Hillary Clinton’s Commoner Tour: Fanfare for the Common Candidate
Have to admit, I snickered heartily at the video clip of Hillary Clinton struggling to operate the coffee machine at a South Bend gas station mini mart yesterday. Via Allahpundit:
When the phone rings at 3am, you can be sure that Hillary’s minions will have her coffee already poured so she doesn’t have to fiddle around with all those damned complicated buttons again.
Hillary also deigned to get out of her vehicle to observe the common practice known as pumping your own gas–unfamiliarity with which she and Nancy “Blink Blink” Pelosi share. Afterwards, she eagerly expressed interest in seeing a local family’s “pigs and chickens.”
Next up: Hillary munching down fried Spam sandwiches on white bread slathered in ketchup.
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The British press had fun tittering about Hillary’s coffee machine battle, but not much other MSM commentary on the little episode.
Contrast that with the concocted controversy over the first President Bush’s visit to a grocers’ convention–an infamous incident manufactured by a New York Times reporter who wasn’t even at the event and then perpetuated by liberal editorial boards looking for a fable to fit their Republican-as-elitist narrative.
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Since a commenter mentioned it, here’s Aaron Copeland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. Good background music for the Hillary spectacle:
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Update 11:45am Eastern. Meee-chelle, ma belle is back in the limelight to argue that the Obamas are more regular than anyone else. What was that about arugula and bitter people? Move on, people:
If Michelle Obama had her way, her husband Barack would be a teacher, a writer, a singer, a dancer — anything but a politician with the chance to make history as the first black president of the United States.
She described to an audience in Indianapolis how they struggled, like any other young couple in Middle America, to raise two children and pay off debts.
“We are still so close to the lives that most Americans are living,” she said. “And I don’t know about you but for most of my lifetime, I’ve felt disconnected from Washington.”
The Obamas hope the “regular guy” narrative will resonate with the white working class voters that the Illinois senator has had trouble winning over and who may be the key to his White House bid.
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Watching Hillary try to act like a commonor reminds me of Marie Antionette.
“If the peasents do not have bread, then let them eat cake!”
Her tour of Indiana makes my eyes roll so far back in my head that I can see behind myself!!
Please don’t let her near any machinery that controlls nuclear weapons.
“Hey,Hillary! Get me my coffee!…and when you’re done iron my shirt!”
Oh, yeah.
I remember. (Shows his age.)
She may not be able to operate a coffeemaker(snort, giggle!) but she sure can pull off a down home southern accent if a jiffy!
MM did you realize your RSS feed is publishing links to stories you haven’t actually published yet?
ie: right now the RSS feed most recent item is titled,
“Beaten Redondo Beach ?Marine? served in the Jesse Macbeth Brigade, Tuzla-snip… »
Fake.”
However the entry does not exist.. at least not yet.
Funny, but understandable. In the Clinton family, Bill did all the pumping.
I thought I had seen another story, that then disappeared.
This happened yesterday with a story, too.
Yet another Fanfare to the Common Man eh? Unfortunately, all of our choices seem to look equally as inept IMHO.
Do ya suppose she’s still hung over from tossin’ back a few brewski’s wit’ da boys?
LOL It makes me wonder if we should worry more that she could not use it or could?
I dunno. . .I work in an aerospace manufacturing company, in the company of holders of advanced degrees in aeronautical engineering, physics, mechanical engineering, etc. etc. etc.
I’ve had to demonstrate the use of our coffee machine to at least 3 other people in the engineering department. . .so I really can’t fault Hillary that badly for this.
But it’s still pretty damn funny.
Now that Hillary thinks she has a chance in NC, she is expected (or not) in our humble village tomorrow even though she was less than 30 miles away recently.
Since the governor of our corrupt state endorsed her, she should sink like a stone. In response to letters to the editor, I’ve received a Democrat bumper sticker from anonymous and a not-so-nice letter signed “your neighbors” in the mail. Cowards!
From ABC’s story on this –
“Trailed by several police cars and surrounded by two rather large suburbans,”
Plus the media – and driving in this guy’s boss’s F250 pickup -
That’s a lot of gas to use ( especially making this guy drive 45 minutes from his home to pick her up ) for a woman who just last night on O’Reilly said that our driving habits are a big problem in the gas crises.
Hey! I’m a commoner. Where are my police cars and two rather large suburbans?
What? They don’t know how to use a coffee machine? I would be suspicious of their credentials. Caffeine is the life blood of tech. Most techies I know can operate a coffee machine in their sleep.
Wonder what brand of laxative the Obamas use?
I would love to have the regular-people tax returns the Obamas have!
“Wonder what brand of laxative the Obamas use?”
It’s called Liberalism – I don’t know about you, but it scares the crap outta me.
Why would the MSM report on Hillary having trouble serving coffee? That could have happened to any one of us. This is silly.
I have to raise an objective to this post. Surely you realize, Michelle, that fried spam (preferably fried in molasses) sandwiches on white bread are made with mustard.
Saw her on O’Reilly last night.
“Bully and the Beast.”
Yellow mustard.
I tried to watch the Hillary video above and got this message:
It looked more like “sissy and the Beast” to me!
The greater question is…what was Yokie’s bowling score? I wonder what her average is. It has to be higher than Barry’s. Maybe, if the nomination isn’t settled by Denver, they can have a bowl-off. Three games, no less. We’ll designate the 5th frame as the beer frame. The player with the lower score will also have to down a shot of bourbon. I don’t know what I’d rather watch: this, or Denver PD cracking skulls on the street. *out*
That’s a sad commentary on her life. An improvement, to be sure from her “never been proud of America in my adult lifetime” statement but still misses the mark.
Which ones are so close to Michelle? Please enlighten us.
Which ones are you so close…
If Michelle Obama had her way, her husband Barack would be a teacher, a writer, a singer, a dancer — anything but a politician with the chance to make history as the first black president of the United States.
I have to agree with Michelle O, I WOULD RATHER HER HUSBAND WAS ANYTHING BUT A POLITICIAN ALSO
at least she didn’t say…it’s a vast Wright wing conspiracy.
Bah.
About as genuine as the staged, phony “reverend”-Wright-getting-”renounced”-by-Obama gimmick.
But, like I’ve said before, so many voters are so gullible…let’s pray not too many voters are fooled.
All us regular americans have a 1.5 million dollar house financed by an Iraqi that stole American money from his own people, so that we can live beside our best friend who tried to blow up the Pentagon.
Two weeks ago, Hillary Clinton presented herself as a gun totin’ modern day Ma Barker. Now she portrays herself as a working gal starting the day pumping the gas and having her gas station coffee. Rest assured that Hillary didn’t drink gas station coffee during all those years she and Bill were going to Rennaisance Weekend on Hilton Head with all their high fallutin wealthy Ivy League friends. If any gas station attendant ever tried to get onto Hilton Head for Rennaisance weekend, the poor guy would be given the boot in about two seconds. Here is my prediction for Hillary’s next working class adventure.
Hillary shows up at a NASCAR event wearing her Jimmy Johnson Tshirt and cap and telling the audience how her granddad used to take her down to a dirt track where she raced and got to be great buds with Richard Petty.
Well, any other young couple with an Ivy education, one of whom gets a miraculous VP job with $300,000+ salary right after the other is in a position to throw earmarks at the firt person’s employer – and then does! I know plenty of young couples making over a million a year on books inspired by crazy preachers and struggling to pay off mortgages on houses sort-a, kind-a tied to crime figures…
We caught H.R. “puffnstuff” ( puffing stuff?) Clinton in Roseland, Indiana…this town is the laughing stock of the state: council meetings erupt into fights everytime, member 100,000 behind in child support, cooking the books, you name it. I thought, “what a great place to start your clean-up! She only stayed long enough to buy gas. ( i think it was a Citgo…)
I feel your pain Michelle…maybe we will have a hoe-down at Harvard next?
(pretty please!)
or is it I feel your Arugularity?
I’m having too much fun…thanks for the stress release Ms. Malkin!
Well, it’s probably similar to the mindset that allows them (and me) to do high-order differential equations in seconds, but prevents them from doing simple addition/subtraction/division without a calculator
Just because caffeine is their lifeblood, doesn’t mean they know how to brew it.
Almost the first thing I learned in the Navy was how to brew coffee.
Nobody here is saying that she isn’t capable of learning how to brew coffee… it’s just a matter of priorities. Perhaps, brewing coffee is low on the list or not on the list at all – until election time rolls around and it’s time to mingle with the folks at the bottom of the totem pole.
Whatever the reason… it’s still funny.
Michelle, instead of “Fanfare for the Common Man”, may I suggest “Also Sprach Zarathustra” (used for the theme in “2001″)? Remember the apes finding the monolith, being puzzled by it, then attacking it? Just substitute Hillary discovering the coffee machine, puzzled, surely evidence of a higher intellect…
Yashmak, surely evidence of a mis-spent youth! My computer does computations for me while I brew the perfect cup of coffee. Priorities man!
To Hillary, a can opener would be evidence of a higher intellect
A woman who can’t even make a decent cup of coffee has deficits in other areas, no doubt.
You almost make it too easy – nice set-up
That must be why Bill needed the interns around.
I can see the “spin” on the headlines now:
“Hillary Pushes Wright Buttons”
“Where’s a Congressional Page When You Need One?”
“Monica Made The Coffee?”
I thought of one for Obama’s nonsensical score:
“Obama Bowls 37, Wright Blames Lack of Black Balls”
If you were so worried about your kids then why did/do you take them to the devils den?
Forgot this part.
Actually it will help her kids if it keeps their daddy out of the white house.
This is almost as good as her speech in China in the 90’s — when we was recalling hard life as a sweating factory worker, sweating and working her fingers to the bone. She cracks me up.
Hillary is some kind of funny!
Michelle Obama is “so close to the lives that most Americans are living”???
Try again, Michelle. Check the average wages in your state, or in the United States, then check that last tax return you and Obama submitted.
Like every other young couple in the United States? Sure, every young couple with Ivy League educations and $150,000 salaries each (before their 100% raises).
Struggling’s a bitch, isn’t it?
Did Hillary never have to make coffee the summer she spent washing dishes and sliming fish?
Did Hillary never have to make coffee the summer she spent washing dishes and sliming fish?
That question doesn’t help my children. Or wouldn’t if I had any. Or something.
That was a Diebold coffee machine! Karl Rove, you devil!
shaking her finger at the camera Hilldog response saying: I did not have trouble with the coffee machine. I was making sure the machine was made in USA, that is was being given it’s right to a fair wage, that it did have health care, and what I could do to help it with the mortgage crisis.
Bill, would be so proud…/sarc off
Thus Spoke Zarathustra would fit notably well. However, if you consider the destination and remove the salvation aspect of the story, (maybe even played the video a little faster?) Orpheus Down Under (The Can Can song for those that insist) may also be very fitting.
While it is not nearly as poetically beautiful as your analogy of the confused monkeys, it would seem to fit almost as well.
Mrs Obama may not care to know this about me, but during the NBA players lockout in 2000, one star – I can’t even recall who – was quoted in Sports Illustrated as saying he believed the “average Amercian household” earned about $300,000 dollars. That was the moment I decided I needn’t give the NBA one more minute of my time and attention, and – 8 years and a few ill-fated Nuggets playoff quests later – I still haven’t. I’ve been too busy “clinging” to my religion and my bitterness.