AFLAC!!!
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."
Well, technically the ducks catch one glimpse of Hillary and fall out of the sky.
AFLAC!!!
My, how September 11 has changed things.
HILLPAC!!!
At least not a time she'd admit to under oath.
HILLARY: Now I got you... you wabbit!! Heh-heh-heh...
BUGS: (Bites... crunch, crunch, crunch) (Mouth full) Say, Doc (chew, chew), are you tryin' to get yourself in trouble with the law? This ain't wabbit-huntin' season...
HILLARY: It's not!?!
BUGS: No! It's duck-huntin' season!!
DAFFY: That, sir, is an inmitigated frabication!! It's rabbit season!!
BUGS: Duck season!
DAFFY: Wabbit season!!
BUGS: Duck season!!
DAFFY: Wabbit season!!!
BUGS: (sly look to camera) Wabbit season!!
DAFFY: Duck season!!
BUGS: Wabbit season!!
DAFFY: I say it's duck season and I saw Fire!! (Elmer fires. Daffy's bill is blown askew.) Hmmmmm... Let's try that again!!
BUGS: Okay...
DAFFY: I'll start it this time!
BUGS: R-right.
DAFFY: Wabbit season!
BUGS: Duck season.
DAFFY: Wabbit season!
BUGS: Wabbit season.
DAFFY: Duck season. Fire!!! (Hillary again fires, displacing Daffy's bill.) (Grimly) Okay... This time you start it!
BUGS: Whatever you say... W... abbit.
DAFFY: Duck! Fire!! (This time Daffy's head and bill are upside down.) Whatha matter... Everythingth upside down... Can't make headth or tailth of thingth...
There is a definate history connecting Democrats and firearms. Hillary, just like Diane, is merely following tradition.
Every serious Canadian goose hunter should have one of these:
Hillary the Centrist Presidential Candidate (The Mother of All Barf Alerts)
Newsweek | May 31, 2002 | Eleanor Clift
Posted on 6/2/02 4:55 AM Pacific by Ordinary_American
"The former First Lady is positioning herself as a showy centrist for Campaign 2008."
Agreed, but with one caveat. Every serious Canada goose hunter should have two of these, in case a quick follow up shot is necessary.
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