Obama Mocks Hillary "Annie Oakley" Clinton

It took a couple of days, but Barack Obama decided to come out swinging yesterday.

He's as mad as hell about being called condescending and elitist and he's not going to take this anymore!

So during an address to the United Steelworkers Union in Steelton, PA, he strutted around the stage like a stand-up comic.

OBAMA: I expected this out of John McCain, but I've got to say I'm a little disappointed when I start hearing the exact same talking points coming out of my Democratic colleague Hillary Clinton. She knows better. She knows better. Shame on her! Shame on her! She knows better. Huh! She's running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the 2nd Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley.

Hillary Clinton's out there, you know, like she's out in the duck blind every Sunday. She's packing a six-shooter. Come on. She's knows better. That's some politics being played by Hillary Clinton. I want to see that picture of her out there in the duck blind. You know, come on.

He seemed to have a great time, laughing at his own jokes. Personally, I think he was more condescending than funny.

STEELTON, Pa. -- Accused of being elitist, a defiant Sen. Barack Obama lashed out at rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, saying "Shame on her" and mocking her vocal support for gun rights as their political tempest threatened to consume the Democratic presidential race.

It was a startling twist Sunday to the three-day controversy that erupted after the publication of comments the Illinois senator made at a San Francisco fundraiser a week earlier. At that event, Obama said some working-class voters are bitter over their economic circumstances and "cling to guns and religion" as a result.

Campaigning Sunday in Pennsylvania, Clinton derided the comments as "elitist and divisive" and suggested they could doom Democrats' chances for recapturing the White House in November if Obama were the nominee.

At a union hall outside Harrisburg, Obama said he'd expected blowback from GOP nominee-in-waiting John McCain but said he'd been "a little disappointed" to be criticized by Clinton.

Laughing, the Illinois senator noted Clinton seemed much more interested in guns since he made his comments than she had been in the past. On Saturday, the former first lady reminisced about learning to shoot on summer vacations in Scranton, where her father grew up.

I don't know if it was wise for Obama to mock and openly laugh at Hillary.

It was a scene from a playground. He came off like a kid making fun of another kid rather than a presidential candidate seriously addressing a matter.

It was arrogant the way he admonished her, talking down to her. "She knows better. Shame on her."

Obama appears to think he can get away with anything and talk his way out of any mess. Is that because he knows he can?

Slick Willie may have met his match-- Slick Barry.