by Rick Pearson
HAMMOND, Ind.—Evoking memories of her husband’s always-behind-schedule late arrivals, Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton was running an hour behind schedule on her Hoosier “economic town hall” at the Hammond Civic Center.
Trying to placate the 1,500 people who waited for hours, various musical acts and local officials took the stage to implore people to hang on for her arrival.
Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott, who is among seven Northwest Indiana mayors who are backing Clinton, urged people to eschew the civic center’s hot dogs and return to their seats.
“I know those hot dogs are good,” McDermott said, “but Sen. Clinton is 20 times better than that.”





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"Evoking memories of her husband’s always-behind-schedule late arrivals, Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton was running an hour behind schedule".
Hillary must have been dodging sniper fire at the Hammond, Ind airport, that will always make you run a little late:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTcsWneLqKw
Posted by: Monica | March 28, 2008 2:59 PM
ABC’s Jake Tapper reported on an unnamed Democratic Party official saying that it's not a question of *if* Clinton can somehow secure the nomination. The question is -- what will she have to do in order to achieve it? The official's answer: She will have to "break his back," to destroy Obama and make him completely unacceptable. "Her securing the nomination is certainly possible - but it will require exercising the 'Tonya Harding option.'" the official said. Read full story here - http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/dnc-official-cl.html).
As the Clinton campaign spins Obama as actually being the reprehensibly negative player in this competition, and the media swallowing and regurgitating the most incendiary non-issues, (consider today's self-righteous "all I know is that if it were me personally, I would have left that church), I fear for the future of Obama's campaign, of the Democratic party, and the United States. I'm afraid we can't take another two months of the destructive Clinton ambition machine. Please contact the Democratic National Committee (http://www.democrats.org/page/s/contactissues) and let the party leaders no that we can't waste any more time; the train is nearing the bridge that's out, and it takes a lot to stop that kind of fateful momentum. Super delegates must decide *now*, not in August, to swing behind the best candidate in our generation so that the Democratic Party can look forward to the general election in November and beyond.
Posted by: Martha Davidson | March 28, 2008 4:41 PM
The mayor is correct. But then we don't want to know how hot dogs are made either.
Posted by: Bob | March 28, 2008 5:58 PM
Hot dog! And Bill isn't quite as good as a good cigar.
Posted by: Rick/Sneads Ferry, NC | March 28, 2008 6:07 PM
Hillary has such fine judgment. That is why she never left Bill Clinton after being throughly embarrassed by him in 1992 and again in 1998-99. Her fine judgment led her to lay a whopper on the country about a hail of bullets in Bosnia. Another whopper about bringing peace to Ireland. Now Hillary is about to face the music in a California court over perjury in an election fund raising case dating to year 2000. Trial starts on April 25th. Spare us this talk about how good your judgment is, Hillary.
Posted by: ChandraSF | March 28, 2008 6:09 PM
Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott, who is among seven Northwest Indiana mayors who are backing Clinton, urged people to eschew the civic center’s hot dogs and return to their seats.
“I know those hot dogs are good,” McDermott said, “but Sen. Clinton is 20 times better than that.”
Yep the Hillary buzz is growing. Yawn...Zzzzz
Posted by: Logic Prisoner | March 28, 2008 8:08 PM
When Barack is late, do you run a news item about it?
Give me a breaik.
You're gonna get diabetes from drinkin' the Obama Koolaid!
Posted by: geraldinetoo | March 28, 2008 8:19 PM
The Obama buzz comes from freebasing.
Posted by: hhkeller | March 28, 2008 9:33 PM
Does anyone think that the tardiness is intentional, to fill up more space and get the crowd going? Methinks so. I'm down here in Kentucky and for those who know, George Clooney drew a larger crowd than Bill Clinton earlier this week.
Posted by: tony.s | March 28, 2008 10:28 PM
The hot dog is twenty times smarter!!!
Posted by: Anton Chigurh | March 29, 2008 5:49 AM