When the front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination spoke in the same place a year ago, the room was reportedly packed. When she spoke in October, Gaston Hall again “was filled to capacity,” the campus newspaper reported; some students lined up overnight and others were turned away.But when it was time for Clinton’s appearance to begin Wednesday morning, half of the 700 seats in the place were empty. After a half-hour “weather delay,” diplomats and VIPs filled a few more chairs, but more than 300 remained vacant when the former secretary of state and first lady walked in wearing a robin’s-egg-blue jacket and her signature pants.Roughly half a dozen people rose to applaud, and for a terrifying moment it appeared they might be the only ones standing. But slowly, lazily, most of the others struggled to their feet.Maybe it was just overexposure. Clinton began by joking that she’d been to Georgetown more in the last couple of years than her husband, who is an alumnus. This got a polite chuckle. A spokeswoman for the university said that this is the last week of classes, so students may be busy preparing for final exams.
He concludes it with a summation that doesn't make much room for any kind of dramatic possibilities, at least in the near future:
There was supposed to have been a Q&A following Clinton’s remarks, but the moderator, former Clinton adviser Melanne Verveer, said there was no time for that and instead read Clinton a single question about Syria and Ukraine. Clinton ventured her opinions that Ukraine will have to “rebuild its military forces” and that “Syria is now a multi-sided conflict.”
The ride and handling were stable. The acceleration and braking were adequate. But this car was not new.
She's wrinkly and crotchety and every bit as leftist as the Most Equal Comrade. Kids, teen and young adults find it a yawn.
But what will the FHers, in their despondency, come up with to inflict yet undiscovered levels of ridiculousness upon us, over the next two years? It makes one shudder, much as the prospect of a jihadist dirty bomb or the total collapse of the health care system or the coal industry, to consider the full range of possibilities.
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