Hillary Clinton on Tuesday gave a signed copy of her new memoir “Hard Choices” to a Republican National Committee intern in a squirrel costume who’s been following her book tour.
Clinton approached the squirrel, clad in a t-shirt reading “Another Clinton in the White House is Nuts,” just before her CNN town hall event outside the Newseum in Washington, DC.
“Hello Mr. Squirrel, how are you?” Clinton said with a smile. “I know you’ve been following me around and while you’re in between your gigs. I wanted you to get a copy of my book.”
“I hope that you will make the hard choice and read my book,” she added. “But you bring a smile to a lot of people’s face.”
The squirrel quietly accepted the peace offering from Clinton but was more vocal on Twitter.
“Thank you, @HillaryClinton! I love fiction!” the squirrel later tweeted.
.@HillaryClinton, thank you for feeding the squirrel http://t.co/uDoaWvTTey pic.twitter.com/D475Op3Emc
— HRC Squirrel (@HRCSquirrel) June 17, 2014
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Not a Hillary fan, but I have to give her credit: That was handled perfectly!
Yes it was…by the squirrel too. Though I still think its a completely bizarre antic. Or is he part of the republican outreach program to furries or something?
You can tell the squirrel was genuinely moved. He hasn’t changed that expression of wonder since meeting Hillary.
If you have never read Ben Hamper’s “Rivethead” about life on the GM assembly line in the 1970s, DO read it. It includes a tale about GM execs’ idea for improving quality: A giant mascot cat named: “Howie Makem”
I was laughing so hard when I read about it that my wife ran to the room I was in thinking something was terribly wrong.
http://hamper.michaelmoore.com/excerpt4.html
Yes, since we all remember how awful the 1990s were. A robust economy, budget surpluses, no endless wars in miserable places. Wouldn’t want to be facing that sort of nightmare again, now would we?