Caught My Eye: Clinton’s ‘Ah-Ha’ Moment
EmailSecretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed this weekend that she was "sort of a tomboy" when she was growing up and wanted to be a baseball player, an astronaut, or a journalist.
"I did love to play sports and played with a lot of the boys in my neighborhood," Clinton said at an event at The Women’s Museum in Dallas on Friday, according to a State Department transcript released over the weekend.
"I wanted to be a baseball player," she told the audience. "I wanted to be a journalist. I know you’ll never believe that."
She re-told the story she recounted to ABC’s Charles Gibson during the 2009 presidential campaign about her aspirations to be an astronaut.
"I think I was thirteen or so, and so I wrote to NASA to ask how I could become an astronaut. And I got a response back which was, ‘We’re not interested in women astronauts,’" she said.
"When we were growing up, there were just so many overt and implied obstacles to what young women could aspire to. There were certainly schools you couldn’t go to, scholarships you couldn’t apply for – jobs that were not available to you," Clinton said.
"You really have to prepare. And you have to get knocked down, and you have to pick yourself up, and you have to keep going," she added later.
When asked about an "ah-ha" moment in her life, Clinton said: "I had an ‘ah-ha’ moment that I wasn’t going to be the Democratic nominee for the presidency of the United States," she said as the audience laughed. "That’s a kind of different ah-ha moment."
–George Stephanopoulos and ABC’s Kirit Radia
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Oh what a better place this world would be if she was elected. That Obama needs to be impeached — and soon!
Posted by: jas | March 30, 2009, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm
So she decided to be a crook, and a doormat for her husband?
Posted by: Obama and his party of clowns | March 30, 2009, 9:26 pm 9:26 pm
The LA Times ‘caught my eye’…
If you are reading this newspaper, the likelihood is that you agree with the Obama administration’s recent attacks on conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh. That’s the likelihood; here’s the certainty: You’ve never listened to Rush Limbaugh.
Oh no, you haven’t. Whenever I interrupt a liberal’s anti-Limbaugh rant to point out that the ranter has never actually listened to the man, he always says the same thing: “I’ve heard him!”
On further questioning, it always turns out that by “heard him,” he means he’s heard the selected excerpts spoon-fed him by the distortion-mongers of the mainstream media. These excerpts are specifically designed to accomplish one thing: to make sure you never actually listen to Limbaugh’s show, never actually give him a fair chance to speak his piece to you directly.
By lifting some typically Rushian piece of outrageous hilarity completely out of context, the distortion gang knows full well it can get you to widen your eyes and open your mouth in the universal sign of Liberal Outrage. Your scrawny chest swelling with a warm sense of completely unearned righteousness, you will turn to your second spouse and say, “I’m not a liberal, I’m a moderate, and I’m tolerant of a wide range of differing views — but this goes too far!”
There is more untruthfulness in that statement than in a speech by President Obama. Even the commas are self-deceiving. You’re not a moderate or you wouldn’t be reading this newspaper. You’re not tolerant of a wide range of views; you are tolerant of a narrow spectrum of variations on your views. And, whatever you claim, you still haven’t listened to Rush Limbaugh.
Which leads to a question: Why not? I mean, come on, the guy’s one of the figures of the age. Aren’t you even curious? I listen to all your guys: NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, The Times, the New York Times, the New Yorker — I check out the whole left-wing hallelujah chorus. Why are you afraid to spend a couple of hours listening to Limbaugh’s show and seriously considering if and why you disagree with him?
Let me guess at your answer. You don’t need to listen to him. You’ve heard enough to know he’s a) racist, b) hateful, c) stupid, d) merely an outrageous entertainer not to be taken seriously or e) all of the above.
Now let me tell you the real answer: You’re a lowdown, yellow-bellied, lily-livered intellectual coward. You’re terrified of finding out he makes more sense than you do.
I listen to Limbaugh every chance I get, and I have never heard the man utter a single racist, hateful or stupid word. Do I always agree with him? Of course not. I’m a conservative; I think for myself. But Limbaugh, by turns insightful, satiric, raucously funny and wise, is one of the best voices talking about first principles and policy in the country today.
Therefore, I am throwing down my gauntlet at your quivering liberal feet. I hereby issue my challenge — the Limbaugh Challenge: Listen to the show. Not for five minutes but for several hours: an hour a day for several days. Consider what he has to say — the real policy material under the jokes and teasing bluster. Do what your intellectual keepers do not want you to do and keep an open mind. Ask yourself: What’s he getting at? Why does he say the things he says? Why do so many people of goodwill — like that nice Mr. Klavan — agree with him?
The mainstream media (a.k.a. the Matrix) don’t want you to listen to Limbaugh because they’re afraid he’ll wake you up and set you free of their worldview. You don’t want to listen to him because you’re afraid of the same thing.
Don’t believe me? Well, then, gird your loins. Gather your courage. Accept the Limbaugh Challenge. See what happens.
I dare you.
Posted by: Angie | March 30, 2009, 9:29 pm 9:29 pm
When will our society move beyond this brand of “feminism” which equates feminists with masculinized women?
Posted by: teddymaniac | March 30, 2009, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm
Take a pill Angie
Posted by: Luke | March 30, 2009, 10:17 pm 10:17 pm
If you listen to Limbaugh’s rants long enough, your brain tissues start to melt and putrify until your IQ goes low enough to the point where a) you think Rush has intelligent things to say, b) you believe the Republicans will solve all of our economic problems by sparing rich people from taxes, c) you’re convinced universal health care was invented by Adolph Hitler, d) you accept that job at McDonalds tending the deep fryer even though you secretly know it’s a matter of time before you make the big bucks at your multi-level marketing scheme and can reap all those tax-saving benefits of voting Republican.
Posted by: Frank | March 30, 2009, 10:34 pm 10:34 pm
That’s a FANTASTIC picture of the Big H. LOL She’s a piece of work!
Posted by: Earl | March 30, 2009, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm
Angie-your delusional. He’s a hypocritical idiot and I tried listening to him quite a few times over the past few years but had to turn that radio dial (it would be difficult to drive while vomiting on I-95)
Posted by: jo-laurie | March 30, 2009, 11:12 pm 11:12 pm
America & the World LOST, the day, the Dems dumped Hillary & Pumped up the No Experienced but Present Obama…You would of thought after 8 years of being Bushwacked people would of wised up!
As far as the fight for womens equality, I remember when McDonalds wouldn’t hire women!
Posted by: from Ohio | March 30, 2009, 11:13 pm 11:13 pm
Sorry Madame Secretary, but your husband’s childhood memories of non existent church fires in Arkansas cast a cloud over your childhood anecdotes as well.
Cicero knew a good political posture too, but he didn’t outlast the tide of the time.
Posted by: Jeff Hauge | March 30, 2009, 11:48 pm 11:48 pm
I would willingly spend my vacation rounding up republicans and driving them off a cliff. childish comments and totally irrelevent…Lemmings look intelligent by comparison…Hillary is an inspiration to us all…unless of course you are out bagging a possum by moonlight, sippin on your shine, and cozing up to your cousin.
Posted by: cowgirl | March 31, 2009, 12:07 am 12:07 am
Angie: You say you think for yourself but I seriously doubt that.
Posted by: Scotti | March 31, 2009, 12:28 am 12:28 am
If we’d listened to Rush we’d be in a great depression right now. Absolutely no doubt. He’s still thinking the same stupid policies Bush tried.
Posted by: Scotti | March 31, 2009, 12:42 am 12:42 am
Oh Angie, I’m so sorry for you. You say your a conservative, and think for yourself. NOT! Your a brainwashed dittofemanautsihead that is just another follower of the master dittohead. I first heard Rush in the mid 90′s. His first comments were fairly comprehensible, but whenever I tuned in to his program, he would throw in a thought that made some sense, followed by incomprehensible rantings directed at anyone with the lable of Democrat. He’s just a another Republican blow hard with visions of grandure. You and his followers listen to him as loyalist sheep. If he said, “I want all the ditto heads to go to Guiana and drink the majic potion, you would be the first one in line. Rush, Hannity, Savage,Michael Regan,GW Liddy, and all the rest of the Republican paid political machine have only one agenda, and that’s to bring down the Democratic party by any means. Distortions and lies are everyday fare for them. Do you actually believe that your comments will motivate clear headed Democrats to tune in to that clown?
Posted by: abaloneca1 | March 31, 2009, 1:43 am 1:43 am
Thank God for Hillary’s “ah-ha” moment!
Posted by: bob10001 | March 31, 2009, 2:43 am 2:43 am
Yeah, but I want to say who cares? I mean, is this because she’s a woment that it’s relevant, or because she’s famous, or because, ah-ha, who cares…
Posted by: Pineapple | March 31, 2009, 4:51 am 4:51 am
“Guess what Secretary of State Clinton’s former career aspirations were?”
Dictator??
Posted by: Mihann | March 31, 2009, 5:23 am 5:23 am
Ah come’on, Hillary would have been great as President too. As far as Rush is concerned, he is an entertainer, paid some $33million in his last contract…He couldn’t afford to take a job that would lead us out of this mess. Let’s talk about Jay Leno instead, at least he is funny!
Posted by: Bill58M | March 31, 2009, 7:14 am 7:14 am
I was a tomboy too…..and liked to play with the boys alot…..still do. I learn alot from them. They help me understand people in general.
Posted by: sngeorgia | March 31, 2009, 8:02 am 8:02 am
I was a tomboy too…..and liked to play with the boys alot…..still do. I learn alot from them. They help me understand people in general.
Posted by: sngeorgia | March 31, 2009, 8:02 am 8:02 am
What does Rush Limbaugh have to do with this very short article? Angie, dear,
take a deep breath.
Posted by: BachisBest | March 31, 2009, 8:28 am 8:28 am
Actually, I do listen to Rush sometimes; he can be funny doing satirical bits. I don’t think he’d last three rounds in either a legitimate debate or a boxing match with Randi Rhodes, though.
Posted by: nhs76 | March 31, 2009, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm
Rush is funny because he has a soap opera mentality!
Posted by: Jim | March 31, 2009, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm
Angie: I tune in for the last 45 mins. or so of his show on most days. I find him to be a pompous, blustering, petty demagogue full of hate and distrust while full of himself. His nastiness apparently knows no bounds, like the time he mocked Michael J. Fox and his Parkinson’s Disease. Limbaugh needs to go.
Posted by: Howard Beale | April 1, 2009, 4:36 pm 4:36 pm
. . .
Limbaugh needs to stay. We need people like Limbaugh to remind us of how fascist the Republican party really is. If normal folk were not able to turn on the radio and remind themselves they’d soon forget how fascist. Thanks Rush, you’re providing a valuable service to democracy, providing the kind of transparency about Republican, promoting accountability in the form of a slowly but inevitably dwindling support base. Like McCarthy, Limbaugh and his ilk will one day be remembered as a sad-ass footnote of history. Yayy Limbaugh!
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Posted by: jason brown | April 2, 2009, 3:17 am 3:17 am
Hillary
You’re NEVER going to be POTUS.
Thank G–!
Posted by: Miriam | April 2, 2009, 5:53 pm 5:53 pm