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.
Very much still alive.
I hope you already had dinner!!! :)
Patently not true- if we are to believe the late Barbara Olsen in "Hell to Pay" (and of course we do), Hillary did not know how to apply makeup until years later in Arkansas.
Hillary hasn't changed one bit either no matter what anyone says. I know people who also knew her very well while she was in Arkansas. They say the same things about her. One of them has been a close friend to Bill Clinton since grade school. They can't stand Hillary.
I also know the person who used to style Hillary's hair when she was in Arkansas and she treated them like dirt.
"Was" is an ever so important word in this story.
If she looked anything like her college pictures she was flat ugly in high school!
Sorry, I was trying to joke. There was a witz about the wife of the former Soviet leader Brezhnev answering a telephone call. A female voice asks for Comrade Brezhnev. The missus asks: "Who are you?" "I went to the high school with him". "Don't you ring again, you lying slut! He has never gone to school!"
Holy Crap! Someone sure has pimped her ride! She's been overhauled from jowl to brow!
"fat ankles"
Hillary has fat ankles and a big ass. But enough about Bill, her butt is pretty big too!
Bada bing!
Duh! Sorry, I misunderstood. Pretty good joke, actually. ;-D
I'm having sixties flashbacks... Seeing all those yucky hippies on TV when I was a kid.
Didn't they make contacts back then? He sure cleaned HIMSELF up.
a dog then and a bitch now makes her a dog
Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea
Amazing how that happens
Especially right after Spencer cleaned her clock at the debates
Wow .. what timing that his should appear in the paper .. front page too
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