Fear and loathing — not hope and change

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Published: October 14, 2008 11:06 pm

Fear and loathing — not hope and change
Erik Onstott
The Orange Leader

All manner of ignorance and self-righteousness is on display on the op-ed page this election season. Many leftist pundits seemingly have nothing of substance to say about what their candidate offers for the country, aside from the ever-present empty bromides of “hope,” “inspiration,” and “change.” One such leftist pundit featured on this page said John McCain “doesn’t have...the ability to inspire.”

Perhaps not, but the only things Barack Obama and Joe Biden inspire in libertarian conservatives like me are fear and loathing. One reason is the Democratic ticket’s anti-gun record — quite fearsome all by itself.

For example, Joe Biden to this day boasts of writing the semiautomatic rifle ban signed by President Bill Clinton in 1994 — the one that Clinton himself later blamed for the Democrats losing both houses of Congress that year. Barack Obama is on record as supporting that ban and more stringent ones on other types of firearms, including a ban on handguns.

What of those who didn’t turn in their guns after the passage of such laws? Door-to-door confiscation of the guns by armed government agents?

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