Clinton Camp Admits to Questioning Plants

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

"Shame-faced New Hampshire Clinton2008 campaign communications director Geoff Toffee admitted that campaign staff were twenty-five minutes into a focus-group before realizing they had confused the date on which the group was scheduled, and were interviewing a row of potted palms in the conference room..."

http://www.politicaloverloadz.com/111007.html

[Botany]

1. Nice try

This story is not going away.

BTW google "Plant-a-Gate" I :loveya: internets

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

2. Valid story. Stupid and sleazy methodology. But one can still poke fun at the mass-duplication

[MNDemNY]

3. and...

"Tough questions from the plants, threw the staffers into a tizzy"

[neilepi]

4. Just an attempt to reach out to the grass roots...n/t

[madrchsod]

5. she accused this man.....

"Clinton accused the man of being a "plant" who had been sent to ask the question, to which he took exception, saying the question was a result of his own research.

but to her credit she must have realized he was`t

"I apologize," Clinton said, explaining that she had been asked the very same question in three other places.

[MindPilot]

6. Nixon conversed with portraits.

I'm just sayin'

[Lucinda]

7. So did Dumbledore.

[ljm2002]

8. Questioning plants?

I wouldn't think that would be very productive -- plants aren't usually that responsive...

:evilgrin:

[RufusTFirefly]

9. I believe plants prefer listening to Bach instead. n/t

[Lucinda]

10. I do talk to mine. The African Violets seem to like it.

:shrug:
Of course I've never given them a quiz. That might piss them off.

[NoPasaran]

11. George the Third once had a conversation

George the Third once had a conversation with an oak tree he had mistaken for Frederick the Great.

[Colobo]

12. Sad indeed, but expected.