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She Rides By Van: The Hillary Clinton Launch
Washington Post ^ | April 17, 2015 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 04/17/2015 4:28:25 PM PDT by Steelfish

She Rides By Van: The Hillary Clinton Launch

By Charles Krauthammer April 16

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 4:28:25 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Make that a doublewide van.


2 posted on 04/17/2015 4:29:25 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Steelfish

Sounds like Hillary has no money.


3 posted on 04/17/2015 4:29:40 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Steelfish

Hillary’s Vaperware Campaign


4 posted on 04/17/2015 4:32:54 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Steelfish
Hillary's Scooby Van Official Song
5 posted on 04/17/2015 4:39:17 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: Steelfish

Look shes one of us.....not!


6 posted on 04/17/2015 4:48:56 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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To: Steelfish

I guess her broom is in the shop.


7 posted on 04/17/2015 4:56:26 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: Steelfish

2016 is a year and a half away. Is she going to keep this stunt up for that long? And is she even still riding around? I thought after a day or two of this it would be over. Whats her next trick?


8 posted on 04/17/2015 5:01:55 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Sounds like Hillary has no money.


I’d bet that she did not pay for that van.


9 posted on 04/17/2015 5:06:14 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Steelfish

She constantly demonstrates she is out of touch with normal everyday Americans and their values, lives and customs.


10 posted on 04/17/2015 5:09:38 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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Hillary is so out of touch, she hasn’t hit on the one ordinary day trip that her genderist supporters all know and care about: hittin’ Safeway.

If she manages to figure that out, the video will be priceless: Chance the Gardener goes shopping.


11 posted on 04/17/2015 5:12:36 PM PDT by Regulator
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I think she may have spent a whole two days in Iowa and avoided any contact with any real people. Then on the third day she hopped on an airplane and flew back to NY. She had had enough of everyday Americans! Damn just get me back to my elite crowd!


12 posted on 04/17/2015 5:15:20 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: jmacusa
And is she even still riding around? I thought after a day or two of this it would be over. Whats her next trick?

Ans. Nbr. 1..It is over.She took a plane.

Ans. Nbr. 2... Next trick select some authentic looking 'citizens' to sit at her round table.

Done and done, now back to the focus group results and her PR managers. Cee Ya'!

What is to be done with those two $50,000 black runabouts after the USSS ferries them back to the coast? Will the dealer take them back and return her broom?

13 posted on 04/17/2015 5:15:24 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: laplata

I read that it’s owned, run, and maintained by Secret Service. Her campaign will probably reimburse SS @ $0.03/mile for its use (not counting the SS Agents)


15 posted on 04/17/2015 5:16:36 PM PDT by EDINVA
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Not one poll yet done since she declared last weekend.

They afraid to show the results?


16 posted on 04/17/2015 5:17:10 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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There were a couple of state polls released during this
week, NH and WI I believe.


17 posted on 04/17/2015 5:22:53 PM PDT by deport
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To: Don Corleone

The van belongs to Hillary’s Secret Service detail. She had an older version as SoS. Paul Ryan and Rick Santorum have used similar ones. Apparently they are fairly standard for government, athletes and other celebs.

Chevrolet Express 1500 modified by Explorer of Indiana.


18 posted on 04/17/2015 5:24:40 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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I read that it’s owned, run, and maintained by Secret Service. Her campaign will probably reimburse SS @ $0.03/mile for its use (not counting the SS Agents)


Or .01 per mile but they pay for the gas.

The Clintons rent out a garage or cottage to the SS on their Chataqua property for $10,000.00/month. It pays the mortgage.

You probably knew this.


19 posted on 04/17/2015 5:27:32 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Don Corleone
If “The Harridan’’ is still in this time next year she'll be on a unicycle juggling a chain saw, a bowling ball and a tennis racket while crossing Niagara Falls.
20 posted on 04/17/2015 5:36:59 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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