Posted on 05/29/2006 6:20:40 AM PDT by Grig
Since there is much buzz these days about an apparent relationship between Bill Clinton and Canada's Belinda Stronach, some of you might find it amusing to see just what kind of person she is.
Click on the source URL to get to a list of articles about her. You will be amazed.
Most of them were written durring the time she was running for the leadership of Canada's Conservative Party.
After she lost the leadership race, she was elected an MP and became a member of the opposition cabinet. She basicly did next to nothing there, then jumped ship to the Liberals just in time to prevent the most corrupt government in my lifetime from falling. They made her a government Minster (just by coincidence, really) at the same time. Again she did nothing there and in a few months the fell anyway and she is now a lowly opposition backbencher. She was expected to run for the Liberal leadership, but showed her first sign of intelligence by keeping out of it.
Why don't you post some pictures of the young (12/13/14) Chelsea? I would if I could.
Do they really have pasty, hog-joweled inbred peckerwoods in Canada too? No wonder Bubba is attracted, she looks like she could be his sister!
You may have forgotten, sully. Bill Clinton was ADOPTED by Papa Clinton and thus has no ancestral genetic link to him. Any supposed resemblance to those people in the photos you posted is purely coincidental.
NO! He looks like all the Clintons I know...maybe they're all adopted here in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
LOL !!
So, does he look like any of the ancestral Blythes? I am with you, BTW, on the paternity opinion. Chelsea looks just like her mother. :o)
- He was not adopted by Roger Clinton. He used the name "Clinton" when he started school. When he was a teenager, when his younger brother Roger was going to start school, he went to court to have his name legally changed to "Clinton". The future President wanted to have the same name as his brother, to avoid confusion in the Arkansas school system.(The Man from Hope)
- Early Years. Born on Aug. 19, 1946, in Hope, Ark., William ("Bill") Jefferson Blythe IV grew up in a troubled home. His father had died in an automobile accident three months before his son's birth, and his mother later was forced to leave her two-year-old son with his grandparents when she moved to New Orleans to pursue her nursing studies. The family settled in Hot Springs, Ark., after his mother married Roger Clinton, whose surname Bill later adopted. (Encyclopedia Americana)
Pinging you to post I meant to send to you.
and once again darn if I could find one with him smiling...
and by the way I'm not commenting on her appearance - I can't imagine my 8th grade picture where everyone could pick it apart or me having to be in the limelight at that age - what an awful thing to grow up and have comments about your appearance everywhere. I think she has a radianting smile that compensates for Hubbell's and Hilary's genes ;)
Ah, sorry, this is George Clinton.
For the last two years Stronach has served as CEO of Magna International, the $13 billion auto parts manufacturer her father founded. She's the only woman CEO of a Fortune Global 500 company based outside the U.S. Completely untested in politics, she shares with Arnold both celebrity status and a famous Democratic political connection in the U.S.: the Washington Post reports that she has a close personal and business relationship with Bill Clinton, with whom she has been constantly linked in gossip columns. She has told friends that Clinton inspired her to enter politics.
"She could become Canada's Arnold or a morph of Bill and Hillary Clinton," says a Conservative Party activist. "But it's the Clinton connection that really worries Canadian conservatives." Ms. Stronach was asked about her friendship with Clinton at her campaign launch in January. The National Post reported the exchange: "Had she consulted with pal Bill Clinton on her campaign? Next question please, she fumed."
... STRONACH'S TOUCHINESS IS understandable. She recently divorced her second husband, a Norwegian four-time Olympic gold medal-winning speedskater. She is thus the most eligible woman in Canada whether or not she ever becomes prime minister.
Her friends have gone out of their way to downplay salacious thinking about her friendship with Clinton. "They are good friends," a close friend of Stronach's told the CanWest News Service last year, "but there is not a romantic linkage. It's just not that way.� You shouldn't jump to conclusions that they are having a serious fling," though the friend added Stronach is attracted to Clinton.
Another friend told the wire service that Stronach is "intrigued" by Clinton's "charisma and brainpower, particularly his knowledge of world events." Stronach, according to that friend, said of Clinton: "'The guy is really smart and he really knows a lot of stuff.'"
A Magna spokesman says the two met when Mr. Clinton spoke at a company event at its private golf course three years ago and characterized their friendship as a "business relationship." Clinton spokesman Jim Kennedy said last year that the former president "has met with Ms. Stronach and her father several times over the past year to discuss the Clinton Library and Foundation."
Last year, the two were also spotted dining together at a Toronto restaurant and sharing the Stronach family's box at the Preakness horse race.
Frank Stronach, Belinda's father, owns Pimlico Race Course, where the Preakness is run.
Last November, Ms. Stronach was being honored with a humanitarian award at a Toronto dinner when a cellphone rang. The caller was instantly connected to a speaker phone. It was Bill Clinton calling from 12 time zones away in China to congratulate Stronach and express regret for not being able to be there in person.
To put it delicately, it appears that Stronach has employed her networking abilities to their limit in promotion of her political career. She seems to have gathered her scruples from her American political mentor as well."
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She does bear a bit of a resemblance to a much younger, less shrill ShrilleryShrew.
It is so funny how Presidents are made fun of these days by people. Although, President Clinton did make an error in judgment do we have to ruin the office? I mean now they are saying that President Lincoln was gay. Why don't we just worry about our current President and possibly maybe think a bit about the 2008 Presidential candidate instead of this Enquirer stuff. It just makes us look catty and cheap. It really is a shame that conservatives are speculating on Hillary's sexual orientation especially since we don't want anybody being gay or letting us know that they are and we on this post are trying to see if she is or not. Personally, I don't want to know, don't care to know, and just want her to not win an election that is it. She clearly is not gay or she would say that she is. What is wrong with us lately? Our penchant for homosexuality is a bit scary. I have seen it through and through. All I want is the marriage protection act and that is it not to know that greatest on who is gay and who is not.
Good legs ................
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