Posted on 06/10/2007 9:02:40 PM PDT by doug from upland
Sunday, June 10, 2007 8:10 p.m. EDT Hillary Clinton: I Play Pickup Basketball
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton loves to tell whoppers.
Her latest: she has played "pickup basketball.”
It’s the latest in tall-tale fibs she has been spinning to make herself more likeable to voters.
The New York Times revealed Hillary’s problem in a feature article this weekend headlined "Hillary Clinton Searches for Her Inner Jock.”
Noting that Americans like their president to be active in sports, Hillary, at first blush, doesn’t seem to pass the grade.
"Voters expect their presidents to throw out the first pitch; they are used to George W. Bush clearing brush, Bill Clinton playing golf, George H.W. Bush racing speedboats, and Ronald Reagan riding horseback.”
Hillary’s MySpace page claims she is a "speedwalker” also with using her leisure time to do "crossword puzzles, Scrabble and gardening.”
This spells B-O-R-I-N-G.
The Times quotes one Hillary donor explaining the dilemma: "How does 59-year-old Mama run against sexy [Barack] Obama?”
One way may be to play "make believe.”
Last week, Hillary joined tennis pro Billie Jean King for a Women for Hillary event.
"I played softball, I played pickup basketball, I played tennis,” Hillary claimed at the event.
Hillary remembered she even had won a trophy once in an Arkansas mixed-doubles tournament.
But her "pickup basketball” story appears to be a feeble effort to play catch up with Obama’s athleticism. He does play basketball, along with vigorous and frequent workouts at the gym.
For sure, Hillary has a propensity to make things up when she gets into a political bind.
Among Hillary’s more hilarious claims:
She was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. who climbed Mount Everest.
She was a Yankees fan when she lived in Chicago.
She told upstate New Yorkers she had been a "duck hunter.”
She claimed on Sept. 11 daughter Chelsea was jogging around the World Trade Center.
Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones Got a Basketball Jones, oh baby, oo-oo-oo Yes, I am the victim of a Basketball Jones Ever since I was a little baby, I always be dribblin' In fac', I was de baddest dribbler in the whole neighborhood Then one day, my mama bought me a basketball And I loved that basketball I took that basketball with me everywhere I went That basketball was like a basketball to me I even put that basketball underneath my pillow Maybe that's why I can't sleep at night I need help, ladies and gentlemens I need someone to stand beside me I need, I need someone to set a pick for me at the free-throw line of life Someone I can pass to Someone to hit the open man on the give-and-go And not end up in the popcorn machine So cheerleaders, help me out
We CAN'T let that one go.
That had better damn well come up during a televised debate. It'd be great if an audience member inquired about it.
She was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. who climbed Mount Everest.
She was a Yankees fan when she lived in Chicago.
She told upstate New Yorkers she had been a "duck hunter.”
She claimed on Sept. 11 daughter Chelsea was jogging around the World Trade Center.
You left out:
"She claimed to not be able to find the Rose Law Firm billing records (that were in her shoe closet)."
Obama ought to challenge her to a game of one on one.
re: Everybody works around the yard no matter how old they are.
Ummmm, no they don’t. They hire illegal aliens. That is the problem.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QX1fxx9TwLM
Is there a less athletic person on the planet than The Wicked Witch of NY??
Now if she said she craves power w/every fibre of her body, that would be believable.
Pray for W and Our Troops
What DOES she store in those legs? Scalps from BJ’s wimmen?
lol!!!
POOR YANKEES.....THE HILLARY CURSE — http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sp6iaEQssRE
I remember when Kathleen Kennedy was running for governor of Maryland and she got excited when she saw her team, “score a football”.
For me, the proper ‘sport’ for any president is poker. Nothing like a little 5 card stud to keep a guy in tune.
Of course, one could argue that Bill Clinton played Poke-Her...
Any way, ping me when she takes on Prince, and he serves her pancakes after the game.
ping
I always barf when I see the love-birds!
That's the kind of stuff you fill out for a bio when you don't do anything but don't want to leave it blank.
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