Politics wasn't first on list of NY Sen. Clinton's career picks

ap ^ | may 1 2006 | ap

[catholicfreeper]

PURCHASE, N.Y. (AP) _ 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. "I wanted desperately to be an Olympic athlete," Clinton said Monday at a Purchase College symposium on Title IX, the 1972 law outlawing sex discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding. "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." 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. She also abandoned hopes of becoming a scientist or mathematician because she didn't have the best grades in those subjects. That, she said, left her current career choice _ one that was shaped at the family dinner table. "We ....

[catholicfreeper]

You know Hillary should be glad that immigration took over the news day. The press woulld be asking questions about this. Perhaps its true. I just never heard Hillary say anything about dreaming to be a Olympic athelete or flying to the stars.

[Cicero]

Brief translation: "I couldn't do anything else, so I became a politician."

[llevrok]

"With my legs," said Hillary. "I always wanted to be a Rockette. I was just a 1/4" too short."

[Ken522]

The press would only ask nice questions, such as -

"Oh Senator Clinton, tell us more - please please?!"

[GSlob]

Well, maybe swinery ought to be made an Olympic sport.

[usmcobra]

Last I heard Queen God Empress of the Universe was on her list right below Marine.

Marine was #1 but she was told she was too ugly to enlist.

(I'm not making that up either Hillary Clinton swears she was told by a recruiter she was too ugly to be a Marine!)

[OldFriend]

And since she couldn't pass the D.C. bar exam either, she had to settle for Arkansas where she did pass the bar.

This evil hag has loser written all over her dirty black pantsuit.

[Bigg Red]

Was this before or after she was "secretly" a big time Yankees fan? (Remember that one?) Do people really, really believe the ridiculous lies that the Clintons tell?

[kennedy]

Was this before or after she wanted to join the Marines?

[Huntress]

"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."'

This, like everything else Hillary spews, is total BS. The first group of women astronauts (Sally Ride, et al.) came of age about the same time as Hillary.

[catholicfreeper]

Gosh I forgot about the Marine comments she made. I bet her campaign staff cringes when she goes off like this.

[Darkwolf377]

Ah, more hard-hitting journalism from that tough press corps, which confronts the Administration every day with rudeness and tough questions, and then publishes crap like this about the Cankle Queen.

"I wanted desperately to be an Olympic athlete,"

Too bad they removed the BS Toss from competition. You'd win so much gold they'd have to force you to retire to keep from going broke, you nitwit.

[Mo1]

"But to hear Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton tell it, all of that pales in comparison to her real childhood dreams. "I wanted desperately to be an Olympic athlete," Clinton said Monday

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh geez I needed that laugh

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[Fintan]

It's been what, about three days since a Clinton lied?

[Psycho_Bunny]

And I wanted to be Linda Carter's bra.

What's her point?

[KingKenrod]

Did she mention the part about clerking for Communist lawyers and defending the Black Panthers in Oakland in 1971, 3000 miles from her home and Yale Law School? Not gettting to be an astronaut must have really pissed her off.

[exit82]

First career pick: Marxist toady.

[mystery-ak]

I wanted desperately to be an Olympic athlete,...and an astronaut.....geeeeez....I thought she wanted to be a Marine?

[Reactionary]

Ah, yes. The Cult of Hillary has once again produced a little human interest story.

Gee, wonder why? Could it be because everyone thinks she's a cold, manipulative reptile?

[Peach]

Okay, almost anything I saw will be portrayed as mean. So I'll just chalk this is as another one of her fantasies and let it go at that. But I'm smiling. Huge!