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Hillary Tells NRA Member: I Used to Be a Duck Hunter
Newsmax.com ^ | June 2, 2002 | Carl Limbacher

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."


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To: Paul Atreides
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that she used to be a duck hunter.

Was this before or after her claimed attempt to enlist in the Marines?

181 posted on 06/03/2002 6:20:48 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: DemoSmear
Figures... state bird of my wonderful Minnesota (grimace) is the common loon.
182 posted on 06/03/2002 6:22:42 PM PDT by Terriergal
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To: DemoSmear
But ya know... loons are just much too pretty to be equated with Hillary...
183 posted on 06/03/2002 6:23:05 PM PDT by Terriergal
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To: ladyinred
Hillary, you are basically lower than a duck's ass.
184 posted on 06/03/2002 6:28:28 PM PDT by ladylib
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To: Freee-dame
Was this before or after her claimed attempt to enlist in the Marines?

Can you imgagine if the Taliban saw this thing coming at them with her duck rifle?

Delores Claiborne didn't have anything on this b*tch.

185 posted on 06/03/2002 6:47:57 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Terriergal
Well, Hill's the ugly duckling. My sympathies to Minny Sotá and the Common Loons. Hill's a Communist Loon.
186 posted on 06/03/2002 7:04:05 PM PDT by DemoSmear
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To: Terriergal
I've wondered aloud here when the last time either of the Clintons drove an automobile. That's a task too earty for King and Queen of the Scumsuckas.
187 posted on 06/03/2002 9:27:11 PM PDT by ArneFufkin
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To: Paul Atreides
Let me guess; "duck" is a code word for Bubba's bimbos

Not enough ammo. Besides, when did she care. He's not her type. He's got one of those hang downs.

188 posted on 06/03/2002 9:36:17 PM PDT by jwh_Denver
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To: muggs
bump
189 posted on 06/04/2002 7:15:19 AM PDT by timestax
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To: ArneFufkin
I've wondered aloud here when the last time either of the Clintons drove an automobile. That's a task too earty for King and Queen of the Scumsuckas. 187 posted on 6/3/02 9:27 PM Pacific by ArneFufkin [ Post Reply

LOOK OUT if they ever DO try to drive a car!!!

190 posted on 06/04/2002 7:23:09 AM PDT by timestax
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To: DemoSmear
:-) Hill can't be the ugly duckling either cuz ain't no way she's gonna become a beautiful swan.
191 posted on 06/04/2002 5:37:36 PM PDT by Terriergal
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To: Terriergal
bump
192 posted on 06/04/2002 9:52:53 PM PDT by timestax
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To: litany_of_lies
BTTT
193 posted on 06/05/2002 12:03:56 PM PDT by timestax
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To: Paul Atreides, Aloha Ronnie
President Hillary? Not if WE can hekp it!

HOT TOPIC!
Guilty CLINTON: "It ain't my Fault" (9-11-01)

194 posted on 06/06/2002 8:54:02 AM PDT by Joy Angela
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To: jwh_Denver
bump
195 posted on 06/06/2002 11:52:28 AM PDT by timestax
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To: Paul Atreides
bump
196 posted on 06/14/2002 8:23:11 AM PDT by timestax
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To: aruanan
bump
197 posted on 06/14/2002 6:10:54 PM PDT by timestax
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To: aruanan
bump
198 posted on 06/16/2002 7:42:53 AM PDT by timestax
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To: timestax
Was duck hunting before or after she started hunting beaver?
199 posted on 06/16/2002 11:22:46 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: aruanan
bump !!!
200 posted on 06/17/2002 12:09:25 PM PDT by timestax
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