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"Politics wasn't first on list of NY Sen. Clinton's career picks"
Newsday.com ^

Posted on 05/02/2006 7:36:19 PM PDT by mkmensinger

"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.""

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Perhaps if they made lying an Olympic sport...
1 posted on 05/02/2006 7:36:22 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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I couldn't jump, I couldn't run, I couldn't swim.""

CANKLES will do that to ya....
2 posted on 05/02/2006 7:37:15 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq)
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I think "Queen" or "dictator" edged "politics" out.


3 posted on 05/02/2006 7:37:49 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (I like to make everyone's day a little more surreal)
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Oh, I don't know....Her Thighness may have been pretty good at cross country skiing or something. Get it...her Thigness...skiiing. rimshot


4 posted on 05/02/2006 7:38:48 PM PDT by frankiep
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I'm soooooo gonnnna blow chunks
5 posted on 05/02/2006 7:39:42 PM PDT by Drango (No electrons were harmed in this posting. Several however, were inconvenienced.)
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To: Richard Kimball

Actually, didn't she claim some years ago that she tried to join the Marines?


6 posted on 05/02/2006 7:39:47 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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I believe her--primarily because you had to be an amateur to be an Olympian in those days, so it makes sense that a cheater like Ms. Clinton would try to make it her career.


7 posted on 05/02/2006 7:41:11 PM PDT by Brilliant
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Desperation is her most noticeable personal quality.


8 posted on 05/02/2006 7:42:12 PM PDT by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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Actually, didn't she claim some years ago that she tried to join the Marines?

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9 posted on 05/02/2006 7:43:02 PM PDT by digger48
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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.

Reminds me of another well-known TV personality who couldn't make the grade in sports....


10 posted on 05/02/2006 7:43:33 PM PDT by ikka
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Now, if they'd just made EVERYBODY wear 20 lb. ankle weights, it would have been far more fair and equitable, wouldn't it, Miz Rodham?


11 posted on 05/02/2006 7:43:54 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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"I couldn't jump, I couldn't run, I couldn't swim."

At least we know she's a legal citizen.


12 posted on 05/02/2006 7:46:57 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: mkmensinger; ntnychik; devolve; Smartass; PhilDragoo; dixiechick2000
Her tap-dancing days were numbered too!


13 posted on 05/02/2006 7:49:50 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: Richard Kimball

I think "Queen" or "dictator" edged "politics" out.

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You, sir, stole my answer. :)


14 posted on 05/02/2006 7:54:51 PM PDT by BoBToMatoE
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"I wanted desperately to be an Olympic athlete," Clinton.

This sounds amazingly like someone else who had big dreams......dreams of being either a "double-naught spy or a brain surgeon".....

15 posted on 05/02/2006 7:55:53 PM PDT by Onelifetogive (Freerepublic - The website where "Freepers" is not in the spell checker dictionary...)
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Pluuuuueeeeeze, spare us this hooey, Hillary.


16 posted on 05/02/2006 7:57:53 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
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She could have been a lumberjack. At least they have a really cool song.


17 posted on 05/02/2006 7:59:22 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Self appointed RNC Press Secretary for Smarmy Sound Bites.)
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To: potlatch
"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.""

She didn't couldn't run fast enough to watch Bill either.
But, she does have saddlebags of money!!!
18 posted on 05/02/2006 8:04:36 PM PDT by Smartass (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: mkmensinger
She really wanted a career in neutering livestock and had to settle for only one victim.
19 posted on 05/02/2006 8:06:07 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Proud soldier in the American Army of Occupation..)
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To: potlatch

Priceless! How did you find a cartoon with just the right dimensions?


20 posted on 05/02/2006 8:09:22 PM PDT by ntnychik
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