Second, he didn’t say “I” go skeet shooting all the time, he said “we,” referring to those who visit Camp David. So a perfectly reasonable interpretation of his statement would be “skeet shooting is a common activity at Camp David, and I have participated in this activity.”

Misleading? Maybe so. A scandalous indication of a serial liar? Hardly.

Don’t patronize me. This isn’t just about “Skeetgate”, that’s what I’m trying to say. This isn’t a one-time thing: Closing GITMO; Bringing the troops home; “Mission Accomplished”; “I did not have sex with that woman”; “No new taxes” and on and on and on… It’s about the character of a person who is my President. Is it really such “bullshit” to ask for an honest President?

A President who lies so easily to the people he is sworn and pledged to support really gets under my skin. I didn’t like it when Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, etc…  did it; I don’t like it when Obama does it. Why is it ignored?

Don’t dismiss it as a “shortcoming”. Picking your nose in public is a shortcoming. Burping on a date is a shortcoming. But telling me something meaningless that you know isn’t true and then asking me to trust you on important things? … That’s just asinine. It ain’t happening, Jack. It’s not a “stretch” of the truth. No one can even remember seeing him shooting Skeet more than once.

Expect more from your leaders. Hold them accountable. This current blase attitude is what leads us to the wiretapping and drone strikes. It’s the frog in the frying pan.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246725/Silvio-Berlusconis-hairline-The-mystery-Italian-PMs-changing-crown-grips-Italy.html#axzz2Jg6Pcon5

“He doesn’t go skeet shooting as often as he implied he does!” is just a stupid waste of time.

I’ll tell you why it matters. Because it’s a friggin’ lie.

If anything it’s an exaggeration. That’s a falsehood on the same order of “I’m so happy to be here to speak to you tonight…” at a political rally.

God forbid we have a leader who’s not a gun nut or religious zealot!!!

If we want a better political world we have to stop this glossing over of crap like this. If you can honestly say that a comment like this wouldn’t have bothered you if it came from the other side of the isle, then more power to you. But history has proved that isn’t true. The slightest misstep by someone we are against is pounced upon and dragged through the streets. While bold-faced lies from our own side are religiously accepted and overlooked as we use “faith” (ie: I don’t think he would have done that!) to abolish “fact” (ie: He said it and he lied.)

I don’t care what side of the isle or political affiliation someone is if they are honest. But blind, willfull, ignorant, unapologetic hypocrisy will destroy any credibility that party has developed and will never encourage others to understand your point of view.

Personally, I believe he probably DOES do a lot of skeet shooting. Camp David has an awesome skeet range and skeet shooting fun enough that I’ve had some friends that were rabidly anti-gun ask if they could try it when I was out shooting skeet with some friends. It’s one gun sport that harms nothing and nobody with the exception of some clay targets and is pretty much like a live action video game.

And I think the guy he shot in the face was Jeff Gannon.

Since everyone is likening crazy stuff to video games, I’ll draw the analogy that not everyone uses God-Mode, even if everyone tries it. Sport is fun.

Skeet my ass.

Or if you wish to witness it in person:
http://wonkette.com/481953/these-obama-and-romney-collectibles-poop-candy-for-your-mouth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqRg0J_gt1A

For those growing up in rural America, gun ownership in general, and gun-based hobbies in particular, are part of the cultural identity. Not just ‘cultural identify’ in a nationalist sense, but also woven into rites of passage and family bonding — those early hunting trips with dad or family reunions skeet shooting with the cousins, the first woodchuck dispatched from the family garden. That’s probably why attempts to limit access to guns arouse so much popular emotion. You may hear from the crazies, but the popular reaction comes from fear of threatened tradition and identity.

As do most Politicians, Obama tried to claim ‘he feels your pain’ and understands your life. He, after all, goes shooting all the time. He knows that shooting guns is part of life, and he doesn’t intend to take that away. But people are VERY sensitive to hypocrisy. It’s much worse to be a hypocrite than it would have been to just say, “hey, I’m a city kid and never have been into guns myself, but I have nothing against hunting or target shooting. That’s not what we’re talking about here’.

*To deter people attacking me for beliefs I do not have, I support regulating firearm ownership, especially of hand guns, and would even get behind a licensing and registration scheme, beyond the pale for most gun owners. However, I grew up in a rural area, in a family of hunters, and have some sensitivity into why people take these things personally.