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Curtains for the Clintons
NY Times ^ | 12/1/2018 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 12/03/2018 10:47:15 AM PST by simpson96

TORONTO—The snow is falling lightly.

My thoughts are racing darkly.

I’m feeling something foreign, something I’ve never felt before. It takes me a moment to identify it.

I’m feeling sorry for the Clintons.

In the 27 years I’ve covered Bill and Hillary, I’ve experienced a range of emotions. They’ve dazzled me and they’ve disgusted me.

But now they’re mystifying me.

I’m looking around Scotiabank Arena, the home of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and it’s a depressing sight. It’s two-for-the-price-of-one in half the arena. The hockey rink is half curtained off, but even with that, organizers are scrambling at the last minute to cordon off more sections behind thick black curtains, they say due to a lack of sales. I paid $177 weeks in advance. (I passed on the pricey meet-and-greet option.) On the day of the event, some unsold tickets are slashed to single digits.

I get reassigned to another section as the Clintons’ audience space shrinks. But even with all the herding, I’m still looking at large swaths of empty seats —and I cringe at the thought that the Clintons will look out and see that, too. It was only four years ago, after all, that Canadians were clamoring to buy tickets to see the woman who seemed headed for history.

It’s a sad contrast with the sold-out boffo book tour of Michelle Obama, who’s getting a lot more personal for the premium prices. But introspection has never been within the Clintons’ range.

I can’t fathom why the Clintons would make like aging rock stars and go on a tour of Canada and the U.S. at a moment when Democrats are hoping to break the stranglehold of their cloistered, superannuated leadership and exult in a mosaic of exciting new faces.

What is the point? It’s not inspirational. It’s not

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1 posted on 12/03/2018 10:47:15 AM PST by simpson96
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“After losing to an orange puffer clown fish who will go down as one of the most destructive forces in American history and flushing the Obama legacy down the drain, that’s delusional. “

That sentence is truly a pity.


2 posted on 12/03/2018 10:53:22 AM PST by Paladin2
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I’m just here for the pictures, thanks for observing the rules..


3 posted on 12/03/2018 10:55:01 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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Her statement is delusional. And a perfect example of liberal projection.


4 posted on 12/03/2018 10:55:22 AM PST by simpson96
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To: Lurkinanloomin
You are welcome.


5 posted on 12/03/2018 10:55:46 AM PST by simpson96
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6 posted on 12/03/2018 10:57:20 AM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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When Bill Clinton dies (I’m betting while on top of some bimbo) I’m wondering if he will be remembered with the same dignity now being given to Bush 41. There is just something tacky about the Clinton’s and the sparse crowds showing up for there latest road trip seem to indicate the public is tired of them.


7 posted on 12/03/2018 10:57:22 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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8 posted on 12/03/2018 10:58:10 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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We have a large group of people who make a lot of money stealing from the government.


9 posted on 12/03/2018 11:00:56 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Is that the same Maureen Dowd as this?


10 posted on 12/03/2018 11:02:02 AM PST by Baynative ("A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore)
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Why not? Nelson Rockerfeller did.


11 posted on 12/03/2018 11:17:56 AM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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I want the Clintons to die n the prison hospital. Date unimportant.


12 posted on 12/03/2018 11:19:12 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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Yeah, the elderly schoolgirl is getting too wrapped up with trying to be clever at the expense of being coherent.


13 posted on 12/03/2018 11:20:49 AM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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I thank God and her parents.


14 posted on 12/03/2018 11:20:57 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Baynative

Yep.


15 posted on 12/03/2018 11:22:37 AM PST by simpson96
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There will long be a few die-hard Democrats wanting to make pilgrimages to the Clinton legacies.


16 posted on 12/03/2018 11:24:04 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: morphing libertarian; Lurkinanloomin

17 posted on 12/03/2018 11:29:12 AM PST by simpson96
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Mo still loves them. She just can’t help herself.


18 posted on 12/03/2018 11:34:23 AM PST by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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I can’t fathom why the Clintons would make like aging rock stars and go on a tour of Canada and the U.S. at a moment when Democrats are hoping to break the stranglehold of their cloistered, superannuated leadership and exult in a mosaic of exciting new faces.

Politicians never go away. They can't let go. They get addicted to the power and the royal treatment, they are addicted. It's a disease.

19 posted on 12/03/2018 11:35:43 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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20 posted on 12/03/2018 11:41:41 AM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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