Posted on 06/02/2002 8:25:53 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
In a surprise revelation during a Memorial Day campaign swing through upstate New York, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that she used to be a duck hunter.
The bizarre claim went unreported till Sunday, when Long Island's Newsday detailed a Clinton reception in the tiny village of Fort Ann, N.Y.
Resident Holden Clous, a National Rifle Association member, asked what the paper described as "a rather hostile question" about why Mrs. Clinton favored tightening laws governing gun show sales.
"He wasn't satisfied when she said it was a logical safety measure to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, but he seemed surprised when she said she had once hunted," the paper said.
Newsday then added, "It was ducks and a long time ago, she amplified later."
Clinton apparently declined to give further details on her days as a game fowl hunter, including who she hunted with, what kind of rifle she used and how many ducks she killed.
The New York senator's long-secret hunting days conjured up memories of other unlikely assertions she's offered over the years, such as:
The claim that she once tried to enlist in the Army but was turned down because she was too old.
Her 2000 senatorial campaign metamorphosis into a Jewish New York Yankees fan.
Her 1996 announcement that at age 49, she and President Clinton were thinking of having another baby (together).
The assertion that her parents named her after famed British mountain climber Sir Edmund Hillary, even though he was a complete unknown at the time who wouldn't scale Mt. Everest until five years after she was born.
During a series of small-town gatherings, Clinton told the rural crowds that she much preferred meeting with them to television appearances on shows like "Meet the Press."
"It's the nuts-and-bolts stuff of being a senator, as opposed to being on TV, talking about stuff, which I could do every night if I wanted to," the superstar senator explained.
Her newfound affinity for rural constituents stands in marked contrast to her days in Arkansas, where she used to dismiss such encounters with four-letter epithets.
The New York senator's former business partner, Susan McDougal, described one such encounter in 1996 for "Blood Sport" author James Stewart.
As McDougal looked on during a political reception, an Arkansas woman approached Mrs. Clinton with the gift of a pair of "razorback earrings" in the shape of hogs. She asked Hillary to put them on, but the then-Arkansas first lady icily demurred.
After the gift giver moved away, Clinton blurted out to McDougal, "See, this is the kind of s--t I have to put up with here."
you refering to ole Vince baby, in the "safehouse"?!
I think she used a 40mm Bofors gun...
the infowarrior
She's running for President.
What about Chelsea's father, Webb? What about Vince Foster?
Famous last words of a redneck; "hey y'all, watch this!"..."
You'll never let me live that down, will you?
The BAD news is, Cletus is gone.
The GOOD news is that it prompted me to put the six-shooter down and learn to hunt ducks with a cell phone...
Point one of those babies just right and it not only kills the duck, but cooks it on the way down.*
(*I've recently noticed how defensive some C.P. users are about their phones. Just thought I'd start a brawl in this bar too...)
THE ONLY THING THAT SHE HAS NOT DONE IS ---- TELL THE TRUTH.
While telling another lie..
..during a Memorial Day campaign swing through upstate New York,..
..and not even taking the time to reflect on the true meaning of Memorial Day in a self-serving career move..
..Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that she used to be a duck hunter.
..ol' crusty blatantly sucked up to her alleged constituency again by falsely claming something about her background that she thought that they could relate to.
Look at that 'attractiveness-challenged' woman in the background, right behind the AK...
She looks like a constipated toddler, straining as he sits on the toilet.
Well if it looks like a duck, and swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a the traitorous "co-president," a tree trunk legged, encrusted black pant suited, paradigm of all that is American lawyerhood, wife of disbarred "husband" Bill, terminally narcissistic, grandiose, lying, conspiring, porcine, eternally unindicted criminal.
Right now we have lots of mallards nesting in Central Wisconsin. Haven't seen the latest projections by DU, (Ducks Unlimited)but hoping for a good spring nesting period in Canada!
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!! Spurting coffee out my nostrils for that one!!! LOLOLOLOLOL!
She proved what a great shot she was shen she bagged her old flame.
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