[txrefugee]

When did deer hunting become “big game hunting”? Teddy Roosevelt hunted elephants and rinos in Africa. Now that’s “big game,” and our prissy media would really have a hissy fit if anyone in public office did that today.

[ETL]

When did deer hunting become “big game hunting”? Teddy Roosevelt hunted elephants and rhinos in Africa. Now that’s “big game,”

I think it's the hunting, period, that they're supposedly so upset with. Yet when it's someone like Bill Clinton or John Kerry they don't seem to care very much.

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We all know by now where Sarah Palin stands on animal issues, but I was surprised and disappointed to read Barack Obama's statements to a hunting magazine.

Obama has told Field and Stream, a hunting magazine, “if you talk to sportsmen in my home state of Illinois, they will tell you that I've always been a forceful advocate on behalf of the rights of sportsmen, on behalf of access for sportsmen and hunters.” Regarding the future, Obama stated, “I think that having a head of the Department of Interior who doesn't understand hunting and fishing would be a problem. And so my suspicion is that whoever heads up the Department of Interior is probably going to be a sportsman or sportswoman.”

http://animalrights.about.com/b/2008/10/17/what-did-barack-obama-tell-a-hunting-magazine.htm