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In The News
- From Sunday columnist Elizabeth Hovde in The (Portland) Oregonian:
A press release from the nation's third-largest political party today says that independents reject Obama's "promises of prosperity through big government."
The release adds, "Despite a deep financial crisis and the election of a left-wing president, political independents still see 'big government' as a greater threat than 'big business' by an unchanged two-to-one margin."
The release quotes (Donny) Ferguson, Libertarian National Committee Communications Director, saying that political independents "still believe the same Big Government that Obama promises as our global salvation will be America's undoing," and adds, "Obama and the Republicans have us spiraling towards national bankruptcy."
The fuel for the Libertarian Party's fire is a Rasmussen Reports poll that shows 59 percent of politically independent Americans view big government as the greatest threat to the country, which is similar to the 60 percent of independents who said the same thing in 2006, before the financial crisis and before Obama's election. (5/11/2009)
- From columnist Vin Suprynowicz in The Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Meantime, the Libertarian Party points out even the statistics used by Mr. Obama to supposedly justify his "emergency need" to "block the flow of arms to Mexico" are bogus.
"Is Barack Obama 'bitterly clinging to falsified numbers' in his bid to push his anti-gun treaty?" asked the Libertarian Party in an April news release.
"This war is being waged with guns purchased not here, but in the United States. More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States," Mr. Obama said in a face-to-face April meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon in Mexico City.
But that claim, the LP points out, "is blatantly false. According to information supplied by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives the real number is closer to only 17 percent.
"There is a reason Obama is intentionally spreading false information about American firearm businesses," says Donny Ferguson, Libertarian National Committee Communications Director. "He ... promised anti-gun groups he would enact gun bans and is hoping to scare people into voting away their own rights... (5/10/2009)
