Posted on 05/09/2006 5:59:38 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
This is the book jacket for Thomas D. Kuiper's 'I've Always Been a Yankees Fan: Hillary Clinton in Her Own Words,' one of many books about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. For someone who insists she is only thinking about her re-election campaign this year, Clinton has attracted the attention of conservative authors offering a host of new books aiming to slow her path to the White House. (AP Photo)
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Friday, June 11, 1999
``The fact is, I've always been a Yankees fan,'' the first lady, who was born and bred in Chicago, asserted to Katie Couric on NBC's ``Today Show.'' in anticipation of the championship team's visit to the White House yesterday evening.
When the puzzled Couric said she thought Hillary Clinton was a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, the first lady, in a classic Clintonian gesture, quickly claimed loyalty to the Cubs, too.
``I am a Cubs fan,'' said Clinton, who threw out the first pitch at Wrigley Field in Chicago on opening day in 1994. ``But I needed an American League team because when you're from Chicago, you cannot root for both the Cubs and the Sox. I mean, there's a dividing line that you can't cross there. So as a young girl, I became very interested and enamored of the Yankees.''
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/06/11/MN69686.DTL
See, just goes to show she's not ALL bad!!!
Let's Go METS!!!!
So I guess the Yankees fans and the rest of New York cursed themselves by voting for her.
Now the Yankees have the "curse of the BIMBINO"
Presumably that says that the White Sox are the team of choice for conservatives then.
Regards, Ivan
That's good....
"I have always been a Yankees fan. Who's Derek Jeter?"
Ask her how she felt during the Horace Clarke Years.
This dame will say anything but her prayers!
Question #1-in what year did Jesse Jackson hit three home runs in a single World Series game,and what sportscaster made a memorable call of that game?
Question #2-what's the most games that the southpaw Hall of Fame pitcher Harold Ford won during his career with the Yankees.
Question #3-what is the semi-official nickname of the Yankees?
#1 is a trick question. Did Jesse Jackson play DH?
Actually,both questions one and two are trick questions. Reggie Jackson hit three home runs in a single WS game in either '77 or '78 (I think it was '77).Also,Whitey Ford was the Hall of Fame southpaw who was with the Yanks in the '50s and '60s.
If I,a lifelong Red Sox fan knows this,I figure that a lifelong Yankees fan like The Former twelfth Lady would know it.
Oh Please please please, please
rhymes with hunt.
Oh, you mean SLUNT!
Same series as the great Reggie Jackson/Bob Welch batter-pitcher duel. A's Vs Dodgers. I thought the trick question was because you said "Jesse" Jackson not "Reggie" Jackson. LOL
LOL... love that pic in #33! ;-D
That is one of my faves from BostonDirtDogs.com
Red Sox only beat Yanks by 11 runs tonight...
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