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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 06:46 PM
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"I had met him as a young woman....."
That's what Hillary said in her interview with Brian Williams tonight,referring to Martin Luther King:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#23960750




Pardon me, but over the years I've gone to see George McGovern, Jerry Brown and Jesse Jackson, but I wouldn't say I have ever actually met any of them!
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 06:50 PM
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1. Help me out, where did she meet him?

It is getting harder and harder to believe anything that she says.
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Whisp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 06:52 PM
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4. in chicago when she was 14. she said.
they shook hands, he looked into her eyes. made it sound like they were sharing something profound.

I kid you not.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 06:56 PM
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12. She doesn't know when to stop. Was she ducking sniper bullets too at the time? n/t
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 08:58 PM
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34. I really did meet him and it was profound
MLK had the most beautiful eyes that looked right at you.

I was in college and I heard him speak at a church in Philadelphia.

I can remember it like it was yesterday.

I can remember the other students that were with me.

Did she provide more details than that or was she walking down the street with someone else or what ~
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Whisp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 09:33 PM
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36. you, I believe.
not too much detail, I just heard that bit on CNN. Transcript or you tube may be out already, don't know.
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Madam Mossfern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 06:50 PM
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2. I wouldn't chose this as an issue
She also could have met an evil person. Just because you meet a great person and even shake their hand, doesn't mean the greatness rubs off.

It is a non- issue.


finis
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 06:56 PM
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11. Well that certainly seems to be the core argument of her campaign
That Bill's presidency somehow "rubbed off" on her.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:23 PM
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25. The issue is exaggerating what happened. It's turning into a pattern. nt
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hisownpetard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 06:51 PM
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3. Excuse me, but...when was he a young woman?
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 06:53 PM
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6. LOL! Thanks for the chuckle...
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hisownpetard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 06:54 PM
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7. My pleasure, RadioLady-o.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 06:52 PM
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5. Let's find that photo of Hillary with Dr. King!
I am sure there is one somewhere, assuming that Hillary is telling the truth.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 06:54 PM
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8. I'm confused
Edited on Fri Apr-04-08 06:55 PM by blogslut
I thought she went to hear him speak with her church group. Did she also say she met him in her past accounts of the time?
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Connie_Corleone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 06:55 PM
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9. She said she shook his hand.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:01 PM
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15. Okay
Good for her. Just hadn't heard that before.

Incidentally, my father once met Dr. King. Then again, he was supposed to. He was a reporter at the time. Sad family tale, actually. The paper that sent him was anti-King. Which meant the Reverend wouldn't do a sit-down with my father. Just answered a couple of questions. I regret the hell out of that. Dad was a fair man when it came to his reporting, in spite of his employer. Instead, he got a sit-down with George Wallace.

Sigh.
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K Gardner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:16 PM
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19. "He looked in my eyes and told me he was glad I came."
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islandmkl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 06:56 PM
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10. i met jimi hendrix, once....
well, i WAS there, and looked right at him, and i KNOW he saw me, and i had all his records and knew all about him, and i JUST KNOW he realized all that we had a lot in common, just because...

i met jimi hendrix, once....
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Boz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 08:58 PM
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33. I met Jimi Hendrix once, it was when I first moved to the San Francisco area
in 2005, woah not gonna describe who or what else I met that night.:crazy:


Ill be hiding over here:yoiks:
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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 06:57 PM
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13. What's your point are you saying she didn't
meet him? If she would have made a campaign speech in Indiana she would have been criticised for not showing MLK respect. She made a joke about dodging sniper fire on Leno last night and I have even heard that was somehow insulting our troops and MLK.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:01 PM
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16. Why tell the story for years about seeing him speak in Chicago,
then suddenly announce today that you shook his hand and met him? Just on the face of it, why would someone who was just another white teenager have been introduced to Dr, King?
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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:22 PM
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23. Well you actually (hear) someone speak, maybe
he shook some peoples hands after the speech. Prove she didn't. Why didn't Obama visit Memphis today? If Clinton made a campaign speech in Indiana she would accused of disrespecting MLK. It seems like he runs as the black candidate when it's to his advantage but today he don't want to remind us he is black.
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Boz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 09:00 PM
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35. Actually, he was where RFK announced Kings death to the people
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k8conant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:24 PM
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26. I shook hands with Dr King in Detroit after his sermon at Central Methodist.
I went with my dad who was a Presbyterian minister and we DID get individually introduced to Dr King at the clergy reception following.

I don't know why Hillary wouldn't remember the hand-shaking before. I certainly have remembered over the years.
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k8conant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:26 PM
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28. My Dad bolted from the Republicans when Goldwater was nominated
and he even became a Dem delegate and was a Democrat until he died at 88 in 2004.
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:28 PM
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30. Why give a liar like her the benefit of the doubt anyway?
Maybe she just made this up like the Tuzla and NAFTA lies.
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Whisp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:01 PM
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17. well that sniper fire joke wouldn't have gone over too well today, eh?
Edited on Fri Apr-04-08 07:02 PM by Whisp
she lacks a certain sensitiveness.
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:00 PM
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14. She got to shake his hand, and if you are really interested - not just posting flamebait -
you should read this:

http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/011784.php
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:20 PM
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21. What's posted there may be true, but frankly it seems a bit
exaggerated or over the top. She canvassed the Robert Taylor Homes for Goldwater? I read the piece several times trying to decide whether it was a parody.
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:28 PM
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29. Oh yeah - Hillary was a Goldwater girl.....
She changed political parties during the VietNam war where she became an activist (I know that's hard to believe :P) against the war.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:50 PM
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32. I'm not surprised or upset that she was a Goldwater Girl given that
her dad was a Republican. But sending a kid from the 'burbs to canvass for Goldwater at a rather notorious housing project? I thought I had it bad canvassing for McGovern in Cheektowaga!
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:14 PM
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18. I wonder if she met Goldwater too
since she was a Goldwater Girl.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:19 PM
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20. Haha! I had lunch with Tommy Lasorda this week...
I attended a speakers luncheon... he was the speaker... we ate lunch in the same room... got his autograph... took a picture of him with my daughter... you damn betcha I tell people I had lunch with Tommy Lasorda!

;)
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:22 PM
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22. Get his autograph and have your picture taken with him - I guess
you can tell people you met him. If you'd just seen him speak, not so much.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:46 PM
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31. I had lunch with him...
Can you deny that based on my post?

My daughter is still walking on air... 5th generation Dodger fan...
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apocalypsehow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:23 PM
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24. And the meeting had such a profound effect on her that she went right out and joined the Goldwater
campaign...

Right. :eyes:
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 07:25 PM
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27. She's like that Kristen Wiig character on SNL
"So, like, I went to Bosnia too, like three times, and I was under bazooka fire, and I saved a million billion babies from being slaughtered..."
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constantino Donating Member (15 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 09:44 PM
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37. It's just semantics
Some people may use the word "meet" to refer to their presence near a person.
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