Hillary: Why politics? I was terrible at everything else!

Townhall.com ^ | 17 May 2006 | Jeff Emanuel

[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?

[potlatch]

What do I need to layer in the animation you looked at earlier?

[JerseyDvl]

So I guess that means she pretty much sucks at everything.
Please leave us alone Hillary...please!

[Junior_G]

Seeing this thread bummed me out a bit. It makes me wistful for the time when FreeRepublic was your one-stop shopping for Clinton-bashing 24x7.

[WhirlwindAttack]

I wish she was a speed bump. Thump Thump

[RichInOC]

On one level, that's too much information for her own good.

On another level...we kind of knew this already, didn't we?

On still another level...she's not all that at politics, either.

[Aussie Dasher]

A bit of occasional nostalgia never hurts...

[Smartass]

LOL, you asked the wrong guy. I've got an animation
package, but I'm not going to learn it.

I've talked to her before, and it's important know,
in that work/hobby.

[Intolerant in NJ]

"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...and for sure she shouldn't be Commander in Chief.....

[Fudd Fan]

"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."

Kinda hard to do that with cankles and legs like tree trunks.

[Dick Vomer]

i thought she wanted to be a Marine?????

[Fudd Fan]

And don't forget the one where she said she's "always been a prEying person."

[malia]

"I ran every race, and if I was really lucky I finished second to last...."

Lets just hope she will be as 'lucky' again, why, I would even settle for last!

If you know uh uh what I uh uh mean!

[nopardons]

How do you tell when Hillary is lying?

Her lips are moving.

[highlander_UW]

"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."'

If she wrote the White House about being president and they said they don't take democrats would she go away? Could it really be so simple a solution?

[Enough_Deceit]

"Seeing this thread bummed me out a bit. It makes me wistful for the time when FreeRepublic was your one-stop shopping for Clinton-bashing 24x7."

Ah, yes, those were the days. Remember the "Old Crusty" alerts. There would be all sorts of Hitlery sightings with her in that nasty black pant suit.

Take care, and God bless!

[Brian Allen]

<< to hear Hillary Rodham Clinton tell it, .... in an attempted Newsday puff piece: ..... "My whole life has been a speed bump," she said ....

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? >>

"This "woman,'" who, like every other sufferer of the liberal psychosis, feels her feelings are thoughts and confuses her own ego with talent, may very well be the dumbest cluck in all of recorded history to ever take a dump between two shoes.

"The power lust is a noxious weed that flourishes only in the vacant lots of empty minds." [-- Ayn Rand?]

BUMPping

[heights]

She can talk out of both sides of her mouth better than any ventriloquist I've seen.

[SR 50]

ping

[Carolinamom]

She must have forgotten her tale/lie about being turned down for the Marines.

[Mia T]

"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.--Hillary: Why politics? I was terrible at everything else!

Hillary: Why politics? I was terrible at everything else!
Townhall.com ^ | 17 May 2006 | Jeff Emanuel

Larry Summers--Harvard's Ex-Prez, clinton's ex-Treasury Secretary--no doubt formulated his theory of the mathematically challenged female brain observing hillary's.

(CAVEAT: Although it is a mistake to generalize from someone as aberrant as hillary clinton, I believe there is merit in Summers' hypothesis; certainly my own empirical evidence is consistent with this notion: As a math + science person, I was/am often the only female messing with the more complex stuff.)

NEW MOVIE! for the birds
(THE INCOMPETENCE OF HILLARY CLINTON)

by Mia T, 11.13.05

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Clinton Administration Veteran:
"Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life."

My two cents' worth--and I think it is the two cents' worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994--is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life. Heading up health-care reform was the only major administrative job she has ever tried to do. And she was a complete flop at it. She had neither the grasp of policy substance, the managerial skills, nor the political smarts to do the job she was then given. And she wasn't smart enough to realize that she was in over her head and had to get out of the Health Care Czar role quickly.... there is no reason to think that she would be anything but an abysmal president.

J. Bradford DeLong
professor of economics, Berkeley
clinton Administration veteran

 
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