You fired! No you fired!
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.
I give McCain credit for not bringing up the POW thing. He’s pretty classy about all that. Contrast that with John “Reporting for Duty!” Kerry.
Fred should have said “Being Republican Watergate counsel and bringing up the information about the taping system in the Nixon White House.” Whoops.
I pumped gas during the Oil Crisis in the ‘70s. Man, did I take some abuse. I was only 13.
Hauling hay is a tough job, but a lucrative one for a teenager. Worked on a well pump repair truck, painted houses, worked in grocery stores (had to clean the meat shop every night).
Apparently this is considered a "bad" job because he didn't get to work at Blue Bell Ice Cream. Isn't their slogan "We eat all we can and sell the rest"?
glad you enjoyed the jokes, sometimes they just write themselves.
Presdiential Candidates: Doing the jobs Americans won’t do.
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: “Sliming fish in a fish cannery in Valdez, Alaska.”
Can anyone verify this? Sounds like another one of her lies.
"Serving my country on foreign soil as a prisoner of war while traitors like Jane Fonda gave aid and comfort to the enemy."
What a bunch of wusses. Mike Rowe for President!
AMC Matador....better than an AMC Pacer
I guess I’ve never been to a down-home Tennessee back-woods drag-strip.
Must be some purty tuff ‘ol boys back in them woods.”
Have you ever been to a drag strip?
If you had you would know.
1...lots of drinking.
2...only sissies there a hot chicks
3...refer to 1 + 2
I did too. My own worst job has to be the time I spent cleaning rooms in a San Francisco area motel. People do...ah...strange things sometimes in rooms they don't have to clean and are never returning to...
There are. And some are too stupid to have a good time.
You fired! No you fired!
How long do you think it took for the fish to get used to the smell?
LOLOL
I’ve been to a few here in Texas.
Plenty of tire irons everywhere.
Get outta line and get one upside your head!
No savy english
Spent a couple of years as a stock boy unloading trucks by hand... no pallets or forklifts. You would open the back door of a 40' trailer and see it stacked solid with boxes knowing that with every box you got off, the walk back for the next box only got longer. But it did keep me in damn good shape. Probably the worst job was roofing -- flat roofs with paper and buckets of tar and a mop. Honestly, I didn't last long at that... the job really stunk, but like Thompson said -- I was thankful for it at the time.
Did he think he was answering a question from Tiger Beat magazine? If I were his Democratic opponent, I don't think I could resist making a quip about his Baskin Robbins job being his line of work immediately before he became a US Senator.
I don't hate Barack Obama, but it's pretty clear to me that he's running a hugely amateurish campaign. What an adolescent.
I can just imagine him standing behind the counter with a little pink apron over a brown pinstriped shirt with that sugary aroma filling the air asking people if they want nuts and caramel on their parfait.
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