Clinton Gets Personal

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: Clinton Gets Personal
By Dan Balz

CARY, N.C. -- Hillary Clinton talked about short skirts, Snow White and trying to break open a very tough coconut Saturday morning as she began her campaign day with a revealing and very personal conversation about the pressures of raising children and balancing the demands of work and family.

This was not the normal campaign rally but an opportunity for the candidate to show her personal side. For almost 45 minutes, Clinton fielded questions about herself, her mother and daughter and asked for advice from an audience of women assembled by the website momlogic.com. She related experiences common to all families, like calling frantically for someone to take care of her daughter after Chelsea's caretaker called in sick and Clinton was due in court at 9 a.m....

"It's wrenching," Clinton said. "(Former Israeli Prime Minister) Golda Meir, I think said something once about how when you're at work you feel guilty, when you're at home you feel guilt. So look, guilt and worry are in a mother's DNA. I'm a designated worrier in my family about everything.... I still worry all the time. My mother said the other day she worries as much about me now. I tell her to turn off the TV, she wouldn't worry so much."

Clinton told stories about raising her daughter when her husband, Bill Clinton, was governor of Arkansas, about trying to eat dinner together whenever possible and setting aside time alone with Chelsea. "Among the decisions I made during those early years was to spend as much time as I could with my daughter and her friends," she said. "That meant we didn't have much of a social life."

Instead, it was time for "silly things" and for watching endlessly "Snow White" or "The Sound of Music" or old reruns. She said Chelsea once told her,"'You know, you're my favorite mother, but my second favorite is Donna Reed.' I mean Donna Reed did housework in high heels."...

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/03/clinton_gets_personal.html?hpid=topnews

[Radio_Lady]

1. I hope she can adjust to life after politics... it will be a difficult transition.