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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 02:32 PM Jan 2016

Hillary Clinton angers Iowa fans who waited hours for five-minute speech

WTH?



Hillary Clinton angers Iowa fans who waited hours for five-minute speech

Hillary Clinton left her audience cold in Iowa City on Thursday night, after she spoke for less than five minutes to a crowd of more than a thousand people, some of whom had lined up for more than an hour to see her.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/22/hillary-clinton-angers-iowa-fans-who-waited-hours-for-five-minute-speech

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Hillary Clinton angers Iowa fans who waited hours for five-minute speech (Original Post) SHRED Jan 2016 OP
I can't believe it! Jackilope Jan 2016 #1
Some of the things she's doing this cycle just make me scratch my head in confusion. draa Jan 2016 #2
At Univ. of Iowa; students came out to hear "pop star" Demi Lovato Divernan Jan 2016 #3
She's phoning it in. Divernan Jan 2016 #4

Jackilope

(819 posts)
1. I can't believe it!
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 02:36 PM
Jan 2016

She actually got a crowd of 1000 supporters? Then left them after speaking 5 minutes??? Taking people for granted.

She is off the rails.

draa

(975 posts)
2. Some of the things she's doing this cycle just make me scratch my head in confusion.
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 02:40 PM
Jan 2016

Even if you wanted to lose the election you couldn't do a better job. Just strange behavior from her entire camp. smh

Divernan

(15,480 posts)
3. At Univ. of Iowa; students came out to hear "pop star" Demi Lovato
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 03:14 PM
Jan 2016
“It was like a political commercial,” said Allison Steigerwald, a 24-year-old graduate student at the university. “I thought she was saying goodbye to Demi and then she’d start her speech. But it never happened.”

“It was very short,” said Jennifer Marks, 22. “There were a lot of statements. Like: ‘We are we going to make things happen.’” Marks said. “No actual how.”

“I just feel bad for the people who got here at five,” she said.

Clinton made no mention of Sanders, or the CNN/ORC poll released on Thursday which showed the Vermont senator leading her by 51% to 43% in Iowa.

She took the stage at about 8.15pm, after Lovato had performed three songs from her recent album Confident.
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