Just a quick post, as I didn’t see this written up elsewhere. Seems Hillary was in iowa yesterday night for an all too brief visit, and the crowd was not at all happy about the brevity of her speech:
Hillary Clinton left her audience cold in Iowa City on Thursday night, after she spoke for less than five minutes to a crowd of more than a thousand people, some of whom had lined up for more than an hour to see her.
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The lack of length and substance of her address appeared to upset some in the crowd...
Some of these voters, in the process of deciding who should receive their vote, voiced their disappointment:
“It was like a political commercial,” said Allison Steigerwald, a 24-year-old graduate student at the university. “I thought she was saying goodbye to Demi and then she’d start her speech. But it never happened.”
“It was very short,” said Jennifer Marks, 22. “There were a lot of statements. Like: ‘We are we going to make things happen.’” Marks said. “No actual how.”
“I just feel bad for the people who got here at five,” she said.
Sounds like a very sad and frustrating day for these potential supporters:
The rest of her speech was so short that it is possible to summarize almost all of it in the next six paragraphs.
Clinton thanked the audience for attending...
Clinton said was proud of the progress made under Barack Obama and promised to deal “with the big issues” if elected...
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She spoke about making prescription drugs more affordable and defending “human rights and women’s rights”. And about how she would “take on those big special interests” if elected.
“Join us in helping to change our country, keep it on a progressive path, make sure we don’t go backward, we go forward with confidence,” Clinton said.
And that was it.
Wow, taking these votes for granted, or what? On the substance of the issues — or more like, lack thereof— she certainly doesn’t seem to have helped out her own cause:
“I was like: ‘Is this done already?’” said Maggie Dressel, 21. “It did seem pretty short.”
Nicole Hall, also 21, and a senior at the university, echoed Dressel’s comments. “It was shorter than I expected,” Hall said. “I’m not sure she said enough to convince me to vote for her.”
In fact, the entire thing came off as so disrespectful of these people and their time that this vote getting “visit” of Clinton’s to Iowa may well end up sending more votes over to Camp Bernie.
Keep it up, Hillary Campaign— we’ll take all of the help you’re willing to offer. And let’s just say, you’ve been extremely generous of late.
