Clinton Bowls Oranges in Campaign Plane
EmailABC News’ Eloise Harper reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton began to notice that upon take-off some reporters roll oranges up the plane with the goal of reaching the furthest possible point — which also happens to be Clinton’s cabin.
Clinton came back saying she was there on behalf of the preservation of oranges Saturday morning. When she was asked if she was curious to what was going on in the back of the plane, Clinton said "I didn’t know what was going on so I started saying, ‘What’s happening back there? They are having too much fun. It’s the bowling orange contest.’ "
She asked the reporters if they had any prizes and who was the best among the orange bowles.
"Jamie [a Clinton press aide] is pretty good," one reporter commented.
"Jamie is a great athlete" Clinton replied.
The senator said she would sit out the orange contest.
"I will probably watch to kind of get the feel for it," she said.
Sure enough, after take-off, the former first lady came to the back of the plane, orange in hand. With a big smile, Clinton bowled her orange towards the press. Afterwards, a reporter rolled the orange back to her and Clinton did her own version of the Texas two-step, 10,000 feet in the air above the state she is determined to win on Tuesday.
Clinton told the press, "Well, I’ll have to practice, obviously it’s harder on takeoff."
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In a few days she would be in a position to do this full time. I’m sure that it will be very exciting for her.
Posted by: MK | March 1, 2008, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm
8 of the 15 posted articles are about Hillary Clinton. Clinton this and Clinton that. Can somebody at ABC explain to us why this sudden sympathy for Bhillary Clinton?
Posted by: BKMC | March 1, 2008, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm
You guys at the Political Radar are doing a wonderful job.
Half of the Radar headlines start with that beloved name CLINTON, the code word for decency and sincerity in politics.
We are sorry to see that one headline actually starts with ‘Obama’, but further reading learns us that the full thing reads’Obama: she’s not dead yet’.
So cheers for such quality objective criticsm. You’re the pride of the nation! And not even THAT expensive for our campaign! So many thanks again.
Posted by: clintons | March 1, 2008, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm
Its great to see story’s about former first lady Clinton
Posted by: Bishop | March 1, 2008, 6:54 pm 6:54 pm
you know they are right abc just at a casual glance back is really biased in the reporting…you just hope FOX doesn’t throw this into their proof of bias in media…what was it that moron radio talk host said at the campaign thing …where he was talking about Barack…but said the “All Bill Clinton” network…that’s not good Mr. Iger.
I am starting to do a look myself when this was posted counting stories and mentions…abc is starting to look like fox was for Bush/Cheney… and that’s not good for anybody.
But to be honest I think it has been that way since the beginning I am sure it is hard to get out of the way for all the news stations…of all the old relationships with the Clintons and the “machine”…
Posted by: d | March 1, 2008, 7:04 pm 7:04 pm
Wow, they’ve really whipped the media into doglike submission.
Cripes, folks, do some reporting
Posted by: Tungsten | March 1, 2008, 8:02 pm 8:02 pm
Orange you glad this nomination race is almost over?
Posted by: Paul | March 1, 2008, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm
Can we just keep one thing straight – how we got into Iraq? BUSH/CHENEY took us to war – no one who voted for the resolution had correct information about the reasons to go to war, because BUSH/CHENEY knowingly lied outright. They manufactured the story about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion, which it is now known they’d been planning well before 9/11 – invading Iraq was always one of the prime goals of a Bush administration. Look at the facts: Cheney came from Halliburton, the company that’s gotten many of the fat contracts in Iraq as a result of the war. Both Bush and Cheney have very close ties to the oil industry. Bush used to manage (badly) an oil company. Cheney had the oil companies plan our energy policy behind closed doors. They knew people like Hillary would *never* approve of an invasion of Iraq (it’s about the oil, stupid!) unless they convinced them they had WMD that they were going to use against us – they didn’t have real evidence of that, and wouldn’t let the inspectors continue to look for it, because they knew they wouldn’t find it, so they made up the reason: “Saddam has been trying to buy yellow cake in Africa”. Look up old “Frontline” programs – they outline the whole thing over and over. The Africa story was a complete *fabrication* – and the journalist who called them on it, who had worked in Africa for years, had his wife outed as a CIA agent as punishment for standing up to the Bush White House. This is the reality. Stop blaming Hillary, or anyone else for the war, because they were intentionally misled by Bush. Blame Bush for his $15 trillion dollar war, for all our dead and wounded soldiers as well as Iraqi civilians, as well as “al Qaeda in Iraq” who were never there before he invaded. So let’s stop bringing up the war resolution – Obama has voted exactly the same as Hillary on the war.
Posted by: Christine | March 2, 2008, 6:04 am 6:04 am
I think it is a great disservice to our nation that our media is so bias to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton who is far better qualified to be the president of our country than any other candidate. Mrs. Clinton’s deep grasp of issues and policies makes her far more ready to take on the presidency and besides each debate I see her rival Sen. Obama merely copying her; without originality in thought or words not to mention the depth of grasp that she has. His lack of foreign policy experience makes him even less qualified to be our next president.
Posted by: chandp | March 2, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm
Heh, this story just makes me like Hillary more.
Posted by: belle | March 2, 2008, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm
Chandp is so on target! It was so obvious during the debates that Obama’s responses were the usual canned statements he has repeated expressed in his prepared speeches to the voters, (except of course, when Clinton got better feedback from the crowd and then his response was a “ditto”). Don’t believe it? Go back and check his response after Bush’s last State of the Union message…he sounded like George…not sure what to say!
Posted by: sogladMarch4isalmostdone | March 3, 2008, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm