Clinton Becomes A Gun Lover

CNN reported Saturday that Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton touted her experience with guns and hunting to a crowd in Indiana:

Hillary Clinton appealed to Second Amendment supporters on Saturday by hinting that she has some experience of her own pulling triggers.

"I disagree with Sen. Obama's assertion that people in our country cling to guns and have certain attitudes about trade and immigration simply out of frustration," she began, referring to the Obama comments on small-town Americans that set off a political tumult on Friday.

She then introduced a fond memory from her youth.

"You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught be how to shoot when I was a little girl," she said.

"You know, some people now continue to teach their children and their grandchildren. It's part of culture. It's part of a way of life. People enjoy hunting and shooting because it's an important part of who they are. Not because they are bitter."

Clinton said she has hunted ducks.

ABC News later reported that Clinton also visited a restaurant in Crown Point, Indiana to share a shot of whiskey with the locals:

Clinton stood by the bar and took a shot of Crown Royal whiskey. She took one sip of the shot, then another small sip, then a few seconds later threw her head back and finished off the whole thing.

Clinton later sat down at a table and enjoyed some pizza and beer, and called over Mayor Tom McDermott of Hammond, Ind., to come join the table.

"Every time I get around you we start drinking, senator," the mayor exclaimed.

Clinton nodded and raised her glass.

"It's Saturday night, though, Tom," she said.

Comments

[gjoh]

She'll say and do anything to get elected. It doesn't matter if she has to lie.

[GravitonX]

Hillary's head is spinning. We'll be talking about Bosnian snipers soon.

[Cinnamonape]

When Hillary was in the sniper-zone in Bosnia they heard about her prowess with guns and handed her a high-powered marksman rifle. From the helicopter, she took out seven Serbian snipers that had been plaguing the camp, which allowed the group that included Chelsea, Sinbad, and others to stroll easily across the tarmac. "Chelsea was never in any danger...I knew that once I got that firearm in my hands no Serbian assassin would pry it out. Those Serbian paramilitaries are easier targets than the mountain lions and grizzley bears I used to shoot when I was a six year old growing up in Pennsyltucky!"

She also offered to train the Iraqi National Gaurd in marksmenship as part of her plan to get the US Military out of Iraq in less than a year. "It's Bush's fault that he didn't send me over sooner."

[Independent007]

You forgot to mention how Hillary defended the Alamo when she was younger, while she was dodging sniper fire of course.
What a woman!

[kcjc]

Maybe someone needs to tell Senator Obama that you don't go "up in a duck blind" to shoot ducks with a six shooter!!! Everything Senator Obama says wrong he twists to try to make Senator Clinton look bad!!

[GravitonX]

Actually, you can shoot ducks with a handgun. The media is wrong.

[heal57]

Senator Obama does not have to do much. Describing her as Annie Oakley was hyserical!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pleeezzze]

When you have nothing Legitimate to say ,like for instance ..Why you think you should be POTUS , then of course you can Try to be Cute .
Did'nt work Bam Bam !! Only people who adore you would think so.

[Rachel36]

May be she should duck hunting with Vice President Cheney to see which one shoot the other in the face first.

[kato1]

Bravo! I'd pay to see that. And I hate bloodshed.

[heal57]

I'll pay double!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[vallon]

Hillary would shoot herself in the foot.

[campgranata]

you mean AGAIN. that's all she seems to do

[ebaLnoloM]

There's a big difference between shooting cans out back of the wood shed with grandpa and convincing a nation that you think more of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights than just a piece of scrap paper wtitten hastily during a drunken night of whisky. Obama is no better. He has voiced on numerous occasions his belief that there is a difference between an urban and rural individual's right to self protection....

Hillary AND Obama have been dancing around the gun issue throughout their entire campaign. Liberal media has done it's best to hide it for as long as they could. Eventually it will catch up with them.

McCain '08

[ruyen]

You really think that many people won't vote for them if they support longer wait times and background checks to buy guns. No one wants another VT, which might have been prevented if more checks were done on the killer's mental problems. Coming from someone who took the concealed handgun class, I don't see anything wrong with trying to make sure unstable and dangerous people can't buy guns.

[ebaLnoloM]

You must've have missed the part about Obama opposing concealed carry and both of them favoring gun BANS then hugh?


Virginia Tech could also have been prevented if professors and students weren't unconstitutionally disarmed. You really shouldn't believe everything liberal media allows you to see....

PS...Cho PASSED his background check.

[L1standing]

There once was a senator named Hill
Whose whoppers were part of her skill
She shot her a duck
Got down in the muck
As a nine year old she lived for the kill

[MariaHopeful]

Outstanding!

[heal57]

This is very good!!! Keep up the good work.

[austinobserver]

People should not question Hillary's experience as a hunter. I have heard that virtually every time Mitt Romney when hunting, he took Hillary with him.

[heal57]

I thought that was Bill who took her??

[TexasCrat]

Hillary's voting records seems to suggest she's ant-2nd amendment.

Which one is it Hill? Are you shooting deer on Saturday's or not?

[Bozwellian]

aw shucks, they was just a 'shooting the ingredient for supper at that summer cottage (hasenfeffer-spicy rabbit stew )...senconds anyone ?

[MaineMike]

Clinton should have learned something by now: if Obama does something that might hurt him, she shouldn’t talk about it herself, she should just let the media and her surrogates run with it. Once she works it into her speeches and tries to directly benefit from the situation, she ends up shooting herself in the foot.

[treadway123]

Come on know! one viewer said , "Maybe it's a custom in Pennsylvania for their women to Slug back a shot of Whiskey, and chase it with beer in their bars down their with black suit , tie wearing men, with red faces who's also slug back shots of whiskey with beer chasers"! How do we know! After all she says they ain't bitter about loseing their Jobs--------------------and makes you think their whisky drinking, beer chaseing , gun toting people down there who go hunting for ducks like she did when she was a kid! Thinks she's one of them! Well Pennsylvania who has you right and who pictures you in the right light! Obama or clinton! Are you bitter or are you drunks who carry aroud guns and shot ducks like she does? Know come on----------I'm only jokeing! But you get the picture don't you of how silly she looks drinking and talking about killing ducks an toting guns while she in a bar with a bunch of whitemen who's drinking too, don't ya?

[Racetracker]

Well, doggies. I kin just see her and Jed and Jethro shootin' them flies off the wall, smearin' a little sorghum 'round to attract 'em. Betcha she makes her own lye soap. Word has it she's got her own still. I love the smell of propane in the morning.

[Bozwellian]

,,,both C's seem to have quite the tendency to "dance" , but consistently end up with the left feet in mouths more often than not when folks are actually paying attention and trying to ascertain fact or fiction or just spun embellished malarky !!!

[Independent007]

"she ends up shooting herself in the foot"...

I am sure no pun was intended, but the irony struck me nonetheless.

[Beachrunner]

"You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught be how to shoot when I was a little girl," she said.

"You know, I used to shoot squirrels and rabbits, then skin them and cook them over an open camp fire. I used the Bowie knife my Uncle gave me to gut them suckers. I'm proud to say I supplied the majority of the protein that we ate. Then I sewed the skins together into gloves for my mama, so that she could have warm hands in the winter time (we used a wood stove to heat our place, and there never was enough wood to go around.) I also had a still out back by the lake, and I'd take a shot of my moonshine every once in awhile. My dad said in was the best moonshine this side of Montreal."

[SFkid]

Once I was good and buzzed from the Moonshine, me and pa grabbed vines from the local swamp to tie together a raft. We reckon we could make a fine raft from the timber I chopped earlier in the day. With a s bit of spit and sweat I made a deck that could fit atleast 4 kin and a horse. Gosh, I'm lil' bitter cause if the them here government lowered gas prices and maybe helped find me a job, I wouldn't have to build this here raft to git me round town now.

[widollar]

Yes, it is humorous to watch Hillary "GunMa" Clinton pander for new votes from the gun toting crowd. Actually, she and Bill did pick out a new bee bee gun at Wal-Mart. And since she used to be on the board of directors of Wal-Mart they gave her a special 10 percent discount.

[Bozwellian]

as they try to pain Obama as McGovernesque or Dukakis...any reminded of Kerry out duck hunting in 2004 camapgn season ? Similar mindthoughts come up with Hillary regalling how she sent rabbit hunting with her grandpa out back of their SUMMER cottage ther in PA.....is this more fully as desparate pandering or what ?

[tags7453]

I love what Joy Behar said on "The View" today...
"If Hillary was so pro-gun, she would have shot her husband a long time ago."

[L1standing]

The vitriolic comments that we’re reading day after day, are those of Watergate Republican style provocateurs whose only purpose is to perpetuate a discourse of hate and disunity. Becoming a divisive electorate places us at the great risk of failing in our mission. These Republican Wh*res hold no sway with me and shouldn’t with you. Let their comments wither and die on the vine. Rebuttal only weakens us and strengthens them.

IF YOU’RE A HILLARY SUPPORTER THAT’S IMPORTANT.

IF YOU’RE A BARACK SUPPORTER THAT’S EQUALLY IMPORTANT.

WE MUST NOT LOSE SIGHT OF OUR PRIMARY OBJECTIVE. A DEMOCRAT MUST OCCUPY THE OVAL OFFICE FOR THE NEXT EIGHT YEARS AND BEYOND.

[treadway123]

Yes Mam, But I just can't see myself supporting this whiskey drinking, beer chaseing, duck killing gal who makes up stories for every state she goes to! Look, your asking a whole lot of us, to support a person like that! the people of Pennsylvania must feel like a pin cushion with her going around telling them this is what they are like! They aren't angry or mad-----------they don't have enough common sense with all the liquor they drink and killing they all do !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Da, she makes the people of pennsylvania sound like idiots that they don't know their towns are dieing and their kids leaveing the state and rural area for jobs, because the clintons NAFTA program shut down all their factorys an companys and sent them over sea's! Good grief it's as plain as the nose on your face these people are angry and bitter-------------Not drunks,gun totting idiots who go duch hunting to survive with Hillary Clinton!

[shedances]

If Hillary Clinton is trying to show sensitivity to the gun owners in this country, then she's going about it all wrong. I agree with Sen. Obama on this one ~ Mrs. Clinton's not Annie Oakley & people aren't that interested in how she learned to duck hunt.

I'm real tired of cheering for a candidate-hopeful who keeps letting down her supporters by trying to convince them that she's really everyone's best friend, confidante, now avid-gun person, and 'good ole boy' who'll have a drink along with a hearty laugh. This isn't what the presidential election is all about, and if Sen. Clinton has forgotten what she's doing (she said she would work hard for the American people, and respond to their needs & promote good change, etc., etc.), then she ought to quit. It's getting embarrassing.

[Syco]

HIllary would be winning is she wasn't trying so hard to be one of the guys.

[Bozwellian]

...lol, some keep mentioning she was duck hunting, caught her one time referencing how she was targeting rabbits....tried to give an out as perhaps was simply seeking ingredient for supper stew (hassenfeffer=spicy rabbit stew, quite popular in the german communities and hills of PA and WVA as well....)