Posted on 01/29/2014 7:52:14 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The former First Lady admits she hasn't driven a car for 18 years. But she's far from being the only privileged person to have forgotten how to do things the rest of us take for granted.
"One of the regrets I have about my public life is that I can't drive any more," Hillary Clinton told a car dealers' conference on Monday. Among her most painful memories, you suspect this doesn't rank all that high. Yet the remark is a reminder of how wealth and power tend to separate people from normal life, and how they don't always like it. Clinton has not driven a car since 1996, on the instructions of the secret service, and it is something that her husband pines for too. "Whenever I'm on the golf course I always make them let me drive the golf cart," Bill Clinton has said.
In the case of former prime minister Tony Blair, it was the advent of digital technology that utterly passed him by when he took office in 1997. By his own account, it was 10 years before he got a personal email address or learned to text or use a mobile phone.
For Harry Redknapp, you suspect, not having to use technology is one of the unsung advantages of a career in football. "I can't work a computer," he told police before being acquitted of tax-dodging. "I don't know what an email is … I have never sent a fax and I've never even sent a text message." In a more recent trial, Charles Saatchi was said to have such an objection to using electronic payment cards that he took to keeping a plastic bag full of cash on top of the fridge....
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No one ever forgets how to iron shirts though. I’m sure she remembers.
And the brights?? No Hillary...the floor didn't move.
And wait till the anti-lock brakes kicks in...
She can still fling an ashtray with pinpoint accuracy at 20 yards.
Oh, the poor darlings.
Hillary can drive.... you to drink.
From Wikipedia:
In August 1980, he [...] suffered a head injury while leaping onto a New York City Subway train. This head injury permanently upset his equilibrium, resulting in his avoidance of driving.
“One of the regrets I have about my public life is that I can’t drive any more,” .......
Did we expect she would even mention having regret for her words, “What Difference Does It Make”? I didn’t think so either.
LOL...BTTT!
She’s lying again. It’s been longer than 18 years. She was driven as the wife of the gov.
Doesn’t he have some some of vision problem as well?
I bet the beastiss would know exactly how to defeat the anti-theft system
And wait till the anti-lock brakes kicks in...
I bet the beastiss would know exactly how to defeat the anti-theft system
for the common good, of course.
Then there the lessons she taught.
Hillary went to Harvard to teach the Texas bimbo running for governor to bake cookies for her husband and kids
Wondered why the hit and run list decreased.
Please.
Harvard's given itself a bad enough name without Hillary.
She graduated from Wellesley College and Yale Law School.
She doesn’t need the DUI on her record (though it’d be the least of sins).
Cue the picture of her drinking on the airplane.
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