Clinton’s Tipping Point?

The Clinton camp is reading this story and they still didn’t give this waitress a tip!?! No wonder this waitress is working three jobs! Clinton is too busy trying to hand out political favors that she forgets to give a little cash to the people who actually earn it. This would not be a big deal if this were simply an oversight that was quickly corrected, but the best the Clinton camp can muster is that “the meal was on the house”. The Clinton camp derided Bush 41 for being surprised at the workings of the grocery store scanner. Failing to leave a tip for a diner waitress is a bigger faux paus, if you ask me.

Perhaps socialist Hillary thought that since the meal was “on the house”, so was the gratuity and all of it should be paid for by the Federal government with our taxes.

You ALWAYS tip on a complementary meal! She doesn’t own the restaurant. NO EXCUSE!

She’s had a silver spoon so long in that big mouth that she does not understand. Did she think she was in Europe with the V.A.T? What a dope! She will tax the hell out of us though! Bravo Chillery!

I used to be a 0% – 10% tipper till my daughter worked as a waitress and explained to me that wait staff are taxed as tho they were tipped 17%.
So 20% should be the standard tip.
Recently we dined together with a 2 for 1 coupon. I then learned that the tip should be based not on the actual cost to the customer, but rather on the cost of the serving. Thus I should tip based on the value of the meal without the 2 for 1 coupon.
I was quite surprised when my daughter informed me most people actually do tip the higher amount.
Hill’s campaign needs a money bag man to follow in the wake of these complemtary dines to avoid alienting all that she touches.

Serfs don’t get tips. The little people don’t get tips. Minimum wage is plenty enough. Pee-ons don’t get tips. The “help” don’t get tips. The Queen is entitled to free everything. Someone else will tip her. Tips are for suckers. Hillary is above leaving a tip, get used to it.

The wage for servers has not been raised in over a decade. IT IS STILL $2.13 an hour, EVERY SINGLE PENNY OF WHICH goes towards taxes, and then the server usually owes money at the end of the year because the wage was not nearly enough to pay the taxes. Clearly there is some lobbying by someone keeping this wage so ridiculously low. I am absolutely sickened that Hillary did not leave a tip, THEN proceeded to use this woman like a cheap prostitute any way she wanted for her own benefit. What makes me most disgusted of all, and which will actually bring me to the polls to vote against her for WHOEVER else is available is this: How could someone SO out of touch with appropriate behavior run this country properly? I’ve waited tables for 14 years and can count on one hand how many times I have been left absolutely nothing. Most Americans know it is downright shameful to leave nothing. After so many years and so many hundreds of thousands of tables, I believe it is unequivocably true that a persons character can be judged by the tip they leave. If I give someone poor service – I expect a poor tip and am fine with that. But nothing? From the woman who wants to run this country? She most likely did not fail to tip because she is cruel, but she undoubtedly did fail to tip because she’s completely selfish and out of touch with reality. Thanks Hillary, for showing your colors so clearly that I no longer have to fret over who to vote for.

You know what they say about people who don’t tip, or only tip 10%…
they’re just %$&^$%&%.

Hillary just forgot to tip. If she thought of it she would have tipped. But she was absorbed with HER campaign. She was absorbed with the adulation. She doesn’t believe she has any obligation to anyone but herself. Just ask those who worked for her in the White House or anywhere else. She is self-centered. It’s a personality trait. She has done nothing in her 60 years of life that qualifies her for the preidendcy, but she believes she is owed it. She will now try to justify that being First Lady is enough qualification. Her leadership in the federal Healthcare debacle and Arkansas Education program program is now all forgotten. She has nothing in her past to show that she is qualified for the job as president. She is owed it. Anita Esterday and all the rest of you should know that Hillary believes “it’s all about her”. She will take from others to give to you but she owes no one anything. Do we want that type of person to become our president.

Maybe y’all are making a bit too much of this? Of course there should have been a tip — and I’m not going to go into how much it should be, good service vs. exceptional service vs. bad service — that’s irrelevant. But y’all are acting like she went out to eat after a day of work and decided not to leave a tip. In reality, it was a meal that was part of her campaign, with other local politicos, and she was working the room — that’s what politicians do (from both sides). Her staff obviously should have done better — they are at fault, no doubt about it. But you can’t find me a state senate or house campaign candidate who doesn’t have a staffer who really is in charge of this stuff — it’s too hard, too busy, too crazy in a political situation for the candidate him- or herself to remember things like this. Again, a tip should have been given — but to read anything into it and make silly comments about socialism or how Hillary thinks about people is a bit much.

Hey – When all your concerned about is taking over the world with your evil minions who has time to worry about tipping! This is just something getting in her way to her ultimate goal – POWER! A real genuine individual is always thinks of others – this is the golden rule by which we live. For those of you who make excuses for Hillary by saying she is sooo busy then you miss the point totally! When your a public servant its your JOB to think of others. Hillary needs to go back and learn this valuable rule of life!

Wow, thanks to a great one-sided story! Does anyone think the news will follow up with an apology to Clinton if she can prove she left a tip? It was a large party and some sort of management would have approved Clinton’s free meal, maybe the rest of the staffers who paid for the rest of it included a tip that was supposed to be handed out to all involved? It’s too confusing now-adays with the tipping. Half the restaurants I go in to it’s unclear whether you tip or not. Maybe someone else actually brought the meal to Clinton and this lady only brought her a glass of water before Hillary started chatting her up. Everyones got to complain about something!

It may have been more appropriate if Hillary had visited a Waffle House. The woman is an elitist, condescending, self-absorbed know-it-all. As for Obama, he is a another version of “lip Biting Bill” who feels our pain and promises solutions to every ailment under the sun. He should know that in the real world, the president doesn’t possess some mystical powers that turns him into Mary Poppins. He has no practical leadership experience. Like Hillary, he lacks the backbone and the experience needed to lead this country in the dangerous times we live in. Frankly, he and all of his liberal Dem counterparts lack a backbone; I’m surprised that he and his fellow liberal Dems can walk upright.

TIPS SHOULDNT BE COUNTED AS INCOME??? You got to be kidding me? Wait a minute. First of all, she is below the poverty line as it is, so she pays zero taxes or a pittance. Second of all, her reported income is already underreported, and IRS allows them to only claim 8% or whatever…. Do you think she reports the cash tips? Third, they are paid $2 an hour by their employer… So by your logic, poor little waitress should get tips tax free, but because I have a real job *i use that loosely*, where my wages come 100% from the employer I must shoulder the countries tax burden even more than what little “servers” contribute to the tax rolls?
Well okay, I’ll give you your free tip income when you apologist libs say I can have my stock sales capital gains tax free.

And for those who don’t click on the Romney link, when he had no wallet after getting a cup of coffee…
“I’ve only got three [dollars] in this pocket. I left my wallet in the car,” Romney said before an aide approached. “Here comes Will … look at this he’s gonna give me a five. Thanks.”
So – five (or eight?) bucks for coffee for Republicans, free loose meat and no tip for Democrats.

“Clinton camp has reported they left a 60% tip.”
I can verify that, 60% of nothing is still nothing.
Hillary wasn’t looking at the waitress as a human being, she was a potential sound bite, nothing more, nothing less. Bill Clinton in a dress.

In fairness to Clinton, the meal was on the house? So let me get this straight, the Clinton campaign DIDN’T pay anything and DIDN’T pay a tip. Talk about Clinton wanting both sides of an issue.

So Hillary told the waitress “I am proud of you?????” How patronizing is that? I would have gone through the roof if I were that waitress. I don’t want my politicians to pat me on the head and tell me how proud they are of me, or what a good girl I am. Ohh, that steams me.

Why would she tip. This is the women who tried to claim old rotten underwear that she gave to charity. Also tried to rob the whitehouse on the way out the door stealing furniture and art that belonged to the people then forced to return them. Also married to the man who was found to be the greatest illegal campaign fund holder of all time. And married to the only person running for office (when Govenor) who was sued for blocking black people from voting.

first read on msnbc has an updated account of what happened.
“The manager of the of the restaurant tells First Read the Clinton campaign did, in fact, tip. “They paid their bill, and they left a tip,” said Brad Crawford, manager of the Maid Rite restaurant in Toledo, Iowa. “Everybody was satisfied. No question about it.”
Just a FUD bashing story

In general, FEMALES are lousy (cheap) when it comes to tipping.. ask anyone in a service industry.
I always start at 20% and go from there; cutting it down if the service was weak, or even adding a bit if the service was exceptional.
Furthermore, when someone else is picking up the tab, if I don’t think they tipped enough I’ll add my own tip.
There was NO excuse (except Clinton is a woman) for stiffing the poor waitress.

Amazingly thick that Hillary. This woman tells her about how she is working three jobs, and her children are working as soon at it is legal for them to work. All she can do is take a free meal, say is how proud she is of her and give her an autographed picture of herself. She should walk a mile in that woman’s shoes. What arrogance to think she is qualified to be president.

Three-dollar-a-gallon gas and twenty-million illegal aliens are destroying this country, and you’re worrying about whether some empty pantsuit left a tip at a diner? Jeez!…

The campaign left a $100 tip on a $157 bill.
How about printing a retraction, ABC? And, how about a follow-up to find out why the manager didn’t share that detail with anyone until now?

If the waitress were a ranking official of a union, let’s say, the “Waiters of American Union”, and therefore could endorse Hillary and promise her campaign votes and money, I am sure that Hillary would have found a way to reward the waitress. As it stands, Hillary is out of touch with everyday working people who are not a member of a group. Liberals use “bread” as political tool. Those who belong to the “group” get the bread. Those who are not in the “group” have the bread taken away.

Poor HC not leaving a tip. I even leave a tip when the bill is only 10 by leaving a buck for each person. So sometimes a 10 check, the tip would be $4. I had to laugh when I saw she was leaving VOTE FOR ME Cards. Had lots of those, but not a dime for a tip. Sad. I have an Uncle that doesn’t leave anything for a tip, but then he is just cheap.. Now in my area, I know the Min wage for any server is $2.13 an hour. I helped at a local comedy club for a few weeks until the onwer fired me for allowing a table to WALk with out paying. Didn’t know they had not until I went to get their money then zip they were gone without paying, so I know what a server makes. I had to use all my tips that night to pay for this table.(just found out Lisa, person’s first name, was fired by the new owners of a different club she was part owner of due to stuff like this) So HC and her party should be taken to task on not leaving a tip. She can claim she left $100 for a tip, but I don’t trust their recall in the least. HUH! Recall, didn’t for months she couldn’t recall where the travel office papers were, then OH here they are on my desk, gee where these come from.. Recall this HC, you wont be the next Pres. I would rather vote for the Breck Lady then HC.

But why are millionaires getting a free lunch from a small business? I guess they’ve been living off public money for so long that they actually think this is the way eveybody does it.

I can only imagine how Hillary would leave a tip. She would probably go to someone else in the diner that looks like they have more money than the waitress and then take their wallet, remove half of their money then redistribute it to the rest of the diner staff depending on their status. Why should she pay it when there are plenty of willing idiots who want their money taken from them?

No one has mentioned Rush Limbaugh yet. He mentioned this on his show already today.

Hmmm…so the story reported firsthand by that right-wing standard-bearer NPR, as related by the waitress who served Clinton, is now incorrect on every count? (“the campaign paid $100 on a $157 bill”, for a meal which was previously identified as ‘on the house’ and no one was tipped!!!)
I guess Ms Esterday is so flush with cash that the largest tip in the history of Toledo Iowa went unnoticed by her.
That vast right-wing conspiracy again.

Hillary is another in the long line of Cartoon Characters seeking your vote. She has zero interest in the waitress. Can’t have a clue about a working lady busting it on three jobs. Hillary is “proud of her”? Well, well now how patronizing. It’s not so much about the tip as it is that all these Cartoon Clowns are a bunch grubbing for your favour of a vote. Scumbags all.

Ready the update people a tip was left, $100.00 to be split with the waitresses……..Get a damn clue, most of you are about as smart as Eloise.
By the way ABC, Hillary deserves more than a small update; if your lazy reporter had ask she would have found the truth, what a dumbbell, but what can else would you expect from ABC News.

I saw the update – looks like the manager grabbed the tip for himself! LOL The rat said “it might have not been disbursed properly.”
I hope the owner or manager of that Maid-Rite deals with the manager that attracted so much bad attention to the place!

OK Right wing haters:
Since the update at the end of the article states that ABC news *confirmed* with the manager of the restaurant that indeed a $100 tip was left by Clinton’s campaign, how about an apology?
Can’t do it, right?
Well I know someone else who can’t ever admit they’ve done something wrong.
I’ll give you a hint; his initials are GWB.

“In fairness to Clinton, the article also notes that the meal was on the house.”
I was raised better than Ms. Clinton, I guess. I learned that getting your meal free means that you pass on the generosity and leave AN EVEN BIGGER TIP than you normally would have.
It also seems Ms. Clinton tried to take care of the tip after the bad publicity broke. But as Drudge points out, being a tight-wad is par for the course for the would-be female President.

That is why I am very proud to have our current president in the office. He understands the needs of the common American. He has been there. No silver spoon for him.

Do you really want the 2 family rule of America to continue? Bush + Clinton + Bush= 20 years. That’s long enough.

Hillary will not be president. Democrats are way out of touch, and if it weren’t for the Iraq war, Republicans wouldn’t have a problem keeping power. No to socialism, the cancer of the human spirit.

Most of our politicians (especially their staffs) have a feeling of entitlement. In a previous profession, I worked at an embassy and was responsible for coordinating logistics for the personal staff, etc. Congressional delegations (from both sides of the aisle) were notorious for charging movies and room service and then leaving the country without paying. In one particular instance a hotel was left with several hundred dollars worth of food and adult movie charges to a room. Obviously the hotel wanted payment; however, I could not use the government funds to pay for those items. Especially problematic because the person who had made those charges had already made travel claims for the meals. In effect, they were double dipping against the government. That particular instance was from a GOP CODEL. They just felt they were entitled and didn’t give a second thought to the fact that somebody would have to pay for that. To be fair and balanced – Dem visits had their fair share of that. I just mentioned that particular case because it had the movie charges and it took me 6 months to get the hotel reimbursed.

Arturo, you said that Hillary needs a “money bag man” following around to hand out tips. But you don’t seem to understand. There already is a money bag man, but he was in the kitchen at the time, seeing if there were any Chinese busboys and dishwashers who wanted to give $2300 donations to the campaign!

Wait a sec… Clinton’s campaign asserted that a $100 tip WAS left for the staff, which restaurant management then confirmed. I am a republican and no Clinton fan myself, but it appears some of the blogs here are quick to politicize, sensationalize and criticize for a situation where Hillary may have very well done the right thing. We shouldn’t be so quick to believe hear-say. As a matter of fact, I would say the restaurant management that failed to distribute the tip properly in this case should be the ones being scrutinized. Just because Hillary is trying to win political votes does not mean she has to give hand-outs to every poor person she comes in contact with. Has anyone thought that maybe this woman provided no service to Hillary and therefore was not eligible for a tip?

The waitress must be part of the vast right wing conspiracy – lol.

When Hillary stiffed the waitress at the Village Diner in Albion, NY in 2000, again it was a working mother with a son without health insurance.
Only the conservatives sent Trish Troupo any $$$. Everyone who though it was just awful what Hillary did send a $1 each. Trish had $1,100 three woring days later and topped out at somewhere between $5,500 and $7,500.
Seems thatit’s conservative that care. Liberals only care to spent OPM, Other People’s Money.

Karl, “I never vote FOR anybody, I always vote AGAINST”. Especially true for Hillary.

When Real Lives Get Swept Into Campaign Rhetoric
by David Greene
Listen Now add to playlist
Editor’s Note: Since this story aired, Hillary Clinton’s campaign contacted NPR to say that the campaign paid Maid-Rite a bill for $157 the day of Clinton’s visit and left $100 in tip money. NPR contacted Maid-Rite manager Brad Crawford, who confirmed that a bill was paid and tip money was left. Crawford, who was not in the restaurant at the time, said that he believes a campaign staffer left the money with one of his employees, but “where Hillary was sitting, there was no tip left.” Neither Anita Esterday nor the manager on duty that day were available for comment as of noon Thursday.

She needs to save every penny for the ass kicking that Obama is going to dish out!

You Hillary haters are as bad as those suffering from BDS. Anything that occurs is proof that your beliefs are correct. She left $100, that means she is a dem big spender. She left nothing, proof that she is an evil tightwad. If she left a big tip, she would have been accused of pandering.

Simple question:
Was the tip left that day or after the story broke?

Like some of my liberal friends, the bill comes and all of a sudden, their damn hands are glued to the bottom of the table! hahahahahahahaha

This article never should have seen the light of day. There’s some top notch investigatory reporting going on here.
First, the meal was “comp” and no tip. Then it cost $157 with a $100 tip that nobody got.
Second, the waitress has had her hours reduced because the employer doesn’t like Hillary. BUT (at first) the meal was reported to be “FREE”. If I owned a resturant and a candidate that I didn’t like wanted to use me to further their campaign I would not let them. At a MINIMUM I would get all I could out of them. I certainly wouldn’t give that candidate a “FREEBE”.
This reporter needs to go back to “Reporters Kindergarden” and do some serious reviewing. Especially since somebody is paying her. In the very least she should get off of her butt and do some “fact checking”. However this being ABC I’m not surprised. Typical Drive By Media.
K/H D

To royally detroy the republican party we need another nominee like Obama, but I would also like it to be Hillary so we see a large part of the republican party come unglued and show their stuff. The drama would be unnerving to say the least…HEEHEEHEE

Karl, we haven’t been off the boat that long and my relatives who have lived both places, The U.S. and when it was called Czechoslovakia say today’s democrats and some of their plans sound eerily similar to some plans for Eastern Europe by a certain large country in the 60′s.

Hillary needs to bring along some of her low-paid, mostly broke Chinese waiters, who probably know something about tipping etiquette, to dispense her tips for her.
She and her out-of-touch-with-reality staff probably don’t even know what a tip is, what waiters/waitresses make (typically a little over $2/hour), or that they have to pay taxes on 17% of what they ring up during each shift.
But all that will be moot if she’s elected. Everyone can simply quit their jobs, close their businesses, and cancel their health care insurance. The federal government will take of everything by “taxing the rich.” That is, until the rich (meaning anyone who still works for a living) all leave the country for greener pastures where all their money doesn’t go to fund the myriad bureaucracies of what used to be a great country.
So start hunting for that apartment in Costa Rica if someone doesn’t stop this vile woman.
–Al–

Not only should she have left a tip, she should have done it personally to the waitress. It has nothing to do with the politics of it, it is just good manners. If she got the food for free, which she did, she should leave a generous tip.
Hillary Clinton lost touch with the mainstream people decades ago, long before she and Bill disgraced the White House.

I think the bill was not paid. Why pay
exactly $157 and no cents? I have never seen a resturant bill with no cents to it. If it was so, why was it not rounded up to say, $160. It means the Clinton campain is either not telling the truth or it’s too cheap…

I feel sorry for the lady who got stiffed. Typical Clinton/Kennedy behavior. Liberal elites treat working stiffs like serfs. The story said the waitress is debating on whether to vote for Hillary or Obama after she was stiffed?!? I guess her working 3 jobs has made her crazy. Obama and Edwards are no better. If the waitress were an illegal, she would get everything for free.

You are an idiot- no one was stiffed. Learn to read Frankie.
“Brad Crawford, manager of Maid-Rite caught in the political mixer, who said the senator’s staff did pay a tip but “it might have not been disbursed properly.”

If you cannot pay a Waiter or Waitress 15% or more, please do not waste our time by coming and eating out. Cheap people need to buy Raman Noodles, and stay home.

An amazing amount of vitriol spilled over what appears to have been a misunderstanding – on the part of the restaurant staff. I quote from above:
“UPDATE: The Clinton campaign contacted ABC News to assert that they did, contrary to Esterday’s claim to NPR, pay $157 for food at Maid-Rite and left a $100 tip to be split among the staff.
Sensing the story was reaching the tipping point, ABC News’ Eloise Harper contacted Brad Crawford, manager of Maid-Rite caught in the political mixer, who said the senator’s staff did pay a tip but ‘it might have not been disbursed properly.’”
I guess the Hillary-haters should find another excuse to start foaming at the mouth.

Sarah,
Me, I like to be left alone, pay my fair share of taxes and raise my son and not have any boundaries on my success.
Hillary, Barack, The ambulance chaser and the Ufo space cadet want more and more power over our lives, incrementalism is their sneaky way of doing it. Some of us have had enough.
I don’t want to be told what kind of car to drive, or if I can carry a gun or not to protect my property and family or give 50% or more of my money to someone that will just waste it.
now a question for you, name one program a liberal democrat or a republican for that matter has ever put in place to solve a problem, then the problem was solved, and the program done away with?

OK. She gave a tip. No big deal. Next story please.

Who are you people? Can you read? The Maid-Rite was paid for the $157 bill and a $100 tip was left. That is an incredibly gernerous tip. It sounds like management may have unfairly pocketed some of the tip.
By the way, are you silly enough to think that Hillary or ANY candidate is pulling out their wallets and paying for these expenses out of pocket? Get real. The campaigns pay for these expenses, and everything must be documented. It’s the law.
I hope you base your presidential vote on some self-education and factual material. It’s sad that many people know only as much as the lastest 10 second sound-bite they heard on last night’s newscast.

The diner manager was interviewed and confirmed that the Clinton party left a tip to be disbursed. Now that that has been cleared up, why the ongoing fuss?

Question: Has Senator Clinton EVER worked an honest job in her life? She’s been on the Government dole for over 40 years now…listen up folks!! She ain’t one of us!!

If Hillary and company left a tip, surely they have a credit card receipt to prove it.
It would seem very unlikely that the campaign is paying cash for meals. They would have to document their expense in more accountable manner for the FEC.

Have an encounter with a Clinton and your life gets worse?
Hmmm.
Maybe there is something here we should all make note of.

did any of you fox mouth breathers read the article,they left a hundred ,the manager gleeped it, get your heads out.

I’m sorry, are you people not reading the same reports I am, her staff paid the bill and left a substantial tip. If this waitress didn’t get her portion of that tip, she needs to be checking with her manager – someone pocketed that money. So, since her staff DID IN FACT pay their bill and leave a tip for all staff in the diner – why the B**ching????

so let me get this straight esterday sais the cheap clintons did not leave a tip.
they are known for abusing service employees in this manner plus all taking freebies just like her alleged husband bill.
so it appears that the clinton campaign, which i guess has no named spokeman/woamn/person is calling esterday a liar.
we know who is lying. big canned hilalry ate all the meat and left no tip and didn’t even think of it.
what a small minded dope.

Bill and Hill having been feeding out of the public trough for years!I am totally repulsed by the two of them. Do some Americans have such short term memory that they do not recall the corruption during the Clinton White House.Pity that they have forgotten. These same morons think she actually has something to offer this counntry as Commander in chief-already her campaign is whining about how she is being picked on. That will not work with dictators, fascists and terrorists.
Trust me-you do not want sociliazed
medicine-I work in the field-Want to wait three months for a cardiac catheterization while you have crushing chest pain? Or a year for a hip replacement? I think not!

I’m a Republican, but this is asinine. Her campaign apparently tried to leave a $100 tip, but some greedy person kept it all to themselves. Stuff like this will make people MORE likely to vote for Hillary. The more my fellow GOP’ers try to make her out to be the antichrist, the more it will backlash against them.

you people evidently can’t read.
see the ‘update’? clinton’s staff left a tip that is OVER 60%. it was left with the manager who said “…it might have not been disbursed properly.”
it would be refreshing if you guys would be smarter than your keyboard.

of course the camapign is saying they paid otherswise it would have been an illegal corporate contribution.
That’s not to mention stiffing the waitress…tacky at best.

The campaign claims it left a tip & the manager speculates it might have not been ‘disbursed properly’ which leaves the question where the tip ultimately ended up unanswered, doesn’t it.
Hmmm. Has anybody checked Sandy Berger’s socks yet, because it’s quite possible that this poor waitress might just have been the unlucky target of yet another of Mrs. Clinton’s famous income redistribution schemes.
Yep It looks like Hillary “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good” Clinton has struck again!
(Boy,you know the democratic party establishment must be having second thoughts about her fadng prospects in the general election when even her fawning sycophantic shills at NPR are gunning for her now!)

What part of the owner stiffed his own employees of teh $100.00 tip that was left escaped you idiots ?

It takes a village to feed these people. $157 for some Maid-Rite sandwiches?

Too bad Hillary’s campaign forgot to pay her, but if Hillary wants to be a leader then she has to take responsibility for her peoples’ actions. Too quote an old friend “talk is cheap but whisky costs money.” She should go back to the restaurant and personally tip that woman. Otherwise she is no different than her opponents. I doubt that she will though.

I work in a service oriented industry and when a person is served in time length with good quality, it would only be fair and honorable to recieve a gratuity for service! The Clinton press official insisted that a sizable gratuity was given, however the server was not given the tip at all, If Hillary wanted good press, she should’ve ordered the press core to get a shot of her giving the tip to the server. That’s the second time she has stiffed someone one on her campaign. What a Snob!

Typical of the brain dead right wingers. Never let the facts get in the way of your opinions. No wonder we’re circling the drain.

SHE LEFT A $100 TIP. THE MANAGER ADMITTED TO THIS.
END OF STORY

Ask the White House staff, cooks, secretaries, her guards or the military who worked under her how she respects those who work “FOR HER” and you will see a picture emerge of the woman who wants to “run the world.”
Take off the blinders. Nobody likes the more holy than you attitude. She is not royalty, but don’t tell her that. This is par for the course people.

Is a vanilla steamer anything like a Cleveland steamer?

I empathize with poor Hillary. How in the world is one suppose they are to tip the common folk when they have never had to work for tips! LEAVE HILLARY ALONE!

The waitress is voting for either Hillary or OBama so to heck with her, I’m glad she was stiffed, she deserves it!!!

Maybe if Hillary could make a single definitive statement about where she stands on an important issue we could judge her more fairly. Right now though… she’s against the war, wants the troops to leave, but not right way, but maybe soon,… unless they can’t leave…
Not to mention that bang up job she did at the last debate. If you thought Kerry was difficult to understand, you ain’t seen nothing yet

I THINK THE MANAGER KEPT THE WHOLE TIP !
SECOND OF ALL WHY DON’T RESTAURANTS HAVE TO PAY MINIMUM WAGE. JUST BECAUSE YOU GET TIPS DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE MAKING A FORTUNE. IF YOU WORK IN A BIG RESTAURANT YOU GET BIG TIPS IF YOU WORK IN A LITTLE DINER YOU DON’T GET SUCH BIG TIPS. I THINK IF THE MINIMUM WAGE IS A CERTAIN AMOUNT IT SHOULD BE FOR ALL WORKERS REGARDLESS OF THE JOB.MOST PLACES REPORT TIPS ANYWAY AND THE SERVER HAS TO PAY TAXES ON THEM WHY NOT MAKE IT WORTH THEIR WHILE. SERVING IS NOT AN EASY JOB, BE GLAD THESE PEOPLE ARE WORKING AND NOT ON WELFARE. IM SURE HILLARY SENT A TIP BECAUSE THIS IS HOW THEY DO IT.

This is fast becoming an urban legend. Why didn’t CBS and NPR check this story out? There is something fishy about her story. Has a reporter talked to the nursing home about the cut in her hours. Does the American public have a clue about how much a waiter/waitress can make? It can be significant, plus it is often part time.If half the people are tipping as much as they say they are tipping, somebody is making a decent living.Why settle for minimum wage, There are too many companies seeking dependable,re liable workers at $9-10 an hour.

Wonder what the Clinton team threatened to do to that restaurant owner if he didn’t say they left a tip.
The Clintons are scary.

Liberals are very generous with other people’s money. They’ll always give you the shirt – off of someone else’s back.
Hillary has a history of this, so I do not believe the “Clinton camp.” And anyone who does is a fool.

Read beyond the headlines! The TIP was almost as much as the meal. Hilary was not responsible for the breakdown of the tip after it was given. The manager needs to see that she gets her fair share.
The person responsible for the headline should be ashamed and sent back to the copy desk!

So now that a manager says a tip happened, which won’t ABC change the top of its story. Seems pretty weird. It’s not the campaign contending, but the restaurant confirming that a tip was paid. Corrections happen all time. Correct the story.

It seems clinton machine is running full-speed again.
It’s now said they paid $157 food and $100 tip. I was last told that food was on house. How big is this resturant? how many waiters/waitresses that day at job, how come the very waitress Hill brought up at later rally did not get tip? Wow, it’s a matter of disbursement now. I’ve worked as waiter for several years, I never see disbursement has ever been an issue. It might be in liberals’ mindset: there is always a problem with tip (wealth) disstribution!

I DON’T TIP UNLESS I FEEL LIKE IT! AS FOR THIS POOR UNEDUCATED WAITRESS WORKING THREE LOW WAGE PAYING JOBS TO MAKE ENDS MEAT, DEPENDING ON OTHERS TO LEAVE HER SOME EXTRA MONEY FOR DOING HER FREAKING JOB……….GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND DO BETTER FOR YOURSELF!!!!!!!! IF THAT POOR WAITRESS WOULD USE THAT ENERGY FOCUSING ON PURSUING AN HIGHER EDUCATION AND/OR SHE WOULD EARN AN HIGHER WAGE THUS ELIMANTING THE NEED TO STRESS OUT WHEN A PATRON FAILS TO LEAVE A TIP FOR HER!!

What is wrong with you guys!!! The manager of the restaurant confirmed that the Clinton group left a $100.00 tip on a $157.00 check. What is it that you guys want? Do you wnat Hillary to go personally around the restaurant disbursing money? And the irresponsibility of the media. They run with a story, without confirming the validity of the charge, therefore crating an urban legent. Never allow the fact to get between the media, the Clinton haters and reality. What a bunch of dorks!

Not that I enjoy defending Hillary because I think she is a witch but it seems the manager admits a $100 tip was left. Management stealing tips is nothing new. Happens all the time..

The manager of the restaurant has said that indeed the Clinton party did pay and leave a tip. Sounds like a big “todo” about NOTHING!

As a socialist I believe in public schools, public highways, public libraries, public fire departments, public police departments, women’s right to vote, child labor laws, an 8 hour work day, paid vacations……
I don’t where folks get the idea that Hillary is one. She always votes with the Republicans.

Well, maybe we can change federal law on how tip earners are paid. As I remember it to be, the server ia paid a partial amount of federal minimum wage and the server is suppose to contribute the other portion to bring it up to minimum wage, then declare the tip earnings. So, that means that if the employer pays $3.50 hr in wages and minimum wage is $5.15 an hour, then the server has to contribute the difference to make minimum wage out of their tips. What a stupid system. Yes, though if you can provide good service which will bring the customer back to the restaurant. This is how I tip. 10% of the bill if the service was loosy. 15% and above according to how good the service was. 10% of a dollar is $.10. and so on. The contratiction is that if servers went to a minimum wage like the rest of us, no one would want to work in restaurants. There aren’t many people who do restaurant serving because they like it. I could pull $15 to $20. an hour in tips when I did it. How? I hauled it, I made sure everyone had what they needed, what they ordered and did it without being a nudge about it. That was 20 plus years ago. That was a lot of money. When a large party comes in like the Clinton party did, they usually leave a bulk tip to be split down the middle. They do not tip the individual servers. Wise up to that.

Hillary’s takes Leona Helmsley’s title as “Queen of Mean.” Her new campaign slogan: “We Don’t Leave Tips. Only The Little People Leave Tips.”

Hey ‘Mom in Maine,’ I have somethin’ for you–2 things actually.
1. The ‘found tip’ is pure Clinton.
2. If Hillary’s liberal ideology had simply been in place years ago, the waitress’ mom could have been given free birth control without parental notification, and the waitress herself wouldn’t have been born to cause Hillary this grief.

There is little room in Hillary’s heart for anyone BUT Hillary. Apologies to Sean Connery.

“Sensing the story was reaching the tipping point, ABC News’ Eloise Harper contacted Brad Crawford, manager of Maid-Rite caught in the political mixer, who said the senator’s staff did pay a tip but “it might have not been disbursed properly.”
What in the world is the matter with all you morons? SHE DID LEAVE A TIP!
She left $100 for the staff and the manager failed to disburse it properly.
Is that Sen. Clinton’s fault? You people should get a life.

hillary’s excuse for (again) Stiffing a member of the working poor is that she doesn’t carry money.
This raises several questions…
Do you want someone that is SO out of touch with the real world that they don’t “carry money” running the country? They lambasted Bush senior for not knowing the price of milk – do you think hillary knows the price of ANYTHING????
The Queen of England doesn’t carry money- everyone else does……
And doesn’t this woman learn from her mistakes? it’s not the first time she’s done this to a waitress.

The story is lame. The campaign left the tip, the manager didn’t distribute any to the waitress. The nice part about this story on this site is seeing the wacko comments left by the Clinton-haters; these people are completely crazy, and its apparent. This makes the sane people anxious to vote for Hill. Thanks, guys! Enjoy the ride home in the short bus!

Hmmm Hillary Clinton, what can I say about her?
Well, I was not born in the 90′s, so with that said; I remember many things the CLINTON’S DID while in the White House calling themselves “Co-President” as I drove my courier truck:
• Hillary FIRING Thousands of Federal Prosecutors and ALL White House Service Workers (maids, custodians, cooks, helpers, etc.) who’s tenure of some have been through many Presidents regardless of political party in the White House.
• Hillary BANING ALL MILITARY UNIFORMS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE claiming it upsets Chelsea Clinton.
• ‘Black Hawk Down’ debacle of poor leadership (intelligence, direct support, and exit) cost many highly trained US Rangers there lives.
• USS Cole terrorist strike left many sailor’s dead, a retaliation strike of an empty baby formula factor pointed to the lack of resolve utilizing the military.
• Unwillingness to capture Osama bin Muhammad bin ‘Awad bin Laden a top terrorist when his where about was known while a foreign military and the CIA/FBI where at the ready, waiting for Bill Clinton to give the GO AHEAD, he never did.
• CONSTANT SCANDLE regarding Criminal (Drug Dealers, etc.) donors and renting out the White House bedrooms for money to them and others.
• Waco TX massacre of 80+ children and woman.
• PARDON of hundreds of criminals, many dangerous, all donors.
• Hillary’s illegal SECRET tax payer funded HEALTH CARE COMMITTEE.
• Hillary’s Aid’s handling classified(S, TS, etc.) documents without a clearance or even denied a clearance by the FBI due to criminal convictions.
• Hillary’s White House FURNITURE and PAINTINGS THIEFT, ordered returned by First Lady Laura Bush.
• Impeached
• Disbarred
• Intelligence Agencies were BARRED from Sharing Information.
• SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2001
Coordinated TERRORIST ATTACKS, 8 months after Bill & Hillary Clinton leave the White House.
• Ineffective Leadership of the Clintons and the Complete Lack of Resolve of the Clintons in dealing with Foreign Threats CREATED 9/11.
I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN THE CLINTONS, HAVE YOU?

Campaign Briefs

Maybe theres a reason why Edwards campaign has been such a fiasco. Jeff Denilli floats a theory that Joe Trippi is really working for Barack Obama. This year Edwards is playing Dick Gephardt to Hillary Clintons Howard Dean front ru…

The US can not afford a, Lack of Leadership Experience, Executive in Training, Agenda driven Political person in the White House at this time.
Consider this:
If a woman is elected President of the United States, given that the majority of World leaders are men and the woman are considered subservient to them, little respect (fear) would be given to the US, and we as soldiers would be fighting wars, attacks, battles daily, both on US soil and overseas!
This is not a Feminist Experiment people, this is REAL.
Soldiers die, Citizens die, when the Commander-In-Chief has NO Character.
Sorry people, but CHARACTER still COUNTS, and the lack of which always leads to Death, Spiritual and or Physical.
REMEBERING 9/11

She paid a good tip.
She wil make a GOOD president.
End of disscussion.
VOTE DEMOCRATE

working for the middle class and poor says hilliary clinton o really, walks into a resturant, eat a decent meal, walks out without giving the poor waitress a tip..give it to the manager, says hilliary, not the poor waitresses. nasty sicken liar.

didnt someone say that the meal was on the house?……and yet the clinton staff maintains that they paid $157 for the meal and left a $100 tip……either the manager pocketed $257 or the clinton staff is lying!!!……i choose to believe the latter……democrats or republicans….no real choice here…they are all crooks….why dont we have a viable third party to choose from?

A waitress I once knew worked the overnight shift on Friday and Saturday nights rather than the afternoon shift on Sunday. She claimed drunks leaving the bars were in a good mood, seldom complained and tipped well. People leaving church were generally mad at the sinful world, always complained and seldom tipped. …. Maybe Hillary had been to church.

To me, the BIGGEST story here is that the waitress is still considering voting for Hillary or Obama? I don’t have much sympathy for a person who continues to do the same stupid thing over and over again and expects life to get better for her. Perhaps if she had received a tip, she would contributed the entire amount to the Hillary or Obama for President campaign. Smart thinkin’, babe. Pull the lever for another liberal Democrat. I bet a paycheck this waitress has voted Democrat all her life. Think about it. Isn’t that really the story here?

Maybe ABC news should use real reporters instead of just regurgitating what they read on Drudge’s website. This is a pathetic story based on a lie.

obvioulsy the manager kept the tip. This is not news worthy

You liberals are migrating to socialism faster than one can imagine. It’s only lie/spining machine that liberals can thrive. Use you freaking logic thinking, show me the ‘money’, what is the proof of $100 tips, it was tipped on the same day or after the story broke out.
You lunatic leftist destroy anyone who disagrees with you using every lie under the sun. Not everyone who feels distastful about clintons stiff is republicrats.

Wake up folks. Smell the coffee. I’m no millionaire or one of those smancy-fancy pants guys. But you know what? I don’t tip waitresses or waiters. Why should I? Anyone can put a plate of food on the table. Good Lord. I tip people for things I can’t do, like my chiropractor. Hillary’s the same way. This kind of slime and garbage will derail the greatest hope this country has to set things right since LBJ. Hillary needs you only because the country needs Hillary! And if you don’t believe that, you don’t deserve to vote!

Forget this nonsense about tipping. Doctors study for 10+ years so they don’t hurt their patients. Pilots fly for 1000′s of hours before they can carry passengers. You have to be 3rd, 2nd ,1st mates before becoming a ship captain. But apparently to become a Commander in Chief all you have to do is to graduate from Welsley, be married to a President, stay married while he cheats, cheats and than cheats again.
The bottom line is; She is less qualfied for the job than GW. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

OK I can live with that, Hilary was guilty of pandering and being a tightwad evil munchkin. in response to the one who said that if she did not she was evil and if she did she was pandering so she is both .

It is customary and courteous to say the least to tip your waiter/waitress personally; Hilary would have looked a whole lot better as a candidate giving the waitress Anita Esterday a generous tip knowing the cameras were rolling in Iowa. Hilary Clinton botches another opportunity — again! Hilary isn’t presidential material to me…

she should have eaten at Happy Joes, maybe then she would have had a better chance.

This is so out of sink here appartenly
on one here can comprehend to reading of the article.The article goes like this Hillary Clinton and her staff had Lunch and it was on the houes and this ment they did not have to pay.now they did leave a tip of 157.dollars to be split between the watress and the rest of the staff.