Hillary Clinton said in an interview that her dream would be to compete on America's Next Top Model. She admits, though, she wouldn't have much of a chance. Now, Political Nanny doesn't like to traffic in the superficial, but, since Hillary brought it up? Yeah, not a chance.
However, the former first lady and presidential hopeful thinks she could go all the way as a contestant on Dancing With the Stars, and we don't see why not. Especially, as she says, if she gets one of the really good pros. (Oh, but not if Barack Obama is one of her competitors. In that competition? He'd be ready to lead his rhumba partner on Day 1.)
Clinton tackled these and other difficult topics with Tyra Banks earlier this week in a taping for Bank's eponymous talk show. Her interview airs Friday (check for local times ... or check in with Political Nanny, who vows to set up the Political Nanny Cam and bring the video to you.)
Other interesting tidbits: Clinton likened the White House to a prison. Some outtakes (thanks L.A. Times Top of the Ticket):
"Do you ever get lonely?" Banks asked the
New York senator. "Do you ever sit in your room by yourself sometimes
and just feel alone?"....
"I
don't feel lonely," Clinton said. "But I do feel sometimes isolated.
Because when you are in these positions that I have been in, it can be
very isolating. It is one of the reasons I put on the dark glasses and
the baseball cap and go out of the White House. President Harry Truman
once said that the White House was like the crown jewel of the American
penal system because you can feel confined."
The two also talked about what Bill Clinton should be called if he winds up the First Spouse, and whether she -- remember, future Dancing with the Stars hopeful -- does hip hop or knows the Soulja Boy or the Spongebob dance.
Well what did you expect? Oprah?
Elsewhere on Political Nanny's Playground ...
Club Dem Refuses Race Bait, One Calls Bush 'Pathetic', and Island Survival Strategies
The
Democratic candidates clobbered not each other in the debates last
night but two of the reps from the media. Brian Williams and
Tim Russert tried hard to keep racial discord alive in their early
round of questions for Clinton and Obama. But the candidates refused to
be baited, bragged on the Democratic party, blah, blah. They defended
each other, for example, against how their statements had been reported
in the media (Barack on Russert's claim that last night's pledge to take
troops out of Iraq was a change from earlier refusals to make such a
pledge). They offered excuses for insinuating racism and claims of misusing historic icons being brought up in the first place. (Clinton: “We both have exuberant and sometimes uncontrollable supporters ...”)
Sure,
the debate was something of a snoozer (though Political Nanny perked up
when Hillary Clinton described Bush, on his trip to Saudi Arabia, as
"pathetic" and "begging for lower oil prices.") The questions got so
banal that toward the end candidates were asked their strengths and
weaknesses. Strengths and weaknesses? Even
a teenager looking for work at a video store knows how to answer that
one. "I refuse to stop working until the job is done" (Clinton gave her
version of that) ... I've been told I'm committed to a fault!"
(Edward's take on this "weakness" classic.) Political Nanny was fully
expecting them to have to tell Russert the one item they'd like to have
with them if they were ever stranded on a deserted island. (A book on
shipbuilding, of course!) Mercifully, there was a commercial break.
Michigan
Mitt Romney stays in the GOP race, winning 39 percent of the Republican vote in his boyhood state of Michigan. Headlines 'round the nation say this win, Romney's first, and yet another candidate with a first-place finish in these early states, "scrambles the GOP field." McCain came in second with 30 percent of the vote. Political Nanny's glad these candidates will push on for more of the statewide contests.
Also in Michigan, Hillary, the only of the three frontrunners whose name appeared on the ballot, got 55 percent of the Democratic vote. Uncommitted (code for Edwards or Obama) got 40 percent.
