Snopes has a listing about a photo that shows a soldier shaking hands with Hillary Clinton while his fingers are crossed. A caption accompanying the photo explains that the soldier was crossing his fingers to signal that he was coerced to shake hands with her. Today Snopes updated this listing to include a link to a Yahoo Personals Page apparently created by the guy in the picture in which he states that he's no fan of Hillary Clinton. Snopes notes that this confirms what the caption says about why he was crossing his fingers. But my question is about the Yahoo Profile. How are we supposed to know that it's real? It could have been created by anyone. There's no name on it, nor any very specific information. And the picture displayed on the page is the very same picture that's spread all over the internet. Didn't the guy have an original, better-quality version of it? If he had included other photos of himself I would totally believe it's him. But the fact that this is the only photo made available seems a little suspicious. Maybe this really is him, but based on what's there, it's impossible to be sure. After all, it's not like people never fake personals. Or am I missing something?
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It was a private joke, and that's it.
Does it matter whether someone made up the Yahoo profile? No.
There is no proof one way or the other. The soldier could have made it. Alex could have made it. I could have. YOU could have.
The point I'm trying to make is that anyone can make a profile anywhere on the net. Anyone includes this soldier, but there is no proof, and I'm not sending Yahoo money just to send an email to the guy when it'll probably never get answered anyway.
I would have to guess that it is fake, but will we ever find out? Most probably NOT.
It's pretty insulting that soldier boy there seems to think that Hillary is the more morally objectionable person in the picture. She's not the one that earned her college money by killing babies with an assault rifle, after all.
Many American GIs in World War 2 were posed into "We are being well-treated" pictures for German propganda newspapers. In a lot of these, the grinning or somewhat happy servicemen are giving the 'digitus impudicus' sign with their hands: This is basically a natural hand pose but with the middle digit raised, like an "accidental" flipping of the bird.
If this is true, then a long-standing tradition continues.
I do agree, though. Why would he use the internet photo with the red circle around his hand as his primary (and only) personals photo? That is suspicious.
They also seem to forget the fact that the reason we have been fighting wars is to protect the freedoms of the people of the countries in which they were fighting.
Had some of these bleeding hearts expressed such opinions at almost any period in the 20th century, we might have avoided a few wars and lots of bloodshed - about 40 million during World War II alone. If we had faced down Hitler when he began to gobble up territory in Eastern Europe, history probably would have been a little different.
After years of running down the military, Hillary is now trying to get on their good side.
Perhaps he used this photo in his personal dating service to let women out there know that he is a real man and is not afraid of expressing himself in a difficult situation. Had I been in his situation, I would have found some way to show that I was not in favor of this meeting.
I'll follow this post with some photos of him out of uniform just to prove I am who I say, but that guy is not him.
Oh, and did I fail to mention that I HATE HITLARY?!
Well...married, or not. He's still incredibly delicious! So THERE!
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If it's real, that doesn't surprise me. Why shouldn't a soldier semi-forced to pose with a politician -- any politician -- find a way to indicate his disapproval? This seems like a subtle and fairly respectful way to indicate disapproval, or so it seems to me. Military personnel have to be respectful in public to some people whether they approve of them or not, but a random politician, no matter his or her political affiliation, isn't one of them, and anyway, this doesn't even qualify as disrespectful, or so it seems to me.
If it's not real, that wouldn't surprise me either. It's a fairly witty PhotoShop trick, but they've been done before, too.
Whether it's real or not, I can understand why people who actually know the man in the photo would want to explain what's going on.
What does surprise me, although I guess it shouldn't, is the number of people who would go out of their way to lie about knowing this man. And clearly some of them have to be since the stories don't all match. Lies with a purpose I can understand, even if I don't approve of them. But what's the point of saying, "I know this man and this is what's going on here" if you don't know this man and don't know what's going on here? I just don't get it.
People are just weird. Whoever is lying really needs to go out and get himself or herself a life.
the anti war girlie girl there (so hip by the way) wants to know about war and killing google what did saddam hussein did to the kurds
I bet if it were in style to eat peanuts out of shit these kids would be following people around with spoons
think for yourself
As far as I'm concerned, you're all an illusion caused by lack of sleep and googling halfwit websites for hours on end.
Ha, rumbled. I mean, have you actually read yourselves back?!