Now It Was 1961. (Hillary Was 13)

A Willing Suspension of Disbelief ^ | 01/28/2008 | Pjsbro

[theDentist]

The campaign let her go on becuase they don’t care. Remember what their credo was when Bill ran: “The Ends Justify the Means.” The press will forgive lapses in memory and small lies, especially when they want you to win.

Knowing that, her campaign doesn’t care a fig for facts.

[ml/nj]

Now if you were introduced to Mickey Mantle in 1963

Actually I was a Willie Mays fan!

And I did speak to ballplayers reasonably often, though mostly not famous ones. Of course I would remember. But then I really do remember a lot.

May point wasn't that the Commodities Scam Queen wasn't lying. The odds are very good that she was lying because most of what she says and does is a lie. I was just suggesting that it was actually easier back then for kids to be doing adult sorts of things by themselves if they had a mind to do them.

ML/NJ

[pjsbro]

So which ballplayers do you remember talking to?

(This isn't a quiz, just curious)

[7thson]

This reads like a perverted version of the best country song ever - it’s got nearly everything. You forgot wanting to be an astronaut, wanting to adopt another child, the FJB comments, Rose Law firm, cattle futures, etc. So many lies.

[7thson]

It is a great picture!

[ml/nj]

I best remember talking to Tug McGraw a day (or two) after he pitched a great game for the Mets in Pittsburgh (which I was at) when he was throwing in the bullpen before a Cubs game. I said something to him like "Nice game, last night," and he was thrilled that someone cared. I used to see ballplayers in the hotels because my father tended to stay at the same hotels that the ball-teams used. I remember they would sit around the pool at the Chase Park Plaza in St Louis during the day which I did sometimes too. I really tended not to bother them though. I've never been big on disturbing the privacy of people whom I really do not know.

ML/NJ

[Miss Behave]

Had Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed Mt. Everest yet?

[sauropod]

What’s a couple of years (just between us girls)?

[Liberty Valance]

[Miss Behave]

Hey how’s that baby doing—the one that HillBilly said they were adopting a few years ago?

[trillabodilla]

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

This woman and her slime ball husband wouldn’t know the truth if they were knocked over the head with it.

[Hoodat]

Lying comes as easily to a Clinton as breathing does to the rest of us.

[stylin19a]

but he had work to do so I went to baseball games, the Museum of Science and Industry...

beutiful...but what exact dates ?

[napscoordinator]

She should just say in the 60’s. lol.

[stylin19a]

assuming somebody is going to be able to prove/disprove it, regardless of what date she eventually comes up with.
( it’s a multiple choice, open book test on the date).

how can this person expect to be President, when she can’t even get a lie right ?

[pjsbro]

That's pretty cool

I have similar memories. As a boy I also traveled with my father, staying in the same hotels with the ballplayers.

I remember the Dodgers were at the hotel in Pittsburgh - this would be 1964 - saw Maury Wills, etc.

I went to the game at Forbes Field, sat way way up in the "Press Box" or so they told me. IIRC, Wills had a great base-stealing year then.

[pjsbro]

how can this person expect to be President, when she can’t even get a lie right

Exactly. And obviously her staff is totally out to lunch if they still have two different dates up on her website.

[SpinyNorman]

“”I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
—Martin Luther King, Jr

Hillary was there too:”

Oh yes, she doubtless met him on top of Mt. Everest while being inspired by her namesake, Sir Edmund Hillary.

Barf.

[ml/nj]

I didn't see the Dodgers there that year, but I was there for a couple of games too. I remember going with my father one night and having great box seats behind the first base dugout. The next night I went by myself and bought general admission. I brought the stub from the night before and sat in the same seat. Your hotel was probably the Hilton.

ML/NJ

[trumandogz]

Dr King was a Republican

As was Hillary at that point in her life.