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Home Front: Politix
The Condensed Clinton’s Book (by a Slate Intern)
2004-06-23
EFL, my favorite nuggets

Slate reads My Life so you don’t have to. By Bryan Curtis, Chris Suellentrop, and Julia Turner. Posted Tuesday, June 22, 2004, at 4:28 PM PT

Page 172: "I had fantasized from time to time about being a doorman at New York’s Plaza Hotel, at the south end of Central Park. Plaza doormen had nice uniforms and met interesting people from all over the world. I imagined garnering large tips from guests who thought that, despite my strange southern accent, I made good conversation."

Clinton on Weight
Page 11: "I remember one Easter in the 1950s, when I was fat and self-conscious."
Page 19: "I was a little chunky anyway, and slow, so slow that I was once the only kid at an Easter egg hunt who didn’t get a single egg, not because I couldn’t find them but because I couldn’t get to them fast enough."
Page 43: "On Friday nights there was always a dance in the gym of the local YMCA. I loved rock-and-roll music and dancing and went frequently, starting in eighth or ninth grade, even though I was fat, uncool, and hardly popular with the girls."
This little peek into the dark recesses of Clinton's youth explains his serial womanizing. The girls ignored him then, so he's making up for it now. Now I need to go wash up.
Posted by:mhw

#8  Wait a minute... you mean Clinton is a fat liar too? It's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between him and Michael Moore!
Posted by: Chris W.   2004-06-23 4:32:05 PM  

#7  Top Ten Most Fatuous Bits:

On Boris Yeltsin

Page 508: "Whenever anyone made a snide remark about Yeltsin's drinking, I was reminded of what Lincoln allegedly said when Washington snobs made the same criticism of General Grant: ... 'Find out what he drinks, and give it to the other generals.' "


Posted by: Carl in N.H   2004-06-23 4:16:23 PM  

#6  OK stop it...STOP IT! ewwww - hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl!
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2004-06-23 3:04:32 PM  

#5  Thanks, Shipman. I have now attained enlightenment.
Posted by: 11A5S   2004-06-23 2:57:21 PM  

#4  Something all RB folks need to know.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-06-23 2:52:02 PM  

#3  or in Bubba's case, the "pompa-duhs"...
Posted by: mojo   2004-06-23 2:22:43 PM  

#2  Tony Snow yesterday had a hillarious segment on this book. Bill as the "Pompadus of Love".
Posted by: Lucky   2004-06-23 12:23:16 PM  

#1  OK. If you want an even more oddly disturbing entry,

Page 14: "Hillary says the first time she ever saw me, I was in the Yale Law School lounge bragging to skeptical fellow students about the size of Hope watermelons."
Posted by: mhw   2004-06-23 11:56:28 AM  

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