Clinton On Obama and Guns
05.05.08Hillary recently sent this mailer out to everyone in Indiana. Pretty much the pot calling the kettle black.
The piece is particularly striking coming from Clinton, who has been seen for most of her career as a firm advocate of gun control, but more recently has emerged — without dramatically shifting her stance on specific issues — as a defender of the Second Amendment who fondly recalled being taught to shoot by her grandfather in Scranton.
via Ben Smith.
Oh, but the funniest part—aside from gun control being such a losing issue that even Democrats are no longer pandering to the gun control lobby—is that, in typical “don’t know shit about guns” fashion, the Clinton campaign has featured a firearm that does not exist:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Clinton_mailings_gun_gaffe.html
# May 5th, 2008 at 1:42 pm