Hillary Clinton talks religion [babysat migrant's kids so older kids could work]

CNN ^ | 6-29-06

[SJackson]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Appearing before a religious conference earlier this week, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) told the audience that as a child attending Sunday school she would baby-sit the children of migrant workers so that their older siblings could join their parents at work.

"I was fortunate that at an early age, through my church, I was given the opportunity to expand my horizons," Clinton told the 600 adults and teenagers attending the Sojourners "Covenant for a New America" conference.

Politically, the story served two purposes for the New York Democrat. It allowed her to promote a developing Democratic message tailored to the faith community that ties the party's "compassionate" legislative agenda directly to moral values. And, personally, it allowed Clinton to speak about her own spiritually. The latter is not new for the former first lady, but it is a theme we could hear more and more if she decides to run for president.

"She understands where the Democrats need to go in talking about values just as her husband understood it," said Stuart Rothenberg, publisher of the non-partisan Rothenberg Political Report. "And she is going to go there."

[Clara Lou]

How special.

[SJackson]

I remember the multitudes of migrant workers in 1960s Park Ridge myself. There were probably one, maybe two of them.

[SnarlinCubBear]

Talk to the hand

[AppyPappy]

Survey says:

BS

[RexBeach]

OMG, now she's babysitting migrant workers' children. Now, really, who's gonna believe this?

"I've always been a Yankees fan!"

Please.

[jbarkley]

My goodness, the woman has a story for absolutely everything.

[Txsleuth]

I want those kids to come forward and prove this...she is a lying witch.

[coconutt2000]

Now the question is does anybody actually remember her doing this, or did she make this up knowing that nobody could contest her.

[Red Badger]

Mammy Hillary?...........

[ncountylee]

Expect to see the beast carrying the Hollywood prop Bible made famous by her husband, the disgraced, impeached ex-President.

[Dane]

JMO, hillary trying to pull a fast one again, when she said she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, when in actually Edmund Hillary became famous 6 years after she was born.

Sir Edmund Hillary climed Mt. Everest in 1953, hillary rodham clinton was born in 1947.

[Red Badger]

Oh now, BS? She could have babysat the kids while watching Yankees games and waiting for Sir Edmund to climb Mt. Everest so she could have a name............Funny how she can recall everything except where those damn billing records were........

[atomicpossum]

Did you know she was born a poor black child?

[FormerACLUmember]

[Mr. K]

OK lets have some names then?

What school was this at? what years? can we check on this?

Anyone out there remember being babysat by her?

[Carling]

So let's try and keep count.

She wanted to join the Marines.

She wanted to join the FBI and sent them a letter.

She babysat for "migrant" folk.

I know I am missing quite a few of the extraordinary "things" that this woman has done or wanted to do.

She is so full of ****.

[hsalaw]

She "babysat" migrants' children? Where? In El Centro, CA? Where DID she grow up, anyway?

[sageb1]

""She understands where the Democrats need to go in talking about values just as her husband understood it," said Stuart Rothenberg, publisher of the non-partisan Rothenberg Political Report. "And she is going to go there.""

That's what I'm afraid of.

[trimom]

Must be where she began developing those skills that helped her decide to stay at home and raise a family.

[Mr. Brightside]

"One of my best friends is religious."

[Mr. K]

That would make a great campaign slogan for her:

"Vote for me and you get to impeach ANOTHER Clinton~!"

[Gator101]

I wonder if she regaled them with stories about how the man she was named after had recently reached the top of Mt Everest...that is until the Klan burned their church down.

[kcvl]

I guarantee you that she is LYING!

She never babysat in her life INCLUDING HER OWN CHILD!!!

[Ron in Acreage]

Yeah right. And the migrants were working for her parents too. Scrubbing floors, doing laundry, mowing lawn. She left that part out. And did they with hold taxes?

[SJackson]

She "babysat" migrants' children? Where? In El Centro, CA? Where DID she grow up, anyway?

Park Ridge, IL, an upscale suburb of Chicago. In the 1960s, the liklihood of her finding migrants to babysit approaches zero.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"I baby-sat migrant children."

"You KNOW what I'm talkin' about!"

[P-40]

I suspect her story is...undocumented.

[FormerACLUmember]

Just another day for the warm, caring, sincere Hillary.

[socal_parrot]

Was this before or after she tried to enlist into the Marines?

[Moose4]

Pee. Yuke.

}:-)4

[DustyMoment]

Appearing before a religious conference earlier this week, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) told the audience that as a child attending Sunday school she would baby-sit the children of migrant workers so that their older siblings could join their parents at work.

Oh PLEASE!!! This is starting to sound like Al Gore's fabricated childhood on a tobacco farm harvesting tobacco leaves.

[silverleaf]

I remember the multitudes of migrant workers in 1960s Park Ridge myself. There were probably one, maybe two of them.

Yes, and they were both Methodists. Remember how hard they worked in those Illinois tomato fields?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

And, personally, it allowed Clinton to speak about her own spiritually. The latter is not new for the former first lady, but it is a theme we could hear more and more if she decides to run for president.

Paging Ralph, Earl and Brian. Chunk-o-rama!

[Captain Rhino]

If the Democrats think they are going to find any NEW votes at a Sojourner's conference...ah, let them keep thinking that. Yeah.

[SJackson]

Yeah right. And the migrants were working for her parents too. Scrubbing floors, doing laundry, mowing lawn. She left that part out. And did they with hold taxes?

I withdraw my previous skepticism.

Her housekeeper probably brought her kids along, and Hillary watched the little ones so the older kids could mow the lawn.

[DustyMoment]

She could have babysat the kids while watching Yankees games and waiting for Sir Edmund to climb Mt. Everest so she could have a name............Funny how she can recall everything except where those damn billing records were........

Too funny!!!

[Cinnamon]

this is reminiscing of the civil rights Clinton moment: Billy boy sitting at the back of the bus in a show of solidarity (BS)

[kcvl]

allowed Clinton to speak about her own spiritually. The latter is not new for the former first lady, but it is a theme we could hear more and more if she decides to run for president

WHO WRITES THIS CRAP?!!!

Spirituality is not the same as religion (which she doesn't get). Spirituality is a term used by Hollyweird to make people believe they are like everyone else. They just didn't mention which 'spirit' they were talking about. It can be anything from a tree to Tinker-bell.

[MattinNJ]

I'm calling BS.

If astronauts were a large voting block she would say she was in the first class of astronauts, only to be turned down because she was a woman of course.

[jaydubya2]

You forgot she wanted to be an Astronaut but NASA wasn't accepting women at the time.

[synbad600]

She must want to provide more fodder for the next book re: her famous BS statements! Go Shillary!

[OpusatFR]

Don't tell me. The migrants' kids were always Yankee's fans, too.

[TexasCajun]

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) told the audience that as a child attending Sunday school she would baby-sit the children of migrant workers so that their older siblings could join their parents at work.

If you believe this you believe Hillary simply misplaced 100 FBI files on Clinto opposition.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[conservative in nyc]

Where DID she grow up, anyway?

Park Ridge, Illinois. Suburbia. It was 99.9% white and 4.9% foreign born in 1960. That translates to 1,585 "immigrants".

[Poseidon]

Too late...she already sid that she wanted to join the space program but NASA turned her away (or something like that).

I find it highly unlikely that migrants, being devout catholics, did much work on Sundays...

[babaloo]

I hope someone is keeping a list of the whoppers. Does this woman not understand how ridiculous she sounds?

[JimmyMc]

I was born in 1947. Used to think it was a very good year until now.

[Bahbah]

She never did any such thing.