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Hortensis

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5. I've heard that story, but it sounds incredibly unlikely, or so taken out
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 12:45 PM
Sep 2015

of context as to be a lie. It just doesn't fit. And goodness knows I've known packs and packs of two-faced bigots. It's not that they aren't almost anywhere you look. But, still, it doesn't fit.

Forgot to mention also that someone close to me was with the Clintons as an observer during one of the campaigns and has many friends and contacts who've also associated with them. He's hardly an uncritical fan, but he doesn't find the various stories that have been floated over the years of Clinton as a not-so-closet Southern bigot credible.

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