A camera recorded Hillary Clinton at a gas station, mystified by a coffee maker. It brings to mind former President George H.W. Bush’s discovery of the grocery scanner. Watch both videos here.

“Hillary vs. The Coffee Maker”

George H.W. Bush and the grocery scanner a.k.a. “Bush Discovers Fire”

It’s ironic that Hillary Clinton visited the gas station to show potential voters that she empathized with them over high gas prices and wanted to do something about it. However, being down with the people is not an easy task, what with uncooperative coffee makers and, as Wonkette points out, an uncooperative press:

The Associated Press — the most objective news source ever — covered this event, as they have every other event in world history, and put out the most bitter, sarcastic write-up imaginable. Check out the first few paragraphs after the jump, because they are a stitch.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, a former first lady who hasn’t driven a car or pumped gas in many years because of Secret Service restrictions, joined a blue-collar worker at a filling station Wednesday to illustrate how the high price of gasoline is squeezing consumers.

The Democratic presidential candidate and sheet metal worker Jason Wilfing, 33, pulled into the station in a large white Ford 250 pickup truck, Clinton riding shotgun. Never mind that it wasn’t even Wilfing’s truck — he had borrowed his boss’s larger vehicle to accommodate Clinton’s security agent and personal assistant, who rode in the back.

Trailing Wilfing and Clinton was a Secret Service motorcade consisting of six gas-guzzling Suburbans, two squad cars and a green SUV bearing photographers and TV cameras. Several other reporters and cameramen stood shivering in unseasonably cold temperatures, ready to capture the multi-vehicle arrival.

AP News Source: Play of the Day: Clinton visits gas station for cameras