Posted on 10/28/2006 8:19:06 PM PDT by Red Steel
N.Y. Senator Responds Jokingly To Report GOP Foe Called Her Ugly
(CBS/AP) Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton wasn't fazed by a report that her Republican challenger John Spencer said she was ugly in her youth and must have had "millions of dollars" of plastic surgery.
"My high school picture was cute," Clinton joked with reporters during a campaign stop Monday, the same day Spencer's alleged comments were reported in the New York Daily News.
Spencer, in an interview with The Associated Press, denied making the comments to a reporter-columnist during a flight Friday from New York City to Rochester for the first of two weekend debates between the Senate contenders.
"It's a fabrication. I would never call Hillary Clinton ugly," the former mayor of Yonkers told the AP. "That's outrageous. I didn't do it."
Clinton said comments about her appearance strayed from the issues of the campaign.
"It's unfortunate that when you don't have anything positive to say about the issues that we can get off in some pretty swampy territory," Clinton said during the stop at a senior citizens' center in Watervliet just north of Albany.
Spencer did acknowledge talking to Daily News reporter Ben Smith on the flight.
Smith told the AP that Spencer made the comments during a flight in which Spencer, his wife and Smith sat together.
The Daily News' Monday front page headline on the story screamed "GETTING UGLY," and featured the high school picture that Clinton said she liked.
"You ever see a picture of her back then? Whew," the Daily News quoted Spencer as saying. "I don't know why Bill married her."
Noting she looks different now, he chalked it up to "millions of dollars" of "work," according to the tabloid.
"She looks good now," he is quoted as saying.
Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson said Clinton has had no plastic surgery or similar appearance-enhancing work done.
"Sadly, this is just the latest in a long line of insulting and offensive comments that John Spencer has made throughout his career, and it's unfortunate that he has chosen to run a campaign based on personal attacks," the Clinton aide told the AP.
Polls have shown Clinton far ahead of Spencer in the Senate race. The Clintons recently celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary. She turns 59 on Thursday.
fat ankles
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If she looked like her daughter, and older pictures I've seen of her indicate that's the case, it's only one more example of the fact that the Clintons cannot tell the truth; ever.
She was a high school barf bag.
"Cankles" Rodham was never cute!
Someone very close to me went to high school with Hillary. There was nothing particular about her in her appearance, she was neither pretty nor ugly, but she was snobbish, and thought highly of herself and those in her clique.
They went out to dinner that night. Both brought dates. An ugly scene erupted, though, when Bill starting groping Hillary's.
"My high school picture was cut."
ROTFLMAO..........I bet she wasen't even laid in High School.
Meadow Muffin
Hillary when from hippie chipmunk in 1986 to a Gennifer Flowers lookalike in 2004. Amazing!!! And, according to her spokeswhores, all without any plastic surgery! Totally unbelievable and totally unchallenged by the media. Nobody could seriously believe that somehow she started looking like one of Bill's girls after a lifetime of looking like one of Bill's lawyers.
the hilliary meal-deal:
2 left wings
2 small breasts
2 huge thighs
If she was a high school cutie, she wouldn't be such an angry, bitter, man hating, liberal as an adult.
It's the fact that she's complicit in the deaths of over 45 million American babies in the womb that makes her ugly.
They resemble Meathead and Gloria.
There.....
Fixed it....
"...pretty swampy territory..."
I'll say.
Well, a fuzzy blurry picture can only help anybody.
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