And now this.
Maybe she misspoke again?
Maybe she misspoke again?
Hillary tried to join the Marines in Arkansas
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, shown here campaigning in New Hampshire on Tuesday, has revived an old story that she once inquired about joining the Marine Corps
In 1994, Clinton said the incident happened at a Marine Corps office in Arkansas and that she had inquired about joining either the active forces or the reserves.
A Marine Corps recruiter in Arkansas 'looks at me and goes, "Um, how old are you?" And I said, "Well I am 26, I will be 27." And he goes, "Well, that is kind of old for us," ' Clinton recalled on Tuesday.
'And then he says to me - and this is what gets me - "Maybe the dogs will take you," meaning the Army.'
(I think this was a man with a keen foresight talking about liberal voters)
The story has been probed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, The New Republic and The Weekly Standard.
The Post this week gave it 'Two Pinocchios,' on a truthfulness scale of one to four, which the paper explains as having 'significant omissions and/or exaggerations.' Back in 1994, a Post columnist was less kind, suggesting that if the story is true, it was part of a 'drunken bar bet.'
Yeah... and she was doing shots of Mezcal when suddenly 31,ooo emails disappeared.
Clinton's campaign has declined to comment, but the Post tracked down two longtime friends of Clinton who confirmed the story.
In 1994, a Marine spokesman told the Times, 'We won't attempt to dispute the first lady's recollection, but if she was ill-treated by a Marine recruiter in 1975, it certainly is unfortunate, unprofessional and a mistake we regret.' whopper
The Marines had long been accepting women in 1975 except for roles in infantry, artillery, armor and flight duties.
Clinton in New York City on Wednesday
Clinton's story is complicated, however, because there was no formal application or written record of the informal conversation - making it nearly impossible to confirm based on a paper trail.
The Times' account in 1994 raised questions about the story's truthfulness by noting that at the time of the alleged incident, Clinton had just moved to Arkansas and was teaching at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where she and Bill Clinton married in October 1975.
Those circumstances made then-Times reporter Maureen Dowd even more skeptical of the anecdote, suggesting that Clinton was building a steady and stable life and career instead of standing at a crossroads.
Clinton has come under fire before for exaggerations, such as falsely claiming that she and her daughter Chelsea came under sniper fire during a visit to Bosnia in the late 1990's.