Wed 2 Apr 2008
Hillary Clinton Says “Rocky and I have alot in common.”
Posted by informationsponge under MAIN , News , PoliticalPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Perhaps the analogy was inevitable: Hillary Rodham Clinton as Rocky Balboa, the scrappy underdog boxer from Philadelphia memorably depicted in the 1976 Oscar-winning film. Even if Rocky did lose his first big fight.
Photo courtesy of AP Addressing a meeting of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Tuesday, the former first lady and New York senator said she, like Rocky, wasn’t a quitter.
Recalling a famous scene on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Clinton said to end 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.’”
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April 2nd, 2008 at 3:18 pm
[...] rashmanly wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptAddressing a meeting of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Tuesday, the former first lady and New York senator said she, like Rocky, wasn’ta quitter. Recalling a famous scene on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Clinton said to end her … Read the rest of this great post here [...]