Posted on 05/03/2007 7:06:40 PM PDT by Dajjal
The truth is; She and her felonous hubby are nothing but trash, two misfits who planned a way to hi-jack America and carried their plan out.
She’s learned well from Slick Willy. Be all things to all people all the time. Puh-lease. It’s hard to imagine her ‘babysitting’ her own daughter (when she was a child) let along migrant workers children.
Not wheat - soybeans. There may also have been some alfalfa hay produced, but still, by the 1960’s, one would have had to travel at least 30 miles from Park Ridge to find a working farm. What few “farms” were still there by then were either just the farmstead, with the barns converted into a studio or restaurant, and about five acres of land, or horse farms.
I lived in the Stockbridge / Munith area in Jackson county. The migrants came to pick carrots, potatoes and onions. There was also sod and peppermint to be harvested.
I know there were kids because we all played together when when they were here but they didn’t go to our school.
I agree with RKV that just because she said it before means there's any truth in it -- but thanks for confirming that it is indeed Hillary's voice on the soundbyte.
I'm most amused by how Park Ridge was "surrounded" by farms. Roger Hedgecock seemed most amused by how she was bragging about assisting in violations of child labor laws.
I suppose, if the farms were 60+ miles away, the poor migrant farmers bussed their children into Park Ridge just so they could sit beside Hillary.
btw, didn’t mean to bold that line — typed “b” instead of “br”.
Kids of migrants weren’t allowed to go to school before the Supreme Court proclaimed they couldn’t be kept out, in the early 80’s.
The bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral.
I agree with alloysteel. I grew up just north of Park Ridge and live just north of Park Ridge today. If she claims PR was surrounded with farms in the 1960s, she’s off her rocker.
We were over closer to Lake Michigan, about 20 miles north of South Bend, Indiana. In the summer a few of us kids would try a week or two of working out in the fields picking strawberries, since that was the only place kids could earn a few bucks before they turned 14, other than hawking homemade goods door to door or mowing lawns. I forget how many days I lasted - I doubt it was more than 3 or 4. That’s tough work in the best of conditions, but in Michigan humidity? Oddly I don’t remember much about the children and I wonder if some of the memories I do have were influenced by movies or reports I’ve seen since, combined with those early memories.
It was the era of Cesar Chavez, and I can imagine thAT HER MINISTER WOULD HAVE DRIVEN TO JOIN THAT CAUSE.
Thanks a lot.
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Now,I have to drink several large Jack Daniels and watch "Sands of Iwo Jima" twice to get this image outta my mind.
From a 1998 speech by Mrs. Clinton to the Annual National Conference of La Raza:
I can recall as Aida was introducing me — and I wrote about this inmy book, It Takes a Village — as a young girl growing up in the suburbs inChicago, which may be impossible for many to believe now because of howthat city has developed — I lived right on the edge of farmland. Everyspring and summer into the fall, migrant workers would come to pick thecrops. Their children would come to school with us. Through my church, Ibegan babysitting for children in migrant camps on Saturdays, so that theolder children could also work in the fields
http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/generalspeeches/1998/19980803-15302.html
Would migrant workers be picking crops in Illinois from spring through the early fall? I know where I live this would not be true.
I moved into Park Ridge in 1940. Yes, there were farms there, mostly corn and wheat. Any vegetables grown in the area was sold by the farmer at his roadside stand.
If Hillary saw any crops, they were like weeds in the rough at the Park Ridge Country Club, a few blocks from her home.
Migrant laborers couldn’t aford to live, go to school or trade in Park Ridge. It was too expensive.
Maybe she meant to say babysitting for migrant caddies.
I guess the farms grow with each retelling.
this is the same town where bill clinton
saw black churches burn down while he was growing up? </s>
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