Clinton Slams Obama Again: Reminisces About Hunting as a Girl

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Clinton Slams Obama Again: Reminisces About Hunting as a Girl

April 12, 2008 7:15 PM

ABC News' Eloise Harper reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton continued her critique of Sen. Barack Obama's comments about small town America today, and used it to connect herself with the voters her opponent may have alienated.

Speaking about how Americans value their Second Amendment rights and enjoy hunting prompted Clinton to tell a story about her own hunting experience.

"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"

Clinton also repeated some of her earlier lines, saying that she thought Obama's was "kind of elitist." Clinton repeated lines about faith -- and the way she views faith playing a role in society.

"My faith is the faith of my parents and my grandparents," she said. "It's a fundamental expression of who we are and what we believe in most profoundly and I disagree with Sen. Obama's assertion that people in our country cling to guns and have certain attitudes about immigration and trade simply out of frustration."

Clinton will spend the day in Pennsylvania on Sunday and will likely be repeating her message about Obama’s comments from San Francisco.

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I am so sick of Hillary.

Posted by: maritza | Apr 12, 2008 7:18:04 PM

i wish she'd slam the door and not
let him out!!!!

Posted by: bob | Apr 12, 2008 7:27:20 PM

Shame on Obama for telling the truth.
God help her!! She is trying soo hard to find something to make obama look bad, It really make her look stupid.

Posted by: ghm | Apr 12, 2008 7:30:13 PM

So, is Obama saying that if Pennsylvanians
all had good jobs with adequate health coverage, none of them would own a gun or go to church, and would believe that immigrants should be allowed to flood over our borders unchecked? Is that how that works?

Posted by: Griffin | Apr 12, 2008 7:33:40 PM

LIES LIES LIES

She's done everything

LIES LIES LIES

Posted by: Vanessa | Apr 12, 2008 7:37:51 PM

I think we all know that Barack Obama is not an "elitist." I think Hillary Clinton knows that, and John McCain knows that. They are simply trying to score cheap points - bringing us all down in the process.

Why can't people speak the truth without being hit by the PC police?

Posted by: Bill | Apr 12, 2008 7:39:28 PM

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He's saying that if people could trust the Govt to help them economically, they'd vote smarter, instead of just voting based on hot-button issues.

Posted by: memoryaid | Apr 12, 2008 7:42:20 PM

"My faith is the faith of my parents"

Is she lying again? This time I'm not sure.

Her parents were fanatic Republicans.

BTW, she threw her father under the bus at least a 100 times.

Posted by: Harriet | Apr 12, 2008 7:42:35 PM

Hillary tried to enlist, Obama couldn't take time to register for the selective service but got government loans holds down a government jobs there by violating federal law. God bless MASTER Obama, he don't play the race card except when it will benefit him.

Posted by: Jim, Texas | Apr 12, 2008 7:47:55 PM

Shock jocks urge Republicans to vote for Clinton Right-wing radio hosts help Hillary to fight on as part of a strategy to keep the Democrats divided

Posted by: ghm | Apr 12, 2008 7:48:06 PM

Hillary is bitter and angry because she feels her God given right to the "job" of president the good ol USA is being gradually taken away by an "immigrant" senator from Hawaii.
To add more insult to injury, nobody seems to appreciate her foreign experience in dudging sniper fire in Bosnia.
Maybe she should have told the story of how she single handedly liberated Berlin and defeated the Nazis. That should get more attention and more votes I'm sure.

Posted by: Terry K | Apr 12, 2008 7:50:54 PM

"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance;
they are the peoples' liberty's teeth". -Gen. George Washington
The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting. Read your history and study the U.S. Constitution!! Learn what your rights really are. (or were)

Posted by: Don | Apr 12, 2008 7:52:56 PM

Bill lied a little and Bush lies all the time, it must be a prerequisite for the job

Posted by: ghm | Apr 12, 2008 8:04:41 PM

hi! I'm new here. I just wish all this would have come out before we had our caucuses! >:(

Posted by: Dave from Iowa | Apr 12, 2008 8:07:12 PM

Why not, Hillary, keep on, let everyone know who Obama is and his true color.

Posted by: amy | Apr 12, 2008 8:07:30 PM

Obamas FAITH - is all in the words of Rev. Wright. What are the typical white people voting for this guy for?
This is crazy - this man is makin fun of small towns and white people that live in them.

Just like with Bush - if you vote for him - I will not pity you for what you get. When our young white kids are scared to walk down the street - youll lay in the bed you have made and take it

Posted by: Drew | Apr 12, 2008 8:08:08 PM

"I just wish all this would have come out before we had our caucuses!"

I wish Hillary would have come out as well before the whole thing started.

Posted by: harris | Apr 12, 2008 8:10:32 PM

I am surprised that Hilliary didn't pull out her NRA membership card and start waving it in the air.

Posted by: hamishdad | Apr 12, 2008 8:13:45 PM

Obama is toast

Posted by: Dee | Apr 12, 2008 8:16:03 PM

WAR. GUNS. CHURCH. AND LOOOOOTS OF MONEY.

HILLARY '08

Posted by: Matt | Apr 12, 2008 8:16:50 PM

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