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.
Theres something surreal about Hillary Clintons Marie Antoinette tour, sampling cake and commoners. But what else can she do? After Barack Obama, shes the best-known political figure in America. She has papal name recognition. Like Napoleon and Cher, shes 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 doesnt 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. Its not really her fault. True, shes 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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LOL.
So she’s riding Vann Jones. What else is new?
Hillary is in her van!
To the barricades! To the barricades!
Liberty! Fraternity! Eclairs!
We are the sans-pantsuits! Down with the filthy pantsuit wearing rich! Down with money-grubbing, argumentative, mean, nasty, drunk lawyers!
I think she will withdraw from the race if she has to actually work for it.
Campaigning, like math, is so hard!
Especially for a 66.6 yr old haggard Hillary.
You should hear her sing in her van.
“Ninety nine bottles of Scotch on the wall
Ninety nine bottles of Scotch
Take one down and pass it around
We’d better stop at a liquor store
We’re running out of Scotch!”
That van ought to be called “Broomstick” instead of “Scooby.”
She takes a van b/c she doesn’t want people to see her broomstick flying behind her plane.
She takes a van b/c she doesn’t want people to see her broomstick flying behind her plane.
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