OWH: Hillary Clinton is a fighter, and she says she's the 'future'

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/news/politics/meet-the-candidates-hillary-clinton-is-a-fighter-and-she/article_0b8a55be-8d7c-53a3-b6ca-26976002e370.html

POSTED: MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2015 12:30 AM | UPDATED: 11:17 PM, MON SEP 7, 2015.
By Robynn Tysver / World-Herald staff writer

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa — Hillary Clinton talks a lot on the campaign trail about her mother’s Dickensian upbringing.

Dorothy Rodham was abandoned as a child by her parents, and at age 8 was put on a train to go live with strict grandparents in California. By age 14 she was on her own, working as a housemaid at the height of the Great Depression.

Years later she was briefly reunited with her mother, who lured her to Chicago on the pretext of helping her go to college. Instead, what she really wanted was to hire her daughter to be her maid.

Rodham’s story is one of resilience. It is also a personal family story that Clinton hopes goes a long way in explaining her own steely persona and professional resilience — what some interpret as naked political ambition — that finds her mounting a second bid for the presidency.

FULL story at link.

Chronicles of Clinton

First Big Speech
In 1969 Hillary Rodham was elected by her peers to deliver a commencement address at the end of their senior year at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She gave a speech on the disillusionment many of her classmates felt over the Vietnam War. She was later featured in Life magazine, along with three other commencement speakers, in an article titled “The Class of ’69.”

Salmon Spooning
After graduating from Wellesley College, Rodham traveled to Alaska with some friends to work in a fish-processing plant for the summer. Her job was to use a spoon to remove the fish innards. She has said she got fired after a week because she was asking too many questions about whether the fish were healthy to eat. She thought they looked too old and black to be consumed.

Small Wedding
Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton famously met in the school library while both were in law school at Yale University. After graduating, the two took a trip to England, where Bill proposed. Hillary initially declined, but within the year she had moved to Arkansas and agreed to marriage. Their wedding was small — held in the living room of their new home in Arkansas, with about 15 friends and family members.

Choco-addict
Hillary Clinton admittedly is fond of chocolate. During her time in the White House she reportedly would call down to pastry chef Roland Mesnier when she had a bad day and order a “mocha cake.” She ordered a lot of them, Mesnier has said, during the Monica Lewinsky scandal that embroiled her husband.

[HassleCat]

1. Born in a log cabin

This is a typical candidate biography. "Senator Ecks comes from humble beginnings, born to a working class family, poor but honest, where he learned real American values from his saintly mother and hard-working father..." and so on.

[AtomicKitten]

2. Accompanying piece: Elizabeth Warren: Hillary may or may not be the future of the Democratic Party

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/04/09/elizabeth-warren-hillary-clinton-may-or-may-not-be-the-future-of-the-democratic-party/

[Romulox]

3. Funny that in an article about Ms. Clinton's C.V., "Wal Mart" = not found. nt