# Hillary: "I met he...." WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 13, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-i-met-he-wtf/437376 "2008-02-13T00:29:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-i-met-he-wtf/437376/1 "2008-02-13T00:29:18Z")
On 60 Minutes on Sunday, Hillary said in response to a question about if she knew Obama, she said, “I met he and his family.” Really grates my grammatical sensibilities. She also has fortunately cut down on her "Ya know?"s. She only did 8 of them in 12 minutes. In an earlier debate she did 27 of them in 16 minutes. Arrgh. Can you imagine her addressing the United Nations? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-i-met-he-wtf/437376/2 "2008-02-13T00:31:19Z")
Let’s give her a little credit here: people make grammatical mistakes when they speak extemporaneously. I don’t think she’d throw a bunch of "Ya know"s into a speech at the U.N. And in a speech, she’d probably be trying to sound formal instead of trying to sound informal at a debate. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-i-met-he-wtf/437376/3 "2008-02-13T00:37:24Z")
Yes. When you’re speaking, sometimes you slip. It’s no big deal. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-i-met-he-wtf/437376/4 "2008-02-13T05:43:17Z")
I smell BS. She does nothing by accident. This is a deliberate attempt to sound like she’s just regular folk. Apologies if this a bit strident for this forum, but the question was asked… ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-i-met-he-wtf/437376/5 "2008-02-13T05:47:38Z")
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**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-i-met-he-wtf/437376/6 "2008-02-13T06:01:17Z")
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth] I smell BS. She does nothing by accident. This is a deliberate attempt to sound like she’s just regular folk. Apologies if this a bit strident for this forum, but the question was asked… [/QUOTE] Good point. America’s Idiocracy started about seven years ago and you sure can’t expect to get elected by sounding too smart & faggy these days. Peoples gets all intiminated. ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-i-met-he-wtf/437376/7 "2008-02-13T18:35:15Z")
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth] I smell BS. She does nothing by accident. This is a deliberate attempt to sound like she’s just regular folk. Apologies if this a bit strident for this forum, but the question was asked… [/QUOTE] Why do people believe this about politicians? Everyone does things by accident. Sure, they _try_ to control their public image obsessively, but they’re not superhumans. 99% of the people who saw that episode of _60 Minutes_ didn’t notice the slip and wouldn’t have cared one way or the other if you’d pointed it out to them, and in my opinion, they’re right not to. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-i-met-he-wtf/437376/8 "2008-02-13T18:40:50Z")
Yeah, it’s more likely that it’s calculated. She decided that if she said “I met he,” she would get the vote of Bob Smith and wife and two adult children, which could put her over the top on Cuyahoga Street in southwest Cleveland, and as southwest Cleveland goes, so goes the state of Ohio. Aides told me she spent a few hours before the interview deciding whether or not to say “my campaign bus needs painted,” but she decided that might lose her three votes in a small town near Cincinnati. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-i-met-he-wtf/437376/9 "2008-02-13T18:41:28Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Peoples gets all intiminated. [/QUOTE] Or flustrated. ---
**Author:** ![atomicbadgerrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@atomicbadgerrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atomicbadgerrace)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-i-met-he-wtf/437376/10 "2008-02-13T18:59:15Z")
[QUOTE=Ignatz] On 60 Minutes on Sunday, Hillary said in response to a question about if she knew Obama, she said, “I met he and his family.” Really grates my grammatical sensibilities. She also has fortunately cut down on her "Ya know?"s. She only did 8 of them in 12 minutes. In an earlier debate she did 27 of them in 16 minutes. Arrgh. Can you imagine her addressing the United Nations? [/QUOTE] LOL. … oh … you’re seriously perturbed by this … well, then. _cough_ Time for a hobby. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-i-met-he-wtf/437376/11 "2008-02-13T19:16:59Z")
I don’t like Hilary. I won’t vote for Hilary. But seriously, can’t you find something about her to get _really_, legitimately upset over? If this is the _worst_ thing you can find about her, we need to put her in office _immediately_. People mis-speak. Even really smart people. Even people who are qualified to be POTUS. Tempest in a tea pot, imho. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-i-met-he-wtf/437376/12 "2008-02-13T19:20:40Z")
Hmmm… we is still learning? I find this ludicrous to the point of insanity. If she oh, I don’t know–made a habit of speaking poorly in public due to a lack of intellectual curiosity and a dearth of brain cells thanks to years of alcohol addiction, you might have a point. I am constantly amazed by how people spend their time. Did you listen (at all) to the content of what she said or were you too caught up in counting the ya knows? ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-i-met-he-wtf/437376/13 "2008-02-13T19:21:20Z")
Well, this _is_ in MPSIMS. Where better to complain about this sort of thing? Frankly, it grates on me, too. It’s like the thing I see in work all the time: “Can you email it to so-and-so and I?”