Hillary Get Your Gun

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/14023

Hillary Get Your Gun
by RJ Eskow | April 14, 2008




Are you a Hillary fan? Then put ZZ Top's "Gun Love"1 on the turntable and let 'er rip. Sen. Clinton is, in that song's words, "running with the wild bunch, makin' like Robert De Niro." And when it comes to this primary race she's decided, in the words of that song, to "play Russian Roulette but she'll load all six."

This isn't a primary race anymore. It's a suicide pact. It's Gun Crazy II, starring Sen. Clinton as the gun-totin' candidate who fought her way up from her hardscrabble origins. There, where the tears and Pabst Blue Ribbon flowed, she learned the skills that later made her leader of the pack at the Wellesley Rod and Gun Club ...

The Democrats have two candidates whose policies are very similar - and, despite claims to the contrary, are equally well-detailed on their websites. It was inevitable, then, that the race would become about personalities and biographies. With one candidate symbolizing minorities and the future, and the other representing women and the perceived good old days, there was no way things weren't going to get personal and weird - not just between the candidates, but their supporters too.

All of a sudden Hillary's a born-again redneck, throwing shots back at an Indiana bar and bragging (excuse me, make that braggin') about her gun history. But will it play? Mitt Romney trashed his Presidential chances, in part by portraying himself as a "varmint"-huntin' regular guy - who just happened to be the son of a Senator and car company CEO. Romney claimed his "varmint" of choice was squirrel, however, while Hillary suggested that ducks were her "target of opportunity."

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Some Dems will rankle at the fact that a white candidate raised in wealth and privilege is mocking an African American raised by a single mother as 'elitist.' But the blow has landed. The problem isn't that the primary campaign is going on and on. The problem is that the primary campaign is going on and on while one candidate wages a relentlessly negative campaign, damaging the probable nominee at every opportunity. But those who can be persuaded by that argument already have been. Apparently, at least for the moment, the Democrats want to play out this destructive charade.

Well, alright then: Lock and load. The party's chances might be destroyed in the process, to which the response will no doubt be "so?" Meanwhile, ask any Republican if they like what's happening to the Democratic Party and they're sure to answer:

Hell, yeah.

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[leftofcool]

1. More stereotyping not a good idea at this point

[babylonsister]

2. Who's stereotyping? And who made you the arbiter of what's

a good idea? :eyes:

[Demeter]

3. I Couldn't Resist--Somebody Parodize This--You Can't Get the Job With a Gun?

Musical: Annie Get Your Gun
Song: You Can't Get a Man With a Gun


ANNIE OAKLEY:
Oh my Mother was frightened by a shotgun, they say,
That's why I'm such a wonderful shot.
I'd be out in the cactus and I'd practice all day,
And now tell me what have I got.
I'm quick on the trigger with targets not much bigger
Than a pen point, I'm number one.
But my score with a feller is lower than a cellar-
Oh you can't get a man with a gun.
When I'm with a pistol
I sparkle like a crystal,
Yes, I shine like the morning sun.
But I lose all my luster
When with a Bronco Buster.
Oh you can't get a man with a gun.

With a gun, with a gun,
No, you can't get a man with a gun.

If I went to battle
With someone's herd of cattle
You'd have steak when the job was done.
But if shot the herder,
They'd holler "bloody murder"
And you can't shoot a male
In the tail like a quail
Oh you can't get a man with a gun.


I'm cool, brave and daring
To see a lion glaring
When I'm out with my Remington
But a look from a mister
Will raise a fever blister
Oh you can't get a man with a gun.
The gals with "umbrellars"
Are always out with fellers
In the rain or the blazing sun
But a man never trifles
With gals who carry rifles
Oh you can't get a man with a gun.

With a gun, with a gun,
No, you can't get a man with a gun.

A man's love is mighty
It'll leave him buy a nightie
For a gal who he thinks is fun.
But they don't by pajamas
For Pistol packin' mamas,
And you can't get a hug
From a mug with a slug,
Oh you can't get a man with a gun.


http://www.thebroadwaymusicals.com/lyrics/anniegetyourgun/youcantgetamanwithagun.htm

[bemildred]

4. More thrashing around with social stereotypes won't help at this point. nt

[Timothy Gatto]

5. This is Funny

A lot of Democrats own guns. The police are so busy watching us instead of the criminals, it's a good idea to have one.

[OhioChick]

6. It's Time HRC Read "Johnny Got His Gun"

Johnny Got His Gun is a novel written in 1938 (published 1939) by American novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.


Joe Bonham, a young soldier serving in World War I, awakes in a hospital bed after stepping on a land mine. He gradually realizes that he has lost all of his mobility and his senses except for touch — his arms, legs, eyes, nose, ears, tongue, both jaws and all of his face have been blown off — but that his mind functions perfectly, leaving him a prisoner in his own body. He tries to kill himself by suffocation but he has been given a tracheostomy, which he cannot remove or control. He attempts to communicate with his doctors (by banging his head on his pillow in Morse code) his wish to either die or be put in a freak show as a testament to the horrors of war, but the doctors assume that he is brain dead and that his movements are simply muscle spasms and seizures. His wish to die is never granted and throughout the several years the book covers it is implied that he will live the rest of his natural life in this condition.

As he drifts between reality and fantasy, he remembers his old life with his family and girlfriend, and reflects upon the myths and realities of war. He also forms a bond, of sorts, with a young nurse who senses his plight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun

[Voice for Peace]

7. "I need a fix cos I'm goin down..."

[noel711]

8. The bigger picture reveals that Hillary's remarks are mocking

the very people she hopes to lure to her side.

To play the 'gun' card after years of being 'anti-gun'
comes off as mocking something many of these folks see
as their civil right.

Just who is being 'elitist'? Just who is being 'condescending'?

[benEzra]

9. A week after promising to ban the most popular target guns in America...

she's suddenly best buddies with the people whose guns she wants to ban--and she's criticizing Obama for being elitist on the issue?

This "assault weapon" owner is voting for Obama, recent comments and all. HRC is too beholden to the authoritarians at the DLC to back away from the issue, I think.