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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Make that a doublewide van.
Sounds like Hillary has no money.
Hillary’s Vaperware Campaign
Look shes one of us.....not!
I guess her broom is in the shop.
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?
Sounds like Hillary has no money.
I’d bet that she did not pay for that van.
She constantly demonstrates she is out of touch with normal everyday Americans and their values, lives and customs.
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.
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!
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?
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)
Not one poll yet done since she declared last weekend.
They afraid to show the results?
There were a couple of state polls released during this
week, NH and WI I believe.
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.
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.
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