Hillary has another 'home state' in Pennsylvania

[left-of-center2012]

Hillary Clinton, born in Illinois;
went to college in Massachusetts and Connecticut;
First Lady of Arkansas for eight years;
First Lady in Washington, D.C for eight years;
moved to New York (her new 'home state')
now is playing up her local ties to Pennsylvania ahead of it's primary.

In Pennsylvania, Clinton plays up her local ties — just as she did in N.Y. last week
“If all politics is local, Hillary Clinton is hoping she can be a local in more than one place ...Clinton is now playing up her ties to delegate-rich Pennsylvania.
Her father, born and reared in Scranton.
(her) brothers Hugh and Tony Rodham ... still take a summer trip to a family cottage on nearby Lake Winola.

“It just brings back a flood of the best memories and the best people,” Clinton said at the rally.
The local-girl schtick was an expansion of a staple of Clinton’s stump speech ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-pennsylvania-clinton-plays-up-her-local-ties--just-like-she-did-in-ny-last-week/2016/04/23/b46de446-08ef-11e6-a12f-ea5aed7958dc_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_penndems-754am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

[pangaia]

1. The woman is tasteless and insufferable.

[Nonhlanhla]

4. OK, I have to ask

How is this tasteless? Her father WAS from Scranton. She DOES have ties to PA. She's not claiming to be FROM there, but the ties are real. Many of us are from different places. Not everyone lives in one place their whole lives. So why is what she's saying "tasteless"?

[Jitter65]

11. You know why. Sour grapes...sometimes make good whine. nt

[sufrommich]

14. Look up the meme "eating crackers like she

owns the place".

[pangaia]

16. yea, right....

[Darb]

12. Is this sour grapes? Or is it just

more of that teabagger logic that has creeped into the DU mainstream since the bernies took over.

[apcalc]

2. I believe she will

Do well here in PA.

[rbrnmw]

3. I've known that since 1992

She always talked about Scranton. Why so much hate directed toward her? You guys parse every word she says. Just to post vile hit pieces, I would expect to see on a Right-Wing site.

[apcalc]

5. She spent lots of time in Scranton

as a child, summers in PA. Her dad was from Scranton, or close to it, has local ties there still.

[rickford66]

6. I'm from Scranton.

I don't remember seeing her there or at Lake Winola. Just like the civil rights leaders never saw Bernie at any demonstrations. Who can you believe?

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Hillary on Lake Winola, 2008:

“I disagree with Sen. Obama’s assertion that people in our country cling to guns and have certain attitudes about trade and immigration simply out of frustration,” she began, referring to the Obama comments on small-town Americans that set off a political tumult on Friday.

She then introduced a fond memory from her youth.

“You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught me how to shoot when I was a little girl,” she said.

“You know, some people now continue to teach their children and their grandchildren. It’s part of culture. It’s part of a way of life. People enjoy hunting and shooting because it’s an important part of who they are. Not because they are bitter.”
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/12/clinton-touts-her-experience-with-guns


Will she say those things again?

[KingFlorez]

8. I don't see what the issue is

If that is where her father was from, so what?

[Trust Buster]

9. Just more self serving outrage brought to us from the fringe....snore alert.

[TSIAS]

10. This sounds familiar

Remember Romney had "home" states in Michigan, Utah, and Massachusetts.

[Darb]

13. The familiarity I see is that I hear the same shit

from teabaggers and other repiglicker types. Question is, why is it on the DU?

[sufrommich]

15. Romney's dad was the governor of Michigan.

That's a pretty strong tie to a state.

[DCBob]

17. Smart politics.