Hillary Clinton Tells South Carolina She’s Down With Barack Obama

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton campaigned in South Carolina Wednesday, and if you want an example of why she’s not tripping all over herself to talk to the media, you need only to look at the coverage she’s gotten so far. When they’re not stressing the fugazi sex-based “rivalry” with Single White Candidate Carly Fiorina, the press has been focused on a quip Clinton made about coloring her hair:

“I am aware I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I have one big advantage. I have been coloring my hair for years. So you are not going to see me turn white in the White House. And you’re also not going to see me shrink from a fight.”

True, it was a clever quip that neutralized the age and gender issues simultaneously, but it was hardly the most newsworthy part of the speech, nor is the one-sided shadowboxing match Carly Fiorina is having with Hillary. The substance of Clinton’s speech offered plenty to report on, as she spoke about equal pay, family leave, sexual harassment, and the measly $2.13 minimum wage for tipped workers, and even took a hard shot at Wall Street hedge fund managers.

But politically, the real story of the speech…READ MORE

By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.