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Georgetown Blames Low Turnout At Hillary Clinton Speech On Final Exams
Business Insider ^ | 12/04/2014 | AMANDA MACIAS AND HUNTER WALKER

Posted on 12/04/2014 7:09:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at the Georgetown Institute For Women, Peace and Security and it seems like hardly anyone showed up.

Clinton's remarks on "Smart Power: Security Through Inclusive Leadership" were delivered at Georgetown's Gaston Hall, an auditorium that seats more than 700 people. However, based on tweets from those who attended the event, many seats were empty.

Update (1:40 p.m.): Georgetown spokesperson Stacy Kerr sent a statement to Business Insider noting there has been large turnout for past events at the school with Clinton. She also suggested the fact it is the last week before final exams may have contributed to lower turnout this time.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; georgetown; hillary; speech
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To: SeekAndFind

Hillary is making excuses.

What a sad sight for a woman running for the most powerful office on earth.

Its typical of her to blame others for her lack of political acumen.

Just the vintage Hillary we have come to know and love.


21 posted on 12/04/2014 7:20:48 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SeekAndFind

I went to Georgetown. Yes, there are many such opportunities to see politicians speak.

After a while though, the novelty is gone, and you feel you can get the same cliches and political bullish** by watching CNN. After all, Washington DC is awash in it.


22 posted on 12/04/2014 7:20:49 AM PST by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

Heck, that didn’t stop me from attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago!


23 posted on 12/04/2014 7:21:27 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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To: SeekAndFind

So Hillary’s class resulted in no attendance.


24 posted on 12/04/2014 7:21:45 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: SeekAndFind

HMMM

I thought FINAL exams were in June prior graduation? Or is that FINAL FINAL exams?

Why these (advertised) Catholic Schools not only allow but pay these Heathens to speak is beyond me.

I can just picture a devout Catholic not only being invited to a Mosque for a Political event BUT being able to ‘demand’ they remove ANY sign of it being a Mosque.

If it ‘bothers’ you (the decor) rent the local Arena, Convention Center or even the Field House (where one is less likely to be ‘disrespected’ by a Statue or Cross or something equally as threatening).


25 posted on 12/04/2014 7:23:05 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98) Would love to buy BO for what he is worth, then sell him for what he thinks he is worth.)
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To: Vendome

So Hillary’s class resulted in no attendance
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Nicely played!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was fixing to say the words Hillary (HRC) and class don’t belong in the same room, much less sentence.


26 posted on 12/04/2014 7:25:07 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98) Would love to buy BO for what he is worth, then sell him for what he thinks he is worth.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is Georgetown still pretending that it is a real university?


27 posted on 12/04/2014 7:25:27 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Vendome

With a voice that grates like chalk on sandpaper and her being a schoolmarm scold, its a wonder any one can stand Her Heinousness.

If liberals can’t warm up to her, why should the rest of us lesser mortals find her suitably attractive?

The enthusiasm for her is quite low in Georgetown and she got thrown under the 2016 inevitability bus.


28 posted on 12/04/2014 7:25:47 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder how many in the audience were reporters and professors.


29 posted on 12/04/2014 7:26:11 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: upchuck

Ah “the dog ate my homework” excuse.

If she was a student at Georgetown, her professor wouldn’t give her the time of day.

No wonder no one showed up at her honorarium there.


30 posted on 12/04/2014 7:28:48 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Heck, that didn’t stop me from attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago!
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Not really all that interested etc but one may wonder where the Basketball team and their entourage was during that time period?????

You can bet they weren’t ‘worried’ about Final Exams...


31 posted on 12/04/2014 7:29:07 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98) Would love to buy BO for what he is worth, then sell him for what he thinks he is worth.)
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To: BenLurkin; All
I wonder how many in the audience
were reporters and professors.
ummm...You mean Worshipers?...


32 posted on 12/04/2014 7:29:10 AM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: SeekAndFind

The liberal message seems to be getting stale. It appears that people are losing interest in never-ending, self righteous rants and instead want to hear viable and practical solutions to our pressing national problems, which are getting worse by the day. Ideologues like Hillary and her ilk are turning people off.


33 posted on 12/04/2014 7:29:23 AM PST by Starboard
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe cause “The NewCar Smell” is long gone and the real stench is too much


34 posted on 12/04/2014 7:31:36 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: SeekAndFind

HilLIARy would be NOTHING if she did not ride Bill’s coat tails.

She was fired from the Watergate commission going after Nixon for lying and unethical behavior- which should have been career suicide.

How did womanizer Bill end up with her? I think it was symbiotic- he oozed charisma from his pores- she was the crafty schemer who got him to do what he needed to do.

He has NOT needed her in a long time, but she knows where all the bodies are buried (probably literally)


35 posted on 12/04/2014 7:32:42 AM PST by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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To: xrmusn

I seem to recall “finals” were in May...


36 posted on 12/04/2014 7:37:58 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: goldstategop

” Georgetown spokesperson Stacy Kerr sent a statement “

LIE : )


37 posted on 12/04/2014 7:46:05 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I seem to recall “finals” were in May
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Yeah, May but definitely NOT the month prior Christmas.
Though I guess they do have graduations spread out more than before?

I really don’t know because I had my fill of ‘higher education’ in my Senior Year of HS, which I chose not to complete and never looked back.

Of course, since I didn’t spend thousands of dollars on ‘advanced education’, today I am left a ‘blubbering idiot’ who can’t spell, use proper punctuation or count higher than 20 unless I drop trou or even spell CAT if you give me the K and A.

I could see the flawed ‘system’ back in 53 when I went from a Catholic School after 9th Grade and was so far ahead of my ‘peers’ in the Public School system I even took TYPING in 1955 High School. And that was New York State who, at the time, was considered to be among the Educational Leaders when it came to Public (Government) Schools.


38 posted on 12/04/2014 7:48:23 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98) Would love to buy BO for what he is worth, then sell him for what he thinks he is worth.)
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To: PROCON

Hillary’s Staff will be Horse whipped for not filling the seats


39 posted on 12/04/2014 7:52:52 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: BenLurkin

Probably the only students there were ones receiving extra credit for going and writing a short paper on her rants!

I remember when Bill Clinton was going to land in Austin, TX. and they were all but paying us to fill seats! I told them I care not to even see him on TV much less in person, giving away my political leanings, haa!


40 posted on 12/04/2014 7:54:36 AM PST by YouGoTexasGirl
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