Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Mau-mauing in Maumee

What kind of presidential candidate stops in a Chipotle for lunch and doesn't say a word to the customers? Our monarch in waiting:
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign is all about “everyday Americans,” she made clear in announcing it on Sunday.

On Monday, she showed how unassuming she herself could be.

Driving to Iowa for her first campaign swing, Mrs. Clinton’s van — with two aides and Secret Service agents aboard — pulled into a Chipotle restaurant for lunch in Maumee, Ohio, a suburb of Toledo.

And no one recognized her.

Maybe it was the dark sunglasses. Or maybe she had a certain je ne sais — qui?

But nobody took notice of the celebrity in front of the counter. Fellow patrons paid her no more attention than a driver would get from a toll taker.
I guess we're supposed to be impressed by this, but somehow it strikes me as quite odd that a presidential candidate wouldn't want to talk to the other customers. Perhaps she's not very good at it.

Hillary has received a certain amount of attention, of course. America's Greatest Newspaper greeted her candidacy with trademark subtlety:

If you squirt enough water into her mouth, you win a teddy bear on the midway
And in Brooklyn, the street art isn't particularly flattering, either:

There are other things you can't say, but we can't tell you what they are because we can't say them, either
Of course, you'd imagine there are alternatives to the Queen, but who do you want? Maybe you want the former governor of Maryland, Martin O'Malley:

Ah, yup
Or perhaps a purer example of current thinking, Bernie Sanders:

Hair care products are the Enemies of the State!

I'd really rather not be thinking about the presidential campaign, but those days are over now.

1 comment:

Bike Bubba said...

Maybe call her "Jadis"? Except at least Jadis was able to make a good impression--albeit temporarily--on Edmund.

And not to be rude, but Chipotle isn't going to help her keep those pounds off, to put it mildly. Knees will be complaining on the campaign trail as a result.