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babylonsister

(171,035 posts)
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 09:41 PM Oct 2015

Hillary Clinton just punked her republican rivals by sending them copies of her new book

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Hillary Clinton just punked her republican rivals by sending them copies of her new book
By Tim Martyn | October 6, 2015 |


In a month which has seen Hillary Clinton throw caution to the wind and come out swinging on major campaign issues like gun control and oil pipelines, it appears she’s also applying the strategy to the more symbolic aspects of her 2016 campaign for President. After she watched her republican rivals repeatedly misstate her record as Secretary of State, she decided to punk them by flooding them with copies of her book Hard Choices.

Clinton not only sent each of the candidates a copy of her latest book, she wrote them each a personalized letter encouraging them to “please enjoy all 596 pages of my time as Secretary of State”
in the name of gaining a more accurate understanding of her time running the State Department. The move of course is purely symbolic and has no material effect on the election. But it appears to have been intended as a statement: ‘Stop misstating my record, or I’ll take the pushback to the next level.’

As if to up the ante, Hillary Clinton made a point of using each republican candidate’s full name, such as “John E. Bush” and “Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., M.D.” just to rub it in. The symbolic move of showmanship comes even as Clinton launches a campaign ad using the republicans’ own words about Benghazi against them.

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Hillary Clinton just punked her republican rivals by sending them copies of her new book (Original Post) babylonsister Oct 2015 OP
This pleases me greatly! nt MADem Oct 2015 #1
THAT is the hallmark of a formidable woman who KNOWS she has nothing to fear from the GOP. Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #2
Kick and Hell yes recommend! sheshe2 Oct 2015 #3
Excellent use of excess inventory! reformist2 Oct 2015 #4
LOL! (nt) Ino Oct 2015 #11
Very good! Mira Oct 2015 #5
I guess she didn't have any of her own branded bottle water to send her rivals. ToxMarz Oct 2015 #6
You mean like how Trump sent water bottles to Rubio? SunSeeker Oct 2015 #8
K&R! betsuni Oct 2015 #7
haha... one_voice Oct 2015 #9
Too funny. nt SunSeeker Oct 2015 #10
"I'll take pushback to the next level". oasis Oct 2015 #12
Should've included the line.. Duppers Oct 2015 #13
It would have been funnier to announce you are sending books to all the GOP front runners and then FSogol Oct 2015 #14

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
2. THAT is the hallmark of a formidable woman who KNOWS she has nothing to fear from the GOP.
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 09:48 PM
Oct 2015

Her record as Secretary of State repairing the massive damage left to the reputation of America in the world by War Criminals Bush and Cheney and Company, she, as America's Top Diplomat - that would be a good TV show - repaired that reputation in a blaze of world travel and diplomacy, carried to full restoration under Top Diplomat Kerry and that is the truth she is rightly proud of.

No wonder the GOP fears her so much as to launch a now transparently faux investigation that now is in record breaking territory as to length and expense and after 5 bi-partisan reports fully exonerating her and indeed commending her.

Full stop.

Mira

(22,380 posts)
5. Very good!
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 11:22 PM
Oct 2015

that's how being up front and visible is done without worries about who cares and why and how much

FSogol

(45,452 posts)
14. It would have been funnier to announce you are sending books to all the GOP front runners and then
Wed Oct 7, 2015, 11:17 AM
Oct 2015

not send any books.

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