Hillary was born in Chicago, Illionis...was that a "small town" 60 years ago?

[MadBadger]

She keeps playing Mellencamp's song to shove it to Obama over his "bitter" remarks. But I dont see Chicago as a small town....do you?

[dsc]

1. she lived in a small suburb

which is readily available public info. But of course you know that.

[MadBadger]

5. "I was born in a small town" Thats the opening words to the song.

[Yossariant]

11. LOL! And this is the lyric, too:

"My job is so small town
Provides little opportunity"

She's just being racist.

:rofl:

EVERYTHING is about race with Obama and his followers.

:crazy:

[Kittycat]

17. Oh please. Every suburb is "small" but we all connect

She's from wealthy, Park Ridge - and it's any but "small town" or far from the city. I'm 3 times further out from the city than Park Ridge is - and still consider myself a resident of Chicago or the Chi.Burbs when discussing it outside of the general area.

[Jed Dilligan]

27. She lived in a rich suburb, a more pertinent fact than its size.

[DadOf2LittleAngels]

31. Direct Suburbs are *not* small towns..

Park Ridge Illinois is part of Chicago land and is 15 minutes north of downtown Chicago. You can actually live in parts of Chicago proper and be further from that from downtown..

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Heck no

It was The City in 1900 when my grandfather went there to attend university and medical school. Last time it could be called a "small town" would have been ca 1840, and even then I'd say most folks considered it a city.

[MercutioATC]

3. Well, she DOES have 163 years of "experience"...

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. Her Grandad built it.

[TahitiNut]

7. ... as she hunted wild turkeys to feed the family.

She still does Wild Turkey. :evilgrin:

[NorthCarolina]

6. That's fine, but has anyone heard her mention yet

where she grew up in Indiana and North Carolina?:eyes:

[TahitiNut]

8. Yup. She was raised in Raleigh, Indiana.

Or was that Terre Haute, North Carolina??? (I get confused.)

[Yossariant]

9. She lived in Chiago until she was 3. You're being even sillier than usual here.

[DesertFlower]

10. hell no. nt

[Mz Pip]

12. I was born in Chicago

59 years ago and it wasn't a small town back then.

[tritsofme]

13. I grew up 30 miles from Chicago in a pretty small town.

Very rural and conservative.

[HereSince1628]

18. Me about 40 miles from Chicago...we declared anything east of Hyw 59 to be Chicago

So Park Ridge would have seemed in The Loop.
:hi:

[Kittycat]

19. Many of the suburbs are conservative. As for "small town:

Population doesn't make it "small town". I'm 45min out, and we butt up against two very large suburban towns, both with populations over 100K. Our town has a pop of around 30-35K.

[tritsofme]

21. When you grow up in unincorporated DuPage County in the 50s

it was still a very small town existence.

This isn't an argument I would be making for Park Ridge though...

[KoKo]

24. When one grew up ANYWHERE in America in the '50's it was small town...post WWII...

Lots of vets returning home and America started to BOOM with Tract Houses. Little two or three bedroom things on the outskirts of cities...and TV wasn't yet in many homes. It was radio and and spending lots of time "outside." Jello was big and so was the newly invented Kool Aid..that could be frozen into Popsicles for the frugal...but the "Ice Cream Truck" did make it's rounds and if you collected enough soda pop glass bottles off the side of the streets that were being thrown out...you could return the bottles to the store and collect enough pennies (for the deposit) to have enough money sometimes to by a "real popsicle" or even a "Creamsicle and life was heaven!

[Jack Bone]

14. wasn't she born a republican? or did she just convert to being a

Goldwater Girl when it politically convenient?

[HockeyMom]

15. I used to summer with my uncle's family

in Hammond, Indiana back in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He worked in Chicago and we went there often. As a kid back then, I did not see very much difference between Chicago and Manhattan where I lived.

[ronnykmarshall]

16. So this is your latest outrage?

Get a fucking life.

[mtnsnake]

20. Didn't you just tell everyone you were leaving the other day for therapy or something?

Weekend furlough or did you escape?

[OHdem10]

22. She lived on the outskirts of Chicago and yes it was small townish

[KoKo]

23. John Mellenkamp gave her permission to use his music...as he also gave Obama to use his stuff.

And, Hillary might have been born in Chicago Hospital...but grew up in the "post-WWII Suburbs" that ...yes ...years ago when she was a kid...were "small town America."

[DadOf2LittleAngels]

34. 15 miuntes from downtown chichago and very wealthy...

Not a small town..

[mitchum]

25. And she had to WALK to the Goldwater rallies in her BARE FEET

[HooptieWagon]

26. OK, new words for Hill's song...

I was born in a wealthy exclusive suburb
and I attended a few Ivy League schools.
became a Governor's First lady
and served on WalMart's board of Directors.
Then my husband became President
and I tried to pass a Healthcare initiative
so convoluted even the Dems were against it.
Then I was in favor of NAFTA,
before later being against it.
and I served tea and Scones to diplomat's wives
shortly before my daughter and I conducted combat operations
and came under sniper fire.
I made a lot of money in Cattle futures
and managed to misplace some important law office records
until I stumbled on them many years later just lying around the
most heavily guarded house in the world.
BTW, later I stood by my man
and he was so grateful he used his
connections and donors to buy me a US Senate Seat.
while there, there was no war I didn't like
and no munition that was too horrible to drop on children.
I am now a US Presidential Candidate
and managed to mismanage a huge overwhelming advantage
into a second place bankrupt campaign.
Please vote for me,
I am entitled.
Oh, and brother can you spare a dime?

[jackson_dem]

28. And Obama played "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" to shove his NH loss in his own face!

:thumbsup:

[MadBadger]

30. Actually, Obama has been playing that song since at least 2004.

[dansolo]

29. Didn't John Mellencamp endorse Obama?

[Maddy McCall]

32. No. He's endorsed neither.

[SoxFan]

33. Let's work with the lyrics a bit

I was born in a city of 2,833,321
And I live in a census-designated location in Westchester County with a median household income of $163,000
Probably die in a private care facility in Washington, DC or Manhattan
Those small communities

Nope, doesn't work quite as well...