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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 12:22 PM
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So with what elite fatcats did Hillary go duckhunting?
According to her (ghost written) book, Living History, pages 7-8, "As children, my brothers and I spent . . . most of August at the cottage he (Grandpa Rodham) had built. . . in the Pocono Mountains overlooking Lake Winola.. . . My father taught me to shoot a gun behind the cottage, and we practised aiming at cans and rocks." END OF QUOTE.

Like all of Clinton's stories/misstatements - they expand over time. Now I see reference to her having shot ducks. Of course duck hunting is not in season in August in Pennsylvania - EVER. And as a child she wouldn't have been firing a shotgun. So I googled.

Google turned up a NY Daily News story (02/19):
"WAUSAU, Wis. - Facing the prospect of her ninth and 10th straight losses Tuesday, Hillary Clinton tried to flush out a few more votes in Wisconsin with a crowd-pleasing tale about shooting a duck.

Yes, she bagged a duck, back when she was the First Lady of Arkansas. "I've hunted. My father taught me how to shoot," she told a crowd at the Labor Temple in rural northern Wisconsin. "I remember standing in the cold water. It was so cold, you know, at first light. I was with a bunch of my friends, all men. "And they all were playing a trick on me, and said, 'We're not going to shoot, you shoot,' 'cause you know what they wanted to do. They wanted to embarrass me.

"So the pressure was on. So I shot, and I shot a banded duck."

So who were the bunch of friends - all men - with whom she went shooting? I doubt they were a bunch of union workers who had a trailer parked in some woods (typical of Pennsylvania hunters). More likely she was at some exclusive, ELITE private hunting enclave/lodge with some of her fatcat corporate Rose Law Firm clients or fellow board members. I doubt kindly old Grandpa Rodham taught her to shoot with anything bigger than a 22. So who taught her to fire a shotgun? Let's get the details, Hillary. Inquiring minds want to know!
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