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 ...
You're all wrong, Hillary is a woman with large cankels in a crusty black pant suit.
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.
***....“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....***
I doubt they'll be making that mistake again soon.
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.
(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...
That was my read on it!
OMGGGG you are famous Onyx we knew you before you became famous ROFL
How about that, huh? We have lurkers in the media here, that's for sure.
We knew before you were famous LMAO
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?
Thanks for the ping! Hillary's book includes a few comments on the thesis, IIRC.
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
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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.
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