It's sort of like she's trying to use Jedi mind tricks on the General Public. With a wave of her hand, she assures us that we needn't be concerned with the authenticity of her claims to being a certified gun enthusiast. Unfortunately, this trick only works on weak-minded individuals.

My new avatar is in honor of HRC - the rootinest, tootinest cowgirl this side of the Ozarks - yeehaw!

More hilarity from Hillary.

OK Hillary, next question, "Why does your husband continue to bring up the exagerrated Bosnia-sniper story?"

She is so pathetic.

"This is about what people feel is being said about them."

ie. not what is actually being said about them, but what the MSM tells them is being said about them and why they should be offended.

I don't think the people working two or three jobs will be able to explain what this fake controversy is about. They would likely respond that Obama said some comment about people being "bitter", whatever that means.

In truth, the media & HRC are being condescending here -- pretending that the voters are too stupid to get the "What's the matter with Kansas" discussion.

Foot, meet shot.

LOL.

So true and so true of rural and small town Democrats like my Obama supporting Iowa farmer brother. They've been fighting the good fight at the local coffee shops and grain elevators for the last 20 years against their Rush Limbaugh listening neighbors. They don't need Hillary telling them that she's sided with the ditto heads all along.

THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!

This is what happens when you get out of your depth. Just ask Mitt Romney. Pandering on guns is a loser.

How long ago was Easter, anyway?

Wow. Deep and serious stuff.

I hope Obama wins, because another George W. Bush
in the white house will meet your intelligence and
comfort level.

Apparently, Hillary Clinton was a strong gun control advocate in her run for the senate in 2000. She demanded licensing and registration of all handguns back then, but in a debate this January declared she's against a national gun registry. See more here on America Blog (includes hilarious photoshopping)

How much, and why, has she changed her position? Might be a good question for this week's debate.

The boomerang is on its way back.

On another note, this is like a tennis match or maybe it's just indicative of a very short attention span.

Are we pay attention to what really matters?
I dunno...

This is what happens when the primary season drags on and on. There are no issues left to discuss, no policies left to explain, now we are officially in silly season.

This answer should help with her "disingenuousness" problem.

"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.

Perhaps she can choose Romney as her running mate.

shorter getalife:

"Curses, foiled again!!!"

Ok, CNN: the debate tonight

Bush and Pope Ratzi the Nazi

Spears wrecks her Merc...

don't see any bitterness there either.

It is very obvious and Clinton is attacking this fraud.

It is her new strategy to attack the divisive bs to show Obama is a fraud and just another lying politician.

Keep up the divisive crap, it helps her.

nice try trying to change the subject, tpm. nobody is forgetting obama's comments. here's to him going down in flames!

now, cue the trolls.

From Kos:

"The politics of the Karl Rove era were designed to distract and divide the very people who would ordinarily be rebelling against the deterioration of their way of life. Working Americans have been repeatedly seduced at the polls by emotional issues such as the predictable mantra of "God, guns, gays, abortion and the flag" while their way of life shifted ineluctably beneath their feet." - Jim Webb

A more eloquent way of phrasing Obama's point, though this was from an op-ed rather than a speech so he had the luxury of preparation. Apparently these two guys aren't so dissimilar after all, though.

orking Americans have been repeatedly seduced at the polls by emotional issues such as the predictable mantra of "God, guns, gays, abortion and the flag" while their way of life shifted ineluctably beneath their feet.

This goes right to the heart of what's ailing this country and it's nothing new - everyone has talked about it, including the Clintons, before they went insane.

This is a real problem at the heart of everything and now she wants to play Karl Rove truthy games with this?

Ok, I officially now hate Hillary Clinton. This is a key goddamn issue. She's the most destructive thing I've seen happen to us since Karl Rove. Jimmy, get them out of here.

So what if it has been a while since she shot a gun? Is there a point to that?

At least she she has shot a gun? What about him.

And Obama Bin Lyin, he said in 1996 that these were his positions, all of which he denies now:

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.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/31/politico-obama-lied-about-survey/

He needs to get out of the race, cause there ain't no way he is going to win in Nobvember

Of COURSE it doesn't matter when she fired a gun and when she last went to church.

It matters what she SAID about going to church and having guns.

The Republicans won't have anything to say about this one. HA!

I can see it now.

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".

Now, hold on just a minute. Didn't she bring up her own experiences with guns? Well, we certainly need to make sure we vet her on that, lest the GOP use it against us in November, right, Clinton? Certainly, you don't want to appear to be setting a double-standard.

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.

She hasn't lived without a security detail for almost 20 years. She has 100 Million Dollars.

And she's worried that Barack Obama is an "elitist"?

Save it Hillary. We're on to your disingenuis game. Just because you shot a gun when you were 5 doesn't mean you're a "woman of the people".

"You know, he [Bush] wants to divide us over race. I'm from the South. I understand this. This quota deal they're gonna pull in the next election is the same old scam they've been pulling on us for decade after decade after decade. When their economic policies fail, when the country's coming apart rather than coming together, what do they do? They find the most economically insecure white men and scare the living daylights out of them. They know if they can keep us looking at each other across a racial divide, if I can look at Bobby Rush and think, Bobby wants my job, my promotion, then neither of us can look at George Bush and say, 'What happened to everybody's job? What happened to everybody's income? What ... have ... you ... done ... to ... our ... country?'"

~Bill Clinton

And I agreed with Bill then and I agree with Obama now.

Those of us who actually live in small towns or rural areas see that the poor didn’t go away when welfare as we know it went away. They just sunk a little more out of sight. I agree that Obama is a centrist, not my cup of orange juice, needless to say, but he actually trusted the American public to understand just how they have been manipulated by successive ReThug administrations & Congresses. I understand perfectly well what he is talking about, I see it every day in the small town I visit for coffee, oh damn, I just identified myself as a, regular person, at least according the to wealthy, gated community types who criticized Obama’s talk. Every small attempt, let’s see, to improve pedestrian & bicyclist access to The Big Lake is seen as some sort of Communist attempt to take land from some holy entrepreneur who has a “some day, maybe” plan. It’s no different here than in PA. I came to the conclusion that people will respond to leadership that doesn’t bullshit them.

SO? Who does she think she is, Dick Cheney? Wait! That would explain so much! She's been running a campaign Cheney would be proud of!

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

Thanks - mine too.

And, of course, Hillary couldn't even take a break from her phony outrage and her desperation for tonight's Compassion Forum. She still had to try to get her shots in. How petty.

You'd think one of her advisers could have taken her aside and explained what the word "compassion" means before she went on so that she'd understand what she was there for.

I can't believe you guys missed this quote from Mrs. Clinton:

“You don’t have to think back too far to remember that good men running for president were viewed as being elitist and out of touch with the values and lives of millions of Americans,” she said.

Good freakin' grief--now she has to go bashing Kerry (or was it Bush senior? It's hard to tell . . .).

Obama failed to answer the bittergate question.

Boring forum.

Oh, when you say "failed to answer the bittergate question," I take it you mean he failed to snipe and turn it into petty, deceitful attacks the way she did.

Yes, I can see why you were bored. You miss Rove, don't you.

Nobody's telling when the Clinton gun was fired last 'cause it's the one Cheney used to shoot his friend in the face and it's evidence.

Anyone seen this?

www.bittervoters.org

Funny as hell. Way too professional, but funny.

According to gotalife, Senator 8linton heroically grabbed the M-16 from a cowarding Marine Sargent and repealed a sniper attack in Bosina. Apparently gotalife is also following up on a lead where Her Royale Crownship managed to killed 132 guys named Al Kyda with her laser vision.

Hey Eric...

I think there's a problem with your headline.

Over on CNN, it CLEARLY says "Not relevant last time I went to church, fired a gun"

You left out that she is basically saying she can't remember the last time she went to church.

Evidence on the ground in PA that Obama's comment are only being taken for blasphemy by Hillary, McCain, and a lot of the MSM, not by ordinary Pennsylvanians. This guy is not an Obama voter, but says Obama was right about bitterness in small town PA:

http://wordpress.com/v/PgkyNxBZ

If this is the sentiment on the ground in PA, I can't imagine Hillary's shamelessly opportunistic pandering fit over this is going to do her reputation for honesty any good at all.

Holy shit. When he starts talking about Hillary acting like Annie Oakley, carrying a 6-shooter around, it's just hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIxmi3e2Vmo&eurl=http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/

The Bosnians weren't sniping at Annie Rodham Oakley. They were returning fire!

Guns & Easter? What the hell?

They shoot ducks on Easter?

I'm confused--please pass the pate' & toast.

After seeing the Clinton commentary on this, my only conclusion is that if she is the Democratic nominee, I'll be actively working against her campaign.

Marginal Player and gotalife are clearly suffering from Fear of a Barack Planet.

Marginal Player and gotalife are clearly suffering from Fear of a Barack Planet.

Marginal Player and gotalife are clearly suffering from Fear of a Barack Planet.

Damn the comments system!!!

Apologies to you all. It kept telling me there was an error.

Compare Obama's response on the "bitter" comment to Clinton's response to questions about her husband taking $800,000 from groups supporting the Colombian trade deal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGeQ6dxGMFA
Then compare the media coverage of these two issues. Hillary Clinton's response, if given half the exhaustive media attention Obama got, would end her campaign.

Looking for a link to Clinton's response, I ran across this clip, entitled "Hillary Can't Answer Question on Colombiahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXMr29d89ek&feature=related

I wish Obama had held up a ten spot and said this belongs to whoever producedes the first evidence hillary duck hunting, something along the lines of the video of her running from snipers.
She and her husband are really turning into
parodys of themselves - what a couple of clowns.

"Head in sand syndrome seems to be epidemic here.
His gaffe may be the end of him... and you guys don't even seem to understand why it was so serious."

I genuinely don't see the problem with Obama's remarks other than the word "cling." A better verb would have diminished the potential for controversy. I would have picked "trust." As in:

"Democrats and Republicans have let small town communities down, allowing jobs to go overseas while the costs of health care, gas and food, climb relentlessly higher. So small town Pennsylvania voters trust in their church, their guns, and their fear of immigrants more than they trust the government."

This is an arguably true statement, made many times by left-leaning politicians in the past. Small town voters have been left behind. The heartland makes a good poster, and politicians love to extoll heartland values, but both parties have failed these communities.

So, these communites find their strength in the only people they can trust: themselves. They bond to each other, and their church, and learn to distrust carpetbaggers and rainmakers that turn them into symbols of America with one hand and stab them in the back with the other.

Obama is trying to appeal to them with the idea that he does actually represent their interests. This is a tough sell because no politician has represented their best interests since FDR.

Obama is waging a campaign against APATHY. Apathy has been the single biggest voter issue and the biggest wedge that divides America from itself. Apathy is best represented by the statement, "why bother?" Whoever you vote for doesn't matter because they all represent the same interests. Apathy has been a deliberate voter suppression tactic for generations.

Clinton feeds into apathy and so does McCain. They are both deliberately painting themselves as similar in every way except for wedge issues in which turning out the base is crucial. That is why they are teaming up against Obama, who is actually running a campaign based on record voter turnout.

By trying to paint him as the "elite" candidate, they are appealing to voter apathy. I think it is disgusting. All the Clinton trolls here are doing the same thing by turning Obama into a "typical corrupt politician," with their endless speculative astroturf hit jobs. Clinton trolls are always chicken littles... whatever issue that seems a detriment to Obama is followed by a chorus of "this is it," and "it's over now." I believe that these troll supporters are corrosive and most of them are actually right wingers playing smear the queer.

Hillary Clinton is the queen of selective relevance.

From his own mouth he has now lost PA, he is close to losing NC/IND/WV, will lose PR and now the SD are rethinking his chances vs Walnuts. He is a loser. She only needs to wait him out, he will screw it up on his own....what a moron.

THE MAGIC NUMBER

Here’s what we have after considering the information in the Polls section below:

Senator Obama’s Magic Number – 93 of 304 remaining superdelegates needed, or 30.6%
Senator Clinton’s Magic Number – 230 of 304 remaining superdelegates needed, or 75.7%

The Huckabee Index – 74 (or 24.3% of remaining superdelegates needed)

The “Huckabee Index” is the number of any combination of superdelegates and convention/caucus delegates that the Obama campaign needs (or the Clinton campaign loses) to make it mathematically impossible for the Clinton campaign to win the nomination, based on current delegate count and polls for upcoming contests. (Disclaimer: This is meant to poke fun at Mike Huckabee, not Hillary Clinton)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5493720

His gaffe may be the end of him.

Power-brokers remember their success with the clip of Howard Dean and think they can repeat it at will with any candidate. The real condescension is on the part of the Clinton campaign (and Republicans who want her to be the Democratic nominee) - the presumption that voters are dim-witted enough to buy the spin and give up Obama.

Voters are taking back the democratic process from the media moguls and spin-meisters and the Rove/Penn "strategists" and it starts here.