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KoKo

(84,711 posts)
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 08:48 PM Nov 2015

Hillary Chats: About Family Life, Grandaughter Charlotte..and her Meeting her Grandfather

in a Charming Political Encounter Sharing Breakfast in New Hampshire with Voter Supporters where she Speaks about her Signing Up for the Marines on Veteran's Day:

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Hillary Chats: About Family Life, Grandaughter Charlotte..and her Meeting her Grandfather (Original Post) KoKo Nov 2015 OP
Hillary we want to talk about the issues. jwirr Nov 2015 #1
Hillary's honesty and shifting positions is the biggest issue of the campaign daybranch Nov 2015 #3
Totally agree. jwirr Nov 2015 #6
Hillary says she tried to enlist in the Marine corp at 26? daybranch Nov 2015 #2
Oh Jiminy Cricket Geronimoe Nov 2015 #4
I loved this Evergreen Emerald Nov 2015 #5

daybranch

(1,309 posts)
3. Hillary's honesty and shifting positions is the biggest issue of the campaign
Fri Nov 13, 2015, 08:33 AM
Nov 2015

The poster gives us a view of a woman telling a story of long ago wherein she says she tried to be a Marine. Yeah, sure and even though she was a lawyer and they needed lawyers, she could not convince them to take her.
Right now, Hillary moves toward or to Bernie's position on every issue. Most people do not feel she is to be trusted if elected to not change her positions.
This provides a glimpse of what she does when not making a speech and when she does not feel she is being watched. Some of us believe such moments reveal the real person. I do not believe that this event occurred as she tells it.
If I cannot trust her to speak honestly about little things when no one is pushing her, how can I trust her to stick to the Bernie positions she now embraces rather than work for her rich donors who have invested so heavily in her and want a return on their investment. Go Bernie!

daybranch

(1,309 posts)
2. Hillary says she tried to enlist in the Marine corp at 26?
Fri Nov 13, 2015, 08:02 AM
Nov 2015

And she says they told her she was a little old for them. This like many Hillary stories are difficult to confirm. In 1975 we know she lived with Bill in a house they had bought in Arkansas. We also know that according to her she refused his Proposal of marriage twice. Why would a young bright lawyer who had protested the war in the years previous to this want to join the Marine Corp? And why would they not take her in, they were in need of lawyers according to the Marines. Was she unable to convince the recruiting officer of her ability as a lawyer or did she even tell him?
it is strange that the Marine corp has never located that recruiter not that the recruiter himself has not identified himself. There are records of service which would indicate which recruiters worked at that recruiting station.
I continue to hear about Hillary's ability to negotiate but I have to conclude this was a failure on her part or she just was not very serious. If she did this as a lark, it was childish. But then maybe it is all in her head much as she remembered getting shot at. Being only a year younger than Hillary I recognize how many of us want to see our youth as more dangerous, more exciting, and this may have become just an embellishment of some thoughts she had oce of running off from Bill and joining the Marines!
I personally do not believe anything but some kind of psychotic episode could drive her to do such a thing and while I question lots about her actions, she appears sane. So is she tellling the truth and why select this truth to relate now if she is? With her unsubstantiated statements, Hillary is running the risk of swiftboating herself. So why say this now?

 

Geronimoe

(1,539 posts)
4. Oh Jiminy Cricket
Fri Nov 13, 2015, 09:36 AM
Nov 2015

When you wish upon a star......

Score this TEN Pinocchios. Looks like she is taking some pages out of Ben Carson's campaign or story telling.

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