this is from the nytimes:
First it was George W. Bush — and now it’s deja shoe for Hillary Clinton.
Clinton was forced to duck Thursday when a female protester threw a shoe at her as she spoke at a Las Vegas event.
Clinton had just begun a speech about recycling when the shoe whizzed by her right ear.
The startled former secretary of state flinched and moved to her left, yelling, “Was that a bat!”
The shoe was thrown by a blond woman in a blue dress, who raised her hands as if under arrest as she was hustled out of a meeting room at Mandalay Bay casino resort.
Clinton immediately shook off the disruption and continued her speech on metal recycling after making light of the woman’s poor aim.
“Is that somebody throwing something at me? Is that part of Cirque du Soleil?” Clinton joked.
You Can Watch The Video Here
And The Lady Got Herself An Arrest, Poor Girl, I Would Have Given Her A Medal LOL,
Now That's Just Plain Wrong,
As If This Wasn't Enough For Hillary Let's See The Washington Post's Take On Her 20 Years In DC
Check out this fascinating chart on how closely years spent in Washington correlates -- and not in a good way -- to winning presidential elections.
Image courtesy of Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti
Of the 10 presidential races between 1976 and 2012, the candidate who spent less time spent in Washington has won all but two. (The exceptions were Barack Obama in 2012 and George H.W. Bush in 1988.)
Hillary Clinton will have spent two decades in Washington -- as First Lady, Senator from New York and Secretary of State -- if/when she runs in 2016. That's more thanany of the top-tier candidates mentioned on the Republican side. Consider:
* Jeb Bush: 0 years
* Chris Christie: 0 years
* Rick Perry: 0 years
* Scott Walker: 0 years
* Ted Cruz: 4 years
* Bobby Jindal: 4 years
* Rand Paul: 6 years
* Paul Ryan: 18 years
* John Kasich: 18 years
Clinton's years in Washington are illustrative of the fundamental challenge she will face as a candidate: How can someone who has spent decades in the public eye and is one of the most well-known people in the world present herself as "new" or "future-looking" in any meaningful way? And, at a time when service in Washington is roughly equivalent to having a scarlet "W" on your political resume in the eyes of voters, how will Clinton handle a race in which she will be the candidate who has spent the most time in the nation's capitol?
If She Can't Stand For Prez Then Our Wishes Have Come True :p
Until Next Time BUDS,
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“My goodness, I didn’t know that solid waste management was so controversial. Good thing she didn’t play softball like I did.”