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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 09:13 AM
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Is someone who hasn't pumped gas in 16 years "out of touch"?
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Hillary was doing a photo op with a worker at a plant in Indiana. They borrowed his boss's SUV and stopped at a gas station to fill it up. Hillary admitted that she had not pumped her own gas since 1992, because of secret service concerns. I wonder how much she pumped while she was First Lady of Arkansas?
Then she went into the station to get a cup of coffee and could not figure out how the coffee machine worked. She spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure it out.

Is this indicative of Washington insiders? They have no personal experience with such trivial matters at filling their own tank or pouring their own coffe, but they have heard tales from others? I will admit that this is all a trivial matter, but is there anything to be gleaned from this information except to show how easy it is to attack people as being "out of touch" with average Americans? Perhaps Obama could stop by that same station and buy a bag of pork rinds - just to show he is one of the average guys? :-)
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