I keep reading that the voters don’t know enough about Obama. Here’s a little tidbit: his campaign is threatening to take away the broadcast licenses of stations that air the NRA’s Obama commercial attacking Obama’s position on gun control. This may be how they do things in Chicago, but we sure don’t need a thug like this as our president.

Although the Obama campaign protests that the commercial’s statements are untrue, Volokh demonstrates pretty convincingly that the statements are based on fact, despite a FactCheck article implying otherwise. Here’s an excerpt:

One final NRA claim does not get a FactCheck rating, but it does get a response that might as well as come from the Obama press office. That is: “Obama would be the most anti-gun president in American history.”

FactCheck supplies Obama’s quote from Heller decision day, beginning with “I have always believed that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to bear arms..”, and promising, “As President, I will uphold the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun-owners, hunters, and sportsmen. I know that what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne.”

Well, that Obama has “always believed” in the individual Second Amendment right did not prevent him from proposing a national ban on concealed carry, a ban on 90% of gun stores, a 500% tax increase on firearms and ammunition–as the FactCheck article itself reports. If a candidate proposed banning 90% of bookstores and a huge tax increase on books, it might be justifiable to predict that he would be “the most anti-book president in American history”–notwithstanding his proclaimed belief in the individual First Amendment right.

Gee, I wonder if the ACLU will now do a commercial exposing Obama’s position on the first amendment. As it applies to commercials that attack him, that is.

In the meantime, even the New York Times is now chastising Obama for his own misleading campaign ads. As far as I can see, McCain’s not threatening any broadcast licenses over those ads.

Cross posted at www.steamvalveblog.com