Posted on 11/06/2015 3:06:53 PM PST by KeyLargo
Hillary Clinton Tried to Join the Army (Or was it the Marines?) James Joyner April 3, 2008
Bill Clinton says his wife, Hillary, tried to join the Army in the mid-1970s but was turned down.
“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.
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, ‘its 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.'â€
(“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.)
Does anyone really believe after graduating Yale at the top of her class, she wanted to join the military?
(Excerpt) Read more at outsidethebeltway.com ...
I recall in the 60’s & 70’s there was a long list of organizations, that if you checked yes as to having been a member, it was bad news. One of the most obvious was the Communist Party USA. There were about a hundred others. I do not know if all persons joining had to fill one of those out as I did.
If she did, and was honest, and was a member of a un-American activity, that could have been a reason for not wanting her.
More recently, about 10 years ago, I knew a lefty that was denied a public tour of a ICBM missile base. I asked him why, he was never told, but he said he was quite the anti war activist in the 60’s & 70’s. So again, I think they keep (used to keep) lists of undesirables, of which she certainaly is.
My point is her story could be true but was denied due to her hard left activism.
Which army, Castro’s or the Russians?
The closest Clinton II ever got to the military was listening to “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
Of course it didn't happen. Simple logic. #1. Hillary loathed the military. #2. If a recruiter had actually said, "you're too old. You can't see. And you're a woman," this fresh-out-of-law-school leftist activist would have sued anything that moved.
Oh, please. She was a communist love cushion at that time spewing hate against the man at night in some leftis opium den at night and giving it to Nixon during the day.
Join the post-Vietnam army?
I’ve visited Mars several times and I was the one that killed Che. No, really. I can prove it.
Hillary Clinton, with four years of training and proper 24-hour-a-day supervision, might aspire to be a somewhat adequate buffer pad.
“Bill Clinton says his wife, Hillary, tried to join the Army in the mid-1970s but was turned down.”
That’s because by the 70’s the Army had no need for pack mules.
If Chelsea was in one of those coffins, would Cankles still be saying “What difference does it make”?
The closest that hag has ever been to becoming a Marine is buying some pants suits at Old Navy
U.S. or Soviet?
Chinese
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