Posted on 10/21/2007 7:57:11 AM PDT by 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.
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But disloyalty to a pet, is something that is not seen that often, and is tangible to the millions of pet owners. It's the Clintons, and nothing seems to stick to them, so I am not expecting any fall from power over this. But I still think this could resonate more than any other criminal stuff she does.
I take it you mean giving it away, as opposed to grinding it up and serving catburgers.
Would you want to be living in the same house as Hillary?
IMAGINE- too ‘catty’ to be a cat lady!
The Clinton’s aren’t soft, furry pet people.
They’re snake people.
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.
BTW, is there any truth to the rumor it was Socks who founded the Viking Kitties movement?
Isn’t this the cat she adopted that had bad breath, like some kind of a dirty sock?
Fret not, though, PETA will forgive her.
It says a lot about how seriously they take their responsibilities.
Mark Penn= moron
Clinton’s treatment of Socks cuts to the heart of the questions about her candidacy. Is she too cold and calculating to win the presidency? Or does it signify political invincibility by showing she is willing to deploy every weapon to get what she wants?
“In the annals of human evil, off-loading a pet is nowhere near the top of the list,” writes Caitlin Flanagan in the current issue of The Atlantic magazine. “But neither is it dead last, and it is especially galling when said pet has been deployed for years as an all-purpose character reference.”
Flanagan’s article, titled “No Girlfriend of Mine,” points out that Clinton wrote a crowd-pleasing book “Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids’ Letters to the First Pets,” in which she claimed that only with the arrival of Socks and his “toy mouse” did the White House “become a home.”
Being Clinton, she also lectured readers that pets are an “adoption instead of an acquisition” and warned them to look out for their safety. (Buddy, the chocolate labrador in the Reagan White House, bounded into a road soon after leaving the White House and was promptly run over.)
Gimme a break!
Hillary: "Since we travel a lot, and Chelsea living elsewhere, we didn't have a proper environment for Socks".
Case closed.
What a load of garbage. No amount of BS can change the sinister, evil core of that witch. Evil oozes out of every pore in her degenerate body. Interviews with secret service agents and anyone else that lived in the White House during these degenerates occupancy should discredit any and everything said that the Clintoons. There are books out there that describe the profanity, lamps being thrown down the staircase, and the other low-life behavior of the Clintoons. Someone with the guts to expose this publicly would discredit all the BS being hyped about Hitlery now. No amount of makeup can hide her zits!
At the same time, she been cited for animal negligence at least three different states, and has abandoned cats when she's moved.
Or commiting dog-suicide, after a few days alone with her in that ugly barn they got from Punk McAuliffe.
Hillary will be lucky to get the votes of 25% of women in the traditional Democrat party.
Women want strong protectors in time of war, world unrest and danger. I don't think the touchy-feely, enemy-appeasing Hillary fills that bill.....and I think most women sense this (except the radical Dem women Hillary counts on, but I believe these harridans would prefer a touchy-feely, appeasing, emasculated male for president).
Leni
Yes!!! Cause this sucks!!!
does any one remember that Hillary & Bill were gonna adopt a child while in the whitehouse. Just think Betty Currie could be a mother....
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.
Wholly spit!!! How awful!!!
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