"I'm In" (Hillary announces for president)

Hillary Clinton.com ^ | Jan 20, 2007 | Hillary

[tlb]

I'm in. And I'm in to win.

Today I am announcing that I will form an exploratory committee to run for president.

And I want you to join me not just for the campaign but for a conversation about the future of our country -- about the bold but practical changes we need to overcome six years of Bush administration failures.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Honestly, I'm highly suspicious if there has always been a block on it from public view, that suddenly it's available?

I'm not buying this. I want proof it's the actual one that she wrote......I want to see a chain of custody! LOL

[STARWISE]

Noting for reference
:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3883a222798a.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38e022e901c5.htm

http://www.iwf.org/issues/issues_detail.asp?ArticleID=495

Black Panthers:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/8/19/02154.shtml


http://www.amazon.ca/Hell-Pay-Unfolding-Hillary-Rodham/dp/customer-reviews/0895262746

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2005/06/hillary-clintons-wellesley-college.html

http://news.surfwax.com/history/files/Saul_Alinsky_America.html


http://www.hillaryforpresident-2008.com/

http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0204/0204madamehillaryint.htm

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8298

[onyx]

I share your concerns and suspicions. Sounds to me like it's been "edited" or dare I say "cleansed?"

[Mo1]

The way that women works .. I'd suspicious of anything and everything where she is concerned

[STARWISE]

Commencement .. sorry .. it's her thesis that's under lock and key, but with all the Alinsky links, we've got a pretty good idea about it.

[Mo1]

Don't forget her first boss that she interned for after becoming an attorney

[listenhillary]

I'm IN!!!

[Mo1]

Very well could be .. you just know she has cleaned up every little item she can think of

[onyx]

To: kcvl

She's a Marxist, kcvl. Saul Alinsky's student. I sure wish we could unearth that sealed thesis of hers that she wrote at Wellsley.

230 posted on 01/21/2007 3:07:18 PM CST by onyx (DONATE NOW! -- It takes DONATIONS to keep FR running!!)

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[onyx]

BKO tried to get her thesis --

[STARWISE]

Looks like she did get it, if briefly:

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Hil's College Thesis
Reveals Her Mind

By BARBARA OLSON

"He who fears corruption fears life."
— Saul Alinsky, "Rules for Radicals"

This quote immediately came to mind after my reading of Hillary Rodham's Wellesley College senior thesis — a document kept under lock and key since the 1992 elections.

Back then, when researchers and journalists were searching for information on the newly elected First Couple, Wellesley suddenly declared that it would seal the thesis of any graduate who became President or First Lady.

A few weeks ago, however, I came into possession of Hillary's suppressed thesis. In those 75 pages, the future First Lady reveals herself as someone steeped in the political lore and history of one of America's most political cities. No, not New York — Chicago. There she began her political journey from Goldwater girl to leftist icon.

The thesis' title, "There is Only the Fight ... An Analysis of the Alinsky Model," exposes Clinton's strong ideological attachment to her most influential mentor, Saul Alinsky.

Reading this work makes it clear why she had to remove it from public view, for Alinsky, who died in 1972, was a radical social activist who preached grass-roots organizing and intense, confrontational politics.

While Clinton was studying under Alinsky, he was preparing what would be his final and most important book: "Rules for Radicals," published less than two years after Hillary graduated from Wellesley and only one year before his death.

Alinsky's hold on Hillary is astonishingly evident in her thesis, which is replete with his yet-unpublished political tactics. The thesis reveals that he was moving from local organizing efforts to a new arena — the national stage.

She wrote: "His [Alinsky's] new aspect, national planning, derives from the necessity of entrusting social change to institutions, specifically the United States government."

Alinsky, we can now see, taught Hillary the political tactics that she successfully deployed in Arkansas and the White House and is now beginning to use in New York.

What were his lessons?

Alinsky defined "obtaining power" as a key tactic of organizing his "mass jujitsu." His formula for attack: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it."

This principle has become the essence of the Clinton rapid-response tactic and a key aspect of Hillary's attacks on what she has dubbed "a vast right-wing conspiracy."

The Clinton White House has adhered to Alinsky's rule that "ridicule is man's most potent weapon" and followed his advice to "let nothing get you off your target."

Hillary discusses another Alinsky rule — "power is the very essence, the dynamo of life" — in her thesis. Clearly, she had absorbed his lesson that one must first obtain power to achieve real change.

But nowhere in her thesis — or in her later life — does she seem to recognize the classical liberal critique that the relentless pursuit of power is antithetical to democracy.

Perhaps the most prescient part of the thesis is a quote from a profile of Alinsky in The Economist: "His charm lies in his ability to commit himself completely to the people in the room with him. In a shrewd though subtle way, he often manipulates them while speaking directly to their experience."


http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3883a222798a.htm

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Amazing Barbara .... what a patriot, what a tremendous loss.

[Mo1]

I have her books .. she wrote about it

I also read Hellary's 2nd book ... and while reading it I couldn't help think Hellary was trying to counter everything Barbara wrote about

Remember how Hellary and her gang tried to block the release of Barbara's last book?

[A Citizen Reporter]

"Remember how Hellary and her gang tried to block the release of Barbara's last book?"

No, I don't remember that. What did they try to do?

[onyx]

I recall a lot of bashing prior to the publication of BKO's book. Is that what you mean?

[onyx]

I have BKO's last book. I need to read it again.

[A Citizen Reporter]

I have "Hell to Pay" which I think was her last book. I think that's a great idea. Think I too will read it again.

[onyx]

Right --- we all need to read it again. I had teary eyes reading it the first time.

[A Citizen Reporter]

You know, as painful as it may be, we all ought to read Hitlery's books as well, because you know she will be contradicting herself and stepping on her tail all of the time.

[onyx]

May I take a pass and just ditto everything you and Mo post? :0)

[ZULU]

Hillery is probably one of the most dangerous political figures in history.

She's right up there with Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth I, and Evita Peron.

Those who discount the power of her political machine do so at their own peril.