So, back when she was First Lady, and considering a run for Senate, Hillary Clinton moved to New York. She told people that she enjoyed watching baseball and that even though she grew up a Cubs fan in Chicago, her American League team was the Yankees. I grew up in New York and as a Mets fan, this is probably my least favorite thing about her. Like, I know a lot of Yankee fans, and like and respect a lot of them: I consider it a character flaw in all of them. Even though there were no Mets when she was growing up, and anyway, she had a team on the Senior Circuit, I’m still disappointed.
But, the point here is that people thought they could audit her fandom. Sure, she used to wear a Yankee hat before she even became First Lady, and she talked about he Yankee fandom before anyone thought about her running for Senate. Anyway, so she’s a Yankee fan who and literally anyone who cares the least bit knows that.
So, you’ve probably heard about that David Brooks column that he has no idea what Clinton does in her spare time, therefore she’s not popular.
I would begin my explanation with this question: Can you tell me what Hillary Clinton does for fun? We know what Obama does for fun — golf, basketball, etc. We know, unfortunately, what Trump does for fun.*
So, yeah, Wonkette does a great job making fun of Brooks (at the link above). But I thought I’d add that if reporters weren’t trying to prove how unauthentic she is, they might be able to answer his bullshit question.
* Do we know what Trump does for fun? Does he mean golf? I feel like that’s part of his business, so doesn’t really count. Does that mean run for president? He seems more angry than having fun. Treat women poorly? I feel like he does that on and off the clock. I seriously have a much better idea what Hillary Clinton does for fun than Trump.
Well, thank God the Donald’s idea of fun isn’t curling up in front of the fireplace with a good book on a serious subject, because the last thing we want in the White House is an intellectual, right? Being the USA’s commander-in-chief is a job that calls for a kneejerk macho man. Especially the nuclear button part.
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Ivana.
Marla.
Melania.
Trump would have to have the equipment malfunction of Roger Rabbit to feel a need to go outside the home for fun.
So, to recap: a woman who voted for the Iraq War; who actively defended NAFTA, the 1994 “crime” bill, and welfare repeal, and still defends the banks that caused the 2008 global meltdown; and who called Edward Snowden a traitor — and the fact that she’s a Yankee’s fan is “probably (your) least favorite thing about her”?
Okay, I guess we learned a little something about your judgment this morning.
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Don’t be too hard on them. HA will have to be serious Hillary lapdogs come Fall, and they can’t be seen as having flip-flopped too obviously, can they?
Besides, she doesn’t need to be a Yankee fan this year. But she might need to be a Reds, Indians, Marlins, Rays, Phillies, Pirates, or Nats fan pretty suddenly, if it’s a close race. She’s willing to wear any color but Orange. Or stripes.
Making money appears to be her hobby.
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@3 I’m sure he spent or spends more time with lawyers on how to divorce them more tan spending any time with them.
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@5 Trump will make it easy to vote for Hillary.
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Oh and Trump clinched the GOP nomination today.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/26/.....index.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Whatever else may be confusing about the 2016 campaign, it’s clear the GOP establishment has been overthrown by their own masses. Kinda like the animals taking over the zoo and running off the zookeepers.
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Who really gives a shit when there are emails out there that we need to worry about about.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/26/the-superbug-that-doctors-have-been-dreading-just-reached-the-u-s/
Breeders so proudly talk about their superiority to breed unlike the fags. But hey you better start breeding exponentially to make up for your planned deaths.
@5,
“… and they can’t be seen as having flip-flopped too obviously, “
Actually, thanks to your party’s nominee, this year we most certainly can. Heck, this year we could hold our noses and vote for Joe Lieberman proudly.
Well done, Republicans! You gave us wishy-washy liberals the perfect cover.
@16,
Get your checkbooks out, trolls!
@13,
“You’re going to have a worker’s party. A party of people that haven’t had a real wage increase in 18 years, that are angry.”
Wait. I get it. He’s promising everyone that ten years from now after Trump has reinvented everything, his supporters won’t have had a real wage increase and they’ll be angry.
Makes sense. I think that’s a promise he can actually keep.
Very refreshing candor.
What Drumpf does for fun?
He thinks about banging his hot, hot daughter.
Ahhh Trevor Noah has arrived @22.
@22 I don’t know about that – I keep seeing reports that some oranguntan near Trump Plaza on 5thave is giving free blow jobs.
Hey everybody, could we try to stay on topic outside the open threads? The comment policy is pretty loose, and conversations happen but please at least try to stay somewhere near the topic?
Oh was it announced you are a bullshitting asshole on “The Daily Show”?
Now it’s revealed to “the world” – outside of HA.. Fancy that.
Useless tool @26, read 25. Still have Puddy on the mind!
Maybe Trump will be mocking this moron @25 for fun! Smacking Heilary in tweets and commercials is FUNNY!
Making money is a big thing for Trump.
Golf is a big thing for Trump.
Smacking DUMMOCRETINS is a big thing for Trump.
“Do we know what Trump does for fun? Does he mean golf? I feel like that’s part of his business, so doesn’t really count.”
Golf can be fun, and I’ve seen Trump, a pretty good amateur golfer, having fun playing the game.
“Does that mean run for president? He seems more angry than having fun.”
It looks to me like he’s having fun being angry.
“Treat women poorly? I feel like he does that on and off the clock.”
But he treats men poorly too, so in that way he treats women equal to men.
“I seriously have a much better idea what Hillary Clinton does for fun than Trump.”
All I I know is that it’s not golf. But I bet when she was young she could fuck like a champ.
“He thinks about banging his hot, hot daughter.”
Vote for Ivanka? Hell, I’d let her enslave me.
@5 a close race? Wasn’t it close last time too (Obama vs Romney)?
Not sure I’d let the polls paint the picture.
@27 stay on topic you Neanderthal.
What does Heilary do for fun? HIDE!
Hide her emails.
Hide her abortions.
Hide her disdain for kids.
Hide her wall street speeches.
Hide behind Bill Clinton’s coat tails.
Hide the truth from LIV fools like y’all.
Hide behind the vast right wing conspiracy.
Hide the truth she’s not for the little guy at all.
Hide the truth on how much wall street paid her.
Hide those emails for prying eyes to Sid Blumenthal.
Hide those emails from heads of state for her promises.
Hide from the DUMMOCRETIN public she didn’t meet the IG.
If any woman has an abortion, it is none of YOUR businesses.
Head explosion @33
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Did mama tell you you were almost aborted?
I believe all children should be wanted children. I know where you stand on that issue.
Puddy believes they are children when conceived. Puddy know where you stand on the issue!
Yes, I don’t believe men have the right to force women to grow babies in their bodies against their will, like brood mares.
Also, i have always wondered why you personally have not walked your talk and adopted one or more of those women’s unwanted children. Did you man up?
Seems to me it would be hypocritical to force women to birth unwanted children and then not take a couple into your family. Don’t you want them either?
There goes worser again injecting his own brand of child hate. Why do you hate unborn children?
@37,
while it looks like Carl may have given up, we should remember not to help that worthless lying Fuckwad troll hijack a thread. I may be missing something because I’m not seeing it’s comments, but based on your side of it, this looks like a pretty naked attempt on Fuckwad’s part to convert the thread into yet another pointless meandering schizophrenic moralizing screed on the evils of reproductive medicine. It’s been very well established that there is no moral consistency in that Fuckwad’s blanket objections to reproductive medicine. Spend a day or two carefully and artfully laying out the logical framework to confront the piece of shit, and in the end it will simply deny all of it and disappear for a couple of days. With respect, it’s off topic. It’s distracting. And it’s utterly pointless.
And I confess my sins above (@20, 21, possibly 19) and beg for absolution.
Mr Met is clearly disappointed in Hillary Clinton’s pick of baseball team. Mrs. Met is planning on making catty remarks to a future President Clinton when the Mets are invited to the White House after they take the World Series. Damn Yankees aren’t going to be white house guests. The Cubs are pretty cool.
@39 Three shots of rum my son and you are at least respectfully drunk if not absolved.