Posted on 04/18/2015 7:37:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Hillary Clinton gets in a van a drives from New York to Iowa and somehow it’s all the media can talk about—but it’s what most Americans do. They load up their cars for a family road trip and yet, it’s not covered by the media.
Her attempt to be normal is humorous; she even made a pit stop for lunch at Chipotle—WOW! However, while at Chipotle she chose to be incognito and donned a pair of sunglasses. Let me get this straight, she wants to listen to everyday Americans but she doesn’t want to be seen or recognized at a normal place? Her fake and disingenuous attempt to be like average Americans is laughable and pathetic. Average Americans don’t make half a million dollars for a speaking engagement at a public university, nor do they make requests for first class flights and crudité. Life for the Clinton’s must be so hard.
On this “sham” of a normal road trip she has not shook more than two hands of “average” Americans, but when she does she is sure to post it to social media. Social media seems to be where Hillary Clinton does all of her engaging with America—after all that is where she launched her presidential bid. Every move Clinton makes appears robotic and controlled as though she doesn’t know how to engage with people without making it look like work.
Hillary has no understanding of what it is like to be an “average” American, which was exemplified when she made the ridiculous statement that she and Bill were “dead broke” when they left the White House.
She is trying so hard to be normal that it’s painful to watch. Her campaign rollout has been full of anything but normal stories—but ones that you can expect from Hillary Clinton. She touts that she is on a “listening tour” to be with everyday Americans, yet she brings in political operatives and stages her “everyday” event goers.
Hillary already faces an uphill battle in her candidacy because of all the scandals that plague her, the easiest thing about her campaign should be retail politics, but alas her attempt is cold and scripted.
Hillary’s life is anything but normal, but yet the media glorifies everything that she does from driving in a van, to eating a burrito, to sipping a chai tea with people who were shipped in by her campaign staff. Here’s a word of advice for Hillary Clinton, it shouldn’t be that hard to be normal—but then again that would mean that she would have to actually want to relate to her fellow citizens. The best part is the race for 2016 has only just begun and already she is proving that she just doesn’t understand average Americans.
Since when do we want our President to be normal. I want them to be extraordinary. Heck if we all wanted a president to be normal day to day person we would all run. That meme is so silly now a days. I hardly think that Reagan was normal in the fact that he could relate to the poor on the street. I don’t want that. I want somebody not normal and who is extraordinary.
Note the armored van’s very dark tinted windows so us lowly peons cannot see inside.
That is due to her position as First Lady. She still has to follow those rules. She has completely reinvented all the rules for First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State and now candidate for President of the United States. I would hate to be the person to decide which rules follow which situation. No she can’t do that because of First Lady...Nope not that because of Senator.....nope not that again told you because of Secretary of State she cannot do that. Must be a nightmare.
Her black van road trip to Iowa had all the charm of a funeral procession.
Hillliarly is still a lying, unethical and dishonest rat lawyer, who hates our constitution.
Me too. I laughed. I laugh every time I see it.
You know, speaking of Senator Clinton I still have not seen a scribbler or babbler raise the question of whether there were e-mail irregularities during her time in the Senate.
Anyway, I have not believed that she would be the Demrat Pres. candidate due to the newschimp and commenter monkeys proclaiming for so long that she WOULD be.
Her smiles look like drug-induced smirks.
Her image consultants have obviously concluded that Hillary is a lost cause. What we will see over the next two years will be the first COMPLETELY fabricated presidential candidate & campaign. There will be nothing spontaneous or authentic about it.
If she weren't running against a completely corrupt republican establishment I would say she didn't have a snowballs chance in hell. But, sadly...
One theory as to why nobody “recognized” or approached her in Chipotle or in the Jones St. Java House is that the several undercover Secret Service agents posing as customers were spotted, and would likely have shot anyone who got too close.
In effect, the 2015 Hillary Clinton is pretty much the 2004 Teresa Heinz-Kerry—and those old enough vividly remember how Heinz-Kerry was ridiculed by everyone on Free Republic (and many on the Left did the same, too).
Excellent! Did an old fashioned double take when I saw that. Perfect.
Just call her Abby Normal.
Cruz could tell the truth, but the American people won’t believe him.
No matter how outrageous, the American people still believe in HRC or want to do so very much to bring back what they think will be a “good economy”.
I remember early in the Jimmy Carter presidency, when things were already starting to slip away, he decided he was going to "get in touch with the common people" by having a weekly "fireside chat" on Saturday mornings - but in a talk radio format.
If you can dig up old recordings of those, they were hilarious. It was mostly crackpots and shut-ins calling in. I remember one guy from Buffalo insisting that Jimmy Carter call out the National Guard and truck all their snow to California, where they were having a drought (some things never change).
It only lasted a few weeks and SNL did a spoof of it with Dan Aykroyd.
Then Jimmah decided to "get down with regular people" by inviting himself for dinner with them and spending a night in their homes. One of the homes he visited was in my area, a Massachusetts town called Clinton (you can't make this stuff up).
It was so awkward. You have the president of the United States sitting in some guy's kitchen eating spaghetti and meatballs and making small talk as a bunch of cameras recorded the whole thing. The he went upstairs to a tiny bedroom to sleep. I'm thinking one of the kids had to sleep on the couch that night.
Next morning before dawn, Jimmah was whisked out of there and we never heard anything about it again. I might be mistaken but I think that was the one and only time he tried something like that.
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