Hillary Clinton: Space Cadet?
But to hear Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton tell it, all of that pales in comparison to her real childhood dreams.
"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."
But she so wanted to be an athlete. Obviously the system needs to be changed.
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."'
How grown up was Senator Clinton? She was a teenager when Alan Shepard was the first American in space. Was she so immature that she couldn't understand that all of the astronauts were military test pilots?
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.
So she's qualtified to decide who gets what and when for medical care?
She also abandoned hopes of becoming a scientist or mathematician because she didn't have the best grades in those subjects.
True being dimwitted is a requirement for public office. On the other hand we've been told time and time again that Hilllary Clinton is the smartest woman in the world.
All in all this little speech gives keen insight into Hillary Clinton. She always sought the limelight and she was always unqualified for what she sets her sights on.
Being an attention hound should not be a qualification for high public office.
