NRA Using Hillary - Against Obama

NRA Using Hillary - Against Obama

Submitted by politicalWinters on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 8:23am.

  You've gotta love the irony of national politics - be careful of what you say.

  The National Rifle Association is going full-bore in a new ad campaign, and using fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton's own words against her party's presidential nominee, Barack Obama.

  Quote: "Hillary was right: You can't trust Obama with your guns," says the NRA political action committee's ad, scheduled to run in USA Today. The PAC has spent at least $2.3 million on anti-Obama efforts, including more than $100,000 on the new USA Today ad.

The NRA ad includes a reproduction of Clinton's mailing, which mentioned Obama's comment at an April fundraiser in San Francisco that some small-town voters bitter about lost jobs "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."