[COUNTrecount]

Hillary Rodham Clinton, circa 1959

Swan song for "Swan Lake dancer".

[Da Coyote]

Her family had an honorable past. She’s taken care of that quite well.

[Sacajaweau]

She's got bobby socks on with her toe shoes...Let me tell you...then they weren't hers....because toe shoes fit like a glove.

And how long did this prima ballerina gig last?? A year...like most kids I know??

Oh, yeh...Then she traded the shoes in for boots....because she wanted to be a Marine...Yeh, that's the story!!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I think I’m gonna toss my lunch!

[Red Badger]

Coal Miner’s Daughter
Loretta Lynn

Well, I was born a coal miner’s daughter
In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler
We were poor but we had love
That’s the one thing my Daddy made sure of
He shoveled coal to make a poor man’s dollar

My daddy worked all night in the Van Lear coal mine
All day long in the field hoeing corn
Mama rocked the baby at night
Read the Bible by a coal oil light
And everything would start all over come break of morn

Daddy loved and raised eight kids on a coal miner’s pay
Mama scrubbed our clothes on a washboard every day
I’ve seen her fingers bleed
To complain there was no need
She’d smile in Mama’s understanding way

In the summertime we didn’t have shoes to wear
But in the wintertime we’d all get a brand new pair
From a mail-order catalogue, money made by selling a hog
Daddy always seemed to get the money somewhere

I’m proud to be a coal miner’s daughter
I remember well, the well where I drew water
The work we done was hard
At night we’d sleep, cause we were tired
I never thought I’d ever leave Butcher Holler

Well a lot of things have changed, since way back when
And it’s so good to be back home again
Not much left but the floor
Nothing lives here anymore
Just a memory of a coal miner’s daughter

[mountainbunny]

No heat in their summer cabin?
The horror.
The absolute horror.
Next she’ll be telling me that her pony wasn’t purebred.

[Argus]

“I was raised on the American dream . . . we all need to dream it again and I promise we will.”

More like the Soviet nightmare, Comrade Rodham.

[gunservative]

The coal began to run out at about the same time, and the area has been in slow but steady decline ever since.

The coal didn't run out. This reporter needs to study the area's history following WW2 a little more in-depth.

[KenHorse]

Ahhhh ain’t no ways taaared. I’ve come too faaaaaahr”

[Cobra64]

"The tonnes of coal and anthracite carved out of the mountains fed the trains and factory furnaces: Hillary Clinton recalled, as a child, marvelling at the Lackawanna River running through the city, black with coal dust, and the burning piles on the horizon."

Ah, She's a "Coalminer's Daughter"

Coal miner's black lung disease, and her ancestor's carbon footprint of Hillary's past.

[Hegemony Cricket]

"Scranton was then a cauldron of America’s industrial revolution, a place of belching factories, Satanic mills..."

'splains a lot.

[rod1]

Was she a Yankees fan back then?? What state hasn’t she tried to claim?

[cubreporter]

cry me a river, cry me a river, cry me a river.....etc.

[onedoug]

Was she sniped at there?