http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clintons-newest-college-proposal-encourages-public-service/
Back in the bad old days of the Vietnam War, public service mostly meant military service. The Peace Corps was around, but most of us men, if able-bodied, had to choose among the five armed services. I picked the Coast Guard, which had a lot of peaceful missions as part of the Department of Transportation. And I got to get married and lead a relatively normal life in Cleveland, where I sailed the good ship "Federal Building," only venturing occasionally onto the Great Lakes when a big story was breaking. Looking back, I am a strong supporter of two years --- or at least a year --- of public service for every high school graduate... it would promote citizenship while helping kids to mature and amass some money before embarking on college. I got very little out of college, being highly immature and majoring in "fraternity." But I got a whole lot out of law school when I was 30.
As for Mrs. Clinton, while she gets this piece of the campaign puzzle, there is so much more she doesn't seem to get. What the heck are she and Bubba doing in a $100,000 rental in the Hamptons while Bernie Sanders is stumping for economic fairness? And how can she be so glib about the email issue? She worked on Watergate as a young staffer. Didn't the Nixon debacle stick in her mind?
There is a very fine line between being arrogant and being a knuckle head. I fear that Mrs. Clinton has crossed that line.
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