Hillary's Campaign likes their Iowans Shaken

[hootinholler]

I wonder if this will end up stirring them?

The former secretary of state used a Teleprompter to deliver her remarks to hundreds of supporters on the campus of Simpson College. The speech, one adviser said, was designed to "shake some sense into Iowans" and escalate the experience argument she has been making against Sanders with limited success.

With friends like that...

[morningfog]

1. "come on dumb hicks!"

[CoffeeCat]

6. She's supposed to EARN our vote,

not come into our state and scold us like we're bad dogs.

We're voting for Sanders, Hillary. We're not pooping on your carpet.

[morningfog]

7. There you go voting with your heart instead of your head.

Think dirt farmer, think!

[CoffeeCat]

9. Goshdarnit! All the corn and snow is clogging my brain!

I can't think straight with all of this hay flying around!

Someone quick! Shake some sense into me!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

54. (Getting out a bag of shake)

[grasswire]

30. it's her authoritarian instinct

She's kind of like a Mary Poppins without the spoonful of sugar. She wants to make the medicine go down!!

[Art_from_Ark]

47. Just a spoonful of condescension helps the medicine go down

[roguevalley]

33. nothing like reinforcing your new yawk big city thing, HRC. Awesome thing.

[JonLeibowitz]

2. I think THIS will stir them

[cherokeeprogressive]

3. Condescension - It's what's for Hillary.

[beam me up scottie]

4. Shaken, not stirred.

[Uncle Joe]

11. Damn it! You beat me to it.

[beam me up scottie]

31. Hiya Uncle Joe!

[840high]

63. heehee - u beat me to it.

[CoffeeCat]

5. Yeah, she made fun of us for supporting Obama too

She made fun of his pretty speeches, big rallies and celebrity-like status, and she basically scolded us and told us that it was time to get down to business and select a real candidate who had experience.

That worked SO well for her in 2008.

[hootinholler]

17. The hubris is amazing

That staff continually say shit like this is just unacceptable.

The other thing is that since it was delivered with teleprompting, we know it was wordsmithed for impact. Then to have someone say shake some sense into someone, that's a rather violent expression. Once upon a time it was literally done usually to a kid or a woman, occasionally even today kids are shaken with dire consequences for the kid.

[Depaysement]

18. You mean as she arrived by helicopter

For her addresses to the subjects of the realm.

[CoffeeCat]

23. Are you referring to her "Hill-o-copter"? ....Oh dear

I still can't believe that this was real.

Clinton a Hover-Girl in 'Hill-o-copter

COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA – Hillary Rodham Clinton rose far above her opponents yesterday, despite struggling in the polls, as she whirled around the frozen plains of Iowa in a private helicopter.

“I’m actually even going to get into a helicopter after I leave you,” she told the audience yesterday. “We’re calling it a Hill-o-copter, and we’re going to be able to cover more ground that way.”

http://nypost.com/2007/12/17/clinton-a-hover-girl-in-hill-o-copter/

[DJ13]

25. Lol

I missed that story back then.

She does some strange things when she's feeling desperate.

[CoffeeCat]

26. She abandoned the idea after a couple of days

The entire state of Iowa basically laughed her out of the sky.

This was her answer to lifting her sagging polls.

No one here got it.

[SoapBox]

41. OMG!

I never knew about this!

And the last line in the article...

"Icy landing strips have grounded the swanky corporate jets usually favored by Clinton and her husband."

They make me sick.

[840high]

64. We're calling it Hill-o-White House.

Not if I can help it.

[Depaysement]

72. The one and the same nt

[Art_from_Ark]

49. "Subjects of the realm"?

Well, that's a step up from "peasants", I guess.

[neverforget]

32. Remember this from 2008?

Quote starts at 40 seconds.

Clinton Gets Sarcastic, Mocks Obama

(CNN) - A day after Hillary Clinton angrily called on Barack Obama to stop mailing campaign literature she said misrepresented her positions, the New York senator adopted a more sarcastic tone toward her rival on a campaign swing through Rhode Island Sunday.

Speaking to a crowd at Rhode Island College, Clinton said, "None of the problems we face will be easily solved," and then went on to mock Obama's message of unity.

“Now, I could stand up here and say, ‘Let’s just get everybody together. Let’s get unified,'" Clinton said to laughter of the crowd.

"The skies will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect,” she said dryly as the crowd erupted.

“Maybe I’ve just lived a little long, but I have no illusions about how hard this is going to be," Clinton continued. "You are not going to wave a magic wand to make special interests disappear."

Sound familiar?

(I used the YouTube video because the CNN one is not available anymore)

[SoapBox]

42. Wow...

That same "being President is hard" thing? Back then? And she just used it again in the last week!

Dumbest campaign ever.

[neverforget]

45. It's a rerun 8 years in the making.

You'd think that they would have learned something the first time around. I guess not.

[Avalux]

8. Is she our mommy now? Shake some sense into us? Sheesh. n/t

[CoffeeCat]

12. Bad Iowans!! Bad, bad Iowans!! (nt)

[Motown_Johnny]

15. An 8th way she is like your abuela? n/t

[CharlotteVale]

16. Abuela, mommy...I dread to think what's next!

[Bodhi BloodWave]

62. a good question i must admit

we have had her presented in a grandmother role, currently its a motherly role

my guess is the next incarnation will be a tsundere sister or daughter role


and to save people looking up the word, the term tsundere tends to refer to a person who 'runs hot and cold', shifting between the two distinct moods: tsuntsun (aloof or irritable) and deredere (sweet or kind) .

[demwing]

20. No, she's your abuela

or just like your abuela

[bvf]

10. Oooh...

https://m.

Needs an audio edit, but it's a start.

[Motown_Johnny]

13. Don't they know it is Her Turn??? Silly Iowans who had her in 3rd place in '08.

How dare they not let her win this time.

[CharlotteVale]

14. So when people don't react the way she wants they deserve to be shaken?

Very disturbing.

[JimDandy]

19. Voting for Bernie is the effect of "Shaken Iowan Syndrom."

[Frustratedlady]

21. Well, I was on the fence regarding Sanders vs. Hillary, but Hillary just stirred me up.

As an elderly Iowan, I have made up my mind. I will caucus for Sanders. I sure as hell don't need any candidate telling me I need her to shake some sense into me. I have a mind of my own and have used it to some degree of success in voting and in life.

Didn't she learn her lesson from 2008 when she pulled the same crap with Obama? I didn't appreciate it then and I don't appreciate it now.

Maybe some tears in New Hampshire will help her with a win, but I'd say she just blew her wad for Iowans.

[Metric System]

28. Read it again. Hillary herself didn't say it.

[Fawke Em]

34. Doesn't matter.

Her campaign admits that's what they're trying to do.

[roguevalley]

35. buck stops with her. she picked the staff.

thank you, frustratedlady. welcome aboard.

[hootinholler]

44. True, nor did I claim she did

However, it does speak volumes about the nature of the culture in her campaign. Not only did they flat out state the speech was designed to manipulate Iowa voters, but to imply they are out of their senses while making that admission is a rather suboptimal strategy.

[Gore1FL]

56. She said made almost the same insult on Monday, so that's a bit of a hair split.

When she asked voters follow their heads and not their hearts. (as interpreted by David Axlerod) That's the same sort of condescending expression as "shaking the sense" into someone.


Going negative never works for her. I can't believe she's running the 2008 playbook again.

[jfern]

22. How dare the voters think for themselves instead of automatically going with the chosen one?

[whatchamacallit]

24. The elites have always known what's best for us

This democracy thing is such a damn nuisance!

[PatrickforO]

27. W said that, didn't he?

He was musing that it would be easier to be a dictator...

[TIME TO PANIC]

29. Shake Iowans.

[WillyT]

40. Personally... I Think She's Living In Her Own Private Idaho...

[SoapBox]

46. Sigh.......

I LOVED The B-52's!

Well that was a very nice distraction from thinking about "her".

[WillyT]

51. I Saw Them In The Late 80's After 'Love Shack' At The S.F. Civic Center...

Man... was THAT a dance party !!!

[Still In Wisconsin]

58. Shake Some Iowans

Flamin' Groovies!

[TIME TO PANIC]

69. Love The Flamin' Groovies.

You could say Hillary's campaign is dying a "Slow Death".

Flammin' Groovies

[Still In Wisconsin]

70. That works too! n/t

[mhatrw]

67. nice song nt

[Skwmom]

36. Come on you are ruining a good thing. Her and Bill are not Billionaires yet. nt

[WillyT]

37. Yeah... She's A Regular Jane Bond...

"Shaken, not stirred"

[Babel_17]

38. Not as bad as Cruz's statement about NY, but ...

Not as bad as Cruz's statement about NY, but there is an opportunity here to sell some newspapers.

[Babel_17]

39. Am I the first to post this?

[SoapBox]

48. Oh Stop!

I'm gonna wet my pants!

[TIME TO PANIC]

50. LOL!

[winter is coming]

55. LOL, I know what's going viral on socia media tomorrow. n/t

[Babel_17]

61. If anyone knows somebody ...

who posts on social media, please pass it along.

[tomm2thumbs]

57. LMAO!!!!

too much fun

[kath]

66. Ohmigod.

[tom_kelly]

43. Hillary said... ?

"He has suggested that we invite Iranian troops into Syria," Clinton said ???????? I hadn't heard about this.

[Odin2005]

52. We Upper-Midwesterners hate this kind of condecending BS

[Rosa Luxemburg]

53. She is condescending to Iowans

[Eric J in MN]

59. In fairness to Hillary Clinton

...if an article quoted an unnamed "adviser" to Bernie Sanders saying something stupid, I wouldn't blame Sanders.

A person can say, "I'm an adviser" without having ever been hired by a campaign. Dozens of people can describe themselves as unpaid campaign advisers. Not the same as being a campaign spokesperson.

[slumcamper]

60. Let this IOWAN tell you something

As one who attended a college with an NCAA Division III ranking in Iowa, Simpson College in Indianola (of all places) is about the LEAST strategic place to make a stand during the critical moment leading up to the caucus. This signifies a campaign that is flailing, strategically speaking. So out of touch, so remote, so sad.

Further confirmation of this came tonight when my wife and I (both registered Democrats) finally made it to the post office after work. It had been nearly a week so the mail was dense. Between us (I committed to the Bern, she uncommitted but leaning) we received 6 mailings from Bernie--and NONE from Hilary. That sealed the deal. While this is scant evidence, I'm fairly confident in saying that Bernie's small-donor, grassroots organization is out-organizing and burying HRC in Iowa.

If it come to it I will embrace Hillary in November. As for now I'll fight tooth and nail for a higher justice!

--Wellman, Iowa.

[Bernblu]

65. Madame Hillary will explain it all to you hicks in Iowa!

[Arugula Latte]

68. Take your bitter Republican Lite medicine like good little drones!

[in_cog_ni_to]

71. My dream Iowa caucuses ...

They send Hillary W. Bush packing in THIRD PLACE again.

What better way to answer her arrogance?

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE