Posted on 12/13/2007 3:39:31 PM PST by jdm
Recall the embarrassment Hillary Clinton suffered when she tried to explain she'd been named after Sir Edmund Hillary after he'd climbed Mount Everest -- only to have it pointed out that she had been five years old at that time? Well, she still seems a little confused about her birth date. Here's an interesting passage in today's debate:
Hillary: We've got to enlist the American people the way we did in a previous generation for the Apollo program. As a little girl, I remember being thrilled about that, and feeling there was something I could do. [Shrugs] My fifth-grade teacher said it was to study math and science, but it gave me an idea of actually contributing to my country.
Hillary Clinton was born in 1947. Assuming she started the first grade as a six-year-old as most kids do, she would have been in the fifth grade in 1957-1958. The Mercury program didn't start until 1961, and Apollo started in 1966. John Kennedy didn't even make his speech about going to the moon until she was a teenager, not a "little girl".
It's these tall tales -- trying desperately to make herself seem warm and empathetic -- that demonstrate the phoniness of Hillary Clinton. Her husband can pull this off. She can't, and maybe she should stop trying.
UPDATE: Allahpundit at Hot Air calls Hillary's offer to have a show of hands for global warming her "Tracy Flick" moment. It's a great reference, and dead on. How many know what it is, and do you agree?
"Well, let me clarify the meaning of my statement's meaning."
"I did not, now nor ever, mean to imply that my fifth grade teacher told me this while I was actually in her fifth grade class."
"She was a warm, wonderful progressive person whom I greatly admired; and she recognized future greatness in me."
"This gave cause for us to mutually remain in contact for many years until her unfortunate demise, just before reporters could arrive to question her about our relationship and conversations..."
Perhaps she was studying in Mother Russia and in awe at the awesomeness of Stalin’s mighty military Marxism.
Either she is lying or she is mentally incompetent.
So is Hillary a fool or a fraud?
I liked that movie; seemed almost out of the day’s headlines.
bttt
Both.
Didn’t she reference manned space flight before and how she was slighted because she was a girl?
She has to stop using John Kerry’s writers.
BUT in the books I read about her this summer there were a couple of iffy age mistakes leading me to believe she's older than 60... more like 62. And, Bubba may be older too according to these tombs about them.
She was obviously inspired by Sputnik. Freudian slip to be sure.
She is either a liar or repeated 5th grade for several years... which is it?
It does explain. Thank God, someone finally pointed this out. Liars have actual deficits which, to my experience, makes them MORE DANGEROUS. Hillary must be rejected. BTW, is anyone else not buying all the ‘unapproved’ jury tainting by her campaign? Smear then apologize and back it up with a ‘firing’. It’s all premeditated. Hillary Clinton is the most amoral personality I have ever witnessed.
None of that space stuff could have happened until Democrats got elected in 1960. Hillary can’t even get her own revisionist history straight, LOL
Yeah, this is much less of a bombshell than the Sir Edmund Hillary thing. If she was in the fifth grade in 1957-58, that’s right at the time when Sputnik first went into orbit and Explorer followed a few months later.
There is a very simple explanation. To quote Robin Williams
“Anyone who remembers the 60s wasn’t there”. She was probably stoned out of her mind during that decade, thus the lapse of memory.
It isn't "her prerogative" when she is running to be President of the USA.
Hillary lies? Damn! Just when I was thinking about voting for her.
“So is Hillary a fool or a fraud?”
Sir, I assure, you, Hillary is no fool!
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