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Hillary: I Loved Being a Homemaker
NewsMax.com ^ | 7/07/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

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."



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1 posted on 07/07/2003 11:31:57 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
you forgot the Barf Alert........!!
2 posted on 07/07/2003 11:33:08 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: kattracks
This woman has ABSOLUTELY no shame.
3 posted on 07/07/2003 11:33:09 AM PDT by presidio9 (RUN AL, RUN!!!)
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To: kattracks
Hillary Rodham Clinton is a lying slag.
4 posted on 07/07/2003 11:33:16 AM PDT by RichInOC (...it's not the first time I've said it...it won't be the last...)
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To: kattracks
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 guess Newsmax is already conceding the actual election part of the equation.

5 posted on 07/07/2003 11:34:33 AM PDT by dead
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To: Sub-Driver
Barf Alert is inherent to anything with Hillary in the title.
6 posted on 07/07/2003 11:34:33 AM PDT by Laura Earl (A good day at the beach is better than the best day at work.)
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To: kattracks
Betty Crock!
7 posted on 07/07/2003 11:34:43 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: kattracks

Here's Hellary kissing Yassar Arafat's wife Soha. Guess she wants to play "house" with the Palastinians

8 posted on 07/07/2003 11:35:35 AM PDT by bedolido (please let my post be on an even number... small even/odd phobia here)
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To: kattracks
3-4 bag hurl alert..
9 posted on 07/07/2003 11:36:24 AM PDT by ewing
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To: kattracks
"I'm not the greatest at it in the world," [housekeeping]

Yes, it must have been a real pain for her to clean up all the broken lamps and ashtrays.

10 posted on 07/07/2003 11:36:33 AM PDT by EggsAckley ( "Aspire to mediocracy"................new motto for publik skools.............)
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To: kattracks
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."

BWAAAAHHHHAAAAAA

11 posted on 07/07/2003 11:36:39 AM PDT by Zavien Doombringer (Ain't nothing worse than feeling obsolete....)
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To: kattracks
This is rich!....what a liar!!
12 posted on 07/07/2003 11:37:35 AM PDT by mystery-ak (The War is not over for me until my hubby's boots hit U.S. soil.)
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To: Miss Marple; lysie; kayak; Molly Pitcher; Carolina; mountaineer; BigWaveBetty
Oh, just gag me with a spoon. I'm so angry with this slime. I had to delete what I really wanted to say.
13 posted on 07/07/2003 11:37:45 AM PDT by Iowa Granny (Chocolate is cheaper than therapy,,,,,,, and you don't need an appointment.)
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To: RichInOC
"We all look forward with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches, full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more g*****n nonsense. Bill Clinton...has not a creative bone in his body. Therefore, he's a bore, and will always be a bore."

David Brinkly 1996.

Same goes for Hillary. Utter bore and a fraud.

14 posted on 07/07/2003 11:37:55 AM PDT by Burkeman1 (w)
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To: kattracks
Plop!
15 posted on 07/07/2003 11:38:18 AM PDT by MadMoo
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To: kattracks
Homemaker?

Mrs Anti-christ was bust keeping the fires burning while Lucifer was running around collecting maidens for his Satanic ceremonies.

16 posted on 07/07/2003 11:41:00 AM PDT by chachacha
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To: kattracks
I mean, it was inviting people to come to your home and therefore it mattered to me what china we used stole"
17 posted on 07/07/2003 11:41:01 AM PDT by areafiftyone (The U.N. needs a good Flush!)
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To: kattracks
Yep, the next book she writes will be Hillary's Housekeeping Hints

She is a shameless.

The Tarheel

18 posted on 07/07/2003 11:41:28 AM PDT by Tarheel (The Old North State)
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To: dead
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."

Criminey Pete, I hope and pray it's because that witch never gets elected and not because these two losers finally decided to call it quits!

Prairie

19 posted on 07/07/2003 11:41:54 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (The "Religion of Peace"............isn't.)
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To: kattracks
Hillary: I Loved Being a HomewreckerHomemaker Just ask the Foster family.........
20 posted on 07/07/2003 11:43:08 AM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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