Clinton's Mailing Gaffe

[Nancy Waterman]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/

Senator Hillary Clinton’s mailing attacking Senator Barack Obama’s record on guns appears to include a striking visual gaffe: The image of the gun pictured on the face of the mailing is reversed, making it a non-existent left-handed model of the Mauser 66 rifle.

To make matters worse, a prominent gun dealer said, it’s an expensive German gun with customized features that make it clearly European.

“The gun in the photo does not exist,” said Val Forgett III, the president of Navy Arms in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Forgett's company was Mauser’s agent in the United States when the gun was released, and who sold Mauser guns here again in the 1990s. “The bolt is facing to the left side of the receiver, making it a left-handed bolt action rifle, indicating whoever constructed and approved the mailer did not recognize the image has been reversed.”

Forgett said the error would be obvious to sportsmen.

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[Muttocracy]

1. more here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5815276

[FARAFIELD]

4. She was "exhausted" when she approved the mailer

Wait I thought she used to go shooting in the back of her house and is currently packing a 22

[Buzz Clik]

8. "Exhausted" as in shitfaced from hammering back whiskey shots with beer chasers.

[4themind]

2. Talk about back firing-nt

[Brundle_Fly]

20. best line today award!!

:toast:

[Mz Pip]

3. I guess

Annie Oakley knows less about guns than she wants us to believe. :shrug:

[jsamuel]

5. I just can't believe the primary has been reduced to arguing about crap like this.

[Kittycat]

14. I just can't believe she was stupid enough to mail something like this out.

Regardless of the inaccuracies, and the fact that in it's true form, it's a $2200 GERMAN MADE gun... What's her record on gun control?

[SoxFan]

6. Elitist firearms

She's poaching Obama's demographic, isn't she?

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. In the grand scheme of things, that's an utterly irrelevant mistake.

However, I am rather worried about how the gun is sort of pointed right at Obama's head in the ad.

But, man, I can't fault people for reversing an image like that. I don't think this could, in any way, constitute yet another of Hillary's intentional lies.

It's a fucking mistake. That's all it is.

[merh]

16. The gun pointing at Obama bothers me more than the

reversal of the image - was it reverse that it would point at him? So they could put those images together?

[K Gardner]

9. Maybe it was the gun she killed the duck with behind the pond.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

10. This Has To Be One Of The Most Mind Boggling Dumb Attacks I've Seen Yet.

Oh my god could it possibly get more petty? Sooooooooooo friggin stupid. For real.

[KittyWampus]

17. your reaction is sick. Obama is the one being attacked. Further, we've explained the gun points at

his head. This is the second time I've seen graphics showing a gun pointed at Obama.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

18. ROFLMAO!!!!!

:rofl:

[existentialist]

11. A minor point--but why not. Worse is floating around for sure.

I don't think this is worth a recommendation or anything, but I do think it's kind of funny.

It won't cost her very many votes, but a few true hunters might pick up on the error and ponder whether she's phony on the point.

Who knows?

[tularetom]

12. I'm a hunter, I noticed the error, and I don't have to ponder whether she's phony

I'm convinced she is!

[Cha]

13. Death by a thousand tiny

gaffes and not so tiny. Another day another way hilary and bill try to hijack the nomination.

Thanks, Nancy.

[Zachstar]

15. Clinton = FAIL

[futureliveshere]

19. HA HA HA!! Her campaign is definitely good for free entertainment

The boznia gate, plant sold during Clintons watch and now this.

[cliffordu]

21. You'd think after TUZLA she'd have a better grip on what sniper rifles look like.