I thought the shot-and-beer deal was hilarious, too, but maybe not in the same way as you.

Rainlander, stranger things have happened, but I don’t think it’s in the cards for Obama and Hillary to share the ticket.

I’m a blue-collar voter and I thought the beer and shot was hilarious. The bartender insisted and it would have been rude to decline. Which candidate in history has refused to “sweeten the pot” in regards to their public image?

However, I think one of Hillary’s problems recently has been her proclivity for ‘sweetening the pot’ — it’s fine for her to say she’d be a better C-in-C than Obama, but to follow it up with a false story of being under fire from snipers just ruined her credibility.

Saying she’s more ‘in touch’ with the working class is fine, but following it up with the shot-and-a-beer photo op just made her look pandering and insincere to blue-collar voters. Nobody believes she drinks like that in private, so why bother with the phony photo-op?

In the same vein, I had some doubts about the credibility of her tale of being taught to shoot as a little girl, and she dodged the question when she was asked recently the last time she went hunting.

These are all things Hillary is doing to herself and she should stop it — they’re not working.

At least she cut down on Mark Penn’s influence (or so we’ve been told) — he was destroying her.

I’ve listened to it. He answered a question about why some rural Democrats aren’t voting for him. He told his audience what they wanted to hear and they had a good laugh about it. Obama didn’t know he was being recorded and the story was leaked by one of his own supporters on Huffington Post.

It was a simplistic generalization of millions of complex voters that will hurt the Democratic party in the GE. It doesn’t matter which elite media gasbag relays the message. Also, calling HRC a liar by reading her father’s mind is a bit of a stretch.