Six-Shooter in a Duck Blind2
By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: Election 2008Well, it’s official. Barack Obama really is out of touch with small-town America.
Today he launched into a tirade about Hillary questioning Obama’s choice of words during the now famous Bittergate fundraiser at a United Steelworker’s rally in Steelton, PA.
Obama expressed his disappointment with Hillary in this way:
“She’s running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment, she’s talking like she’s Annie Oakley! Hillary Clinton’s out there like she’s on the duck blind every Sunday, she’s packin’ a six shooter! C’mon! She knows better. That’s some politics being played by Hillary Clinton. I want to see that picture of her out there in the duck blinds.”
Well, as any duck hunter knows, you would never take a six-shooter into a duck blind. The NRA will have a field day with this one!
Apparently he also is unaware that Annie Oakley is true hero to women all over small town America. This is from PBS.org, the American Experience:
Annie Oakley may not have considered herself a feminist, but she showed the world what a strong woman could accomplish in an era when women were struggling to gain greater equality, including the right to vote. Working with a partner, create a two-part timeline: on one side of the timeline, list some of the notable events of Oakley’s life; on the other side, list the major developments in the long campaign for women’s suffrage, beginning with the 1848 Seneca Falls Declaration. Be sure to include the western territories and states that allowed women to vote long before women’s voting rights became part of the U.S. Constitution.
Again, we see that Barack Obama doesn’t know us. And he wants to preside over this great country.
Hillary Clinton welcomes the comparison…in fact, she will probably send him a thank you note personally!
“In her life, Annie overcame poverty, mistreatment and physical injury with her determination and strength of character. She played a role in breaking barriers for women with her talent and accomplishments in her sport. She showed great compassion and generosity to orphans, widows and other young women.”
It is also ironic that Oakley lived out several years of her life fighting a libel suit against 55 newspapers that printed a scandalous false story originated by the original “Big Media” guy William Randolph Hearst in Chicago.
By all accounts Oakley was persuasive in the courtroom; she dressed conservatively, spoke courteously, and exuded respectability. Hearst tried to undermine her by having a detective go back to Darke County, Ohio, and try to dig up dirt, but he came up empty and was prevented by locals from staying overnight.
She eventually won her battles, and the newspapers were required to file apologies and pay monetary damages.
Ahh, if only Hillary could do the same.
Pamela Hamilton is a freelance writer, corporate culture evacuee and vocational gypsy. She attended the school of hard knocks and graduated with a degree in satire.
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