Hillary: "If you'd had my life, you'd be tough too." -- Wha?

[Khaotic]

Presenting "It's A Hard-Knock Life" (feat. Hillary Clinton and Dr. Evil)

On Monday, America's favorite working-class hero told a North Carolina audience: "If you'd had my life, you'd be tough too." It must have been hard, all those years in the Governor's mansion and the White House, followed by a $109 million windfall.

Wit out kickin' out da violin, this video was made instead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4abvxtpa08

[galaxy21]

1. Wasn't her upbringing very affluent?

And she's lived in mansions most of her adult life.

[Texas Hill Country]

4. middle class upbringing.... worked her way thru college, she is talking about emotionally tough tho

[Tinksrival]

24. She grew up

in one of Chicago's wealthiest suburbs. :shrug:

[TBF]

34. actually upper middle & she attended Wellesley - hardly the slums

She's from Park Ridge, an affluent suburb west of Chicago. She attended Wellesley and Yale Law - hardly state schools. I'm guessing her dad didn't work in a steel mill like mine did.

As far as emotionally tough, if she were strong she would've dumped the jerk when he cheated on her.

[NorthCarolina]

45. If she were strong

she would have admitted to herself that she couldn't win after PA and would have dropped out instead of continuing on, hurting the party's chances for November. Democrats would do well not to confuse "selfishness" and "vanity" with "strong" and "tough".

[marshall]

37. Did her parents have emotional problems?

I thought she grew up in a relatively happy family. I never heard anything negative about her family until her brothers raked in money for the pardons they pitched to Bill.

[Marie26]

57. According to Bernstein's biography,

her father was sort of a jerk. Not that it was abusive home or anything, but it's not the Donna Reed Show, either.

"Hillary Rodham’s childhood was not the suburban idyll suggested by the shaded front porch and gently sloping lawn of what was once the family home at 235 Wisner Street in Park Ridge, Illinois. In this leafy environment of postwar promise and prosperity, the Rodhams were distinctly a family of odd ducks, isolated from their neighbors by the difficult character of her father, Hugh Rodham, a sour, unfulfilled man whose children suffered his relentless, demeaning sarcasm and misanthropic inclination, endured his embarrassing parsimony, and silently accepted his humiliation and verbal abuse of their mother."

http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375407666&view=excerpt

[Texas Hill Country]

76. not to mention the hubble telescope that hit their lives in the form of Ken Starr....

[redqueen]

65. Hah. Nice attempt to try to fool people. Won't work here.

:hi:

[Texas Hill Country]

77. i forgot... truth has no meaning here anymore, right?

[redqueen]

78. When the loser is called the winner... and people call for the winner

to drop out?

Yeah... but it's been this way for a while. Used to it now.

[Armstead]

85. Anything that was emotionally tough was self-inflicted

[invictus]

64. She was a rich Goldwater Republican with a summer home on Lake Mineola; Wellesley, Yale, $109 millio

n in the bank. Yeah, she's had a really tough life.

[City Lights]

90. Here's a recent pic of the home she grew up in:

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Its in the DU video forum also

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x125313

[livetohike]

3. Who the hell does she hope to impress with that?

Tough life - $108 million dollars in the last few years.

[sasquatch]

10. The same Jackasses that believe that GWB is a rancher in West Texas,-

Ronald Reagan was a cowboy and so was John Wayne.

[livetohike]

16. I think Karl Rove is advising her - if we see her in a cowgirl hat

then we will know for sure :-).

[redqueen]

67. Well... not the *exact* same jackasses...

the Dem version of those jackasses.

[KittyWampus]

5. so what is Obama and his campaign doing to counter this? Jack shit, is what.

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[chill_wind]

23. Acckk! LOL! n/t

[WeDidIt]

7. Howm much did she have in student loans?

Just askin' because ti took a best selling book for the Obamas to break even on theirs.

[rodeodance]

43. she worked during her college days. read her book

[WeDidIt]

56. I have a copy of her book and started it once

Dry as dust.

[rodeodance]

69. just ...

to say--its best to know her bio before you comment.
peace.

[WeDidIt]

83. Based upon what you've said

she had no student loans.

[newmajority]

8. Aw poor poor little Hiwaaaaaaahwy

Some of us would be lucky to "suffer" like she has.

[Connie_Corleone]

9. It must be tough growing up in a middle class family, going to exclusive schools,

being a lawyer, being married to a governor and President.

:eyes:

[Oleladylib]

27. It's not any different than Baby Bam claiming his background...

single mother, poor him...Yea, like Hawaii and boarding schools were something poor people experience.

[TBF]

46. Barack went to boarding school on scholarship.

Unlike Hillary who is from upper middle class suburbia.

[cali]

51. ok, try and be honest just for the hell of it.

Obama had a full scholarship to Punahao, which he never attended as a boarder. And guess what, genius? People from economically deprived backgrounds attend every major prep school in the country. They go to Choate and Andover, Deerfield, Pomfret etc, etc. And wow! Not everyone in Hawaii is rich. There are poor people and middle class people there too! Obama did not grow up in a family as well off as hillypoo's, old lady.

[Tim4319]

53. Here are some facts about "Baby Bam"

<<snip>>
http://www.barackobama.com/about/

Barack's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression, and then signed up for World War II after Pearl Harbor, where he marched across Europe in Patton's army. Her mother went to work on a bomber assembly line, and after the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved west to Hawaii.

It was there, at the University of Hawaii, where Barack's parents met. His mother was a student there, and his father had won a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams in America.

Barack's father eventually returned to Kenya, and Barack grew up with his mother in Hawaii, and for a few years in Indonesia. Later, he moved to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University in 1983.

Remembering the values of empathy and service that his mother taught him, Barack put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment.

The group had some success, but Barack had come to realize that in order to truly improve the lives of people in that community and other communities, it would take not just a change at the local level, but a change in our laws and in our politics.

He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

54. He went to his school on scholarship.

Also, there are plenty of poor people in Hawaii.

[redqueen]

68. So... have we learned something today?

:rofl:

[speedoo]

11. OMG... what will we do for laughs when she's gone?

She is deserving of ridicule. What an ass.

[frickaline]

12. personally, I would not presume to judge another's trials

No one in the world has a trial-free life.

[SammyWinstonJack]

55. ...

:thumbsup:

[Cleita]

13. Wow, a life of middle class comfort in her youth that allowed

her to pursue an education and a career. Now she's a millionaire. I really don't think her life was hard. Because she chose to get into politics does not make her life hard. It's like they say, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen". Sorry Hillary, you are whining to the wrong crowd here.

:nopity:

[azmouse]

14. All that sniper fire must have made life really difficult.

[Az_lefty]

she is just pathetic....I cannot fu*king stand her any longer.

[Oleladylib]

28. votin' for Baby Bam go for it

[yellowcanine]

15. Self pity doesn't seem like a winning campaign strategy. What is she thinking?

[chill_wind]

17. She said that? Bwaaaahh! :-) This lady truly is without shame.

And there are those who will actually just eat that right up.

[OhioChick]

18. Poor Thing. n/t

[tabasco]

19. Try a foot patrol in Baghdad, you stupid, gutless, lying coward.

H. Clinton is suffering from PTSD from her combat terror.

[Vinca]

20. Poor, poor Hillary. That hardscrabble life at Wellesley College.

And her father only owned one company. If she can't connect with the burger flippers and janitors, I don't know who can. Is there anything genuine about this woman??

[Oleladylib]

21. the windfall was worked for and if you were the subject of scrutiny

before a national audience while your spouse screwed around you could call yourself tough and I would agree.

[mckeown1128]

29. Her husband not her provided the windfall...

and having a adulterous spouse isn't a qualification for being president...

[TBF]

44. Oh, please. If she had any guts she would've kicked him out of the white house when he cheated on

her.

[CountAllVotes]

22. must have been sheer hell

going to Wellesley and suffering like that. :argh: :nopity:

[Mizmoon]

25. Makes sense to me

Money doesn't buy happiness. Once a person has money, they are freed from a lot of pressure - paying the electric bill and whatnot. But it's a strange thing - they are now able to worry about other things and happiness is not a "given". She's been harassed on every level - her professionalism, her investments, her "relationship" with vince foster, her husband has been accused of everything from murder to rape by the right wing, Rush Limbaugh called her 12-year-old daughter a "dog", she's been "accused" of being a lesbian by people who think that it's a terrible thing to be a lesbian. Now even the people in her own Party, many of them here on DU, disparage her as if she were Ann Coulter.

I think I can see her point. Sh's damn tough and I admire her perseverance.

[LisaM]

66. I agree with you.

Her toughness and resilience are part of what I admire about her.

And Barack earned 4.2 million last year, so I guess we can discount his entire past, too. Though as I have pointed out before, he has never attended one US public school in his life. I understand that's the norm in Hawaii, but he didn't go to a state university either (and there are plenty of good ones) - he headed off to Occidental, and then Columbia, which is one of the expensive private colleges in the US.

[BlueIdaho]

26. Hey - it ain't fuckin' easy

building a log cabin with gramps, shooting critters behind the outhouse, eating squirrel surprise casserole three meals a day, and the book bags - MY GOD - the book bags she's had to hurl!

[gateley]

30. In all fairness to Hilary

regardless of the glam we associate with her life, she's had to go through a lot emotionally. It must be awful having people (like me, I admit) say vile things about you all the time. Being betrayed by your husband is scarring -- having it play out in the press is beyond imagining. Psychology 101, but I often wonder if that's how she's become so adept at doing some of the things that I believe she knows are wrong.

[libnnc]

31. Wellesley was HELL I tells ya.

[ShortnFiery]

32. Wow, your right wing daddy never showed you (HRC) love and attention ... you've seemingly spent

your entire adult life proving to your daddy that you're *as tough* as your brother. Unfortunately, being a Goldwater Girl in your youth did not score you the daddy's attention - but "triangulating" to the right snagged you Richard Scaith, Uncle Karl and Rupert Murdoch. The sad REALISM is that if you DO win the Democratic Nomination, those right wing supporters would *gleefully* place the figurative political knife in your back. Do you HONESTLY think that Bill is staying on his "woman diet?" No, the right wing are "playing a role" for now ... they've always hated you and Bill ... the joy at your LONG AND HARD FALL will be the icing on the cake for your GOP rivals... have the smears on tape and at the ready ... but presently they're sitting on it - NOT - because they now like you, but because they wish to politically annihilate you. :wow:

[Eurobabe]

33. If I'd had her cheating husband, I 'd be in jail. n/t

[tokenlib]

35. She is so full of it!!!

Reminds me of that scene in the movie Operation Petticoat when Tony Curtis is talking about all the people who say that money isn't everything. Then he points out that most of the people saying that are the people with all the money.

She voted for the bankruptcy reform bill and was glad when it didn't pass. The bill was opposed by every major consumer group in the country.

[onenote]

36. can't disagree with her. Living with Bill couldn't have been easy.

And I think Bill was a great president. Just a lousy life partner.

[CakeGrrl]

38. "Don't cry for me, Carolina..."

"I put up with a man I didn't have to..."

:nopity:

[Indenturedebtor]

39. I guess that's why she's qualified to say "I'm not bitter"

I guess that's why she's qualified to say "I'm not bitter"

:eyes:

Give me a break.

[DefenseLawyer]

40. "I was born a poor black child"

http://www.avclub.com/content/files/images/DVD-%5BJerk,-web-large%5D.article.jpg

[Khaotic]

48. Oh shit ...

Now that's fuckin' funny.

The telephone book is here! The telephone book is here!

Tooooo classic!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

61. Wright: "No one's ever called Hillary a n*gger."

Clinton: "Sir... I AM A N*GGER!"

(later)

Bill: "There was no way you could have known that was Jeremiah "Iron Balls" Wright.

[nxylas]

62. Beat me to it

:P

[redqueen]

71. ...

:spray:

[ampad]

41. Ahhh yes

The blow job seeking husband does make life hard, ask Hillary. Of course when the blow job seeking husband lies under oath it does complicate things just a little bit. Yea she lived a hard life; she lived a life of playing the fucking victim for many years. I'll feel sorry for her when she has to decided between gas for the car or food until then she can kiss my ass.

[City Lights]

42. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones

Hillary is concentrating on.

:nopity: for the "tough" life you've had, Silly Hilly. Oh, and I don't see you as tough, sweetie. I see you as a stubborn whiner who play the victim card whenever possible.

[JasonHill]

47. She is completely devoid of principle or ethical behaviour

it fascinates me how some here are so beholden to this person while at the same time claiming she represents liberal values. Promoting Rational community behavior is a liberal value. If you do not believe in behaving as rational as possible, including have the character to try to diminish spinning, deception, etc. as much as possible, yo are not representing liberalism, despite whatever you do in claiming to back some of the values associated with the movement. All that gets you when the hit hits the shan is voting for giving Bush political cover to invade and occupy Iraq.

edit: clarified

[CakeGrrl]

50. So now Ms. "3AM" "Ready on Day One" wants a hug from NC?

:wtf:

Just go away and do something useful with your $109M, Hillary.

[C_U_L8R]

49. It's hard out here for a Wellesley girl

When she tryin to get this money for the debt.

[msallied]

52. Me thinks she has daddy issues...

something to prove to her affluent Republican family who basically ostracized her after she went liberal in college.

[izzybeans]

58. Suddenly she's Omar from The Wire.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

59. Poor thing..sigh...poor, poor, thing...how awful...tragic..sad..poor thing.

:nopity: :rofl: :puke:

[anigbrowl]

60. Tough people don't make up war stories

That's something you do puff yourself up and make yourself look bigger than you are - because you're afraid or because you feel inadequate. I've done it - back when I was 18 and still very unsure of my place in the world. And if I told you my whole backstory, you'd know why I felt weak and needed to compensate. I've had many toughening experiences both before and after that, and one thing I learned is that scars look impressive after they've healed, but healing takes time and doesn't alter the fact that it hurt like hell when you first got wounded.

Hillary Clinton has been through some tough times. She's had lofty goals, and the self-confidence and drive to pursue them. That takes lots of guts and I respect that. And she's taken a lot of hits along the way and I respect that too. But it hasn't been all thorns and no roses, any more than her life has been a bouquet of flowers. A vacation home with no heating or shower sure beats no vacation home at all, or no vacation at all.

I could tell all sorts of hair-raising stories, from my own life or from the lives of people I know. So can many others, I'm sure - few people develop strong political convictions because they've enjoyed a life of ease and privilege, after all. It's often interesting and valuable to look back over hard times and examine how we got through them, and learn from each other. Hillary Clinton has some great true stories to tell that we can all learn from.

But embellishment doesn't teach anything. And assuming that your listeners have had it easy compared to you just means you're still in love with your own pain.

[redqueen]

74. Wow...

I'm surprised to see such an honest response to this latest... whatever you want to call it.

Nicely done. :thumbsup:

[tammywammy]

84. ...

:thumbsup:

[Forkboy]

63. Let me know when her dinner is a can of ravioli and leftover chips.

What a shitheel.

[RBInMaine]

70. Am I hearing Hillary's FAKE southern accent again??

[Lucky 13]

72. Give me a fucking break.

Cry me a river, Hillary.

And drop the fake southern accent. Everyone can tell it's fake. You're not fooling anyone and it makes you look like an IDIOT.

[graycem]

73. Yep..

poor her. All middle class people have Summer homes and go to Wellesley, and go on to live in Mansions for most of her adult life. Rough indeed.

[Independent-Voter]

75. That bitch wouldn't know struggle if it bit her in the ass.

Sorry, but the truth hurts sometimes.

[displacedtexan]

80. Try growing up and working in a men's world sometime.

It's no picnic for any woman, affluent family or not.

[Independent-Voter]

81. Choking on that silver spoon much have been a real struggle. Sorry, my her victim horseshit doesn't

fly.

[whatchamacallit]

79. LOL, I loved that bit in the flick n/t

[Dyllyn]

82. Yeah summers in Scranton by the lake Winter in Indiana in a tent,,,,,

[Armstead]

86. Okay who stole my World's Smallest Vioilin?

:nopity:

Pooooooooor Hillary.

[TexasObserver]

87. Hillary's life: a spoiled rich kid who loves the smell of unearned wealth

[Kaylee]

88. WTF? Whatever she's smoking.......

Hillary, call me when you are living paycheck to paycheck.

[Raine]

89. Oh poor widdle Hillary

boo hoooo :cry: :nopity: :rofl:

[dcindian]

91. oh no thats all she needs is another sniper story

The woman cannot help her self she is a pathological liar

[ecstatic]

92. She is a true POLITICIAN. I have to admit

It makes me chuckle in between gags.