Judging from my referral logs this weekend, it seems like the rest of the world was figuring out that Barack More Cowbell Obama used to be on the board of the anti-gun Joyce Foundation. The Politico notes what we gun bloggers have known for years now:

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has worked to assure uneasy gun owners that he believes the Constitution protects their rights and that he doesn’t want to take away their guns.

But before he became a national political figure, he sat on the board of a Chicago-based foundation that doled out at least nine grants totaling nearly $2.7 million to groups that advocated the opposite positions.

The foundation funded legal scholarship advancing the theory that the Second Amendment does not protect individual gun owners’ rights, as well as two groups that advocated handgun bans. And it paid to support a book called “Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns.”

Obama’s eight years on the board of the Joyce Foundation, which paid him more than $70,000 in directors fees, do not in any way conflict with his campaign-trail support for the rights of gun owners, Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for Obama’s presidential campaign, asserted in a statement issued to Politico this week.

LaBolt stressed that the foundation, which has assets of about $935 million, doesn’t take “detailed policy positions,” but rather uses its grants to “fuel a dialogue about how to address public policy issues like reducing gun violence.”

Really? You mean paying millions of dollars to fake grassroots groupsis designed to fuel dialogue? How about we look at one of their flagship groups that got $650,000: Gun Guys. And this group is an utter failure at even generating dialogue.

Posted in uncategorized on April 21st, 2008 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |