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As if the Last Couple of Weeks Haven’t Been Rough Enough
My son texted today from college — at Dartmouth, students spend the summer after sophomore year on campus — to say he’d gone to hear an interesting political speaker, illustrating the text with a snapshot.
If I were rich, I’d disinherit him, of course, but what can a poor man do?
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Yeah Mr. Robinson, listen to WI Con and give your son the benefit of the doubt. Any kid smart enough to get into Dartmouth certainly recognizes that the dude-to-“chick” ratio at a Hillary Clinton speech is relatively low for a college campus event that allows both genders. For all we know, he may be a tiger looking to capitalize on a buyer’s market.
But at least there’d be hot chicks there. Guaranteed.
Hold on a second, there’s stuff happening there…
Weekly Standard: Press Roped Down By Aides at Hillary Event
This was just plastered across Drudge.
Yikes — They’re keeping the cattle in the corral, aren’t they?
I fervently hope that the woman 2nd from the left is wearing a costume and doesn’t have some kind of medical condition.
You, sir, have won the internet.
The Washington Examiner described the students at the cookout as “mostly unimpressed”. Politico said “the students mostly yawned”.
Is it too much to hope that millenials will be significantly less enthusiastic for Hillary in 2016 than they were for candidate Obama in 2008?
My friend, I can say with confidence “that millenials will be significantly less enthusiastic for Hillary in 2016″ than we would be for a nice special at Pizza Hut.
Steven, I don’t know if that is good news or not. Personally, I’m usually enthusiastic for a nice special at Pizza Hut.
THIS JUST IN FROM NICO ROBINSON (to his father’s immense relief, Hillary Clinton left him unimpressed):
I didn’t know about the event until about half and hour before it supposed to start. I was just finishing track practice (we were throwing the javelin, for any of you track and field aficionados), and our coach mentioned that Hilary Clinton was going to be speaking. So I meandered over to Dartmouth’s Bema, an outdoor amphitheater in a grove of pines and hemlocks.
What happened first was that Mrs. Clinton made us all wait two and a half hours (I couldn’t help wondering if that said something about the way she would treat the American people if she ever got to sit in the Oval Office). After finally making her entrance, Mrs. Clinton told us how she would be the champion of the middle class, the environment, students, and women. After about half an hour of that, she devoted the rest of her remarks to kindness, telling us how we, the American people, could fix our broken political system if we were all just kinder to each other. If I had wanted to hear that, to tell you the truth, I would have just gone to church.
Anyways, what I can say from my experience of watching Hilary Clinton iss that I can now say that I saw Hilary Clinton speak, and that is about it.
P.S. Stephen Hall, the picture hasn’t been photoshopped.
So he throws the javelin at a D1 school? He must be quite a hunk, which would give him all the more reason to believe he’d have a decent chance of success “picking up chicks” at an event with a relatively low boy:girl ratio. WI Con was right on (hey, that rhymes!).
I’m sorry to hear he was unsuccessful. In the unlikely event that he ever ends up reading this, I’ve got a message for him: keep your head up, big guy. There’ll be more opportunities, I promise. Just keep on keepin’ on and it’ll pay off.
Those faces do look like they are molded out of paper-mâché. They look sort of East Asian. It could be that the image compression algorithm does not deal nicely with East Asian faces in splotchy ambient light and shadow.
That’s a grim crowd contemplating an even grimmer future.
And having seen Barack Obama speak in person, even just that much can be a valuable insight into the candidate, his appeal, and his supporters.
Peter, I’m glad you were able to drop your anti-anxiety meds back down to their simple RicochetMayBeOnThePrecipice levels.
To paraphrase Churchill, “If a boy does not believe in socialism when he is young, he has a hard heart. If a man still believes in socialism when he is grown, he has a soft head.” Give your boy some time to grow up, Peter.
More than Republicans, Democratic politicians seem to like to compel supporters to do background duty. Most of those people in the pic above are clearly not college students so some staff must have assembled a typical supposedly-looks-like-America-but-really-our target-demographic assemblage and put them on stairs to complete the human wall effect.
In stark contrast, Reagan’s people were brilliant at choosing visuals, the best ever was an aircraft carrier passing behind as he eulogized the boys of Point du Hoc at Normandy commemorations. And Reagan always delivered when given the opportunity.
Among her numerous deficits, Ms. Clinton lacks even a small semblance of flair or drama which is why she treats all of us as extras in a badly written ego trip.
My goodness, this is far worse than a “glass half empty” crowd – omigod, the glass, the glass, it’s almost empty!!
I see no evidence that the younger Robinson did anything other than show his father’s natural curiosity – just as my youngest thought to see Russell Brand at the Cambridge Union, though he knows him to be an obnoxious idiot. As it was, he only got to hear Robert Downey Jr, a much better option (“He’s the coolest guy ever, Dad!”).
I hope my boys do go to hear alternative points of view – so long as they aren’t blinded to reality. How else are they to communicate with those who hold those points of view? Mind you, I’d be happier if they visited a Sanders talk than a Clinton one. He’s just comprehensively wrong, but I don’t think his campaign is fundamentally a criminal enterprise. I can’t think of anyone in British politics that compares with the Clintons – Galloway, perhaps, but he never had real national significance, and the likes of T Dan Smith never held sway outside their own cities.