Easley: HRC Is "Strong As Train Smoke"
HIGH POINT, NC - While in North Carolina, Hillary Clinton has held rallies in high school gyms, pickup trucks and even the state's Auto Racing Hall of Fame. Her final stop before tomorrow's primary was the second held at a train station, where this afternoon she competed with a rumbling freight train to make her pitch.
She spoke for just over a half hour, emphasizing her view that voters should consider her specific plans before making what she called a "historic decision."
"We can't do it just by wishing for it. We can't do it just by hoping for it," she said. "Prayer helps, but hard work also is something we gotta do together. You know I'm a Methodist, and we believe in doing all the good that you can every day that you can. And that means we come together, and we set some goals, and we go about achieving them."
She also stressed her plan for short-term relief on issues like the mortgage crisis and gas costs.
"I believe that part of the job of a president is not just for long term planning, which I am 100 percent in favor of, but living in the here and now to try to make it clear to American families, middle class people, hardworking folks that somebody hears you, and somebody sees you, and somebody know what's going on right here in High Point," she said.
She took a more folksy approach, saying she has always wanted to come to this town and "go in and out of all these stores." "I'll have to come back, maybe when we get to the general election," she added.
She even spoke with the slightest hint of a drawl as she talked about a Carolina staple.
"We have eaten barbecue from one end of this state to other," she said. "You know, for a while I was a little worried because every sighting of my husband was going into or coming out of barbecue joint. I said, 'Oh, I just hope his cardiologist doesn't read that!'"
Introducing Clinton, Gov. Mike Easley called her "strong as train smoke." But the New York senator saw trouble coming as a train approached near the end of her remarks, opting to wrap up her speech rather than fight to be heard.
"That's why it's so important that as this train goes by, we think that it's taking us into the future, and we're all gonna be on it," she said.
(NBCNJ's MIKE MEMOLI)
I tried some train smoke once but I didn't inhale.
AS ALWAYS, that's totally and absolutely great news for...CLINTON!!!!
Yep, that's right, HRC: stronger than dirt. Make that dirtier than dirt.
Odd metaphor. Train smoke chokes people and leaves them covered in a greasy sort of smoky slime. Then it dissipates, never to be seen again.
Strikes me as a strange way for an admirer to characterize Hillary. On the other hand, it might be accurate.
Stronger than train smoke? Doesn't train smoke dissipate pretty soon after its released? I mean, the stink remains if you get caught in it but the smoke is gone.
Doesn't train smoke just blow away in a strong breeze? I live in the upper midwest and grew up around freight trains all my life so....
....perhaps he is a closet Obama backer.
Oh, Governor Easley, you folksy SOB you!
I cannot wait until we elect your replacement. And I can't wait until you and Hillary are both gone *~poof~* like the smoke-and-mirrors politics you so enjoy.
Smoke is strong?
MY FELLOW "BITTER", STUPID, WORKING CLASS PEOPLE :-)
If you think like Barack Obama, that WORKING CLASS PEOPLE are just a bunch of "BITTER"!, STUPID, PEASANTS, Cash COWS!, and CANNON FODDER. :-(
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think Barack Obama with little or no experience would be better than Hillary Clinton with 35 years experience.
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think that Obama with no experience can fix an economy on the verge of collapse better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) led the greatest economic expansion, and prosperity in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think that Obama with no experience fighting for universal health care can get it for you better than Hillary Clinton. Who anticipated this current health care crisis back in 1993, and fought a pitched battle against overwhelming odds to get universal health care for all the American people.
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think that Obama with no experience can manage, and get us out of two wars better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) went to war only when he was convinced that he absolutely had to. Then completed the mission in record time against a nuclear power. AND DID NOT LOSE THE LIFE OF A SINGLE AMERICAN SOLDIER. NOT ONE!
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think that Obama with no experience saving the environment is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) left office with the greatest amount of environmental cleanup, and protections in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think that Obama with little or no education experience is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) made higher education affordable for every American. And created higher job demand and starting salary’s than they had ever been before or since.
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think that Obama with no experience will be better than Hillary Clinton who spent 8 years at the right hand of President Bill Clinton. Who is already on record as one of the greatest Presidents in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think that you can change the way Washington works with pretty speeches from Obama, rather than with the experience, and political expertise of two master politicians ON YOUR SIDE like Hillary and Bill Clinton..
You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you think all those Republicans voting for Obama in the Democratic primaries, and caucuses are doing so because they think he is a stronger Democratic candidate than Hillary Clinton. :-)
Best regards
jacksmith... Working Class :-)
p.s. You Might Be An Idiot! :-)
If you don't know that the huge amounts of money funding the Obama campaign to try and defeat Hillary Clinton is coming in from the insurance, and medical industry, that has been ripping you off, and killing you and your children. And denying you, and your loved ones the life saving medical care you needed. All just so they can make more huge immoral profits for them-selves off of your suffering...
You see, back in 1993 Hillary Clinton had the audacity, and nerve to try and get quality, affordable universal health care for everyone to prevent the suffering and needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of you each year. :-)
Approx. 100,000 of you die each year from medical accidents from a rush to profit by the insurance, and medical industry. Another 120,000 of you die each year from treatable illness that people in other developed countries don’t die from. And I could go on, and on...
OBAMA AIDE: "WORKING-CLASS VOTERS NOT KEY FOR DEMOCRATS" :o