Sunday, April 13, 2008
THE SCRANTON SHOOTIST
Barack Obama’s comments on small-town Pennslyvanians:
“It’s not surprising that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment.”
Handed these remarks, only one politician on earth could fail to score some serious points - and that’s Hillary Edmund Clinton (D-Undersniperfire), who saw Obama’s bigotry as a chance to tell another of her delightful make-believe stories:
“You know my dad took me out behind the cottage my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught me how to shoot when I was a little girl,” she said.
“You know some people have continued 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 part of who they are, not because they are bitter.”
People also enjoy hunting Hillary Clinton, according to Hillary. Her fond memories of childhood gun lessons don’t exactly square with Clinton’s usual firearm statements:
We have to enact laws that will keep guns out of the hands of children ... think hard about what we can do to make sure that we keep guns out of the hands of children ... It is really important for each of you [kids] to make sure you stay away from guns. If you have guns in your home, tell your parents to keep them away from you ...
Via Max the Cat. Instapundit rounds up the bitterness; Pennsylvania politicos have their say; and bitter small town residents ask for halp.
UPDATE. Regarding a recent reflective Cheney controversy, LL emails: “It’s more obscene than we thought.”
