When I first started getting emails about a UN treaty that would overrule America’s Second Amendment and regulate guns in the US, I ignored them. It was simply too crazy to take seriously. Undermining American sovereignty is politically stupid, and attacking gun rights while doing it is political suicide.
No president, I flippantly replied to panicky emailers, is that dumb.
I didn’t know Barack Obama. Here it is, from US News And World Report:
Twelve Democratic senators have joined 45 Republicans in a fast growing movement to halt progress on an Obama-backed United Nations effort that could bring international gun control into the United States and slap America's gun owners with severe restrictions…
The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, which the Bush administration had opposed, would regulate with the international trade of arms. It would cover the trading of conventional firearms likes those used by collectors and sportsmen and women.
When typical American voters (who Obama doesn’t think much of, anyway) truly grasp how extreme he is, it’s going to be very difficult for President Obama to get re-elected even if the economy turns around.
"The truth is something [Warren] probably prefers not to confront. Harvard doesn’t come calling just because you’re a smart lawyer and a terrific teacher — not with Warren’s modest, Oklahoma upbringing and non-Ivy League education. She is not your typical Harvard professor. At a certain point, when the law school was under pressure to promote diversity, she represented a three-fer: a great lawyer with a national profile, a woman, and a minority, at least by virtue of family lore. "
-- Joan Vennochi
