I mean, c'mon now... Does she really think this is going to work?
Hillary Clinton further seized on the opening provided by Barack Obama's "bitter" remarks, telling a crowd in Indiana that she herself is no stranger to guns.
"You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught be how to shoot when I was a little girl," said Clinton."You know, some people now continue 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 an important part of who they are. Not because they are bitter."
She later added, however, that she is not herself an expert with firearms: "As I told you, my dad taught me how to shoot behind our cottage. I have gone hunting. I am not a hunter. But I have gone hunting."
It doesn't matter if it is true. It is so incongruous with the public persona that she has spent the last 2 decades building that she sounds silly even bringing it up. The idea of Hillary Clinton out in the woods hunting ducks is laughable, so even if her story is true - and I have no reason to think it isn't - its almost impossible to believe. You could think someone who had so carefully managed her image over the years would understand this, wouldn't you?
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