So said a bumper sticker slapped on a car parked Sunday outside a hangar where Sen. Hillary Clinton held a town hall meeting. Towanda, from the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes,” kind of means “girl power.”
“Hillary, I think you're fabulous,” said a woman in the crowd inside.
They came wearing T-shirts and ball caps emblazoned with the matters close to their hearts - and stomachs.
Clinton talked with roughly 1,500 people about bringing the country an energy policy that didn't pour exorbitant profits into the coffers of ExxonMobil.
High energy costs are pushing up the price of food worldwide, and Missoula's foodies - and beer-ies - witnessed Clinton's talk.
A T-shirt in the crowd: “Garden City Harvest,” complete with coffee stains and dirt, said its owner.
A sweatshirt in the crowd: “Lake Missoula Amber,” reference to a Kettlehouse Brewing Co. brew.
The candidate running neck and neck with Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination also spoke in favor of clean energy and stemming climate change.
More fashion decoding: There was evidence the crowd included folks who don't want to see carbon dioxide and other waste muck up the earth, skies and waters.
A ball cap: “Center for Riverine Science and Stream Re-naturalization.”
Another T-shirt in the crowd: “Back Country Horsemen of Missoula.”
Clinton said she wanted to end the war in Iraq and also halt “Dubya's” war on science, and the audience attire even touched on this topic.
On Deanna Henderson's T-shirt, a magnanimous offer: “Support Stem Cell Research: Grow Bush a Brain.”
The shirt was a gift from her son, who did two tours of duty in Iraq. He bought it for her in Seattle during his last leave.
Henderson isn't living high on the hog, but she remembers that times were better back in the 1990s. She made more money, had better benefits and her kids were on the Children's Health Insurance Program, she said.
“I loved the Clinton years,” Henderson said.
And she's hoping for a sequel.
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