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Reading Hillary Rodham's hidden thesis (Quotes from Free Republic)
MSNBC ^ | 3/2/07 | Bill Dedman

Posted on 03/02/2007 5:01:02 AM PST by AZRepublican

WELLESLEY, Mass. — The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton’s presidency it was locked away.

As forbidden fruit, the writings of a 21-year-old college senior, examining the tactics of radical community organizer Saul D. Alinsky, have gained mythic status among her critics — a “Rosetta Stone,” in the words of one, that would allow readers to decode the thinking of the former first lady and 2008 presidential candidate.

Despite the fervent interest in the thesis, few realize that it is no longer kept under lock and key. As MSNBC.com found, it is available to anyone who visits the archive room of the prestigious women’s college outside Boston. With Clinton’s opponents in the 2008 presidential race looking for the next “Swift Boat” attack ad, and the senator herself trying to cast off her liberal image, Clinton's 92-page thesis is certain to be read and reread by opposition researchers and reporters visiting the campus.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: acdc; awelleslywench; hildabeast; hillary; hillarythesis; thesis; thunderthighs; wickedwitch
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To: Artemis Webb

You're all wrong, Hillary is a woman with large cankels in a crusty black pant suit.


181 posted on 03/02/2007 12:20:17 PM PST by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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To: Range Rover

I see that you are well-versed in the Vast Clinton Conspiracy methods of clean-up. Somewhere, somehow, and somebody is going to make a mark on them and expose to the world and their minions that they are DANGEROUS...our own homegrown jihadists intent on yoking us to HER idea of governmental powers and destroying individual freedoms.


182 posted on 03/02/2007 12:31:48 PM PST by Carolinamom (Whatever you voted for, you did not vote for failure -- President Bush SOTU)
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To: AZRepublican

***....“I agreed with some of Alinsky's ideas,” she explained in “Living History,” her 2003 biography, “particularly the value of empowering people to help themselves. But we had a fundamental disagreement. He believed you could change the system only from the outside. I didn't.”

A decade later, another political science major started out on the path that Hillary Rodham had rejected, going to work for a group in the Alinsky mold. That was Barack Obama, now a U.S. senator from Illinois and her leading opponent for the Democratic nomination. After attending Columbia University, he worked as an organizer on the South Side of Chicago for the Developing Communities Project. Obama and others of the post-Alinsky generation described their work in the 1990 book “After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois,” in which Obama wrote that he longed for ways to close the gap between community organizing and national politics. After three years of organizing, he turned to Harvard Law School and then the Illinois legislature....***


183 posted on 03/02/2007 12:32:20 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: zot
The snippet they showed from the top of the thesis doesn't look like it was done in Times Roman font ... but I could be mistaken about that.

I doubt they'll be making that mistake again soon.

184 posted on 03/02/2007 1:18:24 PM PST by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
“I agreed with some of Alinsky's ideas,” she explained in “Living History,” her 2003 biography, “particularly the value of empowering people to help themselves. But we had a fundamental disagreement. He believed you could change the system only from the outside. I didn't.”

There should be about 300 million Americans that believe in "empowering people to help themselves", but in reality its perhaps 150 million conservatives. Anyway, with what I suspect is really inside Hillary's! mind, we should fear, and fear greatly, "He believed you could change the system only from the outside. I didn't", aka she wants to be POTUS to make Alinsky-like changes from the unique POTUS vantagepoint.

185 posted on 03/02/2007 1:32:31 PM PST by C210N (Bush SPIED, Terrorists DIED!)
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To: onyx
I used Google. The technique that I use for finding exact quotes in Google is to first try the whole quote (or a whole sentence from the quote) enclosed in quotation marks, and if that doesn't find it, then select and search on smaller exact phrases from the quote that have a good chance of uniquely distinguishing the whole quote, and if that doesn't work, select a set of individual, specific words from the quote and search without the quotation marks, until I either find it or give up.

(I found the link to your post on my second try - I forget exactly what I used as search terms, but I believe that it was an exact phrase towards the middle or end of the quote published by MSNBC.)

BTW, congratulations on your newly-found fame - it was a great (and fitting) quote...

186 posted on 03/02/2007 1:35:22 PM PST by Zeppo (We live in the Age of Stupidity. [Dennis Prager])
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To: C210N

That was my read on it!


187 posted on 03/02/2007 1:35:58 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Zeppo
Thanks for the information and thank you for finding it --- I do recall making that post and I still would love to be able to read her thesis.
188 posted on 03/02/2007 1:40:16 PM PST by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: Zeppo; onyx; Howlin; All

OMGGGG you are famous Onyx we knew you before you became famous ROFL


189 posted on 03/02/2007 2:45:52 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: SevenofNine



How about that, huh? We have lurkers in the media here, that's for sure.


190 posted on 03/02/2007 2:46:41 PM PST by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: onyx

We knew before you were famous LMAO


191 posted on 03/02/2007 3:03:53 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: SevenofNine
Anonymously famous ---- lol.
192 posted on 03/02/2007 3:04:36 PM PST by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: Carolinamom

I only hope that there are enough people out there not bamboozled by their minstrel show come election day. I sometimes fear that we are too close in time to their evil to know the true extent of it.

History being written by the winners, I pray that there isn't a massive whitewash in store for my heirs. It's one thing to forge documents, in this electronic age, how quickly could one go about altering all the digital information?


193 posted on 03/02/2007 3:42:33 PM PST by Range Rover (Remember kids, Lawn Darts are ILLEGAL.)
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To: Liz

Thanks for the ping! Hillary's book includes a few comments on the thesis, IIRC.


194 posted on 03/02/2007 5:56:33 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Mia T; All
Also is the public domain are many other "studied" impressions of Tubba such as:

Women, politics, and power: The media's construction of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton by Franklin, April I., Ph.D., The University of Oklahoma, 1999, 209 pages; AAT 9949715

Complicating political identity: A rhetorical biography of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton by Anderson, Karrin Vasby, Ph.D., Indiana University, 1998, 240 pages; AAT 9907293

From presidential wife to leader in her own right? The media's representation of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the feminine ideal by Oxner, Amy Carol, M.A., Florida Atlantic University, 2003, 113 pages; AAT 1417142

Journalistic gender stereotyping of first ladies Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton by Wachai, James Njoroge, M.A., Wichita State University, 2005, 75 pages; AAT 1436588

Resounding the lyrical possibilities for women: Constitutive rhetoric and the ideological dimensions of Hillary Rodham Clinton's discourse by Payne, Julee Ann, M.A., Florida Atlantic University, 1997, 115 pages; AAT 1387327

...

Remember Mein Kampf was a bestseller ... Tubba, as Mia T and others have demonstrated over the recent past, has more than abundantly shown her "true" colors.

195 posted on 03/03/2007 3:16:50 AM PST by jamaksin
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To: Jimmy Valentine's brother; Jim Noble; All
WHY HILLARY'S MAGICALLY APPEARING THESIS IS LIKE CLINTON'S FOLEY HIT JOB
(and not like her Rose Law Firm billing records)


196 posted on 03/03/2007 9:47:54 AM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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