Posted on 06/08/2003 11:56:26 PM PDT by kattracks
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday that she became fond of the people of Arkansas during the 19 years she spent living in the state. But her former Whitewater business partner Susan McDougal remembers things differently.
"I loved Arkansas," Mrs. Clinton told ABC's Barbara Walters. "And the people of Arkansas were not only very good to me, but I made some of the best friends that I've ever made."
But in a 1996 interview with "Blood Sport" author James Stewart, Mrs. McDougal recalled Hillary showing downright disdain for the residents of her husband's home state.
McDougal described an encounter out on the campaign trail, where an Arkansas woman offered Mrs. Clinton a pair of earrings shaped like hogs - the Arkansas Razorback mascot.
According to author Stewart, "Hillary mustered a thank-you, then the woman asked her to put them on. Hillary wouldn't. With the woman out of earshot, she turned to Susan [and said], 'This is the kind of s--t I have to put up with.'"
In 1999, Mrs. McDougal explained to NewsMax why the former first lady didn't like dealing with Arkansans.
"In Arkansas politics, you pretty much know everybody's cousin and their grandbabies. And it's a big hog gathering, you know. And Hillary was not used to that.
"I do not blame Hillary at all for saying, I cannot put these hog earrings on. Now, I would have put the hog earrings on and I would have had a good time. But this was not her kind of deal. She's a lot more intelligent than I am."
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Hillary's intelligence is relentlessly over-stated.
Yes, it is, but in McDougal's case, even the earrings are more intelligent.
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She shows "downright disdain" for ALL us little people. Pray, PRAY she never gets national office.
That's not hyperbole, either. McDougal WANTS us to believe she's a doddering idiot, or else she wouldn't have testified before a Federal jury that she couldn't recall if the reason why she wrote a check with the memo note "Payoff Clinton" was because she was actually paying off Bill and/or Hillary Clinton, or if it had something to do with land that she and her husband owned in Clinton, Arkansas.
She has yet to prove that she owned land in Clinton, AR. Of course, the Starr-hating media never demanded proof.
This sow works hardest when she's the only pig. Also, there's much more slop for her to shove her snout into.
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