Posted on 04/13/2008 3:36:35 PM PDT by cdchik123
THE 1993 CAMPAIGN: Campaign Trail; Hillary Clinton Praises Florio’s Opposition to Assault Weapons
October 31, 1993
Hillary Rodham Clinton flew to New Jersey for the second time in 10 days today to stand by Gov. Jim Florio, endorse his ban on assault weapons, and then extol him as the candidate for women.
Mrs. Clinton praised Mr. Florio for resisting the pressures of the National Rifle Association in his attacks on assault weapons.
“He stood up to the forces that have profited from the violence that has stalked our streets too long,” she said. “What you do Tuesday will send a huge signal across the country. I cannot overstate how important this is, to stand by a Governor who has not flinched. This is a battle for the future of our children. This is a battle for the safety of women.”
Quick what rhymes with
WITCH
RICH
-—— yeah that is what she be’s
Gun Control Advocates Call Clinton a Hypocrite
February 05, 2008 8:19 AM
Yesterday we took a look at Sen. Barack Obama’s pro-hunter preaching in Idaho, wondering how it fit with a 1996 questionnaire in which he supported banning all handguns. Sen. Hillary Clinton implied Obama was a flip-flopper.
This aroused the ire of some gun control advocates, who pointed out that even if one considers this an Obama flip-flop (and Obama says that questionnaire was filled out incorrectly by a staffer), Clinton has made a much more dramatic flip.
In an email to me, Andy Pelosi of Gun Free Kids, writes, “quite frankly, there are many gun control advocates that find it distasteful that Clinton appears to be running to the right of Obama on guns.”
Running for the Senate in 2000, Clinton appeared before newspaper publishers in May of that year to say that gun control was part of the raison d’etre for her Senate campaign.
“We have to do more to stand up to those who refuse to believe the reality that guns do kill and that common-sense gun measures can make a difference,” she said to the Newspaper Association of America’s annual convention in New York. “I believe we need a comprehensive plan to stop gun violence, and it is one of the reasons I am running for the Senate.”
Part of this, she said, was a national gun registry.
“We license drivers before they get behind the wheel to make sure they can drive safely,” she said. “We register cars to make sure someone is responsible for every vehicle on the road. But we don’t do the same for deadly weapons.”
But last month she backed off this proposal.
At a Democratic debate in Nevada she said something different.
She said she was against “illegal guns,” she said she wanted to get guns “out of the hands of young people,” she called for a registry of “felons, people who have been committed to mental institutions like the man in Virginia Tech who caused so much death and havoc” and “we need to enforce the laws that we have on the books. I would also work to reinstate the assault-weapons ban.”
These are generally the steps supported by the Republican presidential candidates as well. Which is fine - but it’s quite different from how she sounded in 2000, when she was calling for far more liberal gun control measures.
“You know, I believe in the Second Amendment. People have a right to bear arms,” Clinton said at the Nevada debate, “but I also believe that we can common-sensically approach this.”
Inquired Tim Russert, “But you’ve backed off a national licensing registration plan?”
“Yes,” Clinton said.
Bryan Miller, Executive Director of Ceasefire NJ , writes that “Clinton”s attack (on Obama on guns) is an obvious effort to frighten some with the false specter of gun confiscation under an Obama presidency, a prospect that is clearly not in the cards in this country, whoever is in office.”
He goes on: “Clinton’s attack is highly ironic, as well, both because she has changed positions on guns even more rapidly than Obama...” He says “there’s more than a bit of the pot calling the kettle in Clinton’s carefully parsed, but transparent and toxic attack. So, not only is Clinton’s arithmetic incorrect as to Obama’s so-called ‘rapidly changes position,’ but her own stated stance on gun regulation has both changed dramatically and done so in a much shorter time frame. No hypocrisy there, right?”
(I should have added that Obama saying ‘people cling to religion because they’re bitter’ is rather rich, considering where he goes to church.)
Indeed,this is why the question was relevant, even if the reporter was just covering for Obama. To get out the message that she described (Democrats don't hate the church-going, gun-owning middle class), you need a CREDIBLE messenger. Hillary is not that messenger because she is as alienated from the average American as Obama is.
“This is how a candidate for President speaks? Why didn’t she just say, “Bite me!”
Hellary says, “I got yer church right here.”
Well she waited one sentence and then answered it as basically "I only go to church on Easter so bite me". Incredible.
Of course if she were Greek Orthodox that would mean she hadn’t been to church since April 8 of last year.
Hmmm. I wonder who THAT would have been.
Beautiful, elemental questions. This is MSM reporting, at long last...
Battle fatigue!!!
Easy to figure out..what day did Vince Foster die, and when was the last time Hillary was in a city when a church burnt down from flames that started just inside the threshold?
“...This is about what people feel...”
Isn’t it always with the democRATS.
Hillary: ‘Not relevant’ last time I went to church, fired a gun,...or had sex with a man.
She is bitter. This is all she has to cling to.
Please forgive me, but.........
You ARE a spirit, you HAVE a soul and you LIVE IN a body.
Peon!
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