Posted on 07/19/2005 12:28:22 PM PDT by hope
Hillary Clinton: I Tried to Join the Marines USA Today's report on Sen. Hillary Clinton's newfound appeal as a possible commander in chief omitted a key part of her resume that proves she's long been a hawk on military and defense issues: her attempt to join the Marines 30 years ago. Or at least that's what she claimed. Seated beside her husband, the former first lady recounted her military experience during a 1994 TV interview.
"Gee, now it was probably 19 years ago - in 1975," Mrs. Clinton recalled. "I decided that I was very interested in having some experience in serving in some capacity in the military."
"Because we all love the military so much," Mr. Clinton interjected helpfully.
Hillary resumed: "So I walked into our local recruiting office, and I think it was just my bad luck that the person who happened to be there on duty could not have been older than 21. He was in perfect physical shape." 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." But Hillary's bid to become a leatherneck soon came unraveled. "This young man looked at me and he said, 'How old are you?'" she recalled. "I said, 'Well, 27' ... I had these really thick glasses on. "He said, 'How bad's your eyesight?' "I said, 'It's pretty bad.' "And he said, 'How bad?' "So I told him. "He said, 'That's pretty bad.' "And he finally said to me, he said: 'You're too old. You can't see. And you're a woman.' And then he went on ... this man, young man, was a Marine. "He said, 'But maybe the dogs [Army] would take you.'" "This is not a very encouraging conversation," Mrs. Clinton recalled thinking. "So maybe I'll look for another way to serve my country." The original transcript of Hillary's "I-tried-to-join-the-Marines" interview has vanished from the LexisNexis archives, but excerpts from a rebroadcast on Rush Limbaugh's old TV show are still available.
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LOL. Yeah, Dan Rather was her DS.
Wow, this one's still steaming..
Where's the barf alert! -- I'm going to hurl......BLAAAHHGHHGHGHHHGHHH!!!
LOL
That's nothing, before that she climbed Mt Everest, look it up
The word was LOATHE billy dumbass liar clintoon- you said (in writing) that you LOATHE the military.
OK senator hilLIARy.. it should be easy to track down a 21 year old marine in a recruiting office ... where did you say?
So, she is saying that she is more of a man then her "draft-Dodging" husband?
Hillary's quite the Storyteller....
Shameless.
Yeah, I know, puke alert is implied simply by the name Hillary, but this is such a pukey story.
THIS is FROM the 1990's.....
I say she should stand by this story. We all know how well using military experience works for democrats.
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GULP!!!!! Hillary 'Robthem' Clinton volunteered to be a DRAFT DODGER????????????????sarcasm, ya'll
Next she'll tell us she once blockaded an abortion clinic with Randall Terry.
I am thinking that in 1974 the Marines did not want here and 30 years later in 2005 - they still do not want her.
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