"She’s a former first lady, a United States senator, and a potential 2008 presidential candidate. But to hear Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton tell it, all of that pales in comparison to her real childhood dreams," reported Newsday in an attempted puff piece on the junior Senator from New York. 

"My whole life has been a speed bump," she said to laughs."

Yep, that pretty much sums it up.  Failed at everything she ever tried, so she decided to go into politics.  And this woman wants to be President?

"’I wanted desperately to be an Olympic athlete,’ Clinton said Monday at a Purchase College symposium on Title IX, the 1972 law" which imposed sex discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding, requiring them to cut programs for males if there was a higher percentage of male participation than the percentage of males in the student body.  "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."  Sounds like 99% of folks who dream of being elite athletes.  If everybody could do it, nobody would be "elite," would they?

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