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Cankles Make Hillary Clinton One of the Girls

Politics Daily ^ | July 23, 2009 | Emily Miller

Posted on by Diana in Wisconsin

When it comes to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's fashion choices, women often talk about her trademark pantsuits and speculate that she wears them to hide her "cankles" -- slang for chubby ankles.

The takeaway from years of public comments about her ankles is that Clinton's leg coverage has made American women fixated on their own cankles and that they're resorting to plastic surgery and new workout regimens to get narrower ankles.

The battle to get rid of cankles was a front page headline in The Wall Street Journal Thursday, which prompted this stream of pre-coffee emails from my girlfriends:

"It is a true must read. Makes me want to subscribe to the WSJ."

"Gold's Gym has declared July cankles awareness month! (although as a member, I've not been made aware of it)." and "You know who could benefit from the Gold's Gym special . . . my friend Nancy Reagan."

"On the cankles I will say knowing that my fiance's whole side of the family is plagued with them that I am not sure that some ointment and an ace bandage is going to take care of what appears to be a genetic issues."

I laugh at the mere mention of the word "cankles" -- a combination of the words "calf" and "ankle" -- but I also look down my legs and hate my own ankles/cankles. Admittedly, my cankles aren't fat -- they are muscular -- but they aren't pretty. Like Hillary, I avoid skirts, ankle-strap heels, cropped pants and short dresses.

So, I replied to the girls: "OMG -- this is terrible TERRIBLE. I have cankles -- I want lipo of the ankle so badly. Also the knees. Are there caKnees?"

I'm not sure how the plastic surgeon could cut the muscles off my ankles (oh, science, please catch up!) But since Hillary Clinton came on the scene in 1998, and we saw her cankles, I have been doing extensive stretching before and after my daily runs to try to lengthen my cankles to a more ladylike size. No luck so far.

When I read that the average circumference of a woman's ankle is about 11 inches, I got out the tape measure. My first measurement of my right ankle (assuming the right is bigger than the left, like fingers) showed it to be 8¼ inches. I figured that the 11 inches must refer to the ankle, including the bone, (which, frankly, isn't the part of the cankle that is ugly, but this is a scientific effort), and that part measures 9¼ inches. Hmm . . . so scientifically, I don't have cankles, but if you looked at my ankles, they are cankles for sure.

According to the WSJ, the wave of women hating their cankles has reached such heights that gyms are coming up with new ways to specifically tone cankles; plastic surgeons now offer $4,000 to $6,000 liposuction procedures to slim them; and shoe companies are offering special models designed to minimize them.

During the 2008 election, the hilarious Saturday Night Live parody of Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton (Tina Fey and Amy Poehler) defending women in politics had this exchange: Palin/Fey, "So please stop photo-shopping my head on sexy bikini pictures," and Clinton/Poehler responds: "And stop saying I have cankles." LOL.

I was outted for cankle-hiding at the end of my years working for former Secretary of State Colin Powell. I had a State Department uniform of pantsuits and sensible shoes. At a summer office party at a colleague's house, I walked in wearing a sundress and was greeted with screams of "She has LEGS!" and "It's a girl!"

Hillary, we girls feel your pain. Cankles are born, not made, so we are all in the cankle canoe together.



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That Hillary! Such a uniter on the really SERIOUS issues of the day. *Rolleyes*



To: Diana in Wisconsin

I’ll bet Hillary wakes up every day wishing she’d never left the Senate.



by 2 posted onby pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)

To: Diana in Wisconsin





by 3 posted onby Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)

To: pnh102

In Japan we call them DAIKON ASHI .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnLyjMUpXT0



To: Diana in Wisconsin





by 5 posted onby JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)

To: JoeProBono; All

I’ll never take my slender ankles for granted again, LOL!



To: Diana in Wisconsin

Funny article! I think, alas, it’s genetically determined, and if you gots them, you gots them.



To: Diana in Wisconsin

to hide her "cankles" -- slang for chubby ankles. I assumed it was a contraction for calf and ankle.



by 8 posted onby Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)

To: Vaquero

Cankles: caused by poor circulation, often. To get rid of “cankles”, sleep each nite with your feet elevated higher than your heart — it doesn’t need to be much, only a couple inches higher. Gravity will do the rest for the 8 hours while you sleep. Do that often enough and combine with regular calf-strengthening exercise and the cankles disappear. BONUS POINTS: if we notice Hillary Clinton losing her cankles over the next fortnite or so, we’ll know for sure that she reads the FRee Republic!



To: Diana in Wisconsin

A sign of kidney disease.



by 10 posted onby ArtyFO (I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire at the moonbat loonery.)

To: Diana in Wisconsin

The next article will be on Michelle and Bubble Butts.



To: Venturer

“The next article will be on Michelle and Bubble Butts.” I think the PC term is, “Junk in the Trunk.” ;) Anyhow, leave it to the hard-hitting, thought-provoking, barf-inducing LIBERAL FEMALE ‘journalists’ to stay on top of these things. Can you imagine the outrage if a male or female conservative journalist had done a piece on Hillary’s! cankles? LOL!



To: ArtyFO

Hilary has more than cankles that she hides under those pant suits, yikes!



To: Venturer

Michelle Obama doesn’t have a big butt. It just appears that way because she keeps the girls’ lunchboxes in her back pockets.



To: sushiman

Raff Out Roud



To: Diana in Wisconsin

Cankles? Seriously? I wish women would stop being such monumental idiots. Nobody cares about your damn ankles.



by 16 posted onby LongElegantLegs (It takes a viking to raze a village!)

To: Diana in Wisconsin

I should probably point out that my last was aimed at Hillary and the author, not you!



by 17 posted onby LongElegantLegs (It takes a viking to raze a village!)

To: Diana in Wisconsin

ok, I can agree with that statement, but then what do I do with my tornado thighs.(that's a couple of notches past thunder thighs)



by 18 posted onby grame (To God be the Glory!)

To: windcliff

ping



by 19 posted onby stylecouncilor (What Would Jim Thompson Do?)

To: grame

LOL! Never heard of ‘tornado thighs’ before! I got in a little bit of trouble with Husband earlier this evening. We were walking the dogs, and I put my arm around his waist as we were walking and pinched a little and said, “What’s up with these ‘muffin tops’ above your belt?” He didn’t find it funny. I told him I LIKE muffins, but he wasn’t buying it, LOL! :) (Men! So vain!)



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