NRA ad uses Clinton's words against Obama on guns

ksl.com ^ | October 8th, 2008 | SHARON THEIMER

[neverdem]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Rifle Association is turning to Hillary Rodham Clinton to bolster its criticism of Barack Obama's positions on gun issues.

The NRA's Political Victory Fund planned a national newspaper ad Thursday reviving a Clinton mailing that accused Obama of waffling on gun issues. Clinton's campaign sent the mailing when the New York senator was challenging Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. It accuses Obama of changing his statements on gun issues to try to fit the audience he was addressing.

"Hillary was right: You can't trust Obama with your guns," says the NRA political action committee's ad, scheduled to run in USA Today. The PAC has spent at least $2.3 million on anti-Obama efforts, including more than $100,000 on the new USA Today ad.

The NRA ad includes a reproduction of Clinton's mailing, which mentioned Obama's comment at an April fundraiser in San Francisco that some small-town voters bitter about lost jobs "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

"We believe that he's trying to fog the issue and confuse the voter, and he says he's for the Second Amendment while he votes to run the firearms industry and the Second Amendment out of business," Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's executive vice president, said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press.

Clinton spokeswoman Kathleen Strand said the senator did not approve the NRA's use of her campaign mailing.

Obama has said people have the right to lawfully bear arms and "there's nothing inconsistent with also saying we can institute some commonsense gun laws so that we don't have kids being shot on the streets of cities like Chicago."

"Senator Obama firmly believes that the Second amendment protects..."

[neverdem]

NRA endorses McCain (AP version)

Not a bad omen! The track record of those Presidential Nominees endorsed by the NRA since 1980 is very good, IIRC.

[randomhero97]

Apparently, we conservatives and the Clinton's have found a common enemy.

This whole election should be put into novel with a follow on summer blockbuster movie.

[Islander7]

“....This whole election should be put into novel with a follow on summer blockbuster movie...”

I hear Oliver Stoned is all over it.

[Aglooka]

If Obama becomes president and there are Dem majorities in the house and senate, isn't it a given the assault weapons ban will be reinstated? What would stop them from doing that?

I would expect it to be renewed before the end of 2009. I can't believe the Dems would think it would get them voted out like in 1994.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

"Hillary was right: You can't trust Obama with your guns"

Heh heh.

[KoRn]

I just saw a Hussein ad with a “gun owner” that was talking about how Hussein was all for gun rights for hunters and for protection. The ad then immediately went into how McCain voted to send jobs overseas.

It was a very weird ad.

[Terry Mross]

So all Hillary could say was that she didn’t approve of the ad. Man, don’t you know her and Bill want him to lose! Come on, Clintons! Step it up a notch and get rid of this “johnny come lately”!