The slogan is, of course, a play on the French pronunciation of the
{-eau}+{-x} suffix normally attached to plural nouns and the
adjectives that must agree with them in gender and number and is
pronounced /o/.
Hillary hopped from her Kentucky rally for Alison Lundergan Grimes
to NOLA for the event, billed alternately as "Women with Mary" and
"Moms and Grams with Mary." A fair share of men also turned out to see
the newly-minted "gram." Bryan Cranston and Louis CK were spotted
outside the venue. Hillary reunited with her former Senate colleague at a rally at
the Sugar Mill in New Orleans and spoke of Landrieu's post-Katrina
advocacy for her constituents. Landrieu hopes to retain her Senate seat and help maintain the Democratic majority in the Senate.
At the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans today to keynote the closing session of the NADA Convention, Hillary Clinton told the auto dealers that she has not driven a car since 1996. It does not mean she is not "connected." It only means she is protected. Others as well (for those who know).
She reminded me of another brilliant, beautiful, astonishing, and accomplished blonde who avoids
driving if she can help it. As Queen Elizabeth, Helen Mirren appeared quite competent behind the
wheel and reminded the groundskeeper at Balmoral that she was a mechanic
during World War II. As Helen, she negotiated her lap elegantly and earned a top score, but
she looked miserable behind the wheel on the British version of Top
Gear in 2008. She admitted that she does not really like cars much and
that her first car exploded.
Well, when you have the pedigrees these two ladies possess, other
people are happy to chauffeur you around (I would). While they are separated by
one degree several times over, my favorite is that Helen became Dame of
the British Empire in 2003, the same year as Jane Goodall. Hillary
and Dr. Goodall both received honorary degrees from Scotland's St. Andrews University at the same ceremony last September.
On a somber note, Hillary spoke about Benghazi. If I am not mistaken, this
is her first public statement about it since leaving the State
Department last February.
