Is Barack the only Candidate in recent history to NOT go on a totally staged hunting trip

[DS1]

or say he hunts, or just likes to shoot at shit, in modern times?

edit: He's not Prez, yet

[Ken Burch]

1. Maybe somebody figured the voters couldn't handle seeing a black guy with a gun?

:sarcasm:

Seriously, maybe the country is past demanding such things.

[JJ]

5. Former more likely than the latter

A blending of Willie Horton and Dukakis in the tank.

Fox would have run that picture 25/8

[Lerkfish]

7. actually, I think it backfired for both Kerry and Hillary

I think even if true, people didn't expect to see or hear about either of them being hunters or NRA members, so it appeared to be pandering.

[KamaAina]

2. What about Sarah?

Hers aren't staged. Blam! Blam! Blam!

[Ken Burch]

10. The paper in Anchorage even ran a file photo of Sarah at a moose-butchering party

She was in a miniskirt, of course.

:eyes:

[lisa58]

3. He went bowling instead

[DS1]

4. Not as bad as getting the shotguns and flannel out and missing birds

:)

[lisa58]

6. he quit while he was ahead - smart man - that's why I voted for him

[blm]

17. Bush missed birds in 2000. Kerry's an excellent shot and has been for over 50 years.

Parroting the media is OK, I guess, if truth is not valued.

[Captain Hilts]

8. Or fishing. INTERESTING observation!!!!

But he did buckle under to the Supreme Court's striking down of the DC gun ban after he supported it in the primary.

So, he tipped his hat to gun nuts.

[Ken Burch]

11. On policy. It's not like he started showing up for floor debates packing heat.

n/t.

[Captain Hilts]

12. No...

but he did a total 180 on the DC gun ban.

It got lost in the FISA 180 fracas.

He even used NRA language about "no more gun laws, let's enforce the ones we have."

[AtomicKitten]

9. I am thrilled he didn't buy into that photo-op.

:patriot:
:party:

[Captain Hilts]

13. I am too. nt

[damntexdem]

Oh, Obama went on many hunting trips -- to many red states.

And he's likely bagged quite a few votes by doing so.

[busybl]

14. good for him

killing captive animals is sick

[blm]

15. You COULDN'T be talking about Kerry - he hunted for 50yrs before that photo and MEDIA KNEW IT

why pretend the corpmedia had any legitimate spin about that photo?

Why give in to corpmedia lies AT ALL?

[DS1]

20. I'm talking about just about all of them

stop being so sensitive

[blm]

21. just finely tuned to mediaspin....and naturally inclined to call it out.

.

[Name removed]

16. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[charlie]

18. Wait 'til they do strategic analyses

to figure out how Obama won and next election cycle we get...

Dancing Republicans.

[Johnyawl]

19. I don't remember Bill Clinton doing that...

...but I could have just missed it.

[Jamastiene]

23. Much to my chagrin, he did.

There are pictures of it out there, but I'm still nursing some old childhood wounds regarding that. You'll have to look up duck hunting and Clinton to see the pictures for yourself. I don't have the heart or the stomach for it tonight. Tonight, I live and the animals live.

[Jamastiene]

22. Yes. He loves animals and has a strong voting record in favor of protecting animals.

Yes, he is the only one that I can recall NOT doing that crap. For NOT going on a totally staged hunting trip
or saying he hunts, or just likes to shoot at shit, I THANK HIM PROFUSELY.

It always annoys the fuck out of me to see political candidates posing for pictures with dead animals like they think they deserve a fucking cookie or something for doing something that takes no skill, intelligence, or heart whatsoever.

Trust me. I know. I live in redneckland and went on hunting trips with family in the mountains as a kid, against my will...and THIS dog STILL won't hunt. So, for that torture, they can suck it.

What they would do was akin to zombies wandering around with shotguns in the woods until they find some animal trying to live its life, then shoot it, throw it in a bag still half alive, then wander around some more. The more they shot and threw in the bag, the bloodier it got. They let the children play with bags full of wounded bloody animals after the hunt was finished, while they got the knives ready. The animals were still alive when they started butchering them. They just skinned them alive. I :puke: more than I care to remember at the sight of that shit growing up. Sick fucking bastards. I hope they rot. I STILL hate them, to this day, for putting me through that.

I say THANK YOU, OBAMA, for NOT being a murderous, sick, deranged, animal torturer. For that, I thank you profusely.