Note Updated Obama response below.
The NRA convention in Lousville is winding up today.
Here's the final broadside against Sen., Barack Obama courtesy of Chris Cox, the NRA's chief lobbyist -- officially, its executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action.
(Note: i was sent the text in telemprompter format; in order to preserve authenticity, I've taken the liberty of keeping the format.)
The bolds are my own.
That’s Barack Obama,the radical out-of-touch elitist who believes
we’re so bitter that we can only survive by clinging to God
and guns.
Well Barack,
we are bitter
and we should be!
We should be bitter ...
that these elitist hypocritical snobs
try to play us for a
bunch of fools.
We should be bitter ...
that Hillary and Obama look gun owners
in the eye...
and LIE about their support for the Second Amendment.
We should be bitter ...
that Obama’s pastor hates America ...
and that his wife is ashamed of our country.
We should be bitter ...
that Hillary sold out our freedoms years ago
and thinks we’ll just forgive and forget.
We should be bitter ...
that our friends in the Democratic Party
keep nominating their worst gun-hating candidates.
But when Hillary and Obama mouth off like they have ...
and
vote like they have ...
and lie like they have ...
and trample Second Amendment freedoms like they have ...
you bet the members of this proud Association are bitter.
Tommy Vietor, a senior Obama campaign spokesman (though... not a spokesperson for seniors or a person of age), responds:
"This hateful attack from John McCain's newfound friends at the NRA is just the latest example of why his lofty speech on bipartisanship and civility was rendered meaningless the minute he finished delivering it. John McCain can talk all he wants about what kind of honorable campaign he plans on running, but his actions show that he's embraced George Bush's divisive politics just as much as his failed policies."
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