Chatty Crowd Forces Clinton to Cut Speech Short

[JimGinPA]

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/04/14/politics/fromtheroad/entry4014458.shtml

PHILADELPHIA -- Hillary Clinton was forced to cut her normal stump speech short when a chatty and meddlesome crowd kept her from grasping their attention. Clinton, who was addressing the Philadelphia County Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, spoke for just over five minutes, despite having the press arrive almost two hours beforehand.

The crowd never settled down during her remarks. A spokesman for Clinton denied that she cut the speech short, and told reporters that Clinton was advised by her Pennsylvania team to deliver “a short speech" given the set up of the event.

In previous party dinners, most recently in Butte, Mt., Clinton spoke for almost an hour to a crowd that seemed to be paying attention. The aide said this was a “different type” of J-J Dinner, primarily because people were not seated at tables, and were “milling around” the banquet hall.

Whether or not Clinton’s reception at the dinner had anything to do with her recent attacks on Barack Obama remains unclear. Clinton has never delivered a formal speech in such a short amount of time. The most recent abbreviated speech was back on February 15 when Clinton spoke to a crowd at a Lockheed Martin plant in Akron, Ohio. The speech lasted for just 12 minutes, with the first applause line coming 11 minutes into the speech.

[anonymous171]

1. I hope the debate is broadcast in front of an audience.

I can only imagine what kind of response she will get if she tries this shit.

[AllentownJake]

14. Keeping a Philly crowd quiet

Is going to be tough...she better bus in some people from her "home town" of Scranton.

[JBoy]

38. They'll have to be sure to get non-newspaper readers.

[eridani]

43. Jeebus! Philly baseball fans!

Hope they don't bring washers and quarters and batteries.

[Yael]

2. How long did Obama speak?

[Catherine Vincent]

3. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5505281

[Buzz Clik]

4. A long presentation that was cut off. The definitive stump speech.

[SunsetDreams]

5. Maybe if she wanted to talk issues, they might listen

[Mags]

6. just show the class of the BO folks.

[anonymous171]

7. People just don't like being force fed talking points.

Sorry about that.

[AllentownJake]

11. The first word when I think of Clinton

Has never been class.

[chascarrillo]

35. BO folks? Classy.

[Beregond2]

8. When have

you ever known a politician to cut a speech short when things were going well? Most of them are happy to give a speech at a bus stop. She obviously couldn't get their attention.

[muntrv]

9. What? You mean Hillary forgot to give out the pre-set questions to the audience?

[AllentownJake]

10. Actually she was very lucky

That was Philly. They are known for throwing batteries at New York acts they don't like.

[GarbagemanLB]

13. Isn't that the town that booed Santa Claus?

:rofl:

[AllentownJake]

15. Dupe

Was caught on hitting Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson with an iceball....His popularity was at 99.9% that day.

[tishaLA]

23. Damn right

In Philadelphia, I grew up believing we hate only two teams: The Cowboys and whoever the Eagles were playing that week.

[AllentownJake]

26. The Giants

We hate the Giants as well not as much but we still hate them

We also hate the Mets now...really really hate them

Redskins...eh we tolerate

[tishaLA]

30. I haven't found it in my heart to hate the Giants since

Parcells and LT. But I moved away 8 years ago, so I'm sure I could hate Eli almost as much as I hate his brother. Almost.

[AllentownJake]

32. They were torn this year

The patriots were arrogant and beat us in a Superbowl that everyone in town now thinks they cheated to win.

Yet the Giants are close by and their fans make us commit assualts in Lincoln Financial Field

The town was 50/50 for a Giant win.

[AllentownJake]

16. Dupe

Was caught hitting Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson with an iceball....His popularity was at 99.9% that day.

[Buzz Clik]

22. Really? Rendell threw an ice ball at Jimmy Johnson?

I suddenly have new-found respect for the man.

[tishaLA]

24. Yeah and other fans were throwing ice balls with batteries in them.

[Buzz Clik]

29. No, I'm pretty sure they were ice balls in the shape of batteries.

Who would waste a perfectly good battery on Jimmy Johnson?

[AllentownJake]

25. From Wikipedia

The mass snowballing of former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson at Bounty Bowl II is often attributed to Rendell. As the story goes, Rendell wagered twenty dollars that the person sitting next to him could not hit Johnson in the head with a snowball at an Eagles-Cowboys football game at Veterans Stadium. The incident 'snowballed' and resulted in many fans hurling snowballs at Johnson.

[Buzz Clik]

31. That's awesome! I'd have bet him $20 he didn't have the nerve to hit him with a folding chair.

[AllentownJake]

Dupe

Would have done it than took pictures over his body with Philadelphians to put up in their shops.

He was a great mayor. Look forward to when he's on our side. If anything he's loyal and I respect that.

[AllentownJake]

34. Fast Eddie

Would have done it than took pictures over his body with Philadelphians to put up in their shops.

He was a great mayor. Look forward to when he's on our side. If anything he's loyal and I respect that.

[AllentownJake]

17. Dupe

Was caught hitting Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson with an iceball....His popularity was at 99.9% that day.

[SunsetDreams]

18. I bet they would talk over GW too

[Buzz Clik]

20. Good point. Hell, they even booed Santa at an Eagles game.

A tough crowd in Los Angeles: "I know you're out there because I can hear you breathing."

A tough crowd in New York: "I know you hate me because you're screaming at me so loud that I can't hear myself think."

A tough crowd in Phillie: "Holy shit! That bastard hit me in the eye with a beer bottle! I'm gonna bleed to death. Call 911! Call 911!"

[Unsane]

45. Eagles fans notoriously cheered Michael Irvin's career-ending injury.

[AtomicKitten]

12. I envisioned rotten fruit lobbed at her.

Deservedly so.

[NEDem]

19. Earlier she gets, booed, now she has a crowd that won't listen

looks like a pattern.

Someone went too far, and she's paying for it today.

[Barack_America]

21. Obama, on the other hand, spoke for about 30 minutes...

And the crowd ate up every word.

Essentially the entire Democratic machine of Philadelphia was there. It was pretty obvious who they were supporting.

[AllentownJake]

27. Gobama

Poor Mike...this is not going to go well next Primary.

[Cha]

28. Good news, Kristi..I want

hilary to go down for the reason of thinking that she could throw poison darts at the Democratic Party and come away unscathed.

[tokenlib]

36. He did have the 60 yr old problem..

He was telling the "Fired up" story. Talked about the 60 year old lady who was showing her years. Some apparent 60 yr olds in the audience were not thrilled. He defused it by saying he thought they were 40. So he didn't visibly cut anything short.

[Barack_America]

37. Meh. That was playful.

Actually most of the reaction was people assuming that he was taking a shot at Hillary, who also happens to be in her 60's. I didn't get the sense that anyone was upset.

ETA: What was up with Brady acting like he had endorsed Barack?

[slinkerwink]

39. too bad the media won't cover this

[Barack_America]

41. Bit o' good news for you.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/

This was probably my favorite line from his speech. They cut out the bit where he said that you, "have to be angry enough to want change, but hopeful enough to believe that change is possible", to paraphrase.

It was a great speech.

[Buzz Clik]

33. "Hey! Shaddup already! We're tryin' talk over here!"

[Arugula Latte]

40. People are just done with her.

Buh bye, Hillary. Please don't forget to pick up your nice departure prizes.

[CreekDog]

42. what's next, in 5 years she'll be on street corners yelling, "it's not over yet"

count the votes, bitter! elite! San Francisco! :banghead: :crazy:



oh and... :hide:

[Tarheel_Dem]

44. I hope this is the reaction she gets everytime she opens her lying mouth