“Hill-a-Copter” tour: final stats
Senator Clinton is speaking in Burlington, IA in Des Moines county — the 99th and final county in her now-concluded “Every County Counts” tour, which the campaign is calling a resounding success. Here’s their breakdown by the numbers:
- 8,811 attendees at campaign events
- 165 campaign events and retail stops
- 99 counties
- 5 days
- 1 candidate who is “working for change, working for you.”
One figure not provided: the number of canceled trips in the “Hill-a-Copter,” brought in to help the Senator make all her events on time (and look presidential doing it). Inclement weather plagued the chopper from day one; for the last two days, a thick fog forced her to cancel several flights in favor of long drives across the state. At the Muscatine Family Restaurant after one such canceled flight, Senator Clinton said sadly “I was disappointed with my Hill-a-Copter. I didn’t get to fly.”
And in Burlington, she told the crowd she’d been driving around in the fog all day, saying “some people would say I’ve been in a fog for a long time.”
Check out the campaign’s video highlights of the tour.
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And how much pollution did the Helicopter put into the fine Iowa fresh farm air over the past 5 days?
Al Gore must be crying now
Hillary is not working for change. Hillary works for Hillary. I see Hillary trying to get back to the White House and think about all the lying, police-state tactics, use of private investigators to gather dirt and wipe out her political opponents, abuse of power, Whitewater, Travelgate, and other scandals of the Clinton White House too numerous to mention. The thought of her at the helm is scary–very scary.
Before you cast your vote, please consider the following about the first Clinton co-presidency:
• The Clintons were more concerned about what they could get from the presidency instead of honoring their responsibilities to this country. At the end of their term they were multi-millionaires. Ever wonder how they got so wealthy?
• Think about how they sold our military secrets, how they exchanged pardons for Puerto Rican votes in New York, freeing some of the worst criminals just so Hillary could have what she thinks she is entitled to. Will our democracy survive another four years of them?
• Hillary loves to play the victim–of Bill, of the Republican vast right-wing conspiracy, of all the Bimbos who sleep with Bill, etc. Can a victim be an effective president?
• Hillary’s long-suffering marriage to Bill, enabling him to have numerous sexual trysts — not just a one-time dalliance with Monica — results in her sense of entitlement. Do we want a president who feels the job is rightfully hers just because she’s suffered through 35 years of marriage to Bill?
• Hillary claims to be tough enough to play with the boys when, in fact, she is unable to leave a cheating husband. How will she stand up to other men who walk all over her?
• Hillary attacks her opponents with lies and innuendo far more than she talks about how she would attempt to cure America’s ills. What is her plan…does she even have one?
• Hillary has no experience. Being married to a president does not make one qualified to be president. As a married woman, I cannot relate to a woman who stays in a sick marriage so she can capitalize on her husband’s success, then pretend she did it on her own. She gives no specifics about her experience. More dodging accountability.
• Fact: She’s held elected office for one Senate term and has introduced no major legislation during that time. Is this the kind of experience we want in the Oval Office?
Hillary is not what she pretends to be. She is spinning her image — the same tactics Bill used on an unsuspecting American people the first time around. We should be smarter than that now. Do we really want them in the White House again?
Cast your vote wisely in 2008.
Perhaps if Sen. Clinton had the toughness to leave Bill behind she would have much more credibility on her claim to being strong enough to be President, to make the tough decisions even when it hurts… Not just toughin out a dysfunctional marriage because it is politically expedient… Amen Denise !