Brendan Nyhan

Hillary’s waitress cares about issues

Amidst the silly flap over whether Hillary Clinton’s campaign left a tip at a restaurant in Iowa, it’s great to see one of the waitresses who served the candidate keeping her head about what’s really important:

Ms. Esterday said she did not understand what all the commotion was about.
“You people are really nuts,” she told a reporter during a phone interview. “There’s kids dying in the war, the price of oil right now — there’s better things in this world to be thinking about than who served Hillary Clinton at Maid-Rite and who got a tip and who didn’t get a tip.”

And Esterday doesn’t remember a tip being left! (Other reports indicate that the campaign left $100.)