Hillary Clinton approaches the podium at Troutman Sanders Public Affairs office in DC, and addresses the assortment of gray and blue suits in attendance:
"I'd like to welcome all the rural Americans here today who were able to travel and plunk down money to lunch with me here in this tony DC law office. I hope that both of you will keep your damn muddy boots off the furniture."
Yeah, the perfect campaign, criticized for being too cozy with lobbyists, has announced it will hold its "rural issues" forum at the offices of Monsanto's lobbyist.
Monsanto. Let's look at some of the things Monsanto's lobbyist defends: such lovely products as Roundup-ready corn (now contributing to resistant strains of weeds in a field near you) and non germinating seeds, which produce a plant that cannot reproduce, keeping farmers in poor countries from planting anything except what they are able to purchase form Monsanto next year. Monsanto, the fourth largest Superfund site owner in the United States. A huge multinational company at odds with small farmers around the world.
But, to the Clinton campaign, the typical rural American. This is why I say electing Hillary Clinton, while better than electing any of the current crop of GOP idiots seeking the Presidency, is a less than optimal outcome.
Meanwhile. In the campaign with actual integrity, actual rural Americans are meeting an actual rural American running for President of the United States.
Like the man says, "we don't want to replace a bunch of corporate Republicans with a bunch of corporate Democrats."
Stop her. Vote Edwards.
h/t Matthew Yglesias