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2008 'Annie Get Your Gun' Clinton (Original Post) Rosa Luxemburg Oct 2015 OP
Oh yah, I like that Obama. delrem Oct 2015 #1
I guess Rosa Luxemburg Oct 2015 #2
He probably delrem Oct 2015 #4
Nope. Picking Rham was worse. (nt) jeff47 Oct 2015 #8
sigh delrem Oct 2015 #10
Duncan even worse than that and Clapper even yet worse than Duncan TheKentuckian Oct 2015 #19
One staunch Hillary supporter even has a gif of Obama Fawke Em Oct 2015 #5
Actually I had forgotten the dirt on the shoulders Rosa Luxemburg Oct 2015 #7
I know, I laughed everytime I saw that artislife Oct 2015 #11
Whoa! That was a great vid! delrem Oct 2015 #12
Especially Hillary supporters who became Obama supporters who became Hillary supporters. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2015 #13
Funny coming Ichigo Kurosaki Oct 2015 #3
Yes it's all about 'me' Rosa Luxemburg Oct 2015 #6
Why is 2008 Obama trying to wreck 2016 Hillary's campaign??? reformist2 Oct 2015 #9
So, flamebait and name-calling are cool now. shenmue Oct 2015 #14
Sure is ibegurpard Oct 2015 #15
Yes Annie Oakley is going anti-gun now Rosa Luxemburg Oct 2015 #20
Do you remember the infamous mailer incident... Oilwellian Oct 2015 #16
2008 is very relevent olddots Oct 2015 #17
Hillary hopefully has severed ties with the scum that made her ads olddots Oct 2015 #18

TheKentuckian

(25,029 posts)
19. Duncan even worse than that and Clapper even yet worse than Duncan
Wed Oct 7, 2015, 10:31 AM
Oct 2015

Petraeus stunk too but at least I can see the political purpose but fucking Clapper had no cache with the public.

Cabinet and advisor level appointments were low floor/limited ceiling with Solis maybe the best and judges that are dicey at best too, who can we trust on civil liberties, strong corporate regulation and oversight, or limiting executive power? Venture outside of the hottest buttons of women's health and CU and the rolling of the dice begins and you have to even wonder on those as you drop down levels and start running into conservatives and out Republicans.

Actually, while I agree Clinton should not have been selected she in reality was one of his better choices because his selections were so generally bad news.

The "voices for the left" in the administration were Biden and Obama himself which instantly illustrates how far out of wack the whole thing was.

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)
5. One staunch Hillary supporter even has a gif of Obama
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 09:39 PM
Oct 2015

brushing "the dirt off his shoulders," which he did after he was sharply attacked by Hillary Clinton.

After the appalling ABC debate on Wednesday in which it seemed that Clinton, George Stephanoupolis and Charles Gibson were in a tag team effort to catch Barack in on of those "gotcha" moments that that cynics love so much, Barack reminded his supporters that sometimes you just gotta brush that dirt off your shoulders.


http://www.bilerico.com/2008/04/obama_brushes_clinton_dirt_off_his_shoul.php#EbIjdf7GOxzSVba8.99

No. I don't think they do remember.

Ichigo Kurosaki

(167 posts)
3. Funny coming
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 09:31 PM
Oct 2015

from a guy who released a poorly done photo op pic to show he believed in gun rights.
But in my honest opinion Hillary will say and do anything to get elected then forget about her promises afterward.
It's all about her, it's her turn, she earned it, etc.

ibegurpard

(16,685 posts)
15. Sure is
Wed Oct 7, 2015, 01:17 AM
Oct 2015

Since she's now trying to run as the "anti-gun" candidate while trying to cast someone with a reasonable record and stance on guns as a gun nut.

Oilwellian

(12,647 posts)
16. Do you remember the infamous mailer incident...
Wed Oct 7, 2015, 03:18 AM
Oct 2015

during the 2008 campaign? It was one of her usual Weathervanian campaign tactics, but it backfired spectacularly.



Hillary Clinton has re-opened her sharp attack on Barack Obama's position on guns, with a mailer in Indiana that seeks to raise questions about him with both supporters and opponents of gun rights.

The mailing -- perhaps the sharpest-edged of Clinton's five negative mail pieces in Indiana -- casts him as a typical politician, saying different things to different audiences. It also revives his damaging comments in San Francisco that small town people cling to guns.

Then, making the harsh case more broadly, the mailer asks: "What does Barack Obama really believe?"

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.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/05/clinton-mailing-attacks-obama-on-guns-008390#ixzz3nrZUTbiJ


This was an entertaining part of the story...

Sen. Hillary Clinton’s mailing attacking Sen. Barack Obama’s record on guns appears to include a striking visual gaffe: The image of the gun pictured on the face of the mailing is reversed, making it a nonexistent left-handed model of the Mauser 66 rifle.

To make matters worse, a prominent gun dealer said, it’s an expensive German gun with customized features that make it clearly European.

“The gun in the photo does not exist,” said Val Forgett III, president of Navy Arms in Martinsburg, W.Va. Forgett's company was Mauser’s agent in the United States when the gun was released, and it sold Mauser guns here again in the 1990s. “The bolt is facing to the left side of the receiver, making it a left-handed bolt action rifle, indicating whoever constructed and approved the mailer did not recognize the image has been reversed.”

Forgett said the error would be obvious to sportsmen.

“I find it laughable on its face,” he said. “It’s like a picture of Babe Ruth hitting right-handed.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/05/clinton-mailings-gun-gaffe-008398#ixzz3nrYQNlY2


I also remember this Kos diary in response:

Cementing her status as one of the most shameless, soulless panderers of our time, Annie Oakley Clinton has sent out a mailer utterly indistinguishable from what the wingnuts would send.

Too bad her ad staff screwed the mailer up big-time.

(snip)

We've got Annie Oakley Clinton attacking Obama from the right on guns, despite being a vocal advocate for gun-control before she was against it. Then her campaign chooses a fancy German customized rifle to use in an ad, obviously showing their lack of real knowledge about guns. And that rifle was used as a sniper rifle, recalling the nadir of her thoroughly dishonest campaign. Then they even screw that up by reversing the image to create a rifle that doesn't exist.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/05/05/509057/-Clinton-attacks-Obama-on-guns-screws-it-up-royally-small-update




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