Hillary Tried To Join The MARINES??

[matcom]

:rofl:

my.ass.

[Symarip]

1. Some stories I can't wait to hear about.

This is one of them.

[class2068]

58. She is simply

a career, pathological liar. As a retired serviceman this lie is particularly insulting to me.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Well, she tried.

But then she decided to liberate Guadalcanal by herself.

[Elidor]

3. Eh? Wha?

I need some context here.

[matcom]

9. some speech she gave today

heard the clip on my radio

[Elidor]

22. Do we want a president who couldn't get into the Marines?

I think not.

:popcorn:

[SoFlaJet]

4. where'd this one come from?

no she din'int

[Cali_Democrat]

7. I think today Bill said she tried to join the Marines or something like that

A link by the OP would be nice though.

[charlie]

8. Bill recently said she tried to join the Army

14 years ago, she told a similar story about trying to join the Marines. *snort*

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/bill-clinton-sa.html

[anigbrowl]

14. HRC, by way of the NYT in 1994

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E4D71F3AF936A25755C0A962958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FPeople%2FC%2FClinton%2C%20Hillary%20Rodham

[Hepburn]

5. OMG....

....from whose lips did this lie fall?

:rofl:

[karynnj]

10. Bill's

and this is not a joke - he said they wouldn't take her because her eyes were too bad. Apparently HRC said it a long time ago - but there was a Dkos diary with a You Tube of Bill.

[Hepburn]

16. This is for REAL????

I assumed ~~ incorrectly ~~ it was a joke! OMG...this is too much.

Is this some corollary to dodging sniper bullets in Bosnia???

[charlie]

19. What, you don't want a poseable action figure president?

She's Rocky, she's Rambo, she has the KUNG FU GRIP.

[Hepburn]

24. Is this close enough?

:rofl: I cannot believe this idiot goes on about how anti-war she was and is...and then says she wanted to be a MARINE!!!

[charlie]

37. The tale's a stretch, as far as I'm concerned

The military as a career path was at its nadir in 1975. Not many would join up unless they were uber-Patriot Vietnam bitter-enders or had few future prospects. Connected Ivy Leaguers married to politically ambitious war protesters didn't just run out and enlist, no more than they'd apply for Paint Department manager at K-Mart.

[anigbrowl]

43. Well, she did work for Wal-mart for a time

Our Hillary has the common touch, don't you know.

[charlie]

47. *snarf*

True dat.

I say she was tired. She must've sleep-walked to the recruiter's.

[Hepburn]

55. Yeah....

....I would go with your analysis. Bottom line: Hillary lies AGAIN.

[charlie]

64. Every damn day, it seems

And why she keeps making up these bigass whoppers is unfathomable. She's a real mystery. But an entertaining spectacle though, I'm enjoying the hell out of this.

[karynnj]

61. see #8

[sandnsea]

6. Oh now I gotta' hear this

On pins and needles.

[BlueIdaho]

11. What a load of crap

She better watch out here - she's already on thin ice.

[BlueIdaho]

12. Double Post

Sorry - delete

[Bigleaf]

13. LINK: It's a story she seldom tells, not even in her autobiography.....

But Clinton, who opposed the Vietnam War, says she once tried to join the Marines shortly after the conflict ended. She recounted the failed enlistment one time when she was first lady, in a speech to female veterans in June 1994. She said she went to an Arkansas military recruitment office shortly before she married Bill Clinton in fall 1975. Once the Marine recruiter saw the bespectacled law professor, she told the group, he rejected her by saying, "You're too old, you can't see and you're a woman."



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/09/hillary-tried-to-join-the_n_75996.html

[Hepburn]

20. She is fucking delusional!

:rofl:

[Georgie_92]

21. Riiiight I don't believe her.

[monmouth]

15. I think a medical personage should step in soon.....n/t

[matcom]

17. LINK LINK LINK LINK!!!

:rofl:

http://wonkette.com/372522/hillarys-funny-story-about-wanting-to-join-the-marines

[Alexander]

18. When will Hillary's lies ever stop? This is getting to be too much.

"I was named after Sir Edmund Hillary"

"I used to be a hunter"

"I remember landing under sniper fire"

Now it's

"I tried to join the Marines"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Darth_Kitten]

26. I heard she tried to join the Marines YEARS ago........

:shrug:

[Alexander]

33. I heard she dodged sniper fire, too.

:rofl:

[Hepburn]

29. Don't forget.....

...she brought peace to Ireland!

:rofl:

[Debi]

40. Don't forget her getting FMLA passed through Congress! n/t

[Whisp]

50. that's our Hillary Gump.

:rofl:
lies are like a box of chocolates, you just never know which one I'm going to hurl at you.

[MadBadger]

23. Bill said she tried to join the Army...which is it?

[matcom]

25. SHE claims Marines

check the link up above

[Texas Hill Country]

44. no, she went to the marine recruiter who said no because she was woman with glasses and referred her

to the army recruiter because the army might take her but marine standards were too high to take women with glasses.

[redqueen]

27. What is with her urge to play up her hawkish side to the point that it's nearly parody?

:wtf:

Can't wait to hear the backstory on THIS one. *sigh*

[george_maniakes]

28. Did she honestly try to join, or did she walk in just to see what they thought of her joining?

Big difference between the two.

Mind you, no evidence to contradict the story, so might as well give her the benefit of the doubt here.

[invictus]

34. Given her history of lying? No way! n/t

[george_maniakes]

41. She didnt lie, she misremembered the incident, or mispoke, or something...n/t

[Hepburn]

56. Oh, yeah....

....sleep deprivation problems again!

:rofl:

[THUNDER HANDS]

30. it was a typo, she actually tried to join the Mariners

she played short, all offense, no glove. batted .280 in single A one season in '71.

[matcom]

31. !

:rofl:

[Hepburn]

32. Keyboard spew......

....:rofl:

[sandnsea]

35. rotflmao

No, the Cubs, er, wait, the Yankees, er, uh,

What a nutcase.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

39. She's no Yuniesky Betancourt!

:rofl:

[Debi]

42. You're the BEST! Too bad they didn't become a team until 1977.

[Forkboy]

52. Ok, the Pilots then.

;)

[TahitiNut]

66. Well, that'd partly explain her failure.

:rofl:

[DefenseLawyer]

45. Oh no! Sleep deprivation alert!

The Mariners didn't exist until 1977. She misspoke, obviously! :crazy:

[redqueen]

46. Ahahahahhaahah...

nice one. :D

[TahitiNut]

63. (LOL!)

:rofl:

[Bigleaf]

36. Here is a photo of her training. Apparently, she still has aspirations.

[sniffa]

38. Her pre-training helped her dodge sniper fire

*rim shot*

[stellanoir]

48. She ended WWII with her first breath.

Settled the Cuban Missile crisis by puberty.

Resolved the civil rights crisis by high school.

Impeached Nixon in College.

Ended disco shortly thereafter.

Empowered Reagan and then made him senile.

Mucked with Congress over Health Care and acquired some strange bedfellows.

Tolerated her husband's repeated dalliances.

Became a Senator.

Voted the wrong way on IWR,

Mismanaged a campaign beyond belief.

Became more disingenuous.

Threw the kitchen sink and it didn't matter.

Yikes

[charlie]

51. If she ended disco

she should just say so. She'd be elected Empress of North America in a cakewalk.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

49. Semper Lie?

[Forkboy]

53. LMAO

:spray:

[Hepburn]

57. OMG.....

...this thread is hysterically funny! :rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

59. Matcom always brings the goods.

:rofl:

[redqueen]

62. Hah!

:spray:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

65. I bet that's going to be the FOX graphic for the story.

I demand royalties. :P

[Ysabel]

54. my grandpa and grandma on my dad's side were both career military...

way back since the 1940's and both of them wore glasses...

their stories just get more and more dumb every day...

[Hepburn]

60. True....

...I know men and women who were hard of hearing and really, really needed eyeglasses and the military took them.

IMO, Hillary is full of shit....big surprise ~~ NOT!

[TahitiNut]

67. She must've misheard. She thought they were "Feathernecks" ...

... so she brought her boa.

:silly:

[charlie]

68. And the pickle jar chapeau

didn't help, either.

[alphafemale]

69. She couldn't get in because the Marines are SEXISTS!!!! just wait. It's coming.

:rofl:

[pkz]

70. LOL...here's the transcript

Tuesday, July 19, 2005 12:36 p.m. EDT
Hillary Clinton: I Tried to Join the Marines

USA Today's report on Sen. Hillary Clinton's newfound appeal as a possible commander in chief omitted a key part of her resume that proves she's long been a hawk on military and defense issues: her attempt to join the Marines 30 years ago.

Or at least that's what she claimed.

Seated beside her husband, the former first lady recounted her military experience during a 1994 TV interview.

"Gee, now it was probably 19 years ago - in 1975," Mrs. Clinton recalled. "I decided that I was very interested in having some experience in serving in some capacity in the military."

"Because we all love the military so much," Mr. Clinton interjected helpfully.

Hillary resumed: "So I walked into our local recruiting office, and I think it was just my bad luck that the person who happened to be there on duty could not have been older than 21. He was in perfect physical shape."

She remembered telling the recruiter, "I wanted to explore - I didn't know whether I thought active duty would be a good idea, reserve, you know, maybe National Guard, something along those lines."

But Hillary's bid to become a leatherneck soon came unraveled.

"This young man looked at me and he said, 'How old are you?'" she recalled.

"I said, 'Well, 27' ... I had these really thick glasses on.

"He said, 'How bad's your eyesight?'

"I said, 'It's pretty bad.'

"And he said, 'How bad?'

"So I told him.

"He said, 'That's pretty bad.'

"And he finally said to me, he said: 'You're too old. You can't see. And you're a woman.' And then he went on ... this man, young man, was a Marine.

"He said, 'But maybe the dogs would take you.'"

"This is not a very encouraging conversation," Mrs. Clinton recalled thinking. "So maybe I'll look for another way to serve my country."

The original transcript of Hillary's "I-tried-to-join-the-Marines" interview has vanished from the LexisNexis archives, but excerpts from a rebroadcast on Rush Limbaugh's old TV show are still available.

[pkz]

71. Maureen Dowd in 1994!

Hillary Clinton Says She Once Tried to Be Marine

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E4D71F3AF936A25755C0A962958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FPeople%2FC%2FClinton%2C%20Hillary%20Rodham