"If you ain't got the grin, you cain't be in."
Posted on 08/03/2015 1:24:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There's one person Hillary Clinton really wants the voters of America to get to know more than anybody else. And her name is Dorothy Rodham.
Dorothy is Clinton’s late mother. She died in 2011. But she's playing a starring role in her daughter’s presidential campaign, and is the focus of Clinton’s first television ads.
On Tuesday, Clinton’s campaign will begin broadcasting two TV ads in Iowa and New Hampshire. The one-minute spots, which will air over the course of five weeks, emphasize Clinton’s mother’s story over her own.
The first ad, titled “Dorothy,” is almost completely devoid of any discussion of Clinton’s credentials. Instead, it's focused on recounting her mother’s trauma-filled childhood.
Clinton, who narrates the story over old photos of her mom, describes how her mother is the person who most influenced her desire to fight for families and to run for president.
“I think about all the Dorothy’s all over America who fight for their families, who never give up,” Clinton says while video of a mother tucking her daughter in to bed plays. “That’s why I’m doing this. That’s why I’ve always done this. For all the Dorothy’s.”
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Was this the same mom that named Hillary after Sir Edmund Hillary? /s
The Bitch still believes The Women of America will carry her to the White House; thus, she plays the gender card again and again and again.”
Twit.
Gee, and I here I thought Pantsuit Patty was born in a polyester garment factory.
My thought was “Anything to distract...”
Too bad her mom didn’t visit Planned Parenthood.
RE: Was this the same mom that named Hillary after Sir Edmund Hillary? /s
Yes, before he even climbed Mount Everest.
You beat me to it. That genetic chain is broken and twisted.
The hell with Sanders and O’Malley, this year’s version of Operation Chaos should be a write-in campaign for Hillary’s! mom - especially since Hillary! has decided to pay for the advertising for her.
Mrs. Clinton could personally blow smoke up my ass and i still wouldn’t ever think of voting for her
"I'm joined by Buddy Hackett who has an important message for women about contraception."
Most people would not list being pitiful as an important ingredient of “Presidential leadership”. But Hillary’s go-to play throughout her career has been the appeal to pity, whether due to Bill’s philandering, or her mama’s hard times. This ad is actually honest and consistent: her whole life is about fixing the lives of people she pities for being incompetent. Government must step in and live for them.
I sometimes wonder if she is running for President so she can lose, so “everyone” will feel sorry for her. Hillary is one strange woman.
Buck tooth Annie
RE: Most people would not list being pitiful as an important ingredient of “Presidential leadership”.
We should not underestimate the element of “sympathy” in an election. You will be surprised at how powerful it was in the past.
John Ashcroft ( former US Senator and Attorney General ) was leading in his campaign to be re-elected senator of Missouri in 2000. He faced a challenge from Governor Mel Carnahan.
In the midst of a tight race, Carnahan died in an airplane crash two weeks prior to the election. Ashcroft suspended all campaigning after the plane crash.
Because of Missouri state election laws and the short time to election, Carnahan’s name remained on the ballot. Lieutenant Governor Roger Wilson became governor upon Carnahan’s death. Wilson said that should Carnahan be elected, he wanted to appoint his widow, Jean Carnahan, to serve in her husband’s place; Mrs. Carnahan announced that, in accordance with her late husband’s goal, she would serve in the Senate if voters elected his name. Following these developments, Ashcroft resumed campaigning.
Carnahan won the election 51% to 49%. No one had ever posthumously won election to the Senate, though voters had on at least three occasions chosen deceased candidates for the House of Representatives.
Many claimed that Jean Carnahan won BECAUSE of sympathy.
Carnahan posthumously received the most votes and his widow, Jean Carnahan was appointed to the Senate in 2001. Under Missouri law, she would serve only until a special election could be held.
The defeated Senator Ashcroft was nominated by Republican President-elect George W. Bush to be US attorney general, and because cabinet appointments are subject to Senate approval, Jean Carnahan found herself in the unusual position of casting a vote against the nomination of her former opponent.
In 2002, the special election was held for the remainder of the six-year term. Jean Carnahan ran, but was defeated by Republican James Talent.
This time, there were no “deaths” to sympathize with.
Hillary’s mother is thinking “What am I doing here? Are those my feet? I hope this doesn’t take long, I want to get home in time to watch “Matlock’’.
what the heck...her mom has been dead for four years, she can’t run for anything..
Hillary is plum crazy...
I had a wonderful mom who was born in 1914, life was very difficult in that era of time for everyone...so her mom had a difficult life...but it sure got better with time and she didn’t seem to be suffering from any thing in every photo I saw...I think it is so disrespectful of her to drag her mom’s beginning through the mud...
wake up granny Benghazi...do you want Chelsea telling your granddaughter how you were SOS and allow four Americans to be butcher and killed...? didn’t think so, so lay off your deceased mom...it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS ELECTION...
This is the Dorothy who named her hideous daughter after Sir Edmund Hillary.
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And, apparently, Dorothy was cruel. Why else would a mother wait until her daughter was 7 years old to give her a name?
Well, since her mother is dead, Hillary will most certainly get Dorothy’s vote.
“... Stand by your mom, give her two arms to cling to
And something warm to come to
When nights are cold and lonely.
Stand by your mom, and show the world you love her
Keep giving all the love you can.
Stand by your mom! “
Same tune she sang during impeachment with slightly different words.
Hoping to fool some older female voters.
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