Hillary Clinton returns to her roots in Scranton

[jackson_dem]

I posted this for two reasons. 1) It is kind of a feel good story to see Hill return to her roots and these ties will help her in the Scranton metro area on 4/22 2) Notice the msm has started to mention her affluence ever since Wisconsin? They are doing to her what they did to Edwards: paint her as hypocrite for being rich and caring about working folks. Once again it is clear who the msm's horse is in this race. Notice how they never mention Obama is a millionaire who attended prep school, two Ivy League colleges and met his wife at the most elite law school in the country? Obama has been able to keep a modern day "log cabin" story despite having living a dream life since his teen years (he did grow up poor).

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Hillary Clinton begins her six-week siege of Pennsylvania today with an afternoon rally in Scranton, where her rough-hewn father, Hugh Rodham, was born to Welsh immigrants almost 97 years ago.

Once a major mining community, the city now is best known as the setting television types picked for NBC's sitcom "The Office." Scranton, nestled in state's northeast corner, has embraced this reflected glory; as noted in a New York Times article last year, the publicity is a welcome change for a city "whose name never seemed to appear in print without the words 'hardscrabble former coal-mining town.' "

Hard-bitten apparently would describe Rodham's upbringing in Scranton, based on Carl Bernstein's capsule description of him in his 2007 biography of Clinton, "A Woman in Charge." The author termed the presidential candidate's dad "a sour, unfulfilled man whose children suffered his relentless, demeaning sarcasm and misanthropic inclination, endured his embarrassing parsimony, and silently accepted his humiliation and verbal abuse of their mother."

Clinton presumably will invoke her local roots during her appearance at Scranton High School. Chances are good she'll mention that as a girl, her family's annual vacation took them to Lake Winona, on Scranton's outskirts (oops, our thanks to a couple of commenters, who noted this should be Lake Winola). Perhaps she'll note that they stayed in a cabin built by her father and grandfather -- a dwelling that, Bernstein reports, "had no heat, bath, or shower." But odds are not good she'll regale her audience with ...


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/03/clinton-in-scra.html

[susankh4]

1. I've been watching this play on the MSM

and the nicest part of it is when the neighbors get interviewed. Not sure that is making the "news." But I did see it in "Inside Edition." Very nice!

I drive through Scranton all the time. On business. May try to drop into a Hillary event or two.

Will be making my phone calls, ya better believe! I have laid low since OH. That round up wore me out. But I am almost ready to jump back in and start 2 hours a day of calling....

We gotta win this for her BIGTIME!

[libbygurl]

2. Yup, I noticed that promotion of O's story- the Audacity of Hype and...

...Dreams About My Father things.

I do like the stories coming out about Hillary's roots in Scranton, PA, though. The NYTimes piece (posted by DeepModemMom here yesterday) has a video clip of little Hillary as a sprightly, smiling 3-year-old as well.

Interesting that the Phila. mayor is backing Hillary - it's said Bill Clinton did much for PA, including Philly, and they still appreciate that. I am very hopeful about PA for HRC!