Posted on 11/12/2015 11:18:19 AM PST by simpson96
"He looks at me and goes, 'Um, how old are you. And I said, 'Well I am 26, I will be 27.' And he goes, 'Well, that is kind of old for us.' And then he says to me, and this is what gets me, 'Maybe the dogs will take you,' meaning the Army."
-Former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking at a breakfast, Manchester, N.H., Nov. 10, 2015
One Clinton story that has often been greeted with skepticism is her claim, first made in 1994, that she once tried to join the Marines in 1975. On the campaign trail, she brought up the story again.
Can this story be confirmed?
The Facts
Clinton first told this story while addressing a lunch on Capitol Hill honoring military women, about 17 months after becoming first lady:
"You're too old, you can't see and you're a woman," Mrs. Clinton said she was told. “Maybe the dogs would take you," she recalled the recruiter saying. (Actually the military slang is "dogfaces.")
"It was not a very encouraging conversation,†she said. "I decided maybe I'll look for another way to serve my country."
It's fair to say The New York Times account, written by then-reporter Maureen Dowd, was highly skeptical. Dowd noted:
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Oh, well, that's different then. Anybody else I might doubt, but Brian Williams has, after all, been awarded three Medals of Honor. That's only one more than Hillary herself.
LADY X’s last post at F.R.:
‎ 5/14/2006 ‎6:19:16‎ ‎PM - 175 of 192
LadyX to All
Afraid more thunderstorms are headed my way,
so I’d better get offline.
Blessings to everyone this wonderful day in May!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1630919/posts?page=175#175
LADY X, one classy lady. 5/14/2006
Jus curious, how did you know her when her last post was 5-14-2006?
Move over Rambo, here comes Lesbo!
That’s funny to me!
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That there is knee slappi’n funny, no matter who you are.
More important, I wonder what happened to her. Sad.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:ladyx/index?brevity=full;tab=comments
I’ve never heard it.
maybe she was confused and thought someone told her “you look like a submarine, you fat ass toad’
My Army buds confirm it, so I stand corrected.
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