A 'Tip' for Hillary: Admit Your Mistakes

by John Lott

"For Hillary Clinton last week, the problem appeared obvious. A Clinton speech used the plight of a waitress -- a single mom in Iowa, Anita Esterday, working two jobs to make ends meet.

Clinton was painted as not being personally concerned about Anita’s plight enough to even leave a tip.

After the allegations surfaced, the Clinton campaign responded that it had left a $100 tip on a $157 tab, with the incident turning into a debate between the diner staff and Clinton’s campaign.

The truth will probably never be completely clear. Supposedly the tip had been put on a credit card, but that later turned out to be false. The campaign then claimed that it had left cash that must have been misplaced. But things didn’t look good when Adam Crawford, the diner’s manager, said, "Where Hillary was sitting, there was no tip left," and the campaign was unwilling to identify or let the press talk to the staffer who left the tip.

The campaign appeared to concede the whole incident when a Clinton staffer showed up the next day to give Esterday a tip, but it could have simply been an honest attempt to make amends.

The Daily Kos noted on Friday: "A silly issue? Sure. But a mistake . . . ." The Australian Broadcasting Corporation referred to the whole thing as "trivialities."

But it is not a silly or trivial issue. The perceived cover-ups surely gave the story much more coverage and made what might have just been a simple oversight look much worse, and the issue is a lot deeper than just Clinton using the waitress as a campaign prop."

That Kos would stick up for a Clinton is no surprise, and in Australia people don't leave tips so of course they wouldn't find this unusual.

In reality, it is par for the course that a liberal would be tight with his or her money because they do after all get their kicks from spending OUR money. Single mom's working 2 jobs aren't going to get a boost from a Bill or Hillary...liberals as a group contribute far less to charities so why would anyone EXPECT them to pay from their own pocket?

The fun is in making US pay.