‘Sticker Kid’ steals all of Hillary Clinton’s thunder
It’s not only that Hillary Clinton is unwinnable. It’s the fact that even if she does win, someone is waiting in the wings to take her thunder.
She made a powerful and emotional address at the Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucus, where she had recently defeated rival Bernie Sanders. When he realized he’d be on camera behind her, freshman college student Peter Clinkscales (nicknamed “the Sticker Kid”) made expressions, pretended to devour a flier, and covered his face with campaign stickers (hence the nickname).
All everybody could talk about after Hillary Clinton’s address was Sticker Kid posing for the camera!
Bill Clinton can’t stop laughing next to Boris Yeltsin
America has had a tumultuous relationship with Russia since World War II. For this and other reasons, journalists and other media professionals anticipated that Bill Clinton’s meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1995 would be a disaster.
On television, Yeltsin (who many suspected was inebriated) brought up the media’s catastrophic forecasts and then informed the gathering media personalities, “Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you’re a disaster.” Bill Clinton burst out laughing, and his face got beet-red at this point.
Bill struggled to keep a straight face for the rest of the proceedings. It’s amusing to watch right now, but it cost him political points with people who already suspected him of being too tight with Russia.