Posted on 12/05/2007 11:55:03 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
The Associated Press asked major presidential candidates a series of questions about their personal tastes, traits and backgrounds. Today's question—first in a series—and their answers: What was your worst job?
DEMOCRATS:
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: "Sliming fish in a fish cannery in Valdez, Alaska."
Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards: Textile mill. "I cleaned out overhead in the weave room, which is where all the crap goes. And I'd be up there climbing around, knocking the stuff down. And it would go down on the looms. The weavers would be, uh, not happy with me for that."
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama: Scooping ice cream at a Baskin-Robbins and eating too much of it.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson: Landscaping, while playing baseball on Cape Cod in 1967. "The pay was terrible. I remember it was backbreaking work."
REPUBLICANS:
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee: "Washing windows at JCPenney's and stocking shelves when I was 14 years old. ... It was a great job and it was a great company but they worked me hard. Just as I'd get all the fingerprints wiped off the door, somebody would come and they'd put their hands all over the glass. To this day, I'm still very sensitive about never touching the glass, but touching the handles because I had to wipe those windows so many times."
Arizona Sen. John McCain: "I've never really had a bad job."
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney: "Worst job was probably spending about a week sawing a sewer pipe at the ranch in Idaho I worked at. And getting down in the sewer and sawing through a sewer pipe that still had active sewage occasionally passing through it."
Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson: "I've worked in a factory, I was a bouncer at my uncle's drag strip, I worked at the post office, I sold children's shoes, I sold ladies', I sold men's clothing, I was a night clerk at a motel. I can't think of a job that I had that I wasn't thankful for at the time."
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani: Declined to answer.
LOL!
I just got to date the nieghbor’s daughter. Yes, she was “the farmer’s daughter.”
In hindsight, the money would have been better.
LOL. I would vote for him in a minute.
“a tad warm”
For me, unloading bales of fiberglass in a metal quonset hut, Kansas in August. Very itchy, sweaty work.
Or hooking and bucking bales of hay in Wyoming: there was an occasional PO’d prairie rattler in the twine.
Peeling canvas filter covers from wire frames, for a gravel cleaning machine.
Jobs Mexicans wouldn’t do . . .
I was wondering that myself.
Yikes! That's some people's best job!
Barry must have led a pretty sheltered life.
Still, the fact that in 45 years he didn't have time to come up with a better answer probably does illustrate that he probably hasn't been planning his campaign since kindergarten, like Hillary says about him.
Construction and/or startups of various small chemical plants for my dad over the years. In highschool I had to waterproof a two-foot wide absorber column from the inside with epoxy sealant outdoors during a typical Houston 100 degree summer. The fumes, well, you can guess.
What are some Freepers worst jobs?
Hehe, me too. The sewage he dealt with at that treatment plant is nothing compared to sewage coming out of the Capitol, though.
What a bunch of wusses. Mike Rowe for President!
LOL. I would vote for him in a minute.
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama: Scooping ice cream at a Baskin-Robbins and eating too much of it.I snorted at first when I read that, but now that I think about it, that's the perfect answer for the Oprah candidate.
Nobody knows the trouble he's seen.
Nobody knows, but Opraaaaaaah....
Hillary Clinton - “I was for fish-sliming before I was against it.”
I believe it was ladies’ shoes he sold, they left something out there.
I’ve had a lot of nasty jobs, worst was at a McDonalds on the days I had to take out the trash or dump the grease traps or walk through six inches of standing water to work...
A lot of freepers have really interesting job experiences, but I’ve got to vote for your experience.... Yours rates higher on the negative scale than even Romney’s.
And now she says it was the worst job she ever had. There's only one explanation:
IT'S THE ONLY JOB SHE EVER HAD.
I can remember Hillarys appearance on Letterman. Best I remember about two days after the appearance it was discovered that she supplied the questions. Kind of like a CNN you tube debate.
Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson: “. . . I can’t think of a job that I had that I wasn’t thankful for at the time.”
Classy answer.
It pays to be the admiral's son.
It was there in Alaska Where Hillary developed her love of fishy smelling things.
I worked at a day care center for a year during college, in the afternoons after class. I had the 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 yr olds, and half of them were potty training at any given time. Oh Joy.
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