Tuesday, April 14, 2015
No to Hillary Clinton - She Is Yesterday's Candidate
The question in Iowa yesterday was -- Will Hillary finally stand for something? Union workers on a smoke break outside an Iowa United Auto Workers hall told the national media the last time they heard Clinton speak, at the Harkin Steak Fry in September, she said nothing substantive. Asked how she can reignite a blaze of passion in Iowa, Earl Agan Jr answered, "I don't think she can." He's business manager for the Operative Plasterers & Cement Masons' International Association Local No. 21 and Area 561 Iowa. "We've had too many Clintons and Bushes. I won't vote for her." ~~~~~ Hillary Clinton's answer to Iowa and America was a 2.5 minute canned video announcement on Sunday, whose only direct position statement was "I want to be your champion." Sorry, Hillary -- the Masters green jacket is taken and the NBA and Stanley Cup playoffs are already underway to select their champions. It's too late. ~~~~~ Hillary may be trying to present a more humble image on her road trip to Iowa in a van she has dubbed "Scooby," but her efforts have thus far amounted to one taped video announcement on Sunday -- she obviously was too busy counting her last Clinton Foundation contributions from women-belittling countries to actually get in front of a TV camera and go live with her "I'm running" speech, like Cruz and Paul and Rubio did. Probably too lowbrow. Then, she undoubtedly rushed over to daughter Chelsea's ten million dollar NYC apartment to give one last cuddle to granddaughter Charlotte before setting out for Iowa in her van. Just one of us, that's our Hillary. Hillary was probably muttering to herself that at her age there's more to life than running for President of the United States. ~~~~~ Okay. We get it. Hillary is campaigning in a van because she wants to create a down-home, stand-by-your-man Hillary -- except for her Secret Service detail, her expensive suits with coordinated jewelry, her $300,000 speaking fees, her former President husband, her "what difference does it make" Benghazi attitude and her private email server. Hillary Clinton may want to become more of an "everyday American" but the first leg of her drive to Iowa has already shown her to be unrecognizable to some. When Clinton dropped into a Chipotle in Maumee, Ohio, and - just like you and me - wandered up to the counter to order a chicken burrito bowl, she ordered, ate and left without anyone in the place giving her a second glance. In fact, according to the manager, who also didn't recognize her and found out later she had been there in a call from the New York Times : "The thing is, she has these dark sunglasses on," the manager, Charles Wright told The Times. "She just was another lady." Can anyone imagine Bill Clinton -- or Obama or Rubio or Cruz -- stopping for lunch anywhere without causing a sensation as he worked the restaurant shaking hands with every customer and employee. Never happened...never will. ~~~~~ And that is Hillary's problem in a nutshell. She is as wary of mixing with the common folk as they are of trusting her. Like everyone else who lives in Camelot, her favorite song is "What do the common folk do?" ~~~~~ Dear readers, Marco Rubio announced his bid for the presidency yesterday. We'll talk about him another day. But he made one compelling reference to Hillary that says it all : “Just yesterday, a leader from yesterday began a campaign for President by promising to take us back to yesterday. Yesterday is over. And we’re never going back…”
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The least surprising presidential campaign announcement of all time, Hillary Clinton declared her second bid for a second stint (previously with husband Bill as president) in the White House. It could be, however, that the only one "Ready for Hillary" is Hillary. Because it's really, seriously really her turn this time.
ReplyDeleteHer predicament is simple: What do you do when you need to promote the notion that an individual is a “champion of the middle class” when that individual is the poster child of the celebrity governing elite?
Hillary’s last Sunday afternoon video announcement was characteristic of a weak candidate with enough unclaimed baggage to open an outlet store. After all, Hillary's known for five things, none of which are her personal achievements: Her marriage to Bill, her corrupt influence hawking, her constant lying, her State Department tenure failures with BEGHAZI atop the list, and her personal email server scandal (yet to fully see the light of investigations).
But let's face it: Hillary isn't exactly facing stiff competition. Apologies to Martin O'Malley and Lincoln Chafee, two white guys in a party running away from white guys.
"StatusPeople.com, the oldest publicly available Twitter-auditing tool, reports that 44 per cent of the former secretary of state's followers are 'good'; 15 per cent are 'fake'; and 41 per cent are 'inactive,' meaning that they never tweet or reply to any tweets." Their names have been appropriated and are being used in tweets that are going out. They're being appropriated, as Hillary followers, as Hillary fans, when they're not, and they don't even know it’s happening.
ReplyDeleteIf this is her starting lie, can we at all imagine what it will be like when one on one with the Republican candidate?
At no time in American history has a sitting president posed a greater threat to our Constitution and the Liberty it enshrines than has Obama. And Hillary Clinton has been right beside Obama the entire way.
ReplyDeleteThere is NO way she cannot be held responsible for the “quagmires” of this administration from 2009 to 2013. Each and every foreign policy decision she was in agreement with. Her finger prints are all over the failures of this administration.
So why should we even entertain the possibility that a Hillary administration would be any different?
She’s running to be the leader of the free world, the American Commander-in-Chief, the most powerful person on earth because she…is looking for a new adventure? Because she needs a new chapter on that book she released that nobody wanted to buy? Really?
ReplyDeleteMost people run for higher office because of a specific problem or set of problems they want to solve: an economy needs to be jump-started, the debt needs to be reduced, America needs to be safer and more secure, and so on. But not Hillary.
Hillary Clinton is going to be a pretty bad candidate. The notion that she, with her $400,000 speeches to Goldman Sachs, is going to be the “champion” for “everyday Americans” (as opposed to part-time Americans?) against the people at the top is ludicrous. She won’t be able to hide from the press, and she tends to answer questions terribly, as we saw in her press conference about the e-mails. She is indeed a congenital liar, and a bad one. She’ll have at least one more big “sniper fire in the Balkans” style blowup in the next six months, count on it.
But by the end of the year, the Democratic base and the press -- and perhaps I repeat myself -- will have persuaded themselves that she is whatever the moment requires. The good news is that she’s not going to be a good candidate. The bad news is it’s not clear she needs to be one in order to win.