Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton mocked her Republican rivals for the White House for being unable to name an “American woman” worthy of going on the $10 dollar bill—and then was unable to name one such woman herself.
TMZ.com caught up with the former secretary of state in Washington Monday and asked if Maya Angelou or Rosa Parks should replace Alexander Hamilton on the ten. “I was sort of amazed that the Republicans couldn’t think of one American woman,” Clinton replied. As TMZ noted, that wasn’t true, since when asked at last week’s CNN debate, a few candidates named Parks and Susan B. Anthony, Americans both. Still, Clinton boasted that “I could give them a really long list” of potential candidates for the bill.
So which ones? The TMZ reporter pressed her to name “a good person,” but Clinton wouldn’t say. “There’s a lot of them,” she said, after acknowledging Angelou and Parks (who had already been mentioned) would be good choices. The reporter prompts her again, asking of if talk-show host Oprah Winfrey would be a good choice. Clinton noted that those faces on American money are supposed to be dead.
“Obviously, we don’t want that to happen to her!” Clinton said, laughing. Winfrey endorsed Barack Obama over Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primary.
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