April 21 - Friday Funny

In an interview in the The New York Times Magazine that will appear this coming Sunday, Madeleine Albright reveals, among other things, that even at 68, she works out three times a week "and I can leg-press up to 400 pounds." (NYT April 20, 2006) For those that don’t remember, Ms. Albright, she was Clinton’s Secretary of State.

This is funny on several levels:

#1 - It’s the grotesque picture I get of her in a workout outfit

#2 - It’s the picture I can’t shake of her pushing herself, her legs wobbling as she grunts to get the 400 lb. weight to the fully extended position (still wearing that workout outfit).

But #3 - This is even more a joke when you considered the same paper carried a series about Condolezza Rice the current Secretary of State’s workout regime. Now Condi is only 51 years old but she works out every morning at 5:30 a.m. with a personal trainer.

The Democrats could not fathom losing a single demographic or vote. They wanted to go mano on mano with female Secretaries of State. So they dusted off Ms. Albright to compete against Ms. Rice. Madeline put forth her best athletic talent or feature, thick 68-year-old thighs. They could not compete on which Secretary of State had best represented the US to the world.

I guess Ms. Clinton had no athletic skills other than chasing away Bill’s amours. If Condi had been a sprinter or distance runner than Hilary would have been an appropriate response.