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Forty-Seven Seconds of Hillary
Astonishing. To paraphrase Talleyrand on the Bourbons, elle n’a rien appris, ni rien oublié.
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Someone must have thrown a bucket of water at her.
Oh what a world!
I only managed to watch about 15 seconds of the video before my blood pressure reached the point I had to shut it off.
This is what happens when you surround yourself with nothing but acolytes and yes-persons. You completely lose touch with reality.
You did notice she was sitting down. If she fell over from a sitting position, she would probably land in a rectangular box.
Here’s hoping she never shuts up. But they should get one of those emergency stair walkers for her trips around the world.
Peter,
Hillary isn’t interested in the proper handling of classified documents and feels that this shouldn’t cast any doubt on her abilities as Secretary of State or the Presidency. She also feels that stairs are irrelevant. She would surely enforce an EPA ban on stairs if she could only have another chance at supreme power.
More white wine, immediately.
Regards,
Jim
She should take a lesson from the guy who won the election. Use the escalator.
I like how she kicks off her sandals after two near falls as if the sandals were the culprit of the wobbly HRC and not the white wine.
I think a fair assessment of the incident could believe other factors might contribute to the problem. The stairs are definitely broken and uneven. If the sandals had slick soles, they could very well be the problem. I have two pairs of shoes like that. In my case, I haven’t replaced them because of how seldom I need to wear that sort of shoe. In her case? Who knows? Maybe she had just bought the sandals and they aren’t broken in. Note that she did not slip after kicking off the shoes.
Second part: note how she is holding her head. She may still be having vision problems that are interfering with her walking down the uneven steps. She is wearing sunglasses when it does not appear all that bright at the moment. You will note that both the gents who are holding her up also have sunglasses, but neither is wearing them. (One has them on his hat, the other with one temple tucked into his shirt.) She has been seen before in public wearing sunglasses at inappropriate times, and there has been speculation that they may be being used to hide the prismatic lenses that she had prescribed for awhile for her concussion. She may still be suffering after-effects.
I find these factors more likely than a mere surfeit of wine.
I wear trifocals, and have to carefully concentrate when going down stairs. But Hillary can still stuff it.
And I can imagine it would be worse on stairs like that.
I do not disagree.
Edison,
Hillary feels that anything bad that happens to her must be someone else’s fault. She feels that the rest of humanity exist only to be blamed for her problems. Sandals are on the list. She will pass a sandals regulatory act in her first year in office.
She also will start a US Strategic White Wine Supply Initiative. You can never plan ahead too far.
Regards,
Jim
I’m only making a joke …. but the wine as culprit also provides HRC an excuse for all her inane public utterances of late.
I wake up every day thanking God she is not president.
I don’t think I’d even attempt those stairs. No handrail.
And store it in mine shafts?
I see zero evidence that non-white people will agree with the gender nonsense and the hatred of wealth that defines the white left.
That’s unfair to Peruvians and Polynesians.
Who said anything about race?
My husband comes from Scotland originally, and he is a conservative; he is possibly the only person in Scotland who voted for Maggie Thatcher. Which is to say, he has always been weird :) God Bless Scottish people, I love them, but way too many of them are hard left. If there was a Scottish incursion into America, I would be concerned. I am in favor of hard limits on immigration from everywhere, at least for a while. Until we have assimilated the astounding number of immigrants we have had over the past 20 or 30 years. If you can point to any country anywhere where the people value freedom as much as we do in America, maybe I would reconsider.
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There probably aren’t enough Scots to matter.
This bears repeating. Every time someone brings up the popular vote in 2016.
I kind of forgot about it. It is exactly the same thing. Not only can’t she deliver, she can’t shut up about failing to deliver.
Think of it as a warning shot.
This statement proves 2 things to me.
And those at the DNC who fix the ballots’ end tallies are wondering what went wrong that HRC didn’t get 100% of Calif’s voters.
I can see why Democrats would be surprised that it wasn’t a bigger margin. I was recently told by a woman that she doesn’t want to let anyone at her workplace know that she votes Republican. She is a well-educated, talented woman who may now suspect that it was a bad idea to leave Wisconsin for California.
In vino veritas?
In vino vertigine.