MISSOULA - Hillary Clinton’s hair and clothes have long attracted attention, kind and unkind. So, she says, why not give her credit for being the most carefully dressed presidential candidate?
Thanking a supporter in Montana on Sunday who complimented her hair, Clinton said: “Do you realize how much longer it takes me to get ready than my two opponents?”
“I think I should get points for working as hard as I do, plus having to spend so much time getting ready,” she said.
Slate columnist Michael Kinsley recently mused online that Clinton probably takes a 
minimum of 40 minutes each morning to get ready, while rival Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain probably take only half that time to shower, shave and dress.
The difference, added up over a year-and-a half-long political race, gives the male candidates an extra two weeks of campaigning or sleeping, he concluded.
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Photo: Reuters/ Anne Medley (Clinton campaigning in Missoula, Montana)
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Not unless she wakes up 40 minutes earlier than her opponents… hey,, no one said it would be easy,,, early bird catches the worm..
- Posted by notforeitherofthese2I find it takes most women 40 minutes to get ready, I know it does me.To make up time if I am running late I will put on eyeliner and lipstick as I drive to work (kidding). I don’t know that much of what Obama has accomplished in his life. I do not know his bad baggage. I know Hillarys.She has guts and has accomplished a lot. I disagree with some of her more liberal politics. When she is comfortable with an interviewer she says things that make sense. It does not make sense to borrow money from China to buy oil from Saudi. I believe two things about her. I believe she loves America. I believe she will try to help Americans. I cant say that about Obama with the Wright controversy and Michelle’s remarks about her country. I want to see McCain run against Hillary. I do not really like Bush, but I respect him for standing by what he believes in. I ask myself what does Obama believe in? Wright? Is that good change?
- Posted by ReaganWho cares what she looks like! I’d vote for a trog in a tutu if it believed in real democracy, the end of the corporate welfare system, making US citizens a priority, ending our position as the world’s police officers, establishing renewable energy resources that don’t pollute the planet, universal health care… the list is endless.
Unfortunately all the viable candidates are cut from the same corporate owned, elite cloth.
Give me a break!
- Posted by Marla Taylor