"I liked the traditional duties of keeping a house. ..."
Hillary, on your best day...you couldn't even hold a candle to
chickens on the table and all!!!
Posted on 07/07/2003 11:31:57 AM PDT by kattracks
A series of bizarre comments uttered by New York Sen. Hillary Clinton to British interviewers continue to go unreported across the Atlantic, including several revealing exchanges with BBC "Woman's Hour" host Martha Kearney on July 4.
In America, for instance, few knew how much Mrs. Clinton enjoyed her role as First Homemaker, especially given her boast 11 years ago that she rejected the role of "baking cookies and having teas."
While in England, however, the top Democrat proclaimed, "I liked the traditional duties of keeping a house. ..."
"I'm not the greatest at it in the world," Mrs. Clinton told the BBC. "But I loved doing it. I mean, it was inviting people to come to your home and therefore it mattered to me what china we used, what the flowers looked like, what the menu was."
Asked about critics who derided her as "Chillary, Lady Macbeth, Heil Hillary and Shrillary," Mrs. Clinton said the attacks were a reaction to her being a feminist role model.
"Well, I think that there's a lot of debate about the issues that I present - not only the ones you're referring to, but certainly to being the first professional woman to be in the position of first lady," she told the BBC.
"For most people who make a profession out of opposing me and setting up Web sites and all that they do, it really comes down to a very different view of what our country should be," Clinton explained.
Her opponents were also reacting to her criticism of President Bush, she contended.
"I think it's a tragedy that our country has squandered the fiscal responsibility that my husband left it," she told Kearney. "I think this administration has done a terrible disservice. And people hear that and that, of course, causes the opposition to get upset."
But the top Democrat complained, "They can't really take me on, on the issues, because it's hard to argue in favor of deficits and debt, and so they practice what I call the politics of personal destruction. And, well, that's their choice."
Mrs. Clinton also gave an unusual response to Kearney's question about whether she, like her husband, had "caused pain" in their marriage.
Rather than issue a flat-out denial, she replied: "Well, I think that every one of us has, you know, all kinds of issues. I think that I've learned a lot about myself in life during these long years of marriage. And, you know, I hope that I'm a better person, a better wife, a better mother every single day."
There was even here a hint that the Clintons' marriage may not last forever. Asked how her husband would "cope with being first man," Sen. Clinton told the BBC, "Well, I don't know that he'll ever have the chance to figure that out."
"I liked the traditional duties of keeping a house. ..."
Hillary, on your best day...you couldn't even hold a candle to
chickens on the table and all!!!
No, she wants to play house with Soha. Hillary said I'll be the daddy and you will be my wife.
Ah yes, the medieval chatelaine, giving orders to the serfs, the peasants and the scullery maids.
Wow. The first truth I ever heard her utter.
Of course, she didn't elaborate that her view of this country is as a Socialist "paradise" (an oxymoron if I ever saw one)!
No, they're not, Hillary. Speaking for me, personally, the attacts are a reaction to you as a person, your morality, and the Communist agenda you're trying to slip into America's water supply while we sleep.
...and moist cigar butts.
Spoken like a woman who's never actually kept house a day in her life. China and flowers.....puhleeze......in this house it's more like paper plates and my kids latest play doh creation as a centerpiece.
That's the truth with the bark on it. Throwing dinner parties (with a catered meal, ordered floral arrangements, and probably rented china - how many people have more than one set of good china to CHOOSE from?) is NOT keeping house. This is what a First Lady does in the White House, with a staff of hundreds to do all the work.
When I invite friends over to dinner, it's grandmother's china (the only set I have - our everyday dishes are the $3 kind from the discount store), whatever I can cook and still have time to visit with our guests, and whatever flowers Publix has on the aisle that day!
Excellent find... great memory. Thanks.
And exactly when did the Red Queen ever deign to "take on" anyone asking unscripted questions?
What house?! Until they bought that house in NY with loan guarantees from a third party, the Clintons never owned a house in their lives.
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