© Reuters/Brendan McDermid/Reuters/Bill IngallsHillary Clinton • Space Shuttle Atlantis
"When I was a little girl, I wrote to NASA and told them I dreamed of being an astronaut. They wrote back and said they weren't taking girls," the former presidential candidate tweeted, because apparently everything has to be about her. She then expressed hope that a "new generation of little girls" will be able to reach for the stars.
Social media users immediately began to pick apart the rather far-fetched tale.
One top reply correctly noted that Clinton was born in 1947, more than 10 years before NASA was founded. Furthermore, it wasn't until 1962 that the US put an astronaut in space - making her story hard to believe.
Others pointed to Clinton's previous tall tales that were later proven to be demonstrably false, including her claim that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Given Clinton's shaky track record when it comes to keeping documents, several suspicious netizens demanded to see the alleged rejection letter.
The response to her childhood story wasn't completely negative, however. If Clinton is still interested in going into space, that could certainly be arranged - on condition that she stays there, a generous Twitter user suggested.
Reader Comments
A truth psychopath, denies reality, lies like there is no tomorrow, manipulates to achieve her ends, and is a consummate actor in front of the mass media.
And the saddest thing of all is that some people believe the lies she espouses.
One wonders, why such a person was not locked up long ago either wearing an orange Jumpsuit, or in a mental health facility.
An the most astonishing thing of all, she still thinks she can run for office of the POTUS in 2020, if news reports are to be believed.
Just goes to show US politics is nothing more than a Netflix series, as are most Western political systems today...I give the Brexit Saga in the UK as an example.
My thoughts.
I would like to be selected as an astronaut. I am more qualified than fighter pilots because I'm a woman and my future husband will be president.
R.C.
R.C.
I think the slow roasting of re-entry is more appropriate to just going out with a bang
Nope, there's no getting rid of her that easy.
R.C.
Massachusetts Democrat wants to make it illegal to call someone a 'bitch' in the commonwealth
A Massachusetts Democrat is pushing a bill that would make it a crime to maliciously call someone a "bitch" within the commonwealth. Foul-mouthed individuals who are found guilty under a bill...The law is presumed to be prima facie unconstitutional as a prior restraint on free speech.
I had planned to write a book about our beagle who had 17 puppies bit twice by a rattler, hit twice by a car, made it to age 14 - we got her before I started school and she died in my senior year of high school. She could be 'snippy' so I WAS going to call it: "The Bitch"..now my career's in shreds.
Elton John will never be able to play the B**** is Back; The Stones: no more 'B****'; it's a tragedy.
R.C.
*She wasn't snippy. Sarcasm.
RC