Well, this thread should be fun...
Posted on 03/14/2007 7:24:21 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
March 14, 2007 -- HOW is Sen. Hillary Clinton like Lady Godiva, the Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who rode naked through the streets of Coventry, England, in the 11th century?
That's what we wanted to know when the weekly newspaper City Hall - which asked various pundits to supply nicknames for local presidential candidates Clinton and Rudy Giuliani - quoted Ed Koch as saying, "I'd give Giuliani 'Inspector Javert' and Hillary 'Lady Godiva.' " Javert was the ruthless prosecutor in "Les Miserables." Godiva, the history books say, did her nude equestrian show to lower taxes on her husband's starving subjects, and Hillary isn't known as a tax cutter.
But Koch told us the weekly paper got it all mixed up. "I picked Lady Guinevere because she was the first lady in King Arthur's court. She goes out of her way not to be naked in public." Asked to handicap the candidates' chances, Koch said, "Hillary wins, the city wins. Rudy wins, the country loses." Bill O'Reilly picked "The Sheriff" for Giuliani and "The Weather Vane" for Clinton.
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Well, this thread should be fun...
ZOT-worthy.
Hillary as Lady Godiva? You know some us out west haven't eaten supper yet :-(
"March 14, 2007 -- HOW is Sen. Hillary Clinton like Lady Godiva, the Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who rode naked through the streets of Coventry, England, in the 11th century?"
From Wiki:
"According to the popular story, the beautiful Lady Godiva took pity on the people of Coventry, who were suffering grievously under her husband's oppressive taxation. Lady Godiva appealed again and again to her husband, who obstinately refused to remit the tolls. At last, weary of her entreaties, he said he would grant her request if she would ride naked through the streets of the town. Lady Godiva took him at his word and, after issuing a proclamation that all persons should keep within doors or shut their windows, she rode through, clothed only in her long hair. Only one person in the town, a tailor ever afterwards known as Peeping Tom, disobeyed her proclamation in the first famous instance of voyeurism.[11] In the story, Tom bores a hole in his shutters so that he might see Godiva pass, and is struck blind.[12] In the end, Godiva's husband keeps his word and abolishes the onerous taxes."
The only thing I could come up with is they both had husbands who like taxing the people. The likeness ends there.
I'm sure I'm not the first to simply state,
"Hillary's no lady."
From a "Yellow Submarine", a "Blue Meanie" would fit.
This is 'The Presidential Bust of Hillary Rodham Clinton.' Heaven help us...
Because her back end looks just like Godiva's horse's back end?
you know lady godiva was a freedom rider. she didn't care if the whole world looked.
Nobody wants to see Her Heinous nekkid! It could cause mass blindness!
This is Edwards' response to that idea.
Boom! There it is!
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lmao!
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