their silly guns and religious faith and actually think those things are more important than 0bama’s ego.)

      The ads will also appeal to Libertarians who tend to be Independents.

      I grew up a Liberal and a gun control fanatic. But, when you think about it, gun control laws that keep law abiding citizens from owning guns are incredibly illogical.

      These laws, basically ensure that the criminals (who being criminals don’t obey laws) will have guns, while the law abiding citizens they prey on, will not.

      • tampagurl

        I don’t own a gun, I don’t know how to use one but I reserve the right and will stand with any law abiding citizen to own one.

        “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
        –Thomas Jefferson

      • http://www.despair.com/changewinds.html Smilin’ Jim

        “gun control laws that keep law abiding citizens from owning guns are incredibly illogical.”

        In California you are checked out to see if you aren’t a felon, a mental case, a stalker/wife/husband beater, etc. and you have a ten day or so waiting period. If you don’t want to wait, buy an axe.

        If you are none of the above, you can buy a weapon. If you are any of the above,
        (a) I don’t want you in the community and, failing that,
        (b) I don’t want you to have more firepower than I have.

        No honest man is denied the right to purchase a weapon here. If the laws in your state are different, tough. If you are not an honest man, stay away.

  • http://www.governuts.us Agust304

    The NRA has gone overboard in the past. They did an injustice to Al Gore by telling Appalachian voters that Gore did not respect the rights of people to own guns for hunting. Gore is a hunter.

    But this year they do not have to mangle the truth. Obama is against them. NQ has a variety of people and I respect every opinion. I shot my first deer when I was 14. I saw, through the scope of my rifle, the agony of that deer when the bullet hit. I never hunted again. But I spent many of Sundays at my friends’ homes having a meal of deer steak that they proudly placed upon the table. A simple 17 cent shotgun shell gave them enough meat to feed their family for the winter. At the store, a cow, that was shot in the head to make it ready for market, would have cost thousands of dollars, package by package.

    If any of you worry about the swing states that still have hunters. Do not worry too much. My democrat friends do not like Obama. BTW. Biden talked about his Beretta Shot Gun. Beretta makes fine pistols, Joe. Their shotguns are throwaways. (B.B. owners – please do not bother me with a response.)

    Here is how it works. If you talk about taking away gun rights then you are subject to suspicions. People will suspect you will take away other rights, like rights of privacy. Will Obama listen into my call to my cousin. FISA, anyone?

    What I am saying is this. I do not think that Obama can overcome the reality of his positions. The glamour days are gone. Now it is time for people to look at who they believe will be THEIR president.

    Polls in Washington DC said that the people there overwhelmingly supported gun control but, at the same time, supported their own right to own a gun. This is a very complex issue.

    • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

      Yes, supporting gun control is not the same as wanting to give up your right to own a gun. I agree completely.

    • PurpleDragon2

      Barky’s gun control record.

      http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_obama.html

    • http://www.despair.com/changewinds.html Smilin’ Jim

      “The NRA has gone overboard in the past.”

      The NRA has been a rabid dog since the Cincinnati Revolt of 1977. In my only bout of prescience, I split the blanket with the NRA in 1972: It was top heavy with reactionary nut cases even then.

      It needs to be put down.

  • Masha

    The ad was written in good Spanish. That’s nice for a change.

  • http://www.governuts.us Agust304

    I am waiting for the ad that shows Biden singing on the beach drunk.

    Yea. I want him in charge of something!!

    The reason he was so listless in the debate is because he did not have his booze.

    • waldenpond

      I must have missed this… Biden was partying on a beach? Did he embarrass himself?

      These are good ads. I keep waiting for the Repubs to kick it in to gear on behalf of McCain. I am guessing they will kick it up after the last debate when McCain can’t be attacked by a moderator for picking on Obama.

      Did I read here that some wealthy Repub was trying to get the M Obama tape as he didn’t want McCain to win? I was wondering if the tape wasn’t available and McCain was going to have to win the old fashioned way and that’s why they pulled out of Michigan.

      • Steve_in_KC

        As for the infamous MB whitey tape, I don’t care if it exists or not. The mere rumor of it has been effective.

        And if it exists, you can bet there are many copies, so nobody could never buy it and bury it. It would still exist. It’s not like it’s the Zapruder 8mm of JFK.

        John McCain is an honorable man who has run a typical campaign. It hasn’t been any worse than BO’s, and less so by most standards. John McCain will not dishonor himself by mucking up racial tensions like this “whitey tape” that some people carry on about. If anyone is trying to hang their hopes on that tape coming from the Republican Party or John McCain’s campaign, fugedaboutit. It won’t come from them, on McCain’s orders if need be. He is not a racist, and will not be responsible for a campaign where race is exploited. How would he ever explain that to his adoptive daughter, for starters. And having been smeared with racism in two different ways in campaigns, first by Bush’s campaign in 2000 over his adopted daughter, and now with the BO race card, he won’t fight in that gutter.

        For those of you who are expecting to see a lot of TV ads exploiting racial themes, however warranted that might seem (to some) in these circumstances, don’t look for it from the Republican Party or McCain, look for it from a 527 group that can’t be tied to them. They’re not idiots.

        If there are anti-black racists in this group, I’m not aware of them. But I see a lot of posts calling for an ad campaign against BO’s BLT ties. I think those things should be public knowledge, but no honorable person would want to see more racial tension in this country. And we have many AA members here, some much more worthy than most of the others here. I don’t think any of the core NQ people want to see race exploited in retaliation for the race card we get faced with. We don’t need a race war in this country.

        Having said all that, I despise racism from any person of any race about another person of a different race, and I don’t distinguish which is which. I will denounce black racism as much as white racism. But that doesn’t mean we should want a good man like John McCain to win the election based on racial exploitation.

        His opponent is the one taking that low road.

  • cathnealon

    Political ads on guns, abortion, death penalty–as a democrat for 30 years and now a McCain supporter I don’t care what it takes to rid this country of BO and his anti-American radical associations. Who knew we’d be watching Fox but after the takeover of the Democratic Party by leftist thugs McCain and his people need to use whatever it takes to show what this guy is–FISA plus Chicago criminals, wow, he’s probably already listening in to citizen’s conversations.

    • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

      Yes, do whatever it legally takes to make sure the Plastic One never even gets near the Oval Office.

      McCain/Palin ’08

  • Maria3

    Watch “Hannity’s America” this Sunday – tomorrow.

    Hannity will devote the whole hour on Obama’s radical connections and his mysterious college years.

  • POdVet

    The ad was decent, but it could have been better. Rather than have a retired police officer, they should have one of the many women who have saved themselves from being raped or murdered with their legally owned firearm. She could have ended saying. Following Obama’s ideas, I would have been prosecuted for making a victim out of the man who broke into my home and tried to rape me.

    • Typical Bitter Whitey Woman

      Yeah, that’s good

    • Jackie

      I will address this with the NRA. I drive by their headquarters every day. I am also a member. I will give it a shot.

  • http://www.lostinspacetv.com/ The Robot

    Maybe, just maybe, the GOP will get serious about attacking this fraud Obama.

    PALIN: OBAMA COMMENTS DISQUALIFY HIM FOR COMMANDER IN CHIEF…

    …is a good place to start.

    • http://www.theindependentview.com Matthew Weaver

      Yes, this was an interesting comment and stake in the ground by Governor Palin. I wonder what is next? Is she baiting Obama to take her on again as he did in the past month?

      • http://www.lostinspacetv.com/ The Robot

        I’m wondering where are the coordinated attacks for which the GOP is famous – That they are missing is a story in itself. They’ll start soon or I’ll assume they are ceding this election to Obama.

        • Jackie

          I will also nag about that.

  • Cat in NJ

    I used to view guns negatively, even though I grew up with a police-officer father. We respected the weapon as part of his dangerous job. He wasn’t a hunter. He wasn’t what I would come to view as a “gun-nut”. I couldn’t imagine owning a firearm. Sometimes reality changes your views.

    My psychiatrist husband comes home from work one day and makes an announcement. He works on the medical staff of a large county correctional facility. “We are getting a gun”. He got a permit, but no gun yet. He still cannot believe the savagery he deals with at work. Home invasions rarely have happy endings. We won’t be picking off squirrels and birds in our yard. God forbid we would ever have to use the weapon.

    Let’s keep our country free … no Comrade Obama!

  • Ni kki 4McCain-Plain 08

    Anyone who has not saw the democrats in the senate floor telling the republicans that there is nothing wrong and saying alot of crab the reason why the marke is sound in 2004 and back and pass 2007-The democrats are in eyes balls and who did this to us and Obama contiunes to lie and lie
    The democrats are liars and to say I was going to vote HHillary but she also took alot of money from Fannie mae and freddie mac to stop the republicans who were trying to get the democrats to stop the shit.The democrats bucked it all the way and they got alot of money to do so.The democrats cause this mess and may people lost homes

  • JS

    Gun control shouldn’t be a problem. When the messiah becomes president, all the crips and bloods, gangster disciples and vice lords will all throw down their Tec-9s and join hands to sing about change we believe in.

    Just in case though, I already put money on a new AK-47.

  • JoseyJ

    Obama refuses to admit all the corruption connected to HIM.

  • Margaret

    I think the 527s will expose the corruption close to election day, so Obama will not have a chance to recover. It sure is hard to wait though.

  • Dr. Kate

    wrong.