Hillary Clinton and a Mount Rushmore moment
Ask stupid questions and sometimes you'll get a curt -- and appropriate -- response.
Before embarking on a full day of campaigning in South Da
kota, Hillary Clinton this morning agreed to a last-minute suggestion from an aide and made a detour to the state's most famous tourist attraction: Mount Rushmore.
The Times' Louise Roug was part of the media entourage and relates that after Clinton heard about the site's history from a park official, another reporter asked whether the candidate could see herself someday carved into the mountain behind them. And still another wondered the same about her husband, ex-president Bill Clinton.
Replied Clinton: "Why don't you try to learn something about the monument?"
Touche.
-- Don Frederick
Share
Posted by Don Frederick on May 28, 2008 in Campaigning , Democratic Politics , Media , Presidential Campaign | Permalink
Don Frederick has served as an editor helping guide coverage of every presidential election since 1984. He is a third-generation Washingtonian, so watching the political world comes naturally to him.
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000.
Subscribe to this Blog
