Clinton Recalls Hunting With Her Father As A Youth -

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Topic subject Clinton Recalls Hunting With Her Father As A Youth - Reuters
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4623203, Clinton Recalls Hunting With Her Father As A Youth - Reuters
Posted by WillyT on Sat Feb-16-08 09:01 PM

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KENOSHA, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton revealed something about herself on Saturday that she acknowledged might surprise many people: she knows how to hunt.

Campaigning ahead of Tuesday's Democratic nominating vote in Wisconsin, a state with a strong tradition of hunting and where many voters strongly support gun ownership rights, Clinton said she firmly backed the right to bear arms.

"You know, you may not believe it but I've actually gone hunting," Clinton, 60, said at a question-and-answer session with voters at a crammed bratwurst restaurant in Kenosha.

"My father taught me to shoot 100 years ago," she said jokingly.

The topic came up when one voter asked Clinton what she would do to prevent incidents such as the shooting spree at Northern Illinois University on Thursday in which a man entered a lecture hall and killed five students and himself.

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Later, a reporter who had followed her career for 2 1/2 years and was not aware of her hunting experience pressed Clinton on whether she had ever shot anything.

"Yes, Mike, I have," she told the reporter, Mike McAuliff of the New York Daily News. Clinton said she had shot a duck as well as "a lot of tin cans and a lot of targets and some skeet."

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Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSN1663122020080217

Asked about this, Mitt Romney replied: "What, no varmints???"

:shrug: