With the passing of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, I’m reminded of one of the great legends of the Clinton years, that Hillary Rodham Clinton was named after the famed mountain climber.
This myth, which was repeated numerous times from 1995 to 2006, relates how Dorothy Rodham, mother of the former First Lady and current presidential candidate, named her daughter after Edmund Hillary – hence the spelling with two L’s, as opposed to the more standard spelling (Hilary).
The only problem with this story is that at the time of Senator Clinton’s birth (1947), Mr. Hillary was a bee keeper in New Zealand; it would be another six years before he would climb Mount Everest.
There are only three possible explanations for this: (1) Mrs. Rodham thought the surname of an obscure bee keeper was an appropriate first name for her baby daughter; (2) she had amazing powers of predicting the future; or (3) she’s a prevaricator extraordinaire (and the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree).
What’s even more amazing is the fact that it took over a decade for Hillary the Younger to finally admit to something that was so patently false.
By the way, did I happen to mention that my mother named me after Curious George? (It could happen; the first Curious George book came out in 1941 – nine years before I was born.)
Here is more on Hillary, and what is in her name, err I mean game.
http://wolfpangloss.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/hillary-clintons-greatest-fan-not/
She flunked the DC bar exam and finnally passed in Arkansaw. Her first job was working with the ex head of the American Communist Party and while in school assisting defense of black panthers who tortured and murdered a new recruit suspected of being a police informant.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/hillarypanthers.htm
Her campain fequently insists she was only involved in childrens rights at this time. But in truth quote:In a life marked largely by political caution, one entry on Senator Clinton’s résumé stands out: her clerkship in 1971 at one of America’s most radical law firms, Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein.
One partner at the firm, Doris Walker, was a Communist Party member at the time. Another partner, Robert Treuhaft, had left the party in 1958, several years after being called before the House Un-American Activities Committee and labeled as one of America’s most “dangerously subversive” lawyers.
http://www.nysun.com/article/66933
Yep! They were made for each other.
http://www.nysun.com/article/66982
http://www.nysun.com/article/67002