Apparently I’m the only only blogger writing about Mrs. Clinton’s visit in the Garden State last night. Here’s the story:<\/p>\n
I’m out on a date with my wife at the eatery of her choice: Sunny Palace<\/a> featuring fine Chinese cuisine. We pulled into the parking lot which was just packed and were surprised to find the one section vacant except for a police cruiser which was just pulling out, one limousine and one black SUV. None of this seemed too odd but I wondered if there was a private party and I wasn’t allowed to park here. Sure enough, while I was futzing with the radio I heard a wrapping on my window, rolled it down and was greeted with a secret service badge. The conversation went like this:<\/p>\n Man with badge: “Could you stay in your car for a moment sir.” So we did. While waiting I took the opportunity to notice the extra pair of American flags that had been draped here and there. After about a minute they pulled away. We went inside and found a festive atmosphere of post-rally enthusiasm. Mrs. Clinton had been garnering support (for or from) Asian Americans and there were bumper stickers and buttons all over. A bus load of supporters had been carted in from DC & professional musicians from… violin world? It must have been a real gala event. Hopefully Hillary has finally make up for prior mistakes<\/a>. Not that I blame her. It seems the Asian American community might be getting oversensitive<\/a>.<\/p>\n Once the hubbub died down we found a table and enjoyed a good meal. Heather ran into a student of hers having a birthday party and learned that we missed an opportunity for photos with the former first lady. Oh well. I would have had way too much fun with that photo anyway. My dad would have had a coronary. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n But it was good to see Capital Hillary again. Well, the back of her getting into a limo anyway. I had seen her speak once before while I was in high school and she was plugging for her hubby while he was still in the primaries in 1992. That’s nearly half my lifetime ago already. I feel old! Good thing I chose to open my fortune cookie last night…<\/p>\n “You will have a long and healthy life.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hillary Clinton is stalking me! She keeps turning up every 16 years or so… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMe: “Sure. What’s going on?”
\nMan with badge: “Hillary Clinton is in the building.”
\nMe: “No kidding.”
\nMan with badge: “Just stay in your car until we leave the lot.”<\/p>\n