Klobuchar says she killed a duck while golfing

[left-of-center2012]

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) in a United Food and Commercial Workers forum Sunday recounted an anecdote about accidentally killing a duck during a game of golf.

"I did one time try to play golf…misfired on my first try. The ball hit the duck in the head, and it appeared to perish. So I don’t think it’s a good idea for the bird population of America if I play golf,” Klobuchar said at the UFCW’s 2020 presidential candidate forum in Detroit Sunday.

UFCW announced the forums earlier this month, with the first set to take place Sunday and the second to take place Oct. 13 in Des Moines, Iowa.

Other candidates confirmed to participate include former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.).

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/463574-klobuchar-says-she-killed-a-duck-while-golfing

[TeamPooka]

1. Why would you tell that story? Why? What possible benefit could that bring?

[OnDoutside]

2. Context is probably missing.

[pnwmom]

3. It's showing she can laugh at herself. She's a bad golfer.

DT, on the other hand, has absolutely no sense of humor and no ability to laugh at himself.

Having a President with both would be a refreshing change.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Why not tell it? Does everything have to have a "benefit".

[TeamPooka]

5. the benefit here is not offending people who love animals and think something like that

is cruel and not funny.
There's no win in a story like that.

[pnwmom]

6. It isn't cruel when it is completely unpredictable and unintentional.

And no duck feelings were hurt in the retelling of the story.

[TeamPooka]

7. I'll just let her proceed...

[Perseus]

9. People who love animals don't want to hear that.

I love animals, and my thought was exactly the same as TeamPooka (the 1st answer). You tell me, what is there to gain from a story like that which will hit people like me in a bad way?

I like her, and I wish she had not told the story. Like TeamPooka said, there is absolutely nothing to gain from it. I think she may surprised how many people detested the story, even if you didn't mean to kill a duck, well you did and now you are making a joke about it. Wrong move.

[pnwmom]

10. Plenty of people who love animals -- like me -- won't blame her for laughing at herself

for having such a freakish accident. The odds of that are what? One in a million? One in ten million?

[cwydro]

15. What bugs me is her saying, "it appeared" to have died.

Didn’t she check on it?

If I hurt an animal in any way, I’d make an effort to get it help.

Hopefully, it’s just a made up story to make fun of herself.

[treestar]

19. She didn't kill it intentionally

per her story, but why would you want her to keep it to herself - you'd not know she was a duck-killer and might have voted for her.

[Perseus]

8. That is exactly what I thought...Weird!

Her punchline is not even funny.

[Politicub]

12. Because it's Klobuchar and her folksy stories and anecdotes are awesome

She has a great sense of humor and makes people laugh. It’s such an absurd premise that how could someone not smile?

She can go from eviscerating people like Kavanaugh to talking about handing hot dishes over the fence in Minnesota.

[rogue emissary]

22. It works for Biden telling wildly inappropriate stories and

Antidotes.

[DrFunkenstein]

11. It Beats Cheney Shooting a Guy

Or Mitt Romney shooting varmint.

[RhodeIslandOne]

18. Romney tied a dog to a car

[NurseJackie]

13. There goes the PETA voters.

Sigh.

[Shrek]

14. If only it had ducked n/t

[treestar]

20. ooooh

[TidalWave46]

16. Poor duck. Made me laugh.

What an introduction to golf.

[RhodeIslandOne]

17. This is disqualifying!!!

[treestar]

21. ....