Last Choice
"I wanted desperately to be an Olympic athlete," Clinton said Monday at a Purchase College symposium on Title IX, the 1972 law outlawing sex discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding. "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."
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.
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.
By Mike's America, Tuesday, 2 May , 2006 @ 9:27 pm
Dr. Hillary? That would be scary. Though she might make a good coroner with all the close associates of hers and Bill’s that kicked the bucket.
By Black Jack, Wednesday, 3 May , 2006 @ 9:41 am
Don’t forget, her folks wanted her to be an explorer and mountain climber.
Hillary told her New Zealand audience that her parents named her after Sir Edmund Hillary, the Kiwi who first reached the top of Mount Everest.
Trouble was Hillary was already 5 years old by the time he made the climb. But, then she never was all that good at either math or veracity.
By Robert, Wednesday, 3 May , 2006 @ 9:42 am
You’re right.
The way the media treated Gore and Bush in the 2000 election (the made-up lies about Gore, and the “would like to have a beer with” for Bush), is exactly the reason we are in Iraq and the US is in such a disastrous mode.
By Gauis Arbo, Wednesday, 3 May , 2006 @ 9:50 am
Robert, the media was, if anything, much too easy on Gore.
By Black Jack, Friday, 5 May , 2006 @ 11:08 am
Gore sunk Gore. His inability to distance himself from Clinton’s odious corruption left him holding the bag. MSM tried to save his sorry rear end in Florida, but Gore’s minions couldn’t disenfranchise enough voters to pull off the scam. Dems had their money on the wrong jackass.