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Hillary’s gardening habits are tough to break

Her Highness just so happened to be in Donnellson, Iowa, and just so happened to be talking about the importance of prayer and her religious faith, and just so happened to…well, why ruin the story?  Check it out yourself:

According to the Associated Press, at a campaign forum in the fire station, which will be a caucus site come Jan. 3, Clinton happened to be asked about her religious faith. Practicing Methodist, she responded, adding, “I’m often asked if I’m a praying person and I am a praying person. My father prayed at his bedside every night and we prayed at the table over dinner.”  (Presumably, this prayer with her father occurred well after he named her for a famous man who…um…had yet to become famous. – Ed.)

Then, the most incredible thing happened. Someone pointed out that Clinton’s childhood Sunday school teacher, Rosalie Bentzinger, from her Park Ridge, Ill. days happened to be right there in the very same Iowa fire station at that same moment. What are the odds? The Sunday school teacher stood up. Clinton rushed over to hug her. It was a warm moment.

The 84-year-old Bentzinger gave Clinton a photograph she happened to have with her. And Clinton announced, “She has a picture of my confirmation class — March 27, 1959.”

Last month, some folks may recall, Clinton was forced to admit planting questions in a similar forum  audience in Newton after a student revealed a Clinton campaign staffer had handed her a question on global warming to ask. Clinton denied this was a regular practice and vowed it wouldn’t happen again.

Today, Clinton aides said they were unaware the Sunday school teacher was in the crowd. Still, the incident happened to make a warm story to help personalize the candidate.

Wow.  What are the odds that a woman she just so happened to attend Sunday school with many moons ago would just so happen to show up in a small Iowa town nowhere near the teacher’s hometown, and would just so happen to be carrying a picture nearly a half-century old that showed Her Highness as a good little church girl?  I mean, that’s just a remarkable coinkidink, wouldn’t you say?  Nah…me neither.

She just can’t help herself, can she?  She’s a compulsive “gardener”, and a compulsive liar, too.  No wonder her and Bubba are made for each other.

December 19, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | Hillary, shameful