Sunday Stoopid Political Cat Blogging
Remember Socks, the White House cat during the Clinton administration? Well, the critter’s “fate” will become a campaign issue if people like Sarah Baxter, the author of this screed at The Times of London, has her way:
“As the ‘first pet’ of the Clinton era, Socks, the White House cat, allowed ‘chilly’ Hillary Clinton to show a caring, maternal side as well as bringing joy to her daughter Chelsea. So where is Socks today?
“Once the presidency was over, there was no room for Socks any more. After years of loyal service at the White House, the black and white cat was dumped on Betty Currie, Bill Clinton’s personal secretary, who also had an embarrassing clean-up role in the saga of his relationship with the intern Monica Lewinsky.
“Some believe the abandoned pet could now come between Hillary Clinton and her ambition to return to the White House as America’s first woman president. . . .
“Clinton’s treatment of Socks cuts to the heart of the questions about her candidacy. Is she too cold and calculating to win the presidency? Or does it signify political invincibility by showing she is willing to deploy every weapon to get what she wants?”
And what about Buddy, the Clinton’s chocolate lab, who bought the ranch in 2002 after wandering out onto a road from the family’s home in Chappaqua, New York, and getting run over by an SUV? Why didn’t Hillary make sure he was tied up or kept in the house?
The questions just keep coming, don’t they?
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This was already blogged about, why bring up this worthless sarah baxter’s article about Hillary again? Any opportunity for the bloggers on this site to bash Hillary, that’s why. She provided socks with a loving home but there are those who spin that into something sinister in order to demonize Hillary. It’s not as though she tied her pet to the roof of her car while traveling, which is what a certain other presidential candidate did. You notice we don’t hear about that incident any longer. If it was Hillary, we would never hear the end of it. BTW, I recall some on here didn’t even think that the dog on the car roof was a big deal, yet Hillary giving socks to a new owner is a horrible thing, such hypocrites.
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As far as those who introduced Socks into blogging topics go, this smells like desperation, scraping the bottom of the barrelt to find the next new cause for outrage.
That political strategists will now need to waste time on this is downright tragic. They (and we) will be fiddling while Rome burns.
Is Socks even still alive? He must be a senior citizen by now if he is. From what I remember, Socks was mostly Chelsea’s pet, who left to go to college (Chelsea not Socks,lol) Socks hated Buddy, their fights were legendary, which was the reason that Betty Currie decided to take him.
BTW, Bill went into a serious depression after Buddy was hit by that car-which kinda debunks the cold and calculating meme.