Unfortunately, she took the easy way out here to...
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?
Speed bumps are nothing but hemorrhoids on a homosexual.
Jane fonda ?
Christmas at the beach is much more fun than Christmas in six feet of snow.
Unfortunately, she took the easy way out here to...
Here's why she's dizzy:
Thanks for the mental picture. I can now skip lunch...
Or was it that testicles were nothing but mudflaps on a homosexual?
Keep going and dinner won't be looking flash, either...
My idiot neighbor says that he would vote for her because "...she's not a socialist like Bush!"
Lotsa ding-a-lings like that voting in Washington state.
I had a nice dinner, maybe I'll go to bed soon.
Sleep well. I'm reaching for the Alka Seltzer!
Thank you. What is it, about noon over there now?
Bill Clinton- why Gennifer, Monika, etc?? Cause Hillary was terrible at everything!!
Isn't this story almost two weeks old?
Horsesh*T!
She'd have to be proven before they'd let her in. (Like to see that letter.)
Sorry... she doesn't have a real strong track record of honesty!
She's a legend in her own mind!
Hillarius has admitted to all that she-it is nothing but a quitter and a nagging complainer.
Her only claim to fame is her name. Named after, uh wait, before!, Sir Edmund Hillary actually accomplished something.
16 minutes past noon, to be exact.
A lovely, sunny day in Melbourne.
Could be. First I've seen it, though.
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