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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 --- 11:30 a.m.

DENVER (AP) -- They're "Rednecks for Obama" and they're proud of it.

Tony Veissman and Les Spencer like to hunt and fish. They also like Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The buddies drove from Rolla, Missouri, to the Democratic Convention in Denver to show their support for the Illinois senator. Veissman and Spencer stood outside the Pepsi Center with a banner reading "Rednecks for Obama."

Veissman is a retired Missouri state trooper and says Obama is "bright." He adds they're "trying to get all the rednecks to vote for Obama."

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Posted by: GUNLOVER Location: CHARLESTON SC on Oct 9, 2008 at 01:13 PM
Obama is the anti redneck and anti 2nd admendment.He wont get this country mans vote.

Posted by: Elizabeth Location: Missouri on Oct 6, 2008 at 01:16 PM
Please; the NRA is biased with a Republican agenda.

Posted by: RASTRO on Sep 30, 2008 at 07:56 AM
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/06/081006fa_fact_boyer "In a nod to local values, Obama declared, “I’m a Christian and I believe deeply in my faith,” and he volunteered the information that he was no gun grabber. “I just want to be absolutely clear, all right? So I don’t want any misunderstanding, so that when we all go home and you’re talking to your buddies, and they say, ‘Aw, he wants to take my gun away,’ you heard it here. . . . I believe in the Second Amendment. I believe in people’s lawful right to bear arms. I will not take your shotgun away from you. I will not take your rifle away. I won’t take your handgun away.” Obama said he was for “common-sense gun-safety laws,” and repeated again, “I am not gonna take your guns away. So, if you wanna find an excuse not to vote for me, don’t use that one, because that just ain’t true. It just ain’t true!”

Posted by: deer hunter on Aug 31, 2008 at 08:48 PM
I hope they want to keep there guns and ammo (Obama wants to change the 2nd admendment). He wants to tax guns and ammo at about 500% and he wants it harder for law abiding citizens to get them. I hope they read the NRA Magazine.

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