Hillary at Chipotle: Another phony story about her "immigrant" grandparents

National Review ^ | 04/17/2015 | Kevin D. Williamson

[SeekAndFind]

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s immigrant grandparents turn out not to have been immigrants, just as Elizabeth Warren’s Indian ancestors turn out not to have been Indians, though Mrs. Clinton was one-quarter truthful about her ancestry, which is a hell of a lot more than Senator Warren can say.

That’s too bad, really: If the imaginary Rodhams of old arrived on these shores and tricked the imaginary ur-Warrens into trading their land for a handful of shiny trinkets, that would have been a much better story than the burning question of whether Herself tipped at Chipotle.

It would also be a pretty good metaphor for the upcoming election.

But back to the big news: Of course Mrs. Clinton didn’t tip. Herself has a date with destiny, and cash-handling is for the little people. John F. Kennedy Jr.’s colleagues at George (remember George?) used to shake their heads about the fact that the vastly wealthy young man was forever cadging coffee money off underlings — $100 million in the trust fund, but no latte money in his pocket. It’s weird being a super-rich person who has never had a real job.

Ask Herself.

Faced with the inspiring stories of the Rubio and Cruz families, the Democrats are suffering from a little hardscrabble envy, and a little immigrant envy. Senator Ted Cruz’s father was born in Cuba in the 1930s and fought in the overthrow of the Batista regime before immigrating to the United States. Senator Marco Rubio’s father left Cuba only a few months before Senator Cruz’s father, and the Rubios made a modest living in the sorts of jobs often held by immigrants, he as a hotel bartender, she as a housekeeper. Other Republicans have noted the modest origins of Governor Scott Walker, son of a Baptist preacher and famously a college dropout who has made something of himself.

Having spent the Obama years boasting that they are the party of the future — the party of immigrants, ethnic minorities, young people, etc. — the Democrats are rallying behind an elderly suburban WASP lawyer from Park Ridge whose father was a wealthy, conservative businessman. That’s an awkward story.

So just make up a new one, right?

Practically all American presidential candidates have a problem in common: They feel the need to present themselves as heroic, unique, transformational, once-in-a-generation figures whose elevation to the highest office in the land enjoys something like the Mandate of Heaven — but they also have to pretend to be ordinary schmucks who like to eat at Chipotle. Every presidential candidate is a messianic figure — a messiah who is . . . just like you!

This is a bit more of a problem for Democrats than it is for Republicans, because the Democrats’ go-to strategy is to dismiss the Republicans as the tools of the Wicked Rich, which is slightly more difficult when you are the Wicked Rich — Mrs. Clinton’s household income has exceeded $100 million since her husband left what we’re still calling (ho-ho!) public service. Her father owned a textile company. Senator Rubio’s story is not that.

If you should happen to order guacamole on your burrito bowl at Chipotle — including at the Chipotle on Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan — your burrito artist will inform you, gravely: “Guac’s extra.” However different their personal circumstances, neither Mrs. Clinton nor Senator Rubio is the sort of person who has to worry very much about the fact that guacamole is extra.

A few weeks ago, I was at a Subway in a small town in Michigan, and there was a woman in front of me who was making the most complicated Subway order I ever have witnessed, i.e., a foot-long sandwich with different ingredients on each half — peppers on one half, no peppers on the other, onions and olives on the no-peppers half, etc. She paid with small coins and divided the sandwich with her friend — a single foot-long sandwich costs less than two six-inch sandwiches, and as she counted out the last pennies, it was obvious that this made a difference. The two shared a fountain drink, which I gather is against Subway policy, but nobody was making a fuss about it.

William Weld, criticized as an out-of-touch trust-funder by Teddy Kennedy, of all people, had the good sense to own it, declaring with mock indignation: “My family arrived in this country in 1630 with nothing but the shirts on their backs — and 2,000 pounds of gold.” Mitt Romney, despite sage advice that he follow suit, was never as comfortable with his wealth.

Those two women in a dead-end Michigan town, not starving but far from prospering, literally counting their pennies — they will have to endure a great deal of unhappiness in life. Having that unhappiness made into an instrument of ambition for conniving politicians who pantomime the lives of “everyday Americans” only adds insult to injury.

— Kevin D. Williamson is roving correspondent at National Review.

[SeekAndFind]

How many PUBLIC lies did she make? Let us count the ways:

— Chelsea was jogging around the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)

— Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)

— She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)

— She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn't cover the market back then.)

Whoppers She Won't Confess To

— She didn't know about the pardons of members of the violent Puerto Rico nationalist group FALN.

— She didn't know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.

— Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.

— She didn't know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.

— She didn't know that the Peter Paul fund-raiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.

— She opposed NAFTA at the time.

— She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.

— She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.

— She played a role in the '90s economic recovery.

— The Rose Law Firm billing records showed up on their own.

— She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.

— She was always a Yankees fan.

— She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after they voted for her 1,400 to 12 and she attended a meeting at the White House about the pardons).

— She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).

[MrB]

The way she went into detail on this lie
demonstrates that it was not just a “slip”,

but a willful, purposeful lie intended to deceive.

[Bubba_Leroy]

They are not lies because she is a Democrat. You are just misremembering things.

Algore would never have invented the Internet if he had known it would be misused to document what Democrats say.

[Dilbert San Diego]

— She was always a Yankees fan.

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This one is perhaps trivial. But the backstory of how she was a Yankees fan was so absurd.

She explained that as a resident of Chicago, that she was a Cubs fan, but the Cubs were in the National League. She also wanted an American League team to root for, so she chose the Yankees as her American League team.

This is absurd on the face of it, because wouldn’t a Chicago resident wanting an American League team to cheer for root for the Chicago White Sox??? But of course nobody ever asked her that obvious follow up question. So there you have it, she was always a Yankees fan, always a New Yorker at heart. Even though she never lived in New York, she felt entitled to run for senator there.

[MrB]

Her supporters and apologists don’t hold any of the deception against her,
because they believe in their OWN nobility,
and therefore anyone they support must be inherently ethical,
and if they HAVE to lie in order to achieve the greater good,
so much the better for them.

[immadashell]

The alternatives are Plugs the Clown Biden or Fauxcahontas.

[sharkhawk]

This is absurd on the face of it, because wouldn’t a Chicago resident wanting an American League team to cheer for root for the Chicago White Sox???

Not to defend Hillary, but very few people in Chicago cheer for both the Sox and the Cubs. The hatred mostly flows from the South Side Sox fans, but it goes both ways.

[bray]

Is there any question who came up with the video story in Benghazi?

Pray America is waking

[Liz]

Hillary's an ambitious conniving politician who is manipulating
“everyday Americans” to launch her and Bill back into the WH.

The only possible purpose for Hillary to have a private email system (which she "said" was in Chappaqua) was to prevent federal record-keepers from archiving her emails by law..... and to prevent reporters, historians, and American citizens from knowing what she did w/ ntl security secrets.

Let's see....what did Hillary do w/ US ntl
security secrets? I'll just take a wild guess:

"Smile everybody. Another $100 million came in today."

[plain talk]

“Hillary Rodham Clinton’s immigrant grandparents turn out not to have been immigrants”

Based on info at Ancestry.com her grandfather Hugh Rodham was born in 1879 in England and came over to US in 1881 as a child. So yes he was an immigrant. The real “immigrant” from an experience standpoint IMO was her g-grandfather Jonathan Rodham who was the adult that brought over her grandfather.

According to the 1900 census Jonathan was listed as a policeman and lived at 1103 Blair Ave, Scranton City, PA. House is still there. Not rich not poor. At that point in time Jonathan’s sons (including Hugh) were laborers working at ice house, coal mines, machine shops.

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.426297,-75.663675,3a,75y,300.11h,78.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1suej8gZmJWnqrweq6iIZkyw!2e0

[Liz]

Hillary is sucking up to progressives bigtime: (1) calling for the Supreme Court to rule in favor of a national right to gay marriage, (2) criticizing the discrepancy in CEO and worker pay, and, (3) floating the idea of a constitutional amendment for campaign finance reform....

It's a wonder Hillary could actually down a burrito bowl---she's puckered-up like a dried-up prune---sucking-up to progs w/ Crazy Glue tenacity.

God only knows what bloody gore she's planning to throw the snarling Planned Parenthood types---in order to up her bona fides with the genital-sniffing rubberizers.

[Ophiucus]

This is absurd on the face of it, because wouldn’t a Chicago resident wanting an American League team to cheer for root for the Chicago White Sox???

Not only no, but Hell No!!!

As a Chicago Cubs fan, I will attest that there is no way, no how, not even with a gun to my head that I would ever root for the White Sux. No Cubs fan would.

To be fair, no Sux fan would ever root for the Cubs either.

[The Great RJ]

Hillary’s biography is full of lies and some of her records are sealed, but compared to Obama she is totally transparent. We at least know for sure where she was born, that she actually is a US citizen and did not attend college as a foreign student.