Skip Navigation
Marc Ambinder

Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

A Final NRA Salvo At Obama Mentions Wife, Wright (Updated)

By Marc Ambinder
May 17 2008, 2:54 PM ET Comment

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."


Presented by

More at The Atlantic

For the St. Louis Art Museum, a Legal Victory Raises Ethical Questions St. Louis Museum's Legal Victory Raises Ethical Questions
Aretha Franklin's Platinum Year Aretha Franklin's Platinum Year
The Fraught Mobile Politics of the United States of Amercia [Sic] The Fraught Mobile Politics of Amercia [Sic]
'Black Lagoon': The First, Great Pretty-Girl-Attacked-By-Aquatic-Beast Film? The First Great Pretty-Girl-Attacked-By-Aquatic-Beast Film
Under Obama, Men Killed by Drones Are Presumed to Be Terrorists Why Are So Few Civilians Killed by Drones?

Join the Discussion

After you comment, click Post. If you’re not already logged in you will be asked to log in or register.
blog comments powered by Disqus
View All Correspondents

The Biggest Story in Photos

Afghanistan: May 2012

Jun 1, 2012

Subscribe Now

SAVE 59%! 10 issues JUST $2.45 PER COPY

Facebook

Newsletters

Sign up to receive our free newsletters

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

Marc Ambinder
from the Magazine

The Ally From Hell

Pakistan lies. It hosted Osama bin Laden (knowingly or not). Its government is barely functional.…