Uh oh… from Politico. Remember Al “Manbearpig” Gore’s stance on guns cost him his home state of Tennesee and with that the election. You can bet Hilldog is going to try to ram this stuff home.

During his first run for elected office, Barack Obama played a greater role than his aides now acknowledge in crafting liberal stands on gun control, the death penalty and abortion– positions that appear at odds with the more moderate image he’s projected during his presidential campaign.

The evidence comes from an amended version of an Illinois voter group’s detailed questionnaire, filed under his name during his 1996 bid for a state Senate seat.

Late last year, in response to a Politico story about Obama’s answers to the original questionnaire, his aides said he “never saw or approved” the questionnaire.

They asserted the responses were filled out by a campaign aide who “unintentionally mischaracterize(d) his position.”

But a Politico examination determined that Obama was actually interviewed about the issues on the questionnaire by the liberal Chicago non-profit group that issued it. And it found that Obama – the day after sitting for the interview – filed an amended version of the questionnaire, which appears to contain Obama’s own handwritten notes adding to one answer.

I like this line myself.. They asserted the responses were filled out by a campaign aide who “unintentionally mischaracterize(d) his position.” Anybody notice how often he likes to throw his aides under the bus? It’s never his fault.. He sounds like my 4 year old daughter Ellie. She is having a hard time accepting blame for anything. Yesterday she tripped going down the stairs and she said “They shouldn’t have put those steps there!” Yes, she blamed the steps for being there.