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Thursday, April 03, 2008

Since that sniper story didn't work out so well...

Senator Clinton's been sinking in the polls since she was proven to be lying about landing in sniper fire in Bosnia, the Clintons have pulled out another story that absolutely no one will believe. Bill Clinton tried to convince audiences that Hillary actually tried to volunteer for the military in the 1970s.
"I remember when we were young, right out of law school, she went down and tried to join the Army and they said 'Your eyes are so bad, nobody will take you,'" he said, after heralding her record on issues of concern to the military, such as body armor and access to health care.
Hillary had tried to peddle that same story earlier, but in her version, it was the Marines that she was trying to join.
It's a story she seldom tells, not even in her autobiography. But Clinton, who opposed the Vietnam War, says she once tried to join the Marines shortly after the conflict ended. She recounted the failed enlistment one time when she was first lady, in a speech to female veterans in June 1994. She said she went to an Arkansas military recruitment office shortly before she married Bill Clinton in fall 1975. Once the Marine recruiter saw the bespectacled law professor, she told the group, he rejected her by saying, "You're too old, you can't see and you're a woman."
Army, Marines, hey Bill Clinton was only the Commander-in-Chief, no need for him to tell the different services apart.

And does anyone really believe that after graduating from Yale and just at the time she married Bill that she was truly interested in joining the Marines? Or that, at the beginning of the volunteer military, a recruiter would have just dismissed her like that without getting her to fill out some form? The story just doesn't hold water. And the Clintons should recognize it. She didn't even put it in her autobiography. But now when everyone is talking about her tendency to stretch the truth, Bill is so oblivious that he trots out another tall tale.
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HOME Betsy neither necessarily uses, nor endorses, the products advertised on this site. Comments from an AP history and government teacher in Raleigh, NC. e-mail betsynewmark AT gmail.com Site Feed Wikio Your Market Research Here		Thursday, April 03, 2008 Since that sniper story didn't work out so well... Senator Clinton's been sinking in the polls since she was proven to be lying about landing in sniper fire in Bosnia, the Clintons have pulled out another story that absolutely no one will believe. Bill Clinton tried to convince audiences that Hillary actually tried to volunteer for the military in the 1970s. "I remember when we were young, right out of law school, she went down and tried to join the Army and they said 'Your eyes are so bad, nobody will take you,'" he said, after heralding her record on issues of concern to the military, such as body armor and access to health care. Hillary had tried to peddle that same story earlier, but in her version, it was the Marines that she was trying to join. It's a story she seldom tells, not even in her autobiography. But Clinton, who opposed the Vietnam War, says she once tried to join the Marines shortly after the conflict ended. She recounted the failed enlistment one time when she was first lady, in a speech to female veterans in June 1994. She said she went to an Arkansas military recruitment office shortly before she married Bill Clinton in fall 1975. Once the Marine recruiter saw the bespectacled law professor, she told the group, he rejected her by saying, "You're too old, you can't see and you're a woman." Army, Marines, hey Bill Clinton was only the Commander-in-Chief, no need for him to tell the different services apart. And does anyone really believe that after graduating from Yale and just at the time she married Bill that she was truly interested in joining the Marines? Or that, at the beginning of the volunteer military, a recruiter would have just dismissed her like that without getting her to fill out some form? The story just doesn't hold water. And the Clintons should recognize it. She didn't even put it in her autobiography. But now when everyone is talking about her tendency to stretch the truth, Bill is so oblivious that he trots out another tall tale. Labels: Hillary Clinton posted by Betsy Newmark permalink 9:45 AM \|

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