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DeepModem Mom

(38,402 posts)
Tue Jul 28, 2015, 09:09 PM Jul 2015

Want a Selfie with Hillary? She's there, with a smile!

Hillary Clinton defended the campaign-trail selfie in an interview with an Iowa newspaper, saying taking photos with fans didn’t detract from old-fashioned conversations about the issues.

Asked by the Daily Times Herald of Carroll, Iowa, about whether she was tired of all the selfies with voters, Mrs. Clinton responded: “But it is what they want. It is important to them.” She added: “I had some really meaningful interactions in and amongst all the selfies,” noting conversations about mental health and student-loan debt with Iowans.

Younger voters today “live in a social-media world…it’s as important as anything they could have asked me. So I just say, ‘OK, we’re going to do it.’ ”

Mrs. Clinton noted that she also was asked to pose for pictures while in the Senate, so the selfie, in a way, is just the latest evolution of that old practice, she told the Daily Times Herald....

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/07/28/hillary-clinton-defends-selfie-culture/ via Wall St. Journal

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Want a Selfie with Hillary? She's there, with a smile! (Original Post) DeepModem Mom Jul 2015 OP
And she probably knows by now... yallerdawg Jul 2015 #1
Some people are just jealous. Historic NY Jul 2015 #2
HRC can't even take a selfie without criticism. Iliyah Jul 2015 #3
I can't wait to get a selfie! William769 Jul 2015 #4

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
1. And she probably knows by now...
Tue Jul 28, 2015, 09:16 PM
Jul 2015

with the selfie, each end of the conversation will be under 140 characters!

Short and sweet!

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