Hillary Clinton: Hot Sauce in Her Bag

When Hillary Clinton talked about having 'hot sauce in her bag'-actually not in her bag, but just liking it, of course she got hit for pandering.

"It turns out she lugs around hot sauce! Somebody tell Beyoncé!"

"The Democrat revealed :

"I have been eating a lot of hot sauce – raw peppers and hot sauce… I think it keeps my immune system strong. I really do. I think hot sauce is good for you in moderation."

"In case you aren't familiar, in Bey's hit song Formation, she sings about carrying hot sauce in her bag!"

"However, the radio host was skeptical that Miz Clinton also said this to appeal to Black voters. He said:


"People are gonna see this and say, 'OK, she's pandering to black people."'

The 68-year-old replied:

"OK, is it working?"

"To be fair, the politician has been very vocal about her love of spicy foods since 1992. In fact, she's a huge fan of Texas Pete hot sauce!"

http://perezhilton.com/2016-04-18-hillary-clinton-beyonce-the-breakfast-club-hot-sauce#.VyVDM6MrKRs

To me even if she was pandering it would be impressive that she had this cultural allusion-that she actually heard Beyonce's Formation.

http://genius.com/Beyonce-formation-lyrics

Tell the truth, I just heard Formation for the first time this morning-I wanted to figure out what all the hype was about. What was it in this song that earned the ire of Piers Morgan-then Morgan's ire earned him the ire of so many on black Twitter.

A meme developed that Piers can't drink our Lemonade. A suggestion came that maybe white people can't drink it-it's meant for black folks, full stop. So I wanted to hear it myself to figure out why this might be.

Honestly, the first time I heard it, I didn't see why it would make either black or white folks so crazy. Remember that SNL skit where after hearing her album Lemonade, white people suddenly realized Beyonce was black.

I had to hear it again while watching the accompanying video to have a better idea why it's supposed to be so controversial. Now I get it better.

As a biracial man I rarely totally agree with either white or black people but to my mind it's a pretty cool song. I'm sure the rest of the album it is pretty cool too.

But if Hillary had been pandering she'd have to have been aware of Formation, which in itself would be pretty impressive. It seems more likely that: she really does like hot sauce. In that she has one over me. I tried a few spicy wings last night-because for some reason they don't have unspicy wings-and again realized: I can't handle the hot. Never have been able to. My Jamaican grandmother used to put it on her scrambled eggs. Even looking at it made my mouth burn.

Speaking of Beyonce, a Daily Beast piece looks at her, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton with the focus being women's evolving relation to success and power.

"Could Hillary Clinton have left Bill after the most public outing of adultery in history? Absolutely. Would that have affected her end game of becoming POTUS? It’s very likely. Beyoncé ’s art and Hillary Clinton’s real life reckoning, played out before the public, are presenting us with new commentary on wives and cheating husbands: The reason a woman chooses to stay in a marriage after her partner’s affair may have changed from financial dependency, or unyielding loyalty, or societal constraints, to staying because (most importantly) it’s good for business and her whole life trajectory."

"When we discuss women living better, freer lives in 2016, and appreciate that women’s lives are evolving, we must also understand that the way women enter and participate in relationships will change as well. We see this example shine brightly every time we admire a photo of President and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama. FLOTUS was undoubtedly cemented in her position as a prominent attorney. In fact, she was Barack’smentor when he was hired one summer at the law firm she was an associate at. And as charming and handsome as she may have thought Barack to be, she also witnessed his brilliant legal mind, his serious and strong work ethic, and that he was headed for success. Michelle met Barack in 1989; he was the first black person to lead the Harvard Law Review, in 1990. Please don’t get it twisted, Michelle Obama did the choosing in that relationship and she did so by leading with her head as much as she was leading with her heart."

"Beyoncé, standing in all her #blackgirlmagic, may not be creating new conversations about relationships, but she is making those conversations more accessible to all, and is certainly presenting them in a new light. She has us talking, our ears buzzing, and our minds expanding with Lemonade. We are learning how the game done changed for women (married or not) wielding power in their own right, and we are all better for it."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/28/beyonce-hillary-michelle-and-the-business-of-american-marriage.html

I like this argument as we've heard the phony arguments for years that if Hillary were really a feminist she should have had Monica Lewinsky's back. Sure, it's not like Ms. Lewinsky didn't know she was giving another woman's husband a BJ.

Hillary was the only total victim here. Why should she destroy her own future to prove she's a feminist? The very people making this charge were blatant anti feminists. The irony was you had an anti sexist Administration being attacked by sexist GOPers because the President had a zipper problem.

Bear in mind as well, that every single one of Clinton's GOP accusers in Congress then was living in a serious glass house. Newt Gingrich was at the same time carrying on with his own intern who ultimately became his wife, Callista.

Bob Livingston took over for Newt as House Speaker but Larry Flynt got dirt on him and he was gone after 48 hours for his own extra marital affairs. Finally they got Dennis Hastert who was supposed to be squeaky clean.

Turns out he was a chronic child molester. Kind of makes you appreciate what Jesus said: He who is without sin, throw the first stone.

This year Trump is going to again blame the victim and claim Hillary needs to answer for Monica Lewinsky. He also said that she wouldn't have 5 percent of the vote without being a woman.

If she weren't a woman:

1. She would already have been President

2. Wouldn't be required to answer for the infidelity of her-in this case his-spouse.

P.S. Unfortunately I knocked over a glass of orange juice on my Mac keyboard yesterday. The good news is that while this would have shorted out a PC-this happened to me numerous times-it didn't short out the Mac which is much more resistant.

While the computer is still working fine, the spacebar now is pretty stiff and it slows down my roll which I hate.

I'm hoping this doesn't mean I have to buy a new laptop. I'm hoping when I bring it into Best Buy later, they are able to somehow fix the spacebar. I know on the PC they would tell you that there is no way to do it without dismantling the whole mother board.

On the other hand I think I have a warranty on this-I bought it just last July.

Oh well. Worse comes to worse they have some pretty cheap used Macs on Amazon.