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I’ve posted before about Obama’s Words We Can’t Believe In, and a number of posts about guns and gun rights, and this afternoon I found a nice little amalgam of the two. The image below, courtesy of Politico, is a Clinton campaign mailer going out to the ostensibly “bitter” folks in Indiana ahead of this weeks primary.

For my part, I don’t see this as Kerryesque flip-flopping. It does not seem to me that Obama is actually changing his mind, I think this is just a case of good old-fashioned pandering, as the mailer implies. A case of Obama telling people what he thinks they want to hear. It is not a coincidence that Obama’s derogatory remarks about gun-owners and people of faith were made before a San Francisco audience or that he is suddenly a staunch 2nd Amendment advocate in rural areas.

Winning strategy for the Clinton campaign: Keep Obama talking. The more information that comes out, the more it will become clear that Obama is a politician as usual, which is to say not a very good one. Even on this college campus I think that Obama’s messianic glow is slowly dissipating into a bureaucratic fog.