Report: Dumped Cat Could Come Back to Haunt Hillary Clinton Campaign

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[Sub-Driver]

Report: Dumped Cat Could Come Back to Haunt Hillary Clinton Campaign

Sunday , October 21, 2007

As the “first pet” of the Clinton era, Socks, the White House cat, allowed “chilly” Hillary Clinton to show a caring, maternal side as well as bringing joy to her daughter Chelsea. So where is Socks today?

Once the presidency was over, there was no room for Socks anymore. After years of loyal service at the White House, the black and white cat was dumped on Betty Currie, Bill Clinton’s personal secretary, who also had an embarrassing clean-up role in the saga of his relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky.

Some believe the abandoned pet could now come between Hillary Clinton and her ambition to return to the White House as America’s first female president.

Clinton has been boosting her prospects in the past week with some homespun references to her gender as part of a series of events with the theme Women Changing America, during which she chatted girlfriend-to-girlfriend and mom-to-mom with female voters.

The softening of Clinton’s image seems to be working. Her chief strategist, Mark Penn, predicts that up to a quarter of Republican women will vote for her. She leads Democratic rivals in the polls by 26 points and is scooping up more donations to her war chest from Wall Street and defense contractors than any candidate from either party – an unmistakable indicator of who they think will win in 2008.

[lonevoice]

Case closed.

No kidding. Of all the reprehensible things she and the philanderer in chief can legitimately be attacked for? This is ridiculous.

[hunter112]

I’m amazed that Betty Curry is still alive. Just imagine if she were to write a tell all book. Betty is the one who covered for the Monica affair.

The cat was fitted with a high-tech surveillance device, and is essentially spying on Betty to make sure she doesn't talk. ;)

Nope, this is nothing. People who can understand that Ellen DeGeneres found a good home for a dog that didn't get along with her cats will believe that the Clintoons were doing the same thing with Betty Currie. In any event, it's just another case of the Clintons dealing with extra inconvenient p***y...

[The Great RJ]

Hillary was quick to exploit these pets in a book during her White House years, but once that PR task was done she couldn’t care less about them. I am certain the Bush’s dogs will go with them when they leave the White House.

[MinuteGal]

Lovable.....but then it's completely comical when one reads your caption!

Leni

[Matchett-PI]

I love that picture!

[Red Boots]

Maybe he was making a mad dash for freedom. Would you want to be living in the same house as Hillary?

Couold very well be. Cats are very good judges of charcater, and will leave for better accomodations.

[SeaHawkFan]

Maybe Hillary was afraid to leave socks at home with Bill. After all, he isn’t very choosy.

[Verginius Rufus]

Actually, there are two questions--whether Buddy's death was really an accident, and whether the misidentification of him as Reagan's dog was an accident or deliberate.

At least Socks didn't suffer Kathleen Willey's cat's fate.

[Matchett-PI]

"..looks like hillary has some work to do to convince pet owners to vote for her. LOL"

Their pets are watching her every move, too.

[Past Your Eyes]

Related thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914072/posts

[Matchett-PI]

"Amber alert for Socks"

I haven't found Socks yet, but I think I found his brother :).

[SusaninOhio]

No but she ‘Vince Fostered’ both of their two dogs.

The libs are all yelling about how petty this entire issue is. I don’t call it petty - I call it a darn good description of the woman - cold-hearted, inhuman, unable to bond with ANYONE and takes responsiblity for NONE of her actions.

I guess it was doggie suicide - twice.

[pbear8]

They could give Socks to Ellen, she’d know what to do with it.

[Arrowhead1952]

64 replies before Allegra got a ping to a socks thread. FReepers are slipping.

[varon]

Isn’t this the cat she adopted that had bad breath, like some kind of a dirty sock?

Nawww, that was Chelsea ;-)

[duckman]

Not amusing at all.

[mylife]

to you....

;0)

[nmh]

Yeah, whatever happened to the human adoption?

I forgot about that too.

[nmh]

“Bubba is a prop! Their marriage is a sick joke and always has been. That picture of these two tubs dancing on the beach was an insult to our intelligence. They despise each other; always have. Theirs is a marriage of convenience or inconvenience however you want to play the game. No amount of slick marketing can cover that up.”

I agree one million percent!

They are so phony and so EVIL. Whatever happened to their dog, Buddy? He kind of disappeared too.

[nmh]

Despicable is a flattering term for those abominations.

People are sooooooooooooooooooooo stupid ..............they are so transparent. It’s sad to see people be so terminally dumbed down.