Hillary Clinton on Her 'Last Rodeo' - Clinton gave an anecdote-laden speech in Iowa City on Tuesday.

National Journal ^ | July 7, 3015 | Emma Roller

[Perseverando]

July 7, 2015 Before Hillary Clinton spoke to a crowd of roughly 250 supporters in the Iowa City Public Library on Tuesday, a campaign staffer had a few requests for the attendees. First, the young female staffer asked those in attendance to pull out their smart phones and "like" Clinton's local Facebook page for Iowa and Johnson County. Then, she rattled off a phone number for the supporters to text in exchange for "updates" (aka donation pleas) from the campaign, which announced that it added 20 field organizers to its already large Iowa staff Tuesday.

But the actual content of Clinton's speech was refreshingly free of campaign artifice. Yes, she began with her routine spiel about income inequality, health care, and her excitement at becoming a grandmother, but her remarks felt more off-the-cuff than usual. Perhaps in an attempt to embrace her inner nerd, Clinton recalled spending hours in her local library during summer vacations growing up.

One anecdote from her career as Secretary of State in particular stood out as something new not only to the attendees, but to the reporters who obsessively cover the Clinton campaign as well. She told a story about the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Clinton and President Obama were trying to negotiate terms with India and China—two of the fastest developing countries in the world—for a climate change agreement.

The problem: China and India's leaders were nowhere to be found. Clinton said she and Obama "sent out scouts," who found that the Chinese and Indian leaders were meeting in a clandestine conference room. Clinton and Obama marched to the room, she said, and pushed past Chinese security guards to confront the heads of state.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Was she the heifer in this rodeo?

[Liz]

Hillary told of spending hours in her local library during summer vacations growing up.

Hillary's school picture--late 50"s---about 11 years old. (CREDIT--NPR)

Hillary was dreaming of her Prince Charming....and then she met Bill.

Wearing a pig hat in Arkansas means something---but I dont know what.

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Here's the house where Hillary and her two brothers grew up.

Hillary Clinton's father, Hugh Rodham, paid for his family's home on Wisner Street in Park Ridge, Ill., outright with money he'd saved as the owner of a drapery business.

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SOURCE Tamara Keith/NPR /June 16, 2015
"Growing Up In Protected Americana, Hillary Clinton Looked Outside The Cocoon"

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/16/413927185/growing-up-in-protected-americana-hillary-clinton-looked-outside-the-cocoon

[Liz]

The media were roped off b/c her campaign handlers didn't want anyone to know ---there were no cheering crowds.

....the few people that were there looked not too pleased that Hillary was there......

She was an uninvited, unwanted guest.

Very few walked up to shake her hand...she was forced to march toward them to shake hands.

[HomerBohn]

Fat swollen feet. Fat swollen head. Fat swollen arse. This water buffalo has seen her last roundup. She will be Trumped and Cruzed!

[HomerBohn]

Hitlery was an ugly little girl who led an ugly little life...but she chowed down in the government pig trough her entire life...along with the over-sexed Billy Goat.

These two belong in solitaire.

[Bigg Red]

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