Salt and pepper on the campaign trail: Hillary Clinton has a pizza
Submitted by jstudent on Tue, 2008-03-11 15:10.
Yesterday, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary “I am Sorta from Scranton1” Clinton (D-N.Y.) made a campaign stop in Northeastern Pennsylvania. 
The former first lady, who won’t forget NEPA if elected2, peppered her speech at a rally at Scranton High School with local references tossed betwixt campaign rhetoric.
The former first lady, who won’t forget NEPA if elected2, peppered her speech at a rally at Scranton High School with local references tossed betwixt campaign rhetoric. But first, she had a pizza: An Old Forge 3, 4 and 5-style pizza6.
The senator had said pizza at Revello’s Café7, whose owner Pat Revello and his wife Heather were honeymooning in Philadelphia8 after being married Saturday but abandoned the trip to come home to make pizza for Sen. Clinton9.
During Clinton’s sit-and-eat with dozens of onlookers, this bit of wisdom, according to the Scranton Times, came from the senator’s ‘childhood’ neighbor Hazel Price, 82, a former Scranton school director:
Mrs. Clinton also learned something new about her father right at the table as she talked about what her father’s reaction would be to her running for president.
“I think he’d be surprised and proud,” she said.
“Maybe not too surprised,” Mrs. Price chimed in.
Asked what she meant, Mrs. Price said her parents and Mrs. Clinton’s father, Hugh Rodham, corresponded after he moved his family to Illinois, where Mrs. Clinton was born and raised10. When Mrs. Clinton’s husband, Bill, was running for president in 1992, Mr. Rodham wrote a letter in which he said “Hillary is going to be a great first lady.”
“Which of course we agreed,” Mrs. Price said. “Then in the next paragraph, he said, ‘However, don’t you think in the future she’s going to make a great president?’ ”
“I didn’t know that, Hazel,” said Mrs. Clinton, who seemed genuinely surprised. “Do you have that?”
Mrs. Price said the letter was lost in a move11.
After the pizza stop the senator got back to doing anything it takes to get elected campaigning and delivered her speech to an overflow crowd of more than 3,000, with several hundred people reportedly turned away at the door 12.
Before finishing she let the crowd in on a scoop: She’d be returning this Saturday to march in the Scranton St. Patrick’s Day Parade13 ; she also offered her daughter as a human sacrifice14.
Sources:
WNEP-TV
Photo: Times Leader
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1- This really is the yin to the ‘snowballs at Santa Claus’’ yang: It’s true, but it doesn’t mean what you think it does.
2- She sure as hell wasn’t what one would call ‘visible’ when she last lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C.
3- The town bills itself as the Pizza Capital of the World.
4- It’s also the home (though not birthplace) of Joe Amato, who is like the Tiger Woods Richard Petty of drag racing. We’ll take this space to note that Sen. Clinton should be glad that there was pizza to try otherwise her ass might have gotten strapped into a funny car that was headed up N. Main Street into Scranton.
5- The pizza isn’t like any other pizza you’ve tried – and not everyone will tell you that’s a good thing. It comes in rectangular trays (not pans or pies) and cuts (not pieces or slices). The cheese used is also this unique blend that sometimes gets stuck in your teeth, to the roof of your mouth, etc.
Be warned: People who live within 15 miles of Old Forge are compelled to argue that this style is the Best. Pizza. Ever. In short, Old Forge Pizza isn’t made for Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris would be stronger if he were made out of Old Forge Pizza.
6- This is what it looks like.
7- Her decision to pick one pizzeria out of the dozens of places in Old Forge (pop. 8,798) is probably the ballsiest thing she’s done so far in Pa. The consequence: She has probably lost the Arcaro & Genell’s contingent whose favorite pizza place is right across the intersection from Revello’s.
8- Honeymooning in Philly?
9- Poor, poor Pat. Dude, you had better be a Democrat, because you are going to hear about this forever, my friend.
10- Clarification. Thank God!
11- Lost? Ya lost that Hazel?...Note to self: things I might put somewhere special when I move: A letter from a soon-to-be First Lady’s father predicting that she would someday be the first female president.
12- Best part of the rally: the Scranton High School advanced chorus sang “Ain’t No Party Like a Scranton Party” from the NBC sitcom The Office.
13- One of the largest St. Patrick’s Day parades in the country. Really.
14- If Chelsea stops at The Bog for Happy Hour, she might win over the entire Lackawanna County 18-35 vote in one beer.
