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She rides by van: The Hillary Clinton launch
WaPo ^ | Krauthammer

Posted on 04/17/2015 5:44:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

See Hillary ride in a van! Watch her meet everyday Americans! Witness her ordering a burrito bowl at Chipotle! Which she did wearing shades, as did her chief aide Huma Abedin, yielding security-camera pictures that made them look (to borrow from Karl Rove) like fugitives on the lam, wanted in seven states for a failed foreign policy.

There’s something surreal about Hillary Clinton’s Marie Antoinette tour, sampling cake and commoners. But what else can she do? After Barack Obama, she’s the best-known political figure in America. She has papal name recognition. Like Napoleon and Cher, she’s universally known by her first name. As former queen consort, senator and secretary of state, she has spent a quarter-century in the national spotlight — more than any modern candidate.

She doesn’t just get media coverage; she gets meta-coverage. The staging is so obvious that actual events disappear. The story is their symbolism — campaign as semiotics.

This quality of purposeful abstractness makes everything sound and seem contrived. It’s not really her fault. True, she’s got enough genuine inauthenticity to go around — decades of positioning, framing, parsing, dodging — but the perception is compounded by the obvious staginess of the gigantic political apparatus that surrounds her and directs her movements.

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1 posted on 04/17/2015 5:44:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

The signal: “two if by van, one if by broom.”


2 posted on 04/17/2015 5:46:30 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Who besides me is sick of all things Clinton?


3 posted on 04/17/2015 5:47:51 AM PDT by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: Darksheare

ROFLMAO!


4 posted on 04/17/2015 5:48:07 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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5 posted on 04/17/2015 5:49:59 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I know that eventually, someone is going to sprinkle drink stuff on their computer.
I’m running away before it happens.


6 posted on 04/17/2015 5:50:35 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Darksheare

Hillary! The Twilight Saga. Season 7 Last episode.


7 posted on 04/17/2015 5:50:40 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I remember Biden doing the bus tour and staff reporting that he would order fast food as if he were normal and once back in the bus they would toss it in the trash and wait for the take-out ordered from the 5-star restaurant.
These people do very bad imitations of being human beings.


8 posted on 04/17/2015 5:50:50 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: RoosterRedux

"Get me a Chipotle Burrito Bowl, no beans, STAT!"

9 posted on 04/17/2015 5:51:19 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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Golly, It's a wonder Hillary could even down a burrito bowl---she's puckered-up like a dried-up prune---sucking-up to progs w/ Crazy Glue tenacity:

<><> calling for the Supreme Court to rule in favor of a national right to gay marriage,

<><> criticizing the discrepancy in CEO and worker pay, and,

<><> floating the idea of a constitutional amendment for campaign finance reform.

God only knows what bloody gore she's planning to throw the snarling blood-thirsty Planned Parenthood types---in order to up her bona fides with these genital-sniffing rubberizers.

10 posted on 04/17/2015 5:54:10 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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It's important to remember that Hillary is running for the presidency b/c she has a vagina.

A big plus for her is----Hillary's vagina is "like new"... "hardly used"... (as an eager used car salesman clinching the sale would say).

Oh sure, Bill rode 'er around a few times, but then decided he wanted a younger, snazzier model.

Course nobody's looked under Hillary's hood lately, but Bill better not base his hopes on being the first First Lady w/ gonads.

11 posted on 04/17/2015 5:57:20 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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12 posted on 04/17/2015 5:58:07 AM PDT by McGruff (Maybe my comments are too nuanced for some.)
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This rich commie fat shrew is insufferable. Go away!


13 posted on 04/17/2015 6:02:40 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Hillary’s Road Trip - Conceived to show that she is in touch with the American Heartland and the middle class.

Nothing says “I’m An American And Proud Of It!” like a Burrito Bowl with Cilantro Lime Rice for lunch.


14 posted on 04/17/2015 6:04:47 AM PDT by Iron Munro (It IS as BAD as you think and they ARE out to get you.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Should read, she rides Huma in a van...


15 posted on 04/17/2015 6:04:52 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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Lies lies and more lies. The sad thing is so many people will just eat this up as if she is the second coming...or Obama. My parents are hopeless non-questioning, liberals. They will vote for Hillary no matter what.


16 posted on 04/17/2015 6:08:35 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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What we have here is a failure to launch...............”


17 posted on 04/17/2015 6:09:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: ArtDodger

I wondered that about Hillarys burrito bowl. Does anyone actually think she ate that crap?


18 posted on 04/17/2015 6:10:33 AM PDT by digger48
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I wondered that about Hillarys burrito bowl. Does anyone actually think she ate that crap?

Also, we were told yesterday that she flew back on a commercial flight and carried her own luggage, just like a real person. Does anyone believe there was anything in that suitcase? Just another photo op to show she identifies with the peasants.

19 posted on 04/17/2015 6:14:42 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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As someone notet last night, there’s no way Hillary could carry all of her baggage.


20 posted on 04/17/2015 6:15:44 AM PDT by digger48
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