Did she try here?
Posted on 05/04/2006 7:28:32 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Hillary Clinton's claim that she wanted to be an Olympic athlete and NASA astronaut is part of an effort to humanize the NY Senator, says the editor of a controversial new quote book. What other tall tales has Hillary told?
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 4, 2006 -- Olympic athlete. Astronaut. Doctor. Scientist. All dream careers for the young Hillary Rodham, or so she claims…dreams squashed because NASA “[didn’t] take girls.” While all children go through phases of wanting to do something exciting and glamorous, these reminisces sound unbelievable coming from Hillary Clinton. This according to Thomas Kuiper, editor of the new Hillary Clinton quote book “I’ve Always Been a Yankees Fan: Hillary Clinton in Her Own Words” (World Ahead Publishing, ISBN 0974670189).
Earlier this week, the Associate Press published remarks by New York's junior senator at a symposium on Title IX, the federal law prohibiting gender discrimination in certain educational programs. "I wanted desperately to be an Olympic athlete," she is quoted as saying. "...[But] I couldn't jump, I couldn't run, I couldn't swim... So I wrote to NASA and said, 'How do I sign up to be an astronaut?' And they wrote back very politely and said, 'We don't take girls.'"
“This tall tale by Hillary was calculated not just to make voters feel warm and fuzzy about the senator, but to make specific points about her compassion and goodness,” claims Kuiper, whose quote book features over 500 provocative quotes carefully collected from 63 books and over 100 articles and news reports. “As the many fully attributed quotes in 'I've Always Been A Yankees Fan' demonstrate, she is constantly trying to manipulate her image through the press. Here, she’s trying to show that she’s ‘one of the girls,’ although nothing could be farther from the truth.
“Hillary Clinton has a long history of telling whoppers," asserts Kuiper. "As I document in my book, she lead people to believe that Chelsea was near the World Trade Center on 9/11, a claim which Chelsea herself disputed. She implied that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, but he climbed Mount Everest years after she was born. She also said that she and Bill wanted another child, a maternal desire quickly forgotten after election time! Hillary is not just about pandering, but about rewriting history and her place in it."
While NASA did not have female astronauts when Hillary was a kid, Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto has pointed out that Sally Ride was only 3-1/2 years younger than Hillary when she became the first U.S. woman in space -- a revelation which calls into question the validity of this latest public claim by the former first lady.
“There is not an ounce of authenticity to her public pronouncements," adds Kuiper. "Hillary is attempting to rewrite the past, but the truth is out there. My book uses dozens upon dozens of independent sources to paint a picture of the real Hillary -- a person who is often profane and always ambitious beyond justification.
"It's no wonder that Hillary's spokesman tried to change the topic when the New York Times asked him about 'I've Always Been a Yankees Fan,'" he quipped.
Contact Information:
To interview author Tom Kuiper, contact World Ahead Publishing at (310) 857-6836
Well, if there is ever a olympic event called the Thigh Lift, the she's definately Gold Medal material.........
Hillary has wanted to be President as soon as she had any serious desire for a career.
The truth will out. And oh how it hurts!
She gets the Gold medal for lying.
I vote this "Fun Read Of The Day"
Her claim to fame is that she's a career liar!
Did she try here?
No, she gets silver. Her lying husband got the gold. It was the finger waving, televised lie about Monica that tops every Clintoon whopper to date.
Not an OUNCE of authenticity to her public pronouncements?
Wasn't Herself a Goldwater Girl once? Is this the degree of her authenticity?
And for as much as Herself claims to despise Richard M. Nixon, hasn't Herself tried to pattern her life on just about exactly the same template?
Broad said she wanted to be a Marine, too. Said the recruiter laughed at her. I think any recruiter would have peed all over himself to get a lawyer to join ANY service at that time.
The socialist bi--ch lied?????? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!!
LMAO!!!
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Yes, I've always been fond of the story she publicly told about having been named after Edmund Hillary, despite the fact that she was born six years BEFORE he climbed Mount Everest. In 1947, the year of her birth, Edmund Hillary was working as an obscure beekeeper in Queenstown, New Zealand with a weekend passion for amateur mountain climbing. IF she was named after someone who was then a total unknown outside a Southern Hemisphere town of 2,000 people, then I'm a past Grandmaster of the Priory of Sion.
I don't believe this for a second. It is very unlikely that some low level person in NASA's personell department would state this.
There are two general positions in NASA for astronauts. First is pilot. How long ago did Hillary get her pilot's license? Oh, she's never had one. Sorry, you don't get in the front seat. Now let's try something in the other positions. Generally those are scientists, engineers or publicity stunts, er, uh, special guests. (Teachers and senators in space count on the last one). What degrees does Hillary have? Political science and law. Neither one can get you one of the technical seats. And the wife of a southern governor isn't an important enough position to get a publicity stunt seat.
If she applied before the Space Shuttle program was ramping up, then being a pilot or even a test pilot was even more vital to getting a chance to fly.
She implied that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, but he climbed Mount Everest years after she was born.
Maybe her parents just had a facination with New Zealand beekeepers and WW II navigators.
Hildabeast, how about freestyle muff-diving?
LOL.....well I dream of running the NYC marathon in 2 hrs.
the wimmin is slick willie's cabinet get the bronze for their standing out there saying they believe him when he says he did not have sexual relations with that woman.
Jim Cary in the movie "LIER, LIER".
I had a vision of hundreds of conservatives wishing for one day that Hillary could not tell a lie. The wish came true and for 24 hours Hillary was a total mess. Before the 24 hours ended Hillary had exploded never to be heard from again.
This is the culture of corruption at its finest.
That's gonna leave a wet spot mark...
More senators in space!!
Hillary is nothing but a pathological liar having spent years studying at the "Bubba School of Charm and Diplomacy"!!
Javelin catcher?
You have to see the book to understand the title:
ROFLMAO!!!
Fortunately, Dad passed away before the Hill/Billy debacle began.
Tho I'd trust a NASA official version (like one exists) before ever trusting one from that hag.
If only she had ever dreamed of being HONEST.
God...there's no end to her...
In 1960, NASA began a research program to determine whether or not women could qualify as astronauts. The first official astronaut draft had been opened to men only, but NASA desired scientific data on how women would perform under similar conditions.
A total of 25 female pilots were invited by NASA to undergo the exact same physical and psychological evaluations as those endured by male astronauts who had actually qualified for the Mercury program. Of those invited, 13 women passed the tests and were enrolled in an "unofficial" astronaut training program.
These "Fellow Lady Astronaut Trainees" were subjected to many of the same tests, evaluations and training as their male counterparts. But, these women were never officially declared astronaut candidates, nor were they scheduled for space flights.
NASA management reportedly believed that damaging negative publicity would be generated if a woman were injured or killed while training for, or participating in, a space flight. It was also believed that the participation of female astronauts in the early space program would divert scarce resources and attention away from male astronauts.
As a result, the initial NASA training of female astronauts ceased in 1963, and the program quickly faded into history. Ironically, the same year this NASA training of female astronauts ceased, the Soviet Union launched the first woman, Valentina V. Tereshkova, into space.
Oh yes there is and IT'S NOT PRETTY!!
wait, people what about this
http://www.blogsofwar.com/images/pigsinspace.jpg
"...Her claim to fame is that she's a career liar!..."
That, in itself, is a gold medal achievement.
pinging for fun
I thought she wanted to be a mountain climber and climb Mount Everest...just like her namesake, Everest conquerer Sir Edmund Hillary. Oops, something doesn't quite fit there....
I wish she could have been an astronaut. Then maybe she would have been the first female astronaut "lost in space"!
Truth is not important to a Democrat voter unless it can be used to handicap a Republican.
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