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?
Forget that, I want to see her Astronaut application and NASA's reply... at least we know her thesis actually exists!
Now, I am genuinely puzzled as to how she got admitted to Wellesley. Poor grades in math and science would have been enough to pull her gpa down so that a college as selective as Wellesley should have turned her down. I graduated HS around about the time Hillary did and remember what college admissions were like at the time. Not as cutthroat as today, but still.......I have always taken Madame Hillary to be, in reality, about as smart as algore and the poodle which is to say not very. The lefty media invariably twists itself into a pretzle to portray truly mediocre minds as geniuses if they happen to be top rats.
That's not true Hillary, you make a wonderful lying, thieving mob boss.
Not good at anything? Run for president! Damn, she's so delusional!
LOL, yeah, I think so too.
I think she went into politics because she was a true believer and because she desires power.
Well...I guess I'm just doing my own thing now!
I wish I had kept a list of all the things hillary wanted to be or thought she was .......
A marine, named after Sir Hillary, Olympic contender, Jewish, a jet pilot
Please read again what hillary clinton has said...!
"I volunteered at the hospital but kept getting lightheaded and woozy when I saw anyone in any kind of distress"
"I wanted desperately to be an Olympic athlete" --"I couldn't jump, I couldn't run, I couldn't swim." "After determining she'd never be an athlete, she set her sights on becoming an astronaut".
"She also abandoned hopes of becoming a scientist or mathematician because she didn't have the best grades in those subjects -"
"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."
And we all know the 'rest of the story'!
I think hillary clinton is a very disturbed person! A mentally disturbed person who now envisions herself as President of the United States of America.
I use about three different programs. One for painting, one where I can drag the image up and size it onto the background and then one to animate it.
Horsepuckey is right. NASA accepted Sally Ride about the same time they were allegedly rejecting Hitlery.
Funny, she and I write but I didn't know she did any animation!
I wish she had been good at something so her name would not keep coming up and scaring all the hard working people in the country.
Why do I need to, I do my own things.
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