Posted on 10/28/2006 8:19:06 PM PDT by Red Steel
N.Y. Senator Responds Jokingly To Report GOP Foe Called Her Ugly
(CBS/AP) Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton wasn't fazed by a report that her Republican challenger John Spencer said she was ugly in her youth and must have had "millions of dollars" of plastic surgery.
"My high school picture was cute," Clinton joked with reporters during a campaign stop Monday, the same day Spencer's alleged comments were reported in the New York Daily News.
Spencer, in an interview with The Associated Press, denied making the comments to a reporter-columnist during a flight Friday from New York City to Rochester for the first of two weekend debates between the Senate contenders.
"It's a fabrication. I would never call Hillary Clinton ugly," the former mayor of Yonkers told the AP. "That's outrageous. I didn't do it."
Clinton said comments about her appearance strayed from the issues of the campaign.
"It's unfortunate that when you don't have anything positive to say about the issues that we can get off in some pretty swampy territory," Clinton said during the stop at a senior citizens' center in Watervliet just north of Albany.
Spencer did acknowledge talking to Daily News reporter Ben Smith on the flight.
Smith told the AP that Spencer made the comments during a flight in which Spencer, his wife and Smith sat together.
The Daily News' Monday front page headline on the story screamed "GETTING UGLY," and featured the high school picture that Clinton said she liked.
"You ever see a picture of her back then? Whew," the Daily News quoted Spencer as saying. "I don't know why Bill married her."
Noting she looks different now, he chalked it up to "millions of dollars" of "work," according to the tabloid.
"She looks good now," he is quoted as saying.
Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson said Clinton has had no plastic surgery or similar appearance-enhancing work done.
"Sadly, this is just the latest in a long line of insulting and offensive comments that John Spencer has made throughout his career, and it's unfortunate that he has chosen to run a campaign based on personal attacks," the Clinton aide told the AP.
Polls have shown Clinton far ahead of Spencer in the Senate race. The Clintons recently celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary. She turns 59 on Thursday.
Heh! Jes lookit 'dem dawgs! :-)
"My high school picture was cute," Clinton joked
See, even she admits it. She's joking that it was cute. That means it wasn't. Can't believe she's being honest.
I just spewed coffee all over the keyboard dammit! I need to put a plastic cover over the new one.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL good one.
Or a bottle of maddog
That is a RIOT!
I've seen high school photos of this monster and she was never a "cutie" unless crypto-Boslshevik fanatics turn you on.
Hey! Can we say dog butt ugly on FR or not?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
..it's the Botox vs. Photoshop Thread!
The hs yearbook photo
None, they are all to cute.
I have two friends who were in her class at Wellesley. They are too nice to say anything unkind about her,they never say anything bad about anyone, but they do say they would never, ever, vote for her for anything under any circumstances. They are both Dems FWIW.
It seems to know her is to love her....NOT! So many who have been close to her despise her.
The Botox went to her Brain!!!!
re post 15... Hillary Always looked older than Bill!
I bet she's not 59... She looks like she's 61!
She's Bill's "Old Lady", always has been! :)
She looks like a Vampire from a 60's B Movie!
re 93 She has that BAD SEED look about her!
So dead in the eyes!! Scary!
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