Hillary!

Nobody grows up wanting to be a politician.

"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."'

So she became an attorney instead.

Why do people feel the need to generate personal stories for specific events?

Its all a steaming pile, of course. Just like Al Gore's mother singing him the Union Label song as a lullabye, many years before it had even been written.

I'm sure there were many other careers a starry-eyed young Hillary pursued before she settled on law and politics.

Anybody else feel a Top 10 coming on?

posted by Laura. at 01:02 PM

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