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To: afraidfortherepublic

This is from Lt. Col. Tom McKenney (Ret).


During Bill Clinton’s first year in office a minor incident occurred, one buried by the news media, but common knowledge inside the Beltway (even though it’s denied by the White House). It was in one sense trivial, a fleeting vignette on the First Family portrait; but in another sense it was powerfully revealing and terribly significant.

The occasion was the departure for a state function, a routine operation repeated many times. Vehicles were lined up outside the White House, ready to transport the First Family and their entourage to the important event. Young Chelsea Clinton, like everyone else on such occasions, was assigned a specific sedan in which to ride. The driver held the door open for her, but as she got part of the way into the car she abruptly backed out as if she had seen a rattlesnake on the back seat.

She turned and proclaimed to all within sound of her voice, 

The “military man” already seated in her sedan happened to be a senior officer. Being a gentleman, he said quietly that there was no problem, calmly got out of the sedan and found another vehicle in which to ride.

In a separate, similar incident, also common knowledge (but denied by the White House and unreported by the protective media), young Chelsea asked the Marine who was escorting her to school to wear civilian clothes in the future, not his uniform, and explained, 

Think about this for a moment; think of what it means. I suggest to you that this innocent little girl didn’t learn to despise “military men” at Sunday School or in the Brownie Scouts.

I suggest that she would not have committed such acts of flagrant rudeness and presumption had she known that her parents would disapprove and punish her for it; nor would she have so ingenuously expressed herself. No, it seems apparent that she learned this at home from her mother and father, and she learned it well.

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37 posted on 05/18/2015 7:36:23 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

She was raised by parents who called the Secret Service “pigs”.


56 posted on 05/18/2015 9:03:27 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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