Five Amazing Similarities Between Hillary Clinton and Rocky Balboa

PHILADELPHIA - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says she has something in common with legendary film boxer Rocky Balboa -- she's not a quitter. Recalling a famous scene on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the 1976 Oscar-winning film "Rocky," Clinton said that ending her presidential campaign now would be as if "Rocky Balboa had gotten halfway up those art museum steps and said, 'Well, I guess that's about far enough... Let me tell you something, when it comes to finishing a fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit. I never give up. And neither do the American people," Clinton said in excerpts of prepared remarks to be given Tuesday to a meeting of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO. (AP, April 1)

1. Rocky had a frequently punch-drunk trainer, Mickey Goldmill; Hillary has a chief strategist, Mark Penn, whom she frequently punches

2. Rocky discharged his inner anger and resentment by brutalizing a large, red slab of meat; Hillary is married to Bill Clinton

3. Rocky defended America's honor by defeating the Russian giant Ivan Drago; Hillary defended America's honor by bravely confronting an eight-year-old Bosnian girl with a poem and some flowers

4. Rocky's best friend was a flashy fighter named Apollo Creed; Hillary is pretty sure she has e-mail addresses for a couple of the girls from Wellesley

5. Damaged and facing inevitable defeat, Rocky agrees not to fight Union Cane in Tokyo; Not applicable

Cross-posted at billbarol.tumblr.com

Comments

[Whinger]

I'm puzzled as to why Hillary didn't liken herself to a real life boxer like Muhammad Ali.

[bpai]

Come on - Muhammed Ali is black and a Muslim. Comparing herself to him when running against a black man (who she tries to slime by saying he isn't a Muslim as far as she knows) wouldn't fly that well.

Regardless of Hillary's opponent, Ali is still very unpopular among large sections of the white electorate, who haven't forgotten his conversion to Islam and refusal to serve in Vietnam. Not exactly the type Hillary would like to compare herself, especially right now.

[lisakaz]

Does this mean Hill takes steroids?

[jazzman]

I think Bill and Hillary resemble Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. She and Bill keep seeing their well laid plans thwarted as Obama just stays right on top of them. I can hear them saying to each other, "Who is that guy?"

[IslandGyal]

He's the "kid" remember, although Bill Clinton was even younger than him when he ran for president the first time.

[olderdem]

6. Rocky is a fictional character; Hillary likes to tell fictional stories about herself.

[Rotcod]

7. Rocky drank raw eggs; Hillary's presidential bid laid an egg.

[MLFN]

Obama has weathered Wright...can we investigate Hillary? FROM http://www.northstarwriters.com/dc163.htm Dan Calabrese 3-31-08
Watergate-Era Judiciary Chief of Staff: Hillary Clinton Fired For Lies, Unethical Behavior
Nnow-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee ....Jeffrey Zeifman,..Democrat, supervised work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham..... When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff ..."..she was a liar,.... an unethical, dishonest lawyer..conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee...Hillary wrote a fraudulent legal brief, and confiscated public documents to hide her deception...arguing there is no right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding,.. Z says he told Hillary about the case of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who faced an impeachment attempt in 1970. ".. impeachment resolutions were introduced ..the first thing Douglas did was hire himself a lawyer," Zeifman said..says he told Hillary that all the documents... were in the Judiciary Committee"s public files...Hillary then removed all the Douglas files to the offices where she was located, which at that time was secured and inaccessible to the public," ...if Hillary... had succeeded,...House Judiciary Committee would have also been denied the right to cross-examine witnesses...[to] drafti..articles of impeachment against Nixon..still has the diary if anyone wants to check..2008 North Star Writers Group. .

[lvdragonlady]

wow.... just finished reading the article mentioned here. I had a feeling that she could not be trusted and I was having a hard time believing anything that she said and I was right on both accounts. Article is worth reading for anyone that has any doubts. I recommend it highly.

[karenann]

This is unbelieveable, and yes, I've seen something written on this before (I want to say a couple months ago).

Given her 35 years of experience, why has the media not pounced on this?

I'd like to see another debate, and moderators who are fearless enough to ask some of these tough questions we otherwise don't see played by the msm.

[HeresJohnny]

Sure, Hillary Clinton reminds me of Stallone. Frank Stallone.

[rzan]

I think Hillary needs to forget about running for President and spend some time in deep introspection. She does not have the tiniest notion of who she is.

[EspritDeVoltaire]

I just hope that we don't ever have to find out who she really is by having her as the most powerful person on Earth.

[Montanamotor]

One amazing similarity between Hillary Clinton and Richard. M. Nixon:

Richard M. Nixon: "A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits."

search/replace man = woman

[LionEater]

Only one problem: Rocky was never the inevitable frontrunner before the match started. If you want to a Rocky, look no further than Barack Obama. I'm thinking about the time the Russian crowd turnd on Drago and started rooting on Rocky. That's Obama's cndidacy in a nutshell.

[deutchs]

I think Hillary is watching too many Stallone movies. First she thinks she's Rambo going into Bosnia under sniper fire and now she is Rocky Balboa. Someone needs to cut her an add where she does a workout montage to inspiring music. Seth McFarlain, are you reading?

[NC4Obama]

From Colbert's Speech at the WH press dinner
"...Look, folks, my point is that I don't believe this is a low point in this presidency. I believe it is just a lull before a comeback. I mean, it's like the movie Rocky. Alright? The President, in this case, is Rocky Balboa, and Apollo Creed is everything else in the world. It's the tenth round. He's bloodied. His corner man, Mick, who in this case, I guess, would be the Vice President, he's yelling, "Cut me, Dick, cut me!" And every time he falls, everyone says, "Stay down, Rocky! Stay down!" But does he stay down? No. Like Rocky, he gets back up, and in the end he -- actually loses in the first movie. Okay, doesn't matter. Doesn"t matter.

The point is it is the heart-warming story of a man who was repeatedly punched in the face,..."

[Jacee]

Can someone please tell the Monumentally Ridiculous Hillary Clinton that:

1) Stallone is backing McCain

and

2) Rocky lost in the end-to a black guy

Apollo Creed 2008

[spacealien]

roflmao

wait! and stallone is roided up - somebody check HILLZ for hgh!

[JFB]

And Rocky Balboa is a fictional character and, as such, does not live in the real world. Clinton"s grip on reality, or let us say truth telling, would seem to indicate the same thing.

In the real world, isn"t Sylvester Stallone a well known conservative, and is this perhaps a too-close-for-comfort sort of comparison for Senator Clinton?

[Mojane]

Actually, she misspoke and said (watch Countdown), "I never GET up". Oops.

[Kim445588]

Freudian slip?

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

6. Hillary Rodham Clinton is also a fictional character, like Balboa.

One of the ghostwriters on Clinton's book - Living History - was Maryanne Vollers. The novelist Walter Kirn - who lived in the same Montana town as Vollers - once wrote that Vollers came to conclude that "there was no Hillary, really, just a creature concocted by her people who was happy to be a concoction of her people."

A better view of HRC (than the fictional character created in Living History) can be found by reading some of Hillary's own words: http://tammybruce.com/2007/02/hillary_in_her_own.php