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. According to Wikipedia:
“That summer, she worked her way across Alaska, washing dishes in Mount McKinley National Park and sliming salmon in a fish processing cannery in Valdez (which fired her and shut down overnight when she complained about unhealthy conditions”
WHINER! some things never change.
“What are some Freepers worst jobs?”
I picked peas for $3/bushel.
Installing fiberglass insulation in an attic in the middle of the summer.
Built fiberglass/kevlar kayaks. The boss was an ahole(the only job I have ever quit).
LOL! I wish I didn’t know what that was.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: “Working on the Board of Directors at Wal-Mart”.
Sen. Mrs. Bill Clinton: “Working on the Goldwater for President campaign in 1964”
That is absolutely CLASSIC.
“Arizona Sen. John McCain: “I’ve never really had a bad job.”
Well when they’re paying $50 an hour to pick lettuce......”
LOL!
Sometime after she babysat for the children of illegal aliens...and before she made $100,000 on cattle futures through pure dumb luck.
Was he a poofter?
Summer job packaging agricultural pesticides. Many of my coworkers spoke English as a distant second language. Corrugated metal building with no A/C and poor ventilation. Wearing heavy coveralls, heavy-duty rubber boots and gloves, and face shield. Bryan/College Station, Texas in July.
At the end of each shift, I would literally pour sweat out of my boots.
Amazingly, I lasted a little over two weeks on that job. I was definitely not cut out for that kind of labor, and my productivity proved it. In a plea bargain, I was allowed to quit instead of being fired. My boss (who didn't bear any ill will against me) said I belonged in an office somewhere. I was still in college, so instead I got a job delivering pizzas (DoubleDave's, for those of you who know the area). Loved that job, and kept it for three years.
Are you questioning the word of the annointed one? How dare thee!
Nothing compares to Blue Bell Ice Cream so I can see his disappointment. ;-)
Never had a bad job. I have, however, had the occasional crummy supervisor!
Must have been a LOT of ice cream. His lips are still blue!
I’ve had alot of worst jobs but off the top of my head one of the hardest was inspecting truck brake assemblies on a factory assembly line.
They weighed 43# each and the 8 hour production rate was 2,300.
You had to pick them up, look them all over, repair anything not on correctly, and hang them on conveyor hooks that ran overhead.
Thats 98,900 pounds over your head in 8 hours, plus all the other stuff.
She's laying in the third tray back, on the right.
“New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson: Landscaping
Was he working for Mitt? ;-)”
ROTFLMAO!
Yeah, I’d like to know exactly when she did this.
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