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Obama vs. the NRA

Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign by cliff1066™
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There are 2 means to eliminate a policy concept in Washington: Broaden it to include every interested person with an opinion, or appoint a commission. If you broaden it, it quickly becomes a cacophonous mess, and everyone throws up his/her hands. Commissions, practically by design, are where action goes for a nap. So when President Obama unveiled his initial response to the Newtown, Conn. , massacre in his news conference on Wednesday-- a commission headed by Vice President Joe Biden to round up some varied referrals -- you may have had reason to fret that Obama wasn't significant about committing himself to gun control. However not so quickly. Obama may have noticed your pessimism, and he is very aware of the gloomy history of Washington commissions. Undoubtedly, he spoke directly to that point. "This is not some Washington commission," he said.

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President Obama

Overall Sentiment: -0.0629805

Relevance: 0.89033

Sentiment	Quote
0	"This is not some Washington commission," he said. ...
0	"This is not some Washington commission," he said. "This is not something where folks are going to be studying the issue for six months and publishing a report that gets read and then pushed aside."
-0.0411112	he might say he doesn't want to "pre-judge" ...
-0.0333525	"The idea that we would say: 'This is terrible. This is a tragedy. Never again,' and we don't have the sustained attention span to be able to get this done over the next several months doesn't make sense," said Obama ...
0.300549	"The idea that we would say: 'This is terrible. This is a tragedy. Never again,' and we don't have the sustained attention span to be able to get this done over the next several months doesn't make sense," said Obama on Wednesday. "I have more confidence in the American people than that."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 5 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.2260853 Mean: 0.04521706 Standard Deviation: 0

Vice President Joe Biden

Overall Sentiment: -0.0108609

Relevance: 0.232095

Sandy Hook

Overall Sentiment: 0.0426555

Relevance: 0.180057

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords

Overall Sentiment: -0.476154

Relevance: 0.179195

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