“I hope you won’t hold it against me, but I am a hard-coal
Posted on: December 30, 2022 at 10:40:26 CT
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miner, anthracite coal, Scranton, Pennsylvania.”
"I was appointed to the academy in 1965 by a senator who I was running against in 1972"
"I graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school."
”When I was 17 years old, I participated in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie houses in my state, and my stomach turned upon hearing the voices of Faubus and Barnett, and my soul raged upon seeing the dogs of Bull Connor.”
“I organized a civil rights boycott because they wouldn’t serve black kids. One of our football players was black and we went there and they said they wouldn’t serve him. And I said to the others, ‘Hey, we can’t go in there.’ So we all left.”
"I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my class who had a full academic scholarship ...and, in fact, ended up in the top half of my class."
"...you better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the Green Zone, where I have been seven times and shot at.”
"I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see [Mandela] on Robbens Island."
But lying about your resume is bad... unless you are a Democrat.. then it just an exaggeration:
"I exaggerate when I'm angry, 'but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me."