White House Releases Photo Of Obama Shooting Skeet
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
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So, this happened:
The White House, succumbing to skeptics, releases a photo Saturday of President Barack Obama skeet shooting.
The president told The New Republic in a recent interview that he goes skeet shooting “all the time.” Doubters of the claim quickly asked for photos, a request the White House denied earlier this week.
The image released Saturday proves he did in fact shoot skeet. Official photographer Pete Souza snapped this shot at Camp David on Aug. 4, 2012.
But it may do little to squelch the questions about exactly how often.
Indeed, I’m sure we’ll see the rise of the Skeet Truthers by the end of the weekend.
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Yeah, but did he hit anything but air ???
And with baseball season almost upon us, I hope he does do any more of it lest he (or should that be “He”) injure his throwing arm.
Come follow he, he’s the Pied Piper…
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Yeah, I’m gonna need to see a photo of a dead skeet being held up by Obama before I buy it.
And has anyone checked the kerning on that shotgun?
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This is a great Second Amendment photo-op!
Why wasn’t this used for the Captioning Contest?
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I dunno, what’s the kerning on that photograph….
I think the reason the gun nuts have been making a big deal of this is that the gun nuts in their heart believe that if someone just held a gun, then you would feel the surge of love, power , and manly feeling that would come from this act, and understand why you should never limit in any way the ownership and use of these wonderful devices. So since Obama wants to limit use of guns, clearly he couldn’t have actually fired a gun.
Such is gun nut logic.
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@al-Ameda:
Definitely should be the next one. Mr. Dill, take note.
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@stonetools:
So in that sense, a gun is a like a penis?
Which, yes, explains quite a bit about why these gun nuts are so invested in their…guns.
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@Rafer Janders: So in that sense, a gun is a like a penis?
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@Rafer Janders: I understand Psychology has moved past Freud and views him as a philosopher, not a psychologist, no longer really relevant. Sure seems difficult to understand guns and SUVs without reference to Freud. “Mine’s bigger than yours.”
Sorry if I’m displaying ignorance, but I do know little about skeet shooting or modern shotguns. What the heck is that upward venting?
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@JKB:
To be honest, I really have to agree with Steven Saylor on another thread, its not that gun enthusiasts like guns, but its as if they actually worship these things.
I love my iPhone. I think its beautiful, and am usually never more than a few yards away from it most of the day . However, if iPhones were banned, I’d be annoyed, but it wouldn’t be a life changing event for me. If you look at the fervor of some of these commenters, If certain guns were banned, or even restricted, it would be to them like the end of the world, or like losing a body part. That fixation is why you get the penis comparisons.
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@ stonetools
I think you’ve got it pegged. I have been shooting for a long time & I own several guns. That being said, I can live without them pretty easily, and I have no delusions that they would allow my to offer anything beyond brief token resistance to the government should it become oppressive.
The foaming at the mouth on the right over guns is something I do not get – but then I tend to distrust fanatics of all stripes.
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@anjin-san:
This may be a poor choice of words when discussing penis substitutes….or, perhaps, a very apt one.
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JKB…
Still haven’t owned up to how wrong you were on the NRA ad.
What a loser you are.
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I wonder when the cute bimbo from Tenn. is going to apologize to her Commander in Chief?
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@11B40:
Of course, he was letting George Soros fling copies of the US Constitution into the air. Never misses those.
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No lawyers were harmed making this photo.
However, a lot of gun control nuts had their hearts broken
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@C. Clavin:
Is this person a member of the U.S. uniformed services on active duty? If not, Obama isn’t her commander in chief. He’s the man hired to administer the Executive Branch.
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if he shot skeet ulrich that would be good! so does this mean he’s still the guy who increased gun rights (like he said a few years ago) or the bandwagon type who needs to blame something whenever something goes wrong? it’s not like he’s going to get anymore gun stuff banned, it was all a ruse to keep you all occupied while we got more bad economic news. a “kansas city shuffle” i believe!
it’s nice outside, get outta here.
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@JKB:
Curious how the conservative position on reflexively referring to the president as “the Commander-in-Chief” has morphed since the presidency went from George W. Bush to Barack Obama…
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@ Rafer Janders
It’s also curious how the conservative position that even questioning the “unitary executive” had a hint of disloyalty/treason about it vanished like dew on a summer morning when Obama took office.
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@Rafer Janders:
Not sure what conservatives do but they’d be wrong to apply the CinC title unless they were in a uniformed service on active duty. And the same applies to the Left.
It is not healthy for a republic to get in the habit of thinking their elected representatives have some kind of whimsical power to command private citizens. Sadly, we’ve traveled to far down this road in the last 100 years.
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Giggle…Obama just had his “Dukakis in a tank” moment.
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@edmondo:
He’ll lose the election now…
Oh wait. The election was three months ago….
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@JKB:
You know, JKB, I agree with you 100%. You’re are absolutely correct about this as a matter of principle, and it’s a point I have made dozens of times myself.
However, let’s not pretend that when GWB was president, conservatives didn’t refer to him as the C-in-C almost by rote. I’m going out to dinner soon, so don’t have time to dig up the hundreds of examples I could find, but I’m sure some of my fellow commenters would be happy to.
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@Rafer Janders:
Ha!
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@Rafer Janders:
No need to waste your time, I will grant the point. The Right did use CinC for Bush all the time and were wrong to do so.
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@stonetools:
“I really have to agree with Steven Saylor on another thread”
Either that was an odd typo, or one of my favorite mystery authors made an appearance at OTB.
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Now he just needs to go hunting with Ted Nugent.
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Good ol’ Ted. Fired Derek St. Holmes because his ego could not take sharing the spotlight. Never made a significant record after that. Likes to tell people how he is an “alpha male”.
I guess I can see why this bonehead is popular on the right.
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My doubts about this story: http://experiencedrivenlife.blogspot.com/2013/02/obama-skeet-shooter.html
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Oh? Has he lured away your children yet?
First I’ve heard of that one…now, if we’re talking about the excessive love of guns demonstrating overcompensation for small personal parts…
Indeed…if he really wants to show that he is a big strong man, he would shot a lawyer in the face…
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@Moosebreath:
Should have been Steven Taylor. Steven Saylor is a good mystery writer.
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The President is the CinC.
The President is her President.
Ipso Facto…
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Not that it matters…she was wrong about him shooting skeet. Will she fess up?
No more than JKB fessed up about being dead wrong on the NRA ad.
Republicans generally…and JKB specifically…are chicken-shits.
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I thought this would be a minor thing, but, incredibly, the top half of Memeorandum is consumed with right wing blogs expressing outrage that the White House is mocking their attempts to “fact check” the President’s remark about skeet shooting. These people deserrved to be mocked, but there is a bigger point to be made about gun politics. No Mr. Mister Blog says it best:
Indeed. Even heh.
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So … do we have new truthers? The skeeters?
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@C. Clavin:
No, not at all. The president is Commander-in-Chief of the United States military alone. He is not the Commander-in-Chief of America, or of any private American citizen.
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@ radar…
He’s the CinC.
He’s our Commander in Chief of our Military.
It’s a question of semantics.
And has nothing at all to do with JKB’s idiocy and/or cowardice.
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I agree with the NRA and all of those gun-toting patriots out there. Not impressed in the least, even if the photo wasn’t doctored.
(And of course, the logical assumption is that this is yet another Obama-instigated conspiracy to commit fraud against all REAL Americans.)
First of all, clay doesn’t bleed.
If Obama truly wants to convey the notion that he has some expertise with firearms, then he needs to take down a deer with a Bushmaster rifle, stroll through Walmart while armed to the teeth, or at the very least spray birdshot in the face of his hunting partner.
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My experience with hunters has been: “I hope that’s not a weekend warrior from NYC.”
Look, we “gun control nuts” would have far fewer issues if you gun control nuts made damn sure that everyone out there waving a gun around knew how to operate it properly and didn’t act like a fool when carrying it.
Hunters coming through my backyard….grumble….
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