Hillary Hearts Trinity
My friend and aspiring videoblogger (click here and learn how to videoblog) Nathan Kirschbaum spoke with Senator Clinton today at her event in Hartford, which was spitting distance from Trinity College. Nathan has built up quite an impressive blog/portal (that the school was sorely lacking) and posted this video there:
Rough transcript:
Nathan: Senator Clinton! Senator Clinton, my name is Nathan Kirschbaum from Trinity College official website. Would you like to say something to the college students?
Hillary: I would, just a second Nathan.
Nathan: Thank you.
Hillary: I’m happy to be here in Hartford, the home of Trinity and seeing so many Trinity students. I’ve been on the campus, and I am thrilled to have so much support there and I wish everybody a great great Winter semester and Spring and enjoy your time.
Nathan: Thank you senator.
As you can see, Nathan follows CT Bob’s rules of engagement, which require always ending with “thank you senator.”
I don’t think Hillary could say the same about Wesleyan that she can about Trinity…but who knows? Maybe she does have a wide base of support amongst the Cardinals.
It sounded like she barked “WHAT?” when he first addressed her. Like, um, a busy mom being pestered. as I hearing things? Projecting, perhaps?
I hear that too. Every time I play it. So it’s not just you. It could be that I don’t much care for her — but the fact that she’s in CT talking to one of my friends on camera is still kind of cool.
Okay,then. I really had to laugh. It’s exactly how I respond when I am listening to a voicemail while simultaneously typing on my laptop and pulling a meatloaf out of the oven and one of my kids yells, “Hey Mom!!”
It IS cool, anyway. I like they way she got those big eyes when she said “…Trinity STUDENTS….”
Oh yeah…nice job, Nathan. Good work!
Very good video!
The “Thank you senator” thing works very well, although I usually precede it with a particularly awkward question. Either way, it always pays to be polite, if only for the fact that either the local law enforcement or secret service finds it much easier to taze someone who’s being impolite.
If you’re acting pleasant and smiling while you ask your questions, you can basically get away with metaphorical murder.
As Spazeboy knows, Joe Lieberman once called me the “Happiest Aggressive Interrogator”, which is one of my proudest moments.
God help us if she makes president