Clinton Lies About NRA Membership

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Color me shocked. From Inside the Beltway...

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If Vice President Al Gore invented the Internet, then President Clinton was a member of the National Rifle Association. Or so both have claimed. Inside the Beltway has confirmed that at a recent private fund-raising dinner, Mr. Clinton revealed to guests that he used to be a card-carrying member of the NRA he now decries. We've gotten hold of a transcript from the Democratic National Committee fund-raiser, held at a private residence in Atlanta on Oct. 29, in which Mr. Clinton stated: "The second thing I want to say is, it may be popular in the South, but I think it's wrong -- I don4t think it's so popular anymore --even the new Republican Party is for whatever the NRA says they ought to do on these gun fights. "Now, you know, I once had a lifetime membership in the NRA. I've even got my jacket there. I'm sure they revoked it somewhere now. "But you listen -- hadn't anybody missed a day of deer season on what I've done -- nobody. And nobody's been knocked out of one sporting contest for what I've advocated. But there are people alive today because of these background checks. We did the right thing." Wayne R. LaPierre Jr., executive vice president of the NRA, was shaking his head yesterday. "I can't believe it," the NRA chief said. "You know, if he's that delusional maybe he did inhale." Do you mean to say Mr. Clinton was telling another tall tale? "He never had a lifetime membership, he never had a jacket. He made it up," Mr. LaPierre said. The NRA, he stressed, keeps excellent records of its membership roster, present and past. Which isn't to say Mr. Clinton didn't do his share of hunting in his lifetime. In fact, Bill Powers, director of public affairs for the NRA, is kind enough to supply today's column art -- a popular NRA poster from 1996, showing our president clutching a Beretta semiautomatic shotgun during a duck hunt. That same weapon, by the way, while not specifically banned under Mr. Clinton's signature, is identical in function to semiautomatic firearms that the president has said are bad. White House spokesman Barry Toiv, at the request of this column, was busy searching Mr. Clinton's wallet yesterday for an old NRA membership card. "Perhaps he is an honorary member," Mr. Toiv suggested. Finally, as for Mr. Clinton taking credit for instant background checks when purchasing guns, Mr. LaPierre says "he's even delusional" about that. He recalls that the president initially supported a "waiting period" for gun purchases, while "we were in favor of the instant background checks. What's on the books now is closer to what the NRA advocated."

-- Roland (nottelling@nowhere.com), November 11, 1999

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Bill Clinton is seditious and I honestly don't know why. I'll be glad when that man is out of office. I find it odd that the criminal act of sedition is no longer enforced. He and the two before him were straight out of a cell within the CIA and it really makes one ponder what has happened within the CIA? Is the CIA having itself a social revolution? One has to wonder.

-- Paula (chowbabe@pacbell.net), November 11, 1999.

When you say Clinton spoke, and Clinton lied, you are being reduntant.

-- goldbug (goldbug@mint.com), November 11, 1999.

You know....

Something stuck in my mind way back when the Prez was just in office (for the first time). He stated that he was for hunters and their rights...Then added that he had taken his ".22 rifle" and hunted deer many times....Now what do we have here? Some one who does not know their calibers? Nor the game laws? Or is it that they where poachers? It's gotta be one of those folks! Because every state has it that it is against the law to hunt deer (large) game with a .22 cal. rifle. JMHO...But the man doesn't know the truth when it bites him (guess a intern got excited)?

And what is you defination of illeagal?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Shakey~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-- Shakey (in_a_bunker@forty.feet), November 11, 1999.


Bill Clinton is supposed to have said:

"But you listen -- hadn't anybody missed a day of deer season on what I've done -- nobody. And nobody's been knocked out of one sporting contest for what I've advocated. But there are people alive today because of these background checks. We did the right thing."

The first two sentences are (mostly successful) attempts to focus on non-issues to the detrement of the _real_ issue. The purpose of the second ammendment is _not_ to ensure hunting and sport. It is to ensure that we the people have the means to overthrow the tyrannical govermnment when it manifests its tyrany.

The third sentence is possibly true, but many more have been assaulted for lack of protection than have been saved because some attacker was too stupid to get a gun. After all, when you can get someone to kill for you for $50 in Washington, D. C., how expensive can a gun be?

George

-- George Valentine (georgevalentine@usa.net), November 11, 1999.


Actually Shakey, here in Montana, one can hunt deer with ROCKS if'n one wants. It just isn't "sporting". After all, unless one is a marksman, it is too easy to wound. The goal is "one shot=one kill". Tough to do with small calibers, but not impossible.

-- DavePrime (the_tv_guy@hotmail.com), November 12, 1999.


President Reagan once said he was a WW II veteran, he lied, no one cared. No one of any importance seems to care at all that politicians or any other institution in the society lies as a matter of course.

The moral foundations of the Republic are gone.

-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), November 12, 1999.


Forrest:

I thought the President Reagan was in the Army, but served in one of the film and information (propaganda) units that functioned in Hollywood. Many of the film stars of that era served this country that way without seeing combat. After all, what would it do for the re-election of the socialist FDR to see America's heroes dying by the score.

-- Antifed (TherotstartedwithLincoln@hiscorruptcabal.com), November 13, 1999.


Forrest -

Link

...Several years after graduating from college and while employed as a sports announcer by a radio station in Iowa, Ronald Reagan began taking home-study U.S. Army Extension Courses. He enrolled in the program on Mar. 18, 1935 and by Dec. 1936, had completed 14 courses. He then joined the Army's Enlisted Reserve Corps at Des Moines, Iowa on April 29, 1937 as a private in Troop B, 322d Cavalry. On May 25, 1937 he was appointed a second lieutenant in the Officers' Reserve Corps of the Cavalry and on June 18, 1937, he accepted his officer's commission.

Following the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Lt. Reagan interrupted his acting career and on April 19, 1942, went on active duty...

"What are the facts? Again and again and again -- what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what 'the stars foretell,' avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable 'verdict of history,' -- what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your only clue. Get the facts!" --- The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), November 13, 1999.


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