Posted on 09/14/2008 5:56:39 AM PDT by MikeFrancesa.com
http://www.mikefrancesa.com/wordpress/?p=1147
For the most part the media missed this. I actually think this joke is the most damaging in the campaign so far.
Your thoughts?
Many overlooked this joke by Barack Obama, but I think it was more damaging than the “pig” comment. He was sarcastic, arrogant, condescending, pretentious, all with a mocking half smile, you just don’t make fun of hunters and the sport of hunting in America:
He told supporters in Flint, Michigan that Palin has an interesting biography — “Mother, governor, moose shooter. That’s cool” —
Many have been saying that Obama and his campaign are arrogant, elitist, and full of pretensions. I believe it after watching many of the pseudo John Stewart/Eddie Murphy routines that Obama has been engaged in on the campaign trail. In the world of Obama and his campaign, hunting is something to mock, they just don’t understand the heartland of America, and that is why they are going to lose.
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If she were a democrat, they would be referring to her as an accomplished outdoors woman.
I too wondered why no one was making a bigger issue of that line. I guess there are so many coming from Obama’s mouth, it’s hard to keep up.
Pretty-boys like Barack Hussein Obama mock hunters at his abject peril. We take a dim view of being mocked.
Run campaign ads showing Obama saying this in PA, MN, WI, MI, NH and ME and they become red states - almost guaranteed.
Absolutely, where to start is the question?
Freakin' Teddy Roosevelt cool (except he was a father, governor and moose shooter)
Now add in Cindy McCain...Race Car driver, pilot...
Recall if you will joncary costumed as a duck hunter.
Then look at the photo of Sarah in an ATV, rubber booted in a yellow slicker, with a daughter holding on as they cross a creek.
The contrast between a Hollywood staged event and reality is stark.
No photo of Obama not in a political mode comes across as real.
1) The middle finger when talking about Clinton.
2) The Moose shooter then followed by an obviously insincere "sincerely".
3)The lipstick on a pig + old fish in newspaper which when juxtaposed with the lipstick joke of the week before clearly means Palin and McCain.
I, and most even tempered people, gave him the benefit of the doubt for a long time but this is clearly a pattern. It is a dig that is open to interpretation. His followers get it.
Obama said recently that he want to make government “cool” again.
Cindy McCain is a pilot? That would make it the first ticket in which all parts including spouses are pilots.
DOES anyone have the video of this? I remember MSNBC was playing it on Morning Joe the following day, this needs to get uploaded to Youtube.
I totally agree about a campaign commercial. They need to make one this week.
What’s damaging is his obsession with John McCain’s running mate; Moose shooter? Why even mention this? He is Dukakis-in-a-tank whenever he tries to connect with the gun-toting “Nitally Lions” and Wolverine fans.
Good story...Cindy took lessons and didn’t tell John. When she got her license, she took him for a ride.
Add NJ to the mix for that ad! Lots of hunters there. My brother-in-law is a union carpenter that said “i was going to vote for Obama but i just can’t do it because he wants to take away my guns - don’t get between me and my guns!” He’s in NJ and an NRA member. We talked about Palin yesterday and he says “she’s my dream girl!” And he is going to vote McCain/Palin now.
Moose shooter is to keeping finger off trigger piece, until safely align sights on animal game, then to press trigger piece for moose shoot.
bump for later
Below is a list of Barack Obama’s friends and roommates who knew him in high school and college.
* Robert McCrary a former classmate at Occidental College. McCrary is now a general manager of a contract sewing company. He saw Obama as “cocky, sometimes arrogant...and not open to others.”
* Paul Carpenter Obama’s freshman roommate at Occidental and now a Los Angeles lawyer. Carpenter recalls Obama being a “a good bodysurfer”, “an athletic guy”, and “superbright”.
* Margot Mifflin, a friend from Occidental who is now a journalism professor at New York’s Lehman College.
* Jon K. Mitchell a friend from Occidental who now plays bass for the country-swing band Asleep at the Wheel.
* Imad Husain a Pakistani and Obama’s freshman roommate at Occidental. Husain is now a Boston banker.
* Mohammed Hasan Chandoo a wealthy Pakistani freind of Obama when he was a freshmam. He is a now a self-employed financial consultant living in Armonk, New York.
* Wahid Hamid a wealthy Pakistani freind of Obama when he was a freshmam. Hamid and Obama traveled to Karachi, Pakistan after graduation from Occidental and stayed with the family of Mohammed Hasan Chandoo. Hamid is now a vice president at Pepsico in New York City.
* Vinai Thummalapally an Obama college roommate in the summer of 1980. Thummalapally is from Hyderabad, India. Obama visited Hyderabad, India and Karachi, Pakistan during a three week period with Wahid Hamid after his graduation from Occidental. [1] He is president of a CD and DVD manufacturing company in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
* Sohale Siddiqi is identified as “Sadik” in Obama’s memoir, Dreams From My Father, and is described as “a short, well-built Pakistani” who smoked marijuana, snorted cocaine and liked to party. Siddiqi was from Karachi, Pakistan, and Obama’s roommate when he attended Columbia University. Siddiqi was not a student at Columbia and became an illegal having over stay his tourist visa. [2] Obama knew Saddiqi when he visited Chandoo and Hamid at Occidental. Siddiqi claims Obama stopped using drugs when he arrived at Columbia. Siddiqi is a recovering drug addict and now lives in Seattle working for a community theater.
* Andrew Roth knew Obama at Occidental College and in New York City. Roth said that back then “The thought...never crossed my mind that he would be our first black president.”
* Cassandra Butts a friend from law school who now works at the Center for American Progress. Of Obama she said, “People see in him what they want to see.”
* Michael Froman a friend from law school and now an executive at Citigroup.
* Laurence Tribe a professor at Harvard who said Obama was one of his two best students. “He had a very powerful ability to synthesize diverse sources of information.” [3]
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Shows how uncomfortable Obama is with hunting as he uses the word “shooter.” Is he implying she runs around shooting moose for the fun of it?
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