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Hillary Clinton Says She Once Tried to Be Marine (Published: June 15, 1994)
New York Times ^ | 6-15-1994 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 11/06/2015 1:43:30 PM PST by smoothsailing

Hillary Clinton Says She Once Tried to Be Marine

By MAUREEN DOWD,

Published: June 15, 1994

WASHINGTON, June 14— The First Lady has offered a kaleidoscope of images to the public, but today she added the most curious one yet: Private Hillary.

Speaking at a lunch on Capitol Hill honoring military women, Hillary Rodham Clinton said that she once visited a recruiting office in Arkansas to inquire about joining the Marines.

She told the group gathered for lunch in the Dirksen Office Building, according to The Associated Press, that she became interested in the military in 1975, the year she married Bill Clinton and the year she was teaching at the University of Arkansas law school in Fayetteville.

She was 27 then, she said, and the Marine recruiter was about 21. She was interested in joining either the active forces or the reserves, she recalled, but was swiftly rebuffed by the recruiter, who took a dim view of her age and her thick glasses. 'Not Very Encouraging'

"You're too old, you can't see and you're a woman," Mrs. Clinton said she was told, adding that the recruiter dismissed her by suggesting she try the Army. "Maybe the dogs would take you," she recalled the recruiter saying....

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She just wanted to be prepared for taking sniper fire in Bosnia.


1 posted on 11/06/2015 1:43:30 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Cankles are worse than Flat Feet.


2 posted on 11/06/2015 1:45:22 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: smoothsailing

hahahahahahahaha Sure! :-)


3 posted on 11/06/2015 1:46:20 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: smoothsailing

methinks her pantsuit is on fire.
(as in liar liar...)


4 posted on 11/06/2015 1:46:39 PM PST by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: smoothsailing

I remember that story... one of many whoppers by the Übershrew.


5 posted on 11/06/2015 1:46:51 PM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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"Maybe the dogs would take you," she recalled the recruiter saying.

That does lend some credibility to the story.

Semper Fi

6 posted on 11/06/2015 1:47:24 PM PST by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: smoothsailing

Pvt. Hillary, Reporting for duty , Sir!!


7 posted on 11/06/2015 1:47:28 PM PST by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: smoothsailing

She’d have served her Country well as a shooting target, or bayonet dummy...


8 posted on 11/06/2015 1:47:40 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: smoothsailing

I think that, with proper 24-hour-a-day supervision, Hillary Clinton might have made a somewhat adequate buffer pad.


9 posted on 11/06/2015 1:50:21 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: smoothsailing

This is hysterical!!! Hillary Gump has just stepped it in WAY over her cancels! This couldn’t have been scripted any better with the Ben Carson hit piece coming out today. Thank you Lord!!!


10 posted on 11/06/2015 1:52:11 PM PST by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: smoothsailing

She swears Iike one, but would never make the cut.


11 posted on 11/06/2015 1:52:46 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitutiion)
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To: smoothsailing

pfl


12 posted on 11/06/2015 1:52:54 PM PST by Currentriverrat
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To: demkicker

Make that kankles!


13 posted on 11/06/2015 1:54:18 PM PST by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: smoothsailing
Well, she might scare the enemy...


14 posted on 11/06/2015 1:54:41 PM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: demkicker

As a Former Marine, I think she should be in prison for her lies. Near death she should be exiled.


15 posted on 11/06/2015 1:55:18 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: smoothsailing

Rumor also has it that she once also tried to fit that lard ass of hers through a narrow door. Both epic fails.


16 posted on 11/06/2015 1:57:15 PM PST by OriginalChristian (The end of America, as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
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To: Salvavida

Heh, I had the same thing go through my head.

s/f


17 posted on 11/06/2015 1:57:53 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: smoothsailing

Great find! This needs to be widely dispersed. And it cracks me up that it’s fro the NY Times - BWAHAHAHAHA!

This makes my weekend!


18 posted on 11/06/2015 1:58:38 PM PST by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: smoothsailing

Must have been for Halloween at one of her leftist parties.


19 posted on 11/06/2015 1:59:57 PM PST by Lake Living
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To: smoothsailing

They called her G.I. Pain (as in the butt).


20 posted on 11/06/2015 2:00:52 PM PST by Lake Living
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