Posted on 05/16/2006 6:50:34 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
"She's a former first lady, a United States senator, and a potential 2008 presidential candidate. But to hear Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton tell it, all of that pales in comparison to her real childhood dreams," reported Newsday in an attempted puff piece on the junior Senator from New York.
"My whole life has been a speed bump," she said to laughs."
Yep, that pretty much sums it up. Failed at everything she ever tried, so she decided to go into politics. And this woman wants to be President?
"'I wanted desperately to be an Olympic athlete,' Clinton said Monday at a Purchase College symposium on Title IX, the 1972 law" which imposed sex discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding, requiring them to cut programs for males if there was a higher percentage of male participation than the percentage of males in the student body. "I tried everything. I ran every race, and if I was really lucky I finished second to last...I couldn't jump, I couldn't run, I couldn't swim." Sounds like 99% of folks who dream of being elite athletes. If everybody could do it, nobody would be "elite," would they?
The article continues: "After determining she'd never be an athlete, she set her sights on becoming an astronaut.
"So I wrote to NASA and said, 'How do I sign up to be an astronaut?"' she said. "And they wrote back very politely and said, 'We don't take girls."'
Next went the dream of a career in medicine.
"I volunteered at the hospital but kept getting lightheaded and woozy when I saw anyone in any kind of distress," she said. " Yep, sounds like she made a good choice not to be a doctor.
"She also abandoned hopes of becoming a scientist or mathematician because she didn't have the best grades in those subjects." First, yet another reason for her not to be a doctor. Second, wasn't the President of Harvard forced to resign for even so much as suggesting that a female might have trouble in a math or science class? Yep, thought so.
"That, she said, left her current career choice --one that was shaped at the family dinner table.
"We had the most lively, contentious dinner table conversations that probably anybody has endured," Clinton recalled of her family's mealtime public policy debates. "I thought well, I do like to study what goes on in the world around me, I adore government as a subject in school, I'm very interested in politics and history. So I went to law school."
Despite all those apparent setbacks, Clinton urged students in the audience to pursue their dreams by believing in themselves and ignoring obstacles in their path.
"My whole life has been a speed bump," she said to laughs."
Yep, that pretty much sums it up. Failed at everything she ever tried, so she decided to go into politics. And this woman wants to be President?
She can always fall back to remaining a Capo. She has the credentials.
With Hillary's record of non-truthfulness, I am not sure how much of this story I can believe.
This sounds a bit like I-was-named-after-Sir Edmund-Hillary-and-Chelsea-was jogging-around-the WTC.
I believe this one like I believe she is named afer Sir Edmund Hilary, except he didn't climb Everest till several years after she was born! Too bad she wasn't named Tenzing!
Those aren't speed bumps, they're just the ripples on your thighs slowin you down.
and all this time I thought she was a commodities wiz!!!!
Schumer obtained a law degree, too. But it didn't take him as long, as it took Hillary, to figure out he'd prefer being a politician.
Yes she does and no she should never be. God help us all if she gets elected. What are the immigration policies Down Under?
And .. she's terrible at politics!
This woman has NO ACCOMPLISHMENTS to her credit .. NONE! So she's correct, she has failed at everything she has tried.
IF it happens (God forbid), let's talk.
We can always do with a few more conservative folk down here!
And the only reason she got to the top in politics is that she was sleeping with the boss.
She can grow cankels like no one else
Hillary: young people today expect to be given $50K to $75K yearly salaried jobs without having to work for them.
Chelsea Clinton, hired out of Oxford, where I don't believe she actually completed the requirements for graduation, walks into a six-figure job with an elite NY consulting firm. What were her credentials exactly, other than being the daughter of Bill and Hil (and many doubt even that, unfortunately Web Hubbell can't tell us the truth)?
Who WASN'T sleeping with "the boss"???
The Hillary quotes are correct and are from a fairly recent speech of hers. The "world's smartest woman" had poor grades in math and science. Wasn't there a talking Barbie a few years back that scandalized the feminists by saying "math is hard?" Well, someone needs to so tweak the talking Hillary doll to say it.
Will keep that in mind. I could get used to the summer at Christmas thing!
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