HAHAHAHAH! It has begun.

Seriously 100 Mil Hill, come on out to the desert w me. We have a few 22s and an M1 Carbine. Load the clip, fire it at the sniper cutouts and hit it and I will give you my vote in a gift wrapped bag.

Hillary Clinton! Champion of the 2nd Amendment! Snipers beware!

so its been a while huh hill?

Is this change I can believe in? I think yes.

Let's just hope this is the beginning of her over reaching coming back to haunt her. We all know she went too far in her effort to pander to rural PA voters in her attack on Obama; but only time will tell if the press will have as much enthusiasm for that story as they have for Obama's so called "bitter-gate".

Let's just hope this is the beginning of her over reaching coming back to haunt her.

I think she has officially jumped the shark.

Someone should remind Hillary of her performance last year at the MSNBC debate. I wonder if her response to Brian Willams' question on gun ownership is also "not relevant":

http://www.docstrangelove.com/2008/04/13/hillary-clinton-from-tuzla-to-guns/

Translation: I shot a gun once and now I'm trying to turn that one time into a sniper battle to boost my country street cred.

Transparent. Pathetic. Comical.

Man, oh man. Wednesday's debate is going to be fun!

New York TPMers: Would it be even more fun to meet in some public place and watch it together?

Don't act all surprised. Who didn't know she'd overplay this hand and end up the worser for it?

What about Bill's gun? When's the last time he fired it?

"This is about what people feel is being said about them. I went to church on Easter. I mean, so?"

Hmmmm. Last politician I recall answering a question with a dismissive, defiant "so?" is Dick Cheney.

Not very artful, Hillary.

Bittergate is all over the corporate media and the progreesive's continue this divisive bs.

His whole campaign, supporters and blogs are a freaking fraud.

No hope or unity just divisive politics as usual.

Bittergate is all over the corporate media and the progreesive's continue this divisive bs.

Well let's see, google right now:

Kenya coalition cabinet
Delta-Northwest merger
Inside the Polygamist Compound...

Democrats going after McCain on campaign finance...

"What about Bill's gun? When's the last time he fired it?"

I think the more relevant question is when he fired it anywhere near Hillary.

so far Obama for what ever reason has failed to be aggressive enough at the debates.

but this is the time to show her as the bosnia trade and gun lier she is.

anything less wont do.

Okee, are you serious or just posting to get a rise out of people?

Getalife,who knew you were the snarkiest Obama supporter at TPM? To think I've been fooled all along! You're Snark-o-licious Baby!

How pathetic. Does she shoot varmints like big game hunter Romney? Why bother try to cozy up to gun owners?

If firing a gun is a relevant issue in public office, then we ought to ask every candidate if he/she had fired a gun.

Hillary please cut the bull.

Talk radio will be on this and the Revered J. Wright's FIX News comments tomorrow and the rest of week. Let talk radio and MSM handle this now. Hit Obama on this issue Wednesday at the debate.

The National Review has a great read on Obama's story alterations.

Why Orwell Matters [Victor Davis Hanson]

Here is what Sen. Obama said:

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then 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 as a way to explain their frustrations."

Here is what Sen. Obama now says he said:

"So I said, 'Well, you know, when you're bitter you turn to what you can count on,' " he continued. "So people they vote about guns, or they take comfort from their faith and their family and their community. And they get mad about illegal immigrants who are coming over to this country or they get frustrated about, you know, how things are changing. That's a natural response."

1. Note how version #1's "cling" becomes version #2's "vote about" and "take comfort from"—as the condescending dismissal becomes empathetic understanding.

2. Note how version #1's "religion" and "antipathy to people who aren't like them" becomes version #2's "faith" and "their family and community" —as fundamentalist xenophobes now become beleaguered folks who band together against the unfairness.

3 Note how version #1's "anti-immigrant" becomes version #2's "mad about illegal immigrants" —as the nativist who opposes all immigrants, legal and illegal, now becomes understandably angry only about those coming here illegally.

4. Note how version #1's "as a way to explain their frustrations" becomes version #2's "they get frustrated about" as the misguided scape-goaters become those who react understandably to adversity.

5. Note no explanation in version #2 for version #1's "anti-trade sentiment"—and no wonder since Obama himself is embarrassed that so far he's voiced far more "anti-trade sentiment" than those he caricatured.

6. Note how version #1's "And it's not surprising then they get bitter" becomes version #2's "your'e" and "you" and "Thats a natural response", as the condescending use of the embittered and distant "they" now morphs into a kindred "you" and the quip "not surprising" becomes the sympathetic "natural."

7. Note how version #1's idiotic logic that Middle-America has only become religious or pro-gun in the last 25 years as a result of job loss is simply omitted.

8. Note how there is sudddenly no "context" for the landscape of version #1: an elite Bay-area audience that is told stories about those Pennsylvanian gun-toting zealots.

With Obama, the clarifications (cf. the Wright and Michelle contextualizations) are always more interestig than the original lapse.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDA5YTc3YmJjM2U2NTdhNDJhYTFhMDk1YmU3ZTIxOTI

Opposed to parental notification on abortions. He amended this to say that he might possibly support it for 12- or 13-year-olds, but no older.

Flatly opposed the death penalty, a position he denied ever having.

Supported bans on the sale, possession, and manufacture of guns, again a position he denied ever taking.

Dude, those things might make some Republican not like Obama, but those are progressive positions I appreciate in a candidate.

Furthermore, I think Americans are just ready for someone who will tell them the truth. I think they want that so bad right now that it's going to surprise you.

The gop takes the obvious bias, divisive posts and comments to show the voters his hope and unity message does not work.

Nice work "progressives".

LOLOLOL!! Half of the Republican party doesn't know there is any such thing as the internet.

But besides all that - do you imagine that your comments here are that big a deal to the world? Let me disabuse you of that - I can promise you that we are not important. What is said here doesn't matter to anyone other than the people who are here and those who read it.

Between dodging Bosnian sniper fire and her story about being a gun totin' tot, Hillary has formed her very own circular firing squad.

Not a moment too soon.

As someone who stood behind the Clintons throughout Blowjobgate, the aspect of this that sucks the worst is that so much of what Rush Limbaugh said about them is turning out to be true.

I know - it makes me feel icky.

"The reason (George H. W. Bush's tactic) works so well now is that you have all these economically insecure white people who are scared to death," ~Bill Clinton

"The reason (George H. W. Bush's tactic) works so well now is that you have all these economically insecure white people who are scared to death," ~Bill Clinton

O excellent work

I LOVE that someone said Hillary jumped the shark -- it is one of my favorite expressions.

Hillary is Hill-arious!

How can she claim something that she brought up in the course of the debate is not relevant to that very debate?

And if it isn't relevant to the debate then why would you add more facts about it (church on Easter) to that debate?

I know, it must have been late at night when she made this statement -- she is too tired... but wait a minute, the article was posted at 5 PM, maybe it happened today. Hmm. If she gets tired on a Sunday afternoon I'd hate to have her answering that call at 3 AM.

Her campaign makes absolutetly no sense.

but

Barack Obama just got the endorsement of [[Hillary's PA 'family roots' Scranton, PA] town newspaper, the Times-Tribune.

I read the editorial endorsement and all 146 comments. Most of the comments, and significantly, most of PA folks commenting were saluting the paper for endorsing Obama. It was wonderful to see that those folks understood what Obama was saying about the small town problems, instead of following Hillary's spin on that.

"The reason (George H. W. Bush's tactic) works so well now is that you have all these economically insecure white people who are scared to death," ~Bill Clinton

That's funny, when Bill Clinton says it, no problem.

When Obama says it, the media wet their pants with fake outrage.

Aw, c'mon, if Hill could shoot, would Bill still be with us?

CNN is saying Obama failed to answer bittergate too in the forum tonite.

Still ongoing because he will not apologize.

But lets talk about when Clinton shot a gun.

Geez.