Comments on: I Met Hillary Clinton

By: All One

All One — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:56:09 +0000

Yaye!

By: lorac

lorac — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:01:37 +0000

Oh, I forgot to mention. PUMA!

By: lorac

lorac — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:56:56 +0000

That was a really enjoyable narrative. I hope someday to meet Hillary. Just one little note: “commence” means to begin, not to end. (I know it’s confusing, because they always have “commencement” ceremonies at graduation, but it doesn’t mean the schooling is ending, it means the post-schooling is beginning). Anyway, excellent post.

By: averry

averry — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:29:19 +0000

Wow, I would be a fangirl too. Look at her, focusing 100% on the issue and moving forward and making things happen. She’s not too good to get down in there and get to work and do her job full time and more. Love her outfit too – gorgeous color and fabric. Sigh. We should be so lucky to have a real public servant as president.

By: Chevalier

Chevalier — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:18:53 +0000

I second everything Ciccina said above: You met the real Hillary Clinton, not the “ambitious” painful b*** presented by the right-wing, the left-wing, the Obama campaign and the media.

I’d been a regular commentor on this blog until a few months ago when it turned into painful Obama-bot-land. Now, this post was forwarded to me…

I wonder, when people actually meet/listen to Hillary Clinton and realize she doesn’t have horns, and now that we all know that all Obama does is give speeches – the same speech in different locations – I’m hoping there is a re-appraisal of her somewhere, that people turn around and say ‘ok, if the media got the part about her personality wrong, maybe they got everything else wrong as well? Maybe we shouldn’t buy the candidate that’s been sold to us by the same media that sold us the Iraq war and George Bush’s presidency?’

By: Brooks

Brooks — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:56:52 +0000

I was born and raised in Little Rock and did not leave until graduate school in 1992. My family saw Hillary up close and personal each week for decades. She is an amazingly intelligent, charming, wonderful person…

By: John

John — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:35:39 +0000

I can’t believe she’s not the nominee… Such an amazing woman.

By: octogalore

octogalore — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:39:35 +0000

Cara, great photo! Sounds like a great summit.

I don’t blame you one bit for getting excited about seeing a meaningful celebrity. Why not? Getting to meet someone who has made exciting news and contributions is legitimately exciting.

I think of myself as a jaded anti-fangirl, but I felt that way about meeting WJC about 10 years back. I must admit, much more embarrassingly, I was also a bit giddy about 2 celeb types I met in Vegas — Richard Gere and Ricky Williams. Neither whom I’d felt particularly eager to meet or had any kind of crush on. Gere is much older than what I typically go for, and I have zero interest in football. But both were yummy in person.

By: Cara

Cara — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:09:36 +0000

Now that I’m done with that . . . thank you Jill :) And I agree with everyone who said that all of us in the picture look very happy — and we were!

By: Cara

Cara — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:08:22 +0000

I never said that anyone did have the right to not be nice to me. I have no idea where you’re getting that from, but you’re randomly reading a hell of a lot into very little. If Clinton had been not nice, I would have said “Hillary Clinton acted like a major asshole.” If you read my previous posts, you’ll see that I have no problem saying such things about Clinton when I feel that they’re warranted. Instead, she was very nice, so I said “Hillary Clinton was extremely nice.” See how that works? Here’s an example: if I met you and you were nice, and someone asked me what you were like — as people variably would have asked me about Clinton — I would say “sie was very nice.” If you were behaving as you’re behaving now, I would say “sie acted like an asshole for no good reason.”

Now, this is one of the most ridiculous conversations I’ve ever had, so I’m entirely done with engaging you.