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[PhantomSgt]

Pardon me I forget, were we in the don't ask and don't tell days of the military in 1975?

Maybe she told.


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Independent that leans right of center.

[Snipe]

I donno. Fairy tales begin "Once upon a time",
and sea stories begin "Now this ain't no lie."
Kerry at least actually did serve on active duty
so there is at least a minimum of background in his
"Tour of Duty" book. I don't know much about life
on Swift Boats, but I do know something about a
WESTPAC cruise on a destroyer. Yeah, it's BS. He
greatly inflates his participation in the events
around him. Personnaly, I like to throw out stuff
and have the other guy finish the story. You get
a MUCH better view of what actually happened with
other people telling what they know. Ah well.

Hillary's little sea story about a Marine Recruiter
seems to have come straight out of that Goldie Hawn
movie "Private Benjamin". At least the recruiter
didn't promise her a condo on base. Good Grief.


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[MrJapan]

Sorry to bring this up, no offense intended to anyone... but women seem to be the most deceptive and sly (best word I can think of is in Japanese and there is no exact translation.. zurui)...

They would be great for making battle plans (as long as they have been in them).. and I'm NOT saying they can't!

Have a good field team so everyone (men/women) is covered and covering, and you have 1 awsome team... difference is that women are born to protect and survive.. and men are born to be aggressive and survive to make offspring

[Guest]

AND THE KICKER:

"Because we all love the military so much," Mr. Clinton interjected helpfully.

SOMEONE GET ME A BAT!!

[gmez2001]

[Beatrice1000]

Minimal timeline – looking for that hillary in the 70s that wanted to enlist in the military -- it doesn’t look very good….unless she made a side trip to the recruiter’s office in between teaching & running a legal clinic and marrying bill…

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---In high school Clinton … was the winner of Maine South High School's first social science award.

---After graduation, she attended Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, at a time when American college campuses were actively protesting the Vietnam War.

---1970: Clinton next attended Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, where she … met two of the most influential people in her life: Bill Clinton and Marian Wright Edelman. (Hillary: “Bill Clinton was hard to miss in the autumn of 1970. He arrived at Yale Law School..”)

---1972: Hillary: “After school ended in the spring of 1972, I returned to Washington to work again for Marian Wright Edelman. Bill took a full-time job with the McGovern campaign.”

---1972: She had joined him in Texas during the McGovern campaign of 1972, where he was a paid member of Gary Hart's staff, and she was a vote registrar for the Democratic National Committee. (“Beginning of the Road,” by Garry Wills, 7/20/92, TimeMag archives)

---1972: Hillary: “A botched break-in at Democratic Committee offices at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972, would lead to the downfall of Richard Nixon. It would also figure in my future plans.”

---1973: Hillary: “After completing law school in the spring of 1973, Bill took me on my first trip to Europe to revisit his haunts as a Rhodes Scholar.”

---1973: After graduation in 1973, Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham went their separate ways. Soon afterward, she went to Washington, D.C., to work on the impeachment inquiry of President Richard Nixon following his involvement in the Watergate cover-up,

---1974: …when she left Washington in 1974 to join Bill Clinton in Arkansas, she probably thought the move was only temporary; he was, after all, already running for Congress. (“An Interview with Hillary Rodham Clinton “We’ve Had Some Good Times” by Margaret Carlson, 5/10/93 –TimeMag archives)

---1974: ....as the 1974 race approached, the popular Congressman from that area, John Paul Hammerschmidt, strongly vouched for Nixon, who was under fire for the Watergate offenses. Clinton knew, from his close friend Hillary Rodham, how vulnerable Nixon was to impeachment -- she had accepted the offer to work on the staff that he refused. The two were visiting each other, back and forth between Washington and Fayetteville, and spending long hours on the telephone. He was kept informed of her work, of her virtual certitude that Nixon would be convicted in the Senate after the House impeached him. <..> Hillary Rodham came to Arkansas to help with the campaign, and -- when the House staff disbanded after Nixon's resignation -- she took up an offer the dean had made her, to come teach and run a legal clinic at Fayetteville. <…> (“Beginning of the Road,” by Garry Wills, 7/20/92, TimeMag archives)

---1974: Hillary took a teaching job at the University of Arkansas Law School.

---1975: Hillary: “Gee, now it was probably 19 years ago - in 1975, I decided that I was very interested in having some experience in serving in some capacity in the military. … So I walked into our local recruiting office,…” She remembered telling the recruiter, “I wanted to explore - I didn't know whether I thought active duty would be a good idea, reserve, you know, maybe National Guard, something along those lines.”….

---1975: Keeping her maiden name, she married Bill Clinton in 1975. She continued to teach and headed the legal aid clinic at the school.

---1977: …she joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, within two years becoming the firm's first woman partner.

SOURCE and SOURCE
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Can anyone spot the non sequitur above?

[coldwarvet]

[quote="Beatrice1000"]Minimal timeline – looking for that hillary in the 70s that wanted to enlist in the military -- it doesn’t look very good….unless she made a side trip to the recruiter’s office in between teaching & running a legal clinic and marrying bill…

Great work Beatrice! Anyone buying into this lie has to be void of any critical thinking skill.

CWV
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[Navy_Navy_Navy]

I tend to agree with Klein's assessment of this "trip to the recruiting station," if it ever existed.

A stint in the military would add to future political credentials. And that's the ONLY reason that an anti-war socialist could EVER be persuaded to join the military.
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Navy woman, Navy wife, Navy mother

[PhantomSgt]

[davman]

During the Clinton administration, it was Hillary that insisted that military personnel did not wear their uniforms when in the White House. The rule was that if you had to wear one, and happened to be in a hallway at the same time as her, you had to duck into a nearby office as she passed. If there was no office to duck in to, you were to avoid making eye contact with her. She also once told an officer, a general I think, not to speak to her unless spoken to. This was after he bid her good morning as they passed in the hallway! Sounds like a lover of the military!

[coldwarvet]

[Uisguex Jack]

[davman]

Hillary is now fighting to have a video game company change the rating on one of their games from mature to adult only. The game apparently has a sex scene in it, so you may or may not agree with her stance on this. However, she is the last person who would take such a stand, unless she was trying to appear to be a moderate. She is start her preparations for 2008 early. Looks like the same tactics that Slick Willy used.

[Rdtf]

By the way, speaking of Slick Willy - he was interviewed on the Today Show (by Katie Couric, of course) this morning, and he clearly had a shortness of breath when he talked. Not sure what his health is like but it didn't sound too good.

[coldwarvet]