Saturday, April 09, 2016
Is Hillary onto something?
Idly reading an article about Hillary's Listening Tour. Ready with my usual supply of Hmphs and Mmmmmm-hmmmms. The article knocked me off my high horse. Or high hmph.
Democratic presidential campaign news: Hillary Clinton just visited the Buffalo Transportation Pierce Arrow Museum. ... she launched off in a van that was unfortunately named “Scooby,” meeting at an Iowa auto mechanics classroom, then holding a small-business round table at a family-owned fruit company. The biggest drama came in Maumee, Ohio, when she visited a Chipotle and failed to leave money in the tip jar.Pierce Museum. Iowa auto mechanics class. Family-owned fruit company. Maumee. Those are EXACTLY the places I'd want a candidate to listen. Lost manufacturing, business development, vo-tech training. The Iowa auto mechanics class is a place where I might have been teaching in a slightly changed universe. Is Hillary actually listening? Is she adjusting her priorities accordingly? This bears watching. Yes, it's calculated and scripted, but it still puts Hillary in direct contact with the truth about working-class white America. As with Bill's accurate understanding of black America, truth is truth regardless of motive.
Labels: Experiential education, skill-estate
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