Hillary Clinton, Just an Unrecognized Burrito Bowl Fan

[boston bean]

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign is all about “everyday Americans,” she made clear in announcing it on Sunday.

On Monday, she showed how unassuming she herself could be.

Driving to Iowa for her first campaign swing, Mrs. Clinton’s van — with two aides and Secret Service agents aboard — pulled into a Chipotle restaurant for lunch in Maumee, Ohio, a suburb of Toledo.

And no one recognized her.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/us/politics/on-the-road-hillary-clinton-stops-for-lunch-at-chipotle-and-goes-unrecognized.html?_r=0

I love this story!

[misterhighwasted]

1. How great would that feel to her! An exceptionally unusual moment in public for Sec HRC. lol

Bet they know her today!
Love this.

[boston bean]

10. I know, huh, it's really cool! I would be kicking myself in the ass if I was at that Chipotle!

[razorman]

131. It would have been hilarious if someone had approached her companion and said,

"Hey. Aren't you Huma Abedin?"

[leftofcool]

2. I bet lunch was delicious!

[DetlefK]

3. And then she forced her way into the kitchen to wash clean dishes...

thereby cementing her reputation as a woman of the people.

[MoonRiver]

4. This is the Hillary Clinton Room. Only posts supporting Hillary

Clinton are allowed. Please delete your dumb, sarcastic post.

[boston bean]

5. woops... this is GD, but I'll agree with your last sentence! nt

[MoonRiver]

7. I didn't notice. Will delete.

[boston bean]

12. ah, don't delete the whole thing... just edit it!

No worries... happens to people all the time...

[MoonRiver]

14. Already done. When I make a mistake I always try to admit and correct it.

But I stand by my sentiments about that post. What a crock.

[cali]

6. huh? I agree with your assessment of the post, but this is GD, not

"The Hillary Clinton Room".

[boston bean]

13. I posted a link to this GD thread in the Hillary group.

So, I think that may be how this happened.

[DetlefK]

9. ...

[misterhighwasted]

15. Lol. They gave him a clean pot for the photo op..loser.

Rare moment for Hillary to walk in, order her food & leave without being put in the spotlight.
She has to be kinda liking this road trip.

[calimary]

106. I bet she LOVED being incognito! Probably one of the few times in awhile

that this has happened.

And I'd also bet that the folks at that Chipotle never dreamed she'd walk into their restaurant. After all, this is not New York City or Washington DC.

[randome]

133. Was that entire subthread above simply sarcasm?

If not, it's amazing they didn't get the connection.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]No squirrels were harmed in the making of this post. Yet.[/center][/font][hr]

[DetlefK]

134. It was sarcasm and obviously too obscure a reference.

I prefer not to use the sarcasm-tag. I'm a dangerous rebel, yeah!

[mylye2222]

16. So know even GD has to follow Party Orthodoxy???

[Renew Deal]

22. That's right. Shape up or ship out.

[A Simple Game]

63. A preview of life under President Hillary? n/t

[MADem]

76. Not yet, when primary season ends that will happen. See the TOS. nt

[SkyDaddy7]

124. Not if Hillary is not the nominee...

Long way to go yet.

[MADem]

125. Not all that long, now. NH goes to the primary polls in less than ten months (2/9/16)

Anyone wanting to get into the race needs to move, quickly, because they are running out of time--unless they are billionaires and can self-fund a campaign, that is.

[Capt. Obvious]

21. I have blocked DetlefK from the GD group

[Renew Deal]

23. lol

I'm not laughing at detlefk. Sometimes DU cracks me up.

[DetlefK]

28. Sometimes...

Sometimes you wonder...

Should I put up a sarcasm-tag? Naaah, people will realize it.

Is the reference too obscure? Naaah, people will know what I'm refering to.

[boston bean]

31. I didn't get it... That was a few years ago...

barely a blip on my radar now a day...

But I get it now.

[NBachers]

87. Yeah, I don't think DetlefK was making fun of Hillary, I think they were drawing contrasts

between Hillary and her unassuming Chipotle trip, and Paul Ryan bogarting his way into a soup kitchen and washing clean pans. I don't think this trip-wire condemnation and blocking is appropriate. You may want to re-think your behavior and apologize.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2012/10/15/charity-president-unhappy-about-paul-ryan-soup-kitchen-photo-op/

The head of a northeast Ohio charity says that the Romney campaign last week “ramrodded their way” into the group’s Youngstown soup kitchen so that GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan could get his picture taken washing dishes in the dining hall.

Brian J. Antal, president of the Mahoning County St. Vincent De Paul Society, said that he was not contacted by the Romney campaign ahead of the Saturday morning visit by Ryan, who stopped by the soup kitchen after a town hall at Youngstown State University.

“We’re a faith-based organization; we are apolitical because the majority of our funding is from private donations,” Antal said in a phone interview Monday afternoon. “It’s strictly in our bylaws not to do it. They showed up there, and they did not have permission. They got one of the volunteers to open up the doors.”

He added: “The photo-op they did wasn't even accurate. He did nothing. He just came in here to get his picture taken at the dining hall.”

[snooper2]

52. Hillary Clinton Room? Really?

NO CLINTON NO BUSH


And you see it on every hillary thread!

[Enrique]

78. no making fun of Paul Ryan?

even in the Hillary Clinton room?

[Sanity Claws]

11. That doesn't even make sense

[riversedge]

17. umm that was Republican jerk Paul Ryan.

[DetlefK]

34. That's why I posted it.

And that's why I posted the image of Paul Ryan cleaning clean dishes half an hour before you posted your reply.

If Hillary's campaign had planned this, it couldn't have gone better: No obvious photo-op, just get in, take a bite, get out. Nothing artificial like doing dishes in front of the camera. Something authentic.

[riversedge]

43. Thanks for clarifying that. In solidarity

[TNNurse]

33. Perhaps you need to work

on your "humor" elsewhere. Wrong audience........

[boston bean]

38. The delivery needed some work.

[Capt. Obvious]

55. Don't worry, I have blocked DetlefK from the GD group

[Enrique]

79. no humor!

this is the Hillary Clinton Room!

[whatchamacallit]

81. Lol!

[Takket]

8. I can hear the GOP talking heads now....

Complaining she goes to a Mexican Restaurant because she hates America and loves illegal immigrants!!! Why can't she go to a good American restaurant, like The Olive Garden!

Sincerely,

Rush, Hannity, etc....

[misterhighwasted]

19. Oh you know they are. I think its funny how she plays with them.

She probably just laughs at them.
Morning News is all over this uneventful event.
At least she chose great restaurant.

[leftofcool]

27. But, isn't the Olive Garden like Italian? LOL!

[misterhighwasted]

32. Isn't that part of Brinker of the Pink Cancer scam?

All American Italian.

[Iliyah]

85. This, and HRC also hates white "Christian" men and Xmas.

Nuclear is where the RWers are going against HRC with help from some from the left.

Nice pic.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

109. Well

Fux Noise did accuse her of pandering to Hispanics

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/andrea-tantaros-has-an-epiphany-hillary-clinton-ate-lunch-at-chipotle-for-hispanic-outreach/

[rhett o rick]

18. I bet every Goldman-Sachs and HSBC exec would recognize her immediately. Not sure of

your point here. The Clintons are members in great standing with $100,000,000 wealth, of the top club of the 1%. I am not surprised that common people don't recognize her.

I wonder if her paid meetings with Goldman-Sachs were about "everyday Americans".

[boston bean]

20. My point was she went into a Chipotle unnoticed and I loved the story... okay?

[William769]

25. That's a lost cause there. Don't even bother.

[boston bean]

29. I'm like wow! I can feel the rage....

What do you mean by posting this story???? How DARE thee!

[rhett o rick]

62. You posted a story and drew a conclusion. I disagree with your conclusion.

I don't think HRC is worthy of being president and as a Democrat I should be able to have that opinion.

[boston bean]

92. You disagree that I like the story?

[rhett o rick]

94. Quite the contrary I liked the story. But where you saw that she was being "unassuming", I saw that

regular people, working people didn't have a clue who she was. IMO she represents Goldman-Sachs and not the 99%.

[boston bean]

95. Sometimes there is just no other response than to LOL...

[rhett o rick]

99. What, you don't agree that the banksters love her? Especially Goldman-Sachs, probably the

worse of the worse. Well maybe not worse than HSBC that launders drug cartel money and donates to the Clinton Foundation.

[boston bean]

105. what do you need me to agree with you for. We're talking an unannounced Chipotle visit..

you think that proves banks love her and that she launders drug cartel money using the Clinton Foundation?

I think that sounds well.... a bit over the top, to put it nicely.

[SidDithers]

132. Yup...

That's been my position for years now.



Sid

[Beartracks]

102. I'd wager the workers wouldn't have recognized Bernie or Liz either...

... even though their progressive cred makes them more overtly "supportive of the 99%" than Hillary.

Who a politician represents is not that big a factor in determining who common folk are going to recognize on the street.

I think Hillary's anonymous Chipotle's run reflects the idea that regular American workers are far too busy trying to make ends meet and/or are way too inundated by iPhones and Kardashians to take notice of the "boring" grind of politics.

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[boston bean]

107. You think 47% of that 99% would vote for Warren or Sanders?

Come on, this 99% number is complete malarkey...

We are a divided nation. There is no way that 99% of the people would support any democratic presidential candidate.

Hint, a good portion of that 99% is against your principles... and would never, ever vote for a democrat. They are called republicans.

[Beartracks]

111. ?? I didn't claim a ratio of support for Hillary!

I was reacting to and recycling some verbiage from Rhett O Rick's post, which implied that the Chipotle workers' lack of recognition for Hillary was somehow indicative of her lack of support for anyone but Wall Street. My point was: Even politicians who make no bones about supporting working Americans are probably not well-recognized by working Americans, so Rhett's assertion was kind of a stretch.

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[rhett o rick]

117. We all agree we hate the Republicons. But how can some of us forget that H. Clinton abandoned

us and not only supported THE REPUBLICONS, but helped spread their lies. We don't need Democrats that bow down to Republicons.

I don't care what statistic you bring forward, H. Clinton proved she had no integrity in 2002.

[SidDithers]

37. +1...

Sid

[zappaman]

88. You ain't kidding!

[Cha]

119. Precisely. The requisite dump on anything positive.

[SidDithers]

36. The Oligarch Rulers chose her lunch destination...

right?

Sid

[Bobbie Jo]

61. Here

have a derisive smile...

[Warren DeMontague]

123. And why are there no carnitas? the ILLUMINATI, that's why.

[hrmjustin]

53. The Clintons are in good standing with the American people.

[OnyxCollie]

86. There's not a lot of high expectations in Maumee.

Working at the Chipotle makes you a celebrity.

Here's how I think Chipotle workers will recount the incident:

We got slammed when some lady came in with a whole bunch of people.

[rhett o rick]

96. The OP is giving her props for being "unassuming". Not sure what she expected but

IMO unassuming is normal.

[Adsos Letter]

93. Right...

...like the "common people" don't watch the news.

[rhett o rick]

100. I don't watch Corp-Media so tell me, has she been on a lot lately? nm

[Dream Girl]

116. Whoop woop

This is going to be my response to Wall Street posts

[Warren DeMontague]

122. She's been a prominent national figure for two and a half decades straight now.

"I am not surprised that common people dont recognize her" shit, I am!

But I also think your attempt to make a chipotle thread about goldman-sachs and wall st is more than a bit ham-fisted, here. Yes, im sure that conversation will be had repeatedly in the next 15 mos, but in a Chipotle thread?

Hey Wait, Chipotle is traded on the NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.... its obviously all a bankster burrito conspiracy!!!!!

[rhett o rick]

127. The OP was about how HRC went into a Chipotle's and wasn't recognized.

I merely pointed out that she isn't a candidate for the people, she is a candidate for Wall Street and maybe that's why she wasn't recognized.

[Warren DeMontague]

130. Yeah, exactly.

"I merely...."

[William769]

24. What a great story!

I'll bet now everybody's going to be on the lookout for her.

Can't wait to hear more of these Hillary sightings in the heartland of America.

Hillary Clintonnnnnn where are youuuuuu! Hint, hint.

[misterhighwasted]

35. Think she's in Monticello at a Community College.

1st speaking engagement of the tour. It is private.
Guess the RW Media gets seconds again. Lol

[justiceischeap]

26. For the most part, when you come across "famous" people, you don't expect to, so you don't often

recognize them. Really, would you expect to run into HRC in a Chipotle in Ohio? Not so much.

[boston bean]

30. True... That is part of why I like it!

[zappaman]

89. I came face to face with Michael Jackson once.

Was speechless.

[justiceischeap]

98. Which face did he have then?

Towards the end when I saw pictures of his face I was speechless too.

[zappaman]

112. The one with no nose.

Seriously.

[justiceischeap]

113. Yep, that'd make me speechless.

When I was a "free-range" kid (sorry, allusion to another thread here), my mom worked as a beautician at a nursing home. One of her favorite clients was this woman who'd lost her nose to cancer. I think I was 11 when I met her... I was speechless then too but I think I handled it pretty well for someone that age.

[zappaman]

115. Really, I was speechless because I didn't expect to be

Nose to no-nose with him.
Better chance of seeing a Sasquatch!

[calimary]

108. That's quite true. If you're not used to seeing famous people, you're probably not

used to watching out for famous people. I always had to because I worked in entertainment in Los Angeles. And depending on where you were, you might see some Oscar winner at the grocery store or heading into the dry cleaners' or some such unspectacular location. My daughter and I ran into Julia Roberts standing in line at a local Starbucks one Sunday morning. If you weren't used to scanning for celebrities, you wouldn't have recognized her. And she was unspectacular-looking, too. She was in her jammies with her hair kind of disheveled - which is pretty much how everybody else looked, standing in line at the local Starbucks on a Sunday morning.

If you don't expect it, then you won't expect it.

[justiceischeap]

114. I live in the DC Metro area

so I'm sure I see politicians all the time but I don't necessarily notice it. I went the anti-police brutality march here in DC this past year and Al Sharpton walked right past. Didn't even notice but I'm weird that way.

[calimary]

118. I used to be really good at it. Just always was.

I remember going to a big arena concert for I-forget-what and I spotted Bob Dylan in the audience. It always helped when I was still working - I could spot the celeb and go get a quote or comment or react for a "people item" or some such thing before others in the press gaggle did. NOW, forget it. I'd be lost. I can't keep track of 'em anymore!

If I were still working, I'd probably have to know each and every "Real Housewife" and "Bachelor/Bachelorette" and "American Idol" figure and all the "True Blood" stuff and "Hunger Games" stuff and - SHEESH - who could keep up?

[Iliyah]

110. Film industry films quite a bit in downtown Los Angeles

I use to work downtown about five years ago and at lunch use to walk there. Many celebs I didn't recognize a few I did.

Same for LAX.

[bullwinkle428]

39. Okay, so I'll grudgingly admit this makes Hillary a tad more "relate-able" - I'm constantly

in my nearby Chipotle ordering chicken burrito bowls! It's gotten to the point where one of the young women working behind the counter asked me where I'd been, as she hadn't seen me there recently!

[yallerdawg]

40. I can't afford Chipotle.

I'm headed to Mickey D's for a 60 cent cheeseburger.

[B2G]

41. Why didn't she talk to anyone?

Isn't that the whole point of the road trip?

[boston bean]

42. I'm sure she spoke stating what she wanted in her burrito bowl.

If she had been out making photo ops and glad handing then she would be seen as staging events..

This was a normal happening... jessum chrissum, people will criticize anything.

[B2G]

45. I'm not criticizing

I'm asking a question. Just seemed to me it would have been a good opportunity to meet some locals. Sheesh.

[boston bean]

46. ok then my apologies..

She was out in an ordinary setting most people find themselves in daily.

[B2G]

49. I find it amazing no one recognized her! nt

[boston bean]

50. Yeah, like I said upthread, I'd be kicking myself in the ass to have not

been aware enough to take advantage of the opportunity.

[Avalux]

56. She stopped to eat. Have you ever been on a road trip?

It was a quick stop on the way to her destination, unannounced, for food.

[B2G]

57. Not while running for President. Lol.

[Avalux]

58. So what? She isn't allowed to act ordinary? n/t

[B2G]

59. Of course. I was just making an observation.

Sorry if it offended you.

[Avalux]

84. No worries - not offended.

[hedgehog]

44. I have two reactions -

First - people hustling that lunch time assembly line wouldn't notice any stranger who walked in -

Second - real woman of the people there - what would happen if Obama had walked in ?

[boston bean]

47. So, this means she is unelectable?

If she had been making herself the center of attention, she would have been accused of trying to "act" like a real woman of the people... to use your words..

[hedgehog]

64. I think her support may be a mile wide and an inch deep.

and once again, it's all about her, not us.

I don't follow tabloids, but if someone whose image I saw daily walked in, I think I'd notice, if only to spot an anomaly. So no, i wouldn't recognize a Kardashian, but I'd notice one.

[hedgehog]

83. Not inevitable is not the same as unelectable.

[Beacool]

70. Pandemonium, as it would be with any president.

[onehandle]

48. A burrito bowl!? Why can't Hillary order a burrito like us 'regular Americans.'

[font size="5"]BURRITOBOWLGATE![/font]

Heh. I always order a bowl at Chipotle. Same price, but you get more food.

Now I want to go to Chipotle for lunch... Thanks, Hillary!

[snooper2]

51. great, a year and a half of hearing everytime hillary toots a little

[hrmjustin]

54. Enjoy!

[zappaman]

90. When I was a kid, we called

Farts..."tooters".
Thanks for bringing that back into my memory!

[Geronimoe]

60. Fantasy Island at the buffet

George Carlin got it right... they don't give a fu*k about you.

Everday Americans is code for the peons, the rubble, working stiffs, the consumer class.

[whatchamacallit]

65. Isn't it wonderful when they descend Olympus with their security details and mingle?

They're just like us!!1

[boston bean]

66. Ok, chalk one up for her being out of touch, cause she has security

for a good reason... the nut baggers with guns and a political hatred of her.

[whatchamacallit]

67. Wrong

I have no issues with a candidate / SOS / senator / 1st lady needing security, I take issue with the notion that showing up at a Burrito Bowl is great or special.

[boston bean]

68. Along with her security detail... mmm mmm

[whatchamacallit]

69. Wise up

I mentioned it because it works against your everyman/woman theme, not because it's unnecessary or "out of touch".

[boston bean]

71. You used it to criticize her stopping to get some lunch....

and to PROVE how out of touch she really is...

[whatchamacallit]

72. Or

how gushing and lame the OP is.

[boston bean]

73. LOL... Yes, I "gushed" LOL.. nt

[DesMoinesDem]

74. So her staff called the New York Times to let them know that Hillary ate lunch unnoticed?

The tip off makes it clear that this is a PR move. It also makes it clear that this is an unusual event. She isn't an everyday American. She is a super rich person that doesn't order her own food or carry her own tray, and when she does her staff thinks it's news. What's her next PR stunt that the press will be tipped off about? "Check the traffic camera on I80 at 12:30. Hillary will be driving a car! Isn't that weird?! She is an everyday person!"

[Beacool]

75. Ahhhh, the charming comments from people that know squat about Hillary.

Hillary and Bill are the most accessible WH couple according to the SS. Anyone who lives in Chappaqua knows this. They do the things that anyone living in a community would do. They take regular walks with their dogs, they go to Starbucks, the local restaurants and other shops. Anyone can approach them. Heck, I have a friend who lives a few blocks away from them and has a pic of Hillary, who was then the SOS, and Chelsea at a lingerie store. Hillary was shopping for bras. Another time this friend saw her at the local drug store buying hair clips and scrunchies for her hair.

I don't know why some of you think that just because the Clintons have made a substantial amount of money after leaving the WH that they have ceased to act like normal human beings.

[MADem]

77. Oh, we know what it's all about....

It's what happens when people want to sit on their good intentions and expect an "alternative candidate" to leap up and dance to please them, without anything more than "keyboard support" that consists of trashing anyone who isn't their favorite. HRC has gotten way too much of that on this so-called Democratic board.

When that Magical Candidate doesn't do what they want, despite typing pleas over and over again, and other candidates who have support, like Clinton and Webb, move forward, they're left feeling resentful.

Sour grapes--it's what's for dinner!

[randr]

80. It is getting hard to tell the freekin trollers from the most politically correct these days

[Beacool]

82. I have no problem with political disagreements on issues.

I also have no problem with anyone preferring another candidate, but I do have a problem with the endless posts about inane and petty stuff like this one. I don't mean the OP, but the responses from the by now usual crowd.

I expect better from a Democratic site. I guess I'm wrong and the internet reduces everything to the lowest common denominator.

[NBachers]

91. Quite the bizarre thread here . . .

[rhett o rick]

101. It's one of the many "We Love Clinton" OP's that we are destined for in GD. Next they will be

posting how much they love her hair style.

[Skinner]

103. I love her hair style.

[NBachers]

104. I'm banning Skinner from the Hillary Clinton room.

[rhett o rick]

128. I like her hair style also, but not sure an OP about it meets the SoP of GD. nm

[Cha]

120. Yeah, her hair looks good. Too bad it irritates you so much.

[rhett o rick]

129. Quite the contrary. I like her hair style and like her as well. I wonder about using GD

as the lounge to discuss hair styles. I am opposed to her being president doesn't mean I don't like her.

[Warren DeMontague]

121. I had Chipotle today.

good stuff. Maybe a bit on the salty side, but, still good.

[DFW]

126. About 20 years ago

I was in a restaurant in Munich. It was an old restored building with many rooms, so it wasn't obvious who was there in any of the other rooms. I was upset as all hell when I found out that Gorbachev had been eating dinner with some people about three rooms down. They probably wouldn't have appreciated me barging in to say hi (assuming I even would have gotten that far--I don't know who else was with him), but I sure as hell would have tried.

[riversedge]

135. Seems so long ago. so so long ago.