obama responds to clintons gun rights attacks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIxmi3e2Vmo

Obama, in Steelton, via AP (around 4:15 above):

"She knows better. Shame on her. Shame on her," Obama said, and then expressed some amusement at Hillary's emergence as a tribune of the Second Amendment:

"She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsman, how she values the second amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley," Obama said, invoking the famed female sharpshooter immortalized in the musical "Anne Get Your Gun."

Obama continued, saying "Hillary Clinton is out there like she's on the duck blind every Sunday. She's packing a six-shooter. Come on, she knows better. That's some politics being played by Hillary Clinton."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D901A22G3&show_article=1

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/

 

cnn headlined it 'lashing out' lol. thats the only place ive seen it described that way, obvious joking/sarccasm.

 

So when is Hilary going to go on a photo-op hunting trip like Kerry did?

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Yeah. Obama lashed out. Hilary shot back. Obama returned fire. They peppered each other with bird shot insults. When the smoke cleared...

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After obama's "guns and religion" statement i dont know if i could vote for him anymore, but i sure as hell am not voting for clinton. She has been trying to get rid of guns for decades. Her statements are laughable. Where the hell are the true liberals, you know the ones who actually advocate liberty and stand up for our rights. Where have all the sam adams's, thomas jeffersons, and ben franklins gone?

 

This is soooo amusing.

Both sides are filled with cliché after cliché.

How do you guys watch that watered-down filibuster crap? I mean, do people really like, buy into these distractions over there??? Is there no voice of reason in your media that calls people out on the kind of mud slinging parades that happen for the camera?

I remain perplexed. I don't really get why viewers don't shame them both for being pricks instead of picking a side.

 

I shame them both. All three actually. I agree with jessie ventura that there should be a "none of the above" option on the ballot.

 

Its nice to see that the issues are finally being discussed.

The original statement was along the lines of: Pennsylvania people are under economic stress is making people bitter, so they cling to firearms or religion or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

WOW that covers a lot of real estate, and is a lot more interesting and insightful than "Annie Oakley". I am hoping that our media take this opportunity to discuss these theories with Senator Obama.

I won't hold my breath.

I'd imagine that all people feel economic stress: Republicans, Democrats, City people, Country people.

Guns are an expensive luxury with very limited use. Do People hunt due to economic stress?

Are people of faith that way because of economic stress? Is Reverend Wright that way because of stress?

This sounds like a simplistic worldview.

 

I think Obama might have been talking psychology more than politics. If I'm right, he was talking about control. We need to feel like we have some control over our lives.

In a consumer culture, economic control is the root of all the other versions of control. Without it, you got shit.

So if we're robbed of economic control (our jobs go overseas, rich people get all the tax cuts, gas prices and inflation start to pinch), we look for control in other places.

We lash out at Mexican immigrants because they're "taking our jobs." We hate blacks because they "sponge off our tax dollars." We cling to religion because we fear death. And, dammit, my guns are mine. If you try to take them from me you have to "pry them from my cold, dead hands." After all, I got nothin' else.

Control. I think that's what Obama meant. It's complicated and doesn't work as a soundbite, so the media picked up on "bitter" and ran with it. They like that stupid simplistic shit.

And you're right. Piney. That covers a lot of real estate. And I hate to call it "the theory of everything" because it's probably too simple (like you said). But damn, it makes sense, doesn't it? IDK ...

 

I am just dissappointed that a person whom i believed capable of rational thought would reduce the reasons people support the right to bear arms to "theyre bitter at the economic crises." Thank you Barack for your expert analysis of whats going on inside other peoples heads. As someone who is a constitutional lawyer, he should have studied the reasons the second amendment was put in place, then he might have a better idea why people take pride in the right to bear arms.