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As the “first pet” of the Clinton era, Socks, the White House cat, allowed “chilly” Hillary Clinton to show a caring, maternal side as well as bringing joy to her daughter Chelsea. So where is Socks today?
 
Once the presidency was over, there was no room for Socks anymore. After years of loyal service at the White House, the black and white cat was dumped on Betty Currie, Bill Clinton’s personal secretary, who also had an embarrassing clean-up role in the saga of his relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky.

Some believe the abandoned pet could now come between Hillary Clinton and her ambition to return to the White House as America’s first female president.

Clinton has been boosting her prospects in the past week with some homespun references to her gender as part of a series of events with the theme Women Changing America, during which she chatted girlfriend-to-girlfriend and mom-to-mom with female voters.

The softening of Clinton’s image seems to be working. Her chief strategist, Mark Penn, predicts that up to a quarter of Republican women will vote for her. She leads Democratic rivals in the polls by 26 points and is scooping up more donations to her war chest from Wall Street and defense contractors than any candidate from either party – an unmistakable indicator of who they think will win in 2008.

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the black and white cat was dumped on Betty Currie, Bill Clinton’s personal secretary,

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

They're claiming that her cat was just a prop for her acting career, and they may well have a point. If correct, it points to something more serious than just how she uses living things when they're convenient for her, and disgards them when they're no longer useful. It points to her cold and calculating ways, and how she's likely just a plastic image molded by her P.R. team

Look, I'm no friend of the Left, but if the Democrats really want to win in '08 they need to be more careful who they nominate. We put up someone like George W. Bush twice and won. Doesn't that even suggest to anyone even a little bit that maybe, just maybe, the Democrats are sending up losers???

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Cat is probably very happy where it is.

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice
I wonder why Chelsea didn't take him, though.