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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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To: Cindy; kattracks
hausfrau hillary
81 posted on 07/07/2003 2:57:26 PM PDT by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: kattracks
Well the folks of New York had a perfect opportunity to make her one (a homemaker) but they blew it.
82 posted on 07/07/2003 2:59:06 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Back in boot camp! 249 (-51))
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To: kattracks
"I liked the traditional duties of keeping a house. ..."

Especially when someone else pays for it.

She should have added "I like keeping White House furniture - art and silverware too."

83 posted on 07/07/2003 3:12:18 PM PDT by LADY J
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To: kattracks
OH PLEASE. GIVE ME A BREAK!
84 posted on 07/07/2003 3:14:15 PM PDT by veronica (http://www.petitiononline.com/KN50711/petition.html - Confirm Daniel Pipes to USIP ......sign this!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Barf Alert is inherent to anything with Hillary in the title.

Bears repeating.

85 posted on 07/07/2003 3:27:49 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (In the Hamas dictionary, "Cease fire" means "reload.")
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To: dead
I guess Newsmax is already conceding the actual election part of the equation.

Yeah, I don't see that as a hint she might divorce him, I see it as more of her silly pretending that she's not going to run. 04 or 08, that's the only question left.

86 posted on 07/07/2003 3:31:08 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (In the Hamas dictionary, "Cease fire" means "reload.")
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
They were, but only poor Hillary counts in her own mind.
87 posted on 07/07/2003 3:40:00 PM PDT by pubmom
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To: cincinnati65; Mia T
Hillary...Bake me cookies, then iron my shirt



Hillary Clinton's Chocolate Chip Cookies


1 1/2 cup unsifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup solid vegetable shortening
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar

1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
1 (12-ounce) package semi-sweet chocolate chips


Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease baking sheets. Combine flour, salt and baking soda. Beat together shortening, sugars and vanilla in a large bowl until creamy. Add eggs, beating until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in flour mixture and rolled oats. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop batter by well-rounded teaspoonsful on to greased baking sheets. Bake 8 to 10 minuter or until golden. Cool cookies on sheets on wire rack for 2 minutes. Remove cookies to wire rack to cool completely.


88 posted on 07/07/2003 6:13:15 PM PDT by Wolverine
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To: kattracks
"Mrs. Clinton said the attacks were a reaction to her being a feminist role model".

My daughter doesn't need a feminist role model, she needs a feminine one......me.......her mother.

89 posted on 07/08/2003 7:07:38 AM PDT by SpookBrat
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To: homeschool mama; Brad's Gramma; LadyX; Aquamarine; Pippin; WVNan; snippy_about_it; AntiJen; ...
Hillary's cookies were nasty. She needs my recipe.

1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp soda
2 tsp vanilla
1 bag of chocolate chips (I mix half milk chocolate and have semi sweet)
10 cups conservative DNA

Bake @ 350 for 10 to 12 min.

She also doesn't know how to make a good cup of tea.

4 heaping teaspoons loose tea
4 cups water

Place loose tea leaves into a warmed tea kettle. Pour heated water over loose tea leaves. Let steep. Strain tea and serve.

*Note: For Oolong and Green tea, water should simmer at 200 degrees F. and 180 degrees F.

*For Irish and English tea bring water to a full boil.

*Black tea should soak for 3 to 5 minutes. Oolong tea should soak for 4 to 7 minutes. Green Tea should soak for 2 to 3 minutes.

90 posted on 07/08/2003 7:16:33 AM PDT by SpookBrat
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To: kattracks; SpookBrat
**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." **

you know you know you know you know.....jeez louize this woman, you know, shows her lack of conversational intelligence, you know?

btw...she was NEVER a home maker. She has NO IDEA what a home maker is or does. What an absolute lying witch.

91 posted on 07/08/2003 8:54:55 AM PDT by homeschool mama
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To: Zavien Doombringer
**"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." **

...while her gov't employeed servants did ALL the work for her. hmpfh.

92 posted on 07/08/2003 8:55:50 AM PDT by homeschool mama
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To: bedolido
How about this?...


93 posted on 07/08/2003 9:02:58 AM PDT by Zavien Doombringer (Ain't nothing worse than feeling obsolete....)
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To: homeschool mama
Well, Hillary knew how to clean house...


94 posted on 07/08/2003 9:04:24 AM PDT by Zavien Doombringer (Ain't nothing worse than feeling obsolete....)
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To: homeschool mama
"WILLIAM!!!! I told you to put the toilet seat down. Now look what you've done".


95 posted on 07/08/2003 9:06:58 AM PDT by SpookBrat
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To: Zavien Doombringer
haha...sad but true.
96 posted on 07/08/2003 9:37:01 AM PDT by homeschool mama
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