Jay Carney isn’t happy with the National Rifle Association.
The White House press secretary condemned the NRA’s new Obama attack ad, calling it “repugnant and cowardly,” according to BuzzFeed.
“Most Americans agree that a president’s children should not be used as pawns in a political fight,” Carney said on Wednesday. “But to go so far as to make the safety of the president’s children the subject of an attack ad is repugnant and cowardly.”
The NRA ad, which calls the President hypocritical for being “skeptical about putting armed security in our schools” while his daughters have armed protection, was released on Tuesday night, a day before the President announced his 23 new executive actions on guns.
Yet four young children joined the President at his press conference on Wednesday, effectively delegitimatizing Carney’s critique of the NRA advertisement.
Because if the President’s children should not be pawns in a political fight, neither should any American child. Time to practice what you preach, POTUS. And that’s just the point the NRA ad was trying to make in the first place.
Since Carney’s condemnation, the NRA also hasn’t wasted any time crying or wringing their hands — the organization has already struck back, releasing a longer and more powerful ad.
(h/t BuzzFeed)
