But she got over all that soon enough.
Posted on 05/16/2006 6:50:34 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
"She's a former first lady, a United States senator, and a potential 2008 presidential candidate. But to hear Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton tell it, all of that pales in comparison to her real childhood dreams," reported Newsday in an attempted puff piece on the junior Senator from New York.
"My whole life has been a speed bump," she said to laughs."
Yep, that pretty much sums it up. Failed at everything she ever tried, so she decided to go into politics. And this woman wants to be President?
"'I wanted desperately to be an Olympic athlete,' Clinton said Monday at a Purchase College symposium on Title IX, the 1972 law" which imposed sex discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding, requiring them to cut programs for males if there was a higher percentage of male participation than the percentage of males in the student body. "I tried everything. I ran every race, and if I was really lucky I finished second to last...I couldn't jump, I couldn't run, I couldn't swim." Sounds like 99% of folks who dream of being elite athletes. If everybody could do it, nobody would be "elite," would they?
The article continues: "After determining she'd never be an athlete, she set her sights on becoming an astronaut.
"So I wrote to NASA and said, 'How do I sign up to be an astronaut?"' she said. "And they wrote back very politely and said, 'We don't take girls."'
Next went the dream of a career in medicine.
"I volunteered at the hospital but kept getting lightheaded and woozy when I saw anyone in any kind of distress," she said. " Yep, sounds like she made a good choice not to be a doctor.
"She also abandoned hopes of becoming a scientist or mathematician because she didn't have the best grades in those subjects." First, yet another reason for her not to be a doctor. Second, wasn't the President of Harvard forced to resign for even so much as suggesting that a female might have trouble in a math or science class? Yep, thought so.
"That, she said, left her current career choice --one that was shaped at the family dinner table.
"We had the most lively, contentious dinner table conversations that probably anybody has endured," Clinton recalled of her family's mealtime public policy debates. "I thought well, I do like to study what goes on in the world around me, I adore government as a subject in school, I'm very interested in politics and history. So I went to law school."
Despite all those apparent setbacks, Clinton urged students in the audience to pursue their dreams by believing in themselves and ignoring obstacles in their path.
"My whole life has been a speed bump," she said to laughs."
Yep, that pretty much sums it up. Failed at everything she ever tried, so she decided to go into politics. And this woman wants to be President?
...and many would enjoy living in your great country. But my understanding is that the Australian government doesn't allow non-citizens to hold a job.
Is that true?
(I was told this by an American who married an Aussie Sheila. He wanted to live there a few years, but wasn't allowed to work, so they came to the U.S.)
About 3 years ago, I visited EnZed for a job interview. Considered looking in your country. Nonetheless, I liked that part of the world. Hope to cross paths with you again soon, FRiend.
But she got over all that soon enough.
Not true. Like other foreign coutries with a socialized medical system, they are always looking for physicians, nurses, etc. Arrangements can be made if your qualifications are right.
She seemed to be pretty good at Cattle Futures.
Oh, medical professionals. But most of us aren't.
So what about ordinary jobs, e.g. butcher, baker, candlestick maker, teachers, etc. ??
Don't know the answer to that question but I'm sure the law of supply and demand applies. I thought about NZ or AUS because I was in a financial position to take on the lower salaries. If you have some interest in working there, it is easy to google up job opportunities and check the government websites to see what they are looking for. Go at it. Maybe you'll find something you like.
"'I wanted desperately to be an Olympic athlete,' Clinton said Monday...
Too bad for her that lying and deception aren't Olympic sports.
Oh, sorry. I assumed you were living in Australia now. My error.
What a despicable thieving witch.
Certain categories of visitors can work, but permanent residency pretty much guarantees it.
"I am not sure how much of this story I can believe."
Well, the woman seems to have an active fantasy life, that's for sure. How many people who are terrible at athletics in grade school "dream" of being in the Olympics?
And I sympathize with Hillary, hubby has basically demoted me to being the one person cleaning crew, since I pretty much stink at doing stuff, but I am OK at cleaning. I could probably be improved upon by replacement by an illegal alien, and probably so could Madame Hillary, at least the question of the presidency would be off the table.
Hey.....maybe I should run........that's the ticket!
Thank you! Now you know what I'm doing when I say I'm 'painting' - usually fixing the background for the images.
Don't sell yourself short Hillary. You're an outstanding enabler, co-conspirator.
That's a classic!
Isn't that how it always is in life? Those that have, get?
And then there's the one about how she had always been a Yankees fan.
and all this time I thought she was a commodities wiz!!!!
Hillary Clinton - Kent Calhoun
Since my letter postulating how I believed Hillary Clinton managed to produce her commodity profits, many things I speculated have been confirmed as fact. The White House officially retracted the version that Hillary produced her own profits. James Blair, Tyson Foods attorney, was credited with producing Mrs. Clinton's $100,000 profits despite the fact he lost over $5 million dollars in his personal account.
Hillary's broker, Red Bone, was revealed in court testimony, regularly locked his office door and assigned account numbers after the close of trading. These trades were carried in an Omnibus Account. Bone also neglected to ask Mrs. Clinton for $20,000 additional funds to secure her under margined positions in her account. Those trades were eventually taken off with a profit.
I concluded my letter by asking what return Tyson Foods received for their $100,000 contribution to the Hillary Clinton coffers. The answer turned out to be $7 million in Arkansas State tax credits granted to Tyson Foods, while her husband was Arkansas State Attorney General. I spoke extensively with USA Today reporter Bill Montague, who verified all of the above facts in his series of articles on Mrs. Clinton's commodity profits.
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