Another lean, green knee-slapper from Lady Leatherneck.
Hillary Clinton tried to become a Marine? Right. That was the week after Harry Reid tried to become a Rockette.
Had the Marines accepted her, perhaps her training would have been helpful when her plane came under sniper fire while landing in Bosnia in 1996.
Let me see now. As I understand it, what we’re called on to believe is that a highly employable young Yale Law School graduate, who had led teach-ins against the Vietnam War in college, had worked on the campaigns of Gene McCarthy and George McGovern, and who was engaged to a draft-dodger seeking to become the attorney general of his state, really just wanted to be a lean, green, fighting machine.
Pull the other one, Hillary.
Incredibly, and Just in time for Veteran’s Day, Hillary reprised the remarkable story about how she tried to enlist in the Marines in 1975 while she was living in Arkansas but had not yet married Billy-Bob. It goes in this wise: She told the recruiter in Little Rock that she wanted to be part of the few, the proud. But the stout lad looked her up and down and then asked how old she was, and, her story goes, said: “You’re too old, you can’t see, and you’re a woman. Maybe the dogs (the Army) will take you.â€
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