Tired of reading about Barack Obama’s “bitter” small town Pennsylvanians and Hillary Clinton’s new affinity for guns?

Relax. Listen to the new theme song for the election. “Anything You Can Do” from the musical, “Annie Get Your Gun” with Betty Hutton and Howard Keel standing in for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.



Here is Obama’s speech in Steelton, Pennsylvania, which transformed the campaign into a musical. Musical today, perhaps film noir tomorrow? Who knows, with this election….

“She knows better. Shame on her. Shame on her,” Obama told an audience at a union hall here.

The Illinois senator has spent three days on the defensive after comments he made at a San Francisco fundraiser were disclosed that suggested working class people are bitter about their economic circumstances and “cling to guns and religion” as a result.

Obama reiterated his regret for his choice of words at the fundraiser but suggested they had been twisted and mischaracterized. He said he’d expected blowback from GOP nominee-in-waiting John McCain, but had been “a little disappointed” to be criticized by Clinton.

Then, laughing along with the union audience, Obama noted that Clinton seemed much more interested in guns since he made his comments than she had in the past.

“She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She’s talking like she’s Annie Oakley,” Obama said, invoking the famed female sharpshooter immortalized in the musical “Annie Get Your Gun.”

He continued: “Hillary Clinton is out there like she’s on the duck blind every Sunday. She’s packing a six-shooter. Come on, she knows better. That’s some politics being played by Hillary Clinton.”