Thursday, April 03, 2008
The whoppers keep coming
"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.Please Lord, don't let this campaign come to an end!
I assume this is a version of the "Hillary Clinton tried to join the Marines" anecdote that then-First Lady Clinton told in 1994 that we wondered about since it's a story she never seems to have told again.
The original story was that in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 1975, Hillary walked into a local Marines recruiting office. The Marine recruiter looked at her, she recalled, and asked how old she was. Twenty-seven, she said.
"He looked at me, and in those days that was before I learned how to wear contact lenses," Sen. Clinton told a crowd of women veterans in 1994. "I had these really thick glasses on. He said, ‘How bad's your eyesight?' I said, ‘It's pretty bad.' …Finally said to me, he said, 'You're too old. You can't see. And you're a woman.…But maybe the dogs would take you.'"
("Dogs" being a reference to the Army.)
Perhaps she did so -- and hence Bill Clinton's Army story today?
Or maybe he's conflating the two stories?
(Add that Bosnian sniper fire, and you might have something there that Julia Roberts would want to option.)
9 Comments:
By 
pst314, at
Thu Apr 03, 03:56:00 PM:
One reason I don't believe this story is that while in office Bill and Hillary routinely treated uniformed military personnel with disrespect.
By 
, at
Thu Apr 03, 05:19:00 PM:
Pathological liars, all of them. I worked with a sociopath like them once ... the women started with "I rode on an airplane once", and edited until it said "I'm a commercial airline pilot". Another started as having read a book, to having published, to having written award-winning books.
Each was clearly easily validated, and couldn't be. It didn't stop her from telling her little fibs.
Between Hillary and Obama, I'm having a hard time not laughing. They're both pathetic. The laughing will stop, of course, if we have one as the next President, but my TV has an on-off switch, and my big earning years are behind me, so my solution is set.
Just need to pick the right stocks to short in an Obama presidency ... I'm thinking Pharma for starters.
By , at
Thu Apr 03, 05:25:00 PM:
while in office Bill and Hillary routinely treated uniformed military personnel with disrespect.
How so pst314? I'm curious.
By GreenmanTim, at
Thu Apr 03, 09:09:00 PM:
Not to take anything away from these observations, but the politician who was a master of telling the story not the way it was but as he wished it to be was the Gipper. No contest there at all. The difference, I guess, if whether or not you think the Great Communicator was being calculating and underhanded in his fabrications, as most folks believe is true of the Clintons.
By , at
Thu Apr 03, 10:24:00 PM:
"How so pst314? I'm curious."
Well, there was the horrific slashing of the defense budget so that junior enlisted soldiers signed up on welfare (which they qualified for) to pay the bills.
And then there was the general loathing that the military personnel had for Clinton.
But beyond that, I've got nothing. Before my time in uniform.
By pst314, at
Fri Apr 04, 08:01:00 AM:
"How so pst314? I'm curious."
Many military people have reported how Bill and Hillary treated uniformed service personnel with disrespect and hostility. For starters you could read "Dereliction of Duty" by Robert Patterson. I also heard by word of mouth because these reports swept through the military far faster than they appeared in print or on the radio.
By , at
Fri Apr 04, 02:14:00 PM:
Senator Clinton today is proud to announce that General Henry Hugh Shelton has endorsed her to be the Nation’s next Commander-in-Chief. One of our nation’s top military figures, General Shelton served two terms as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.
In announcing his endorsement, General Shelton said, "I’ve been with Senator Clinton when she has been with our military men and women. I know from those experiences that she understands the demands and sacrifice of military life. I am confident she will always put the readiness and well being of our troops first. She is ready to be Commander-in-Chief."
Flag Officers Endorsing Hillary Clinton for President and Commander-in-Chief:
General Wesley Clark
General John M. Shalikashvili
General Henry Hugh Shelton
General Johnnie E. Wilson
Admiral William Owens
Lt. Gen. Joe Ballard
Lt. Gen. Robert Gard
Lt. Gen. Claudia J. Kennedy
Lt. Gen. Donald L. Kerrick
Lt. Gen. Frederick E. Vollrath
Vice Admiral Joseph A. Sestak
Major General Roger R. Blunt
Major General George A. Buskirk, Jr.
Major General Edward L. Correa, Jr.
Major General Paul D. Eaton
Major General Paul D. Monroe, Jr.
Major General Antonio M. Taguba
Rear Admiral Connie Mariano
Rear Admiral Alan M. Steinman
Rear Admiral David Stone
Brigadier General Michael Dunn
Brigadier General Belisario Flores
Brigadier General Evelyn "Pat" Foote
Brigadier General Keith H. Kerr
Brigadier General Virgil A. Richard
Brigadier General Preston Taylor
Brigadier General John M. Watkins, Jr.
Brigadier General Jack Yeager
By , at
Sun Apr 06, 12:16:00 PM:
What about being yea high or hey high
By , at
Sun Apr 06, 10:15:00 PM:
Woo hoo. 28 retired flag officers from a pool of... thousands?
Impressive.
