Hillary Rodham: angst-ridden
Posted on 07/29/2007 9:06:48 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
A box of yellowed letters written in the 1960s by a self-absorbed, angst-ridden university student with a penchant for long words and philosophising has given intriguing insights into the author - the future Senator Hillary Clinton.
They were written by Mrs Clinton, the favourite to win the Democratic presidential nomination, between 1965 and 1969 when she was a student at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and was keeping in touch with an old school friend called John Peavoy. The assured, fiercely disciplined politician had then "not yet reconciled myself to the fate of not being the star" at university and was unimpressed by the "boys" she had met "who know a lot about 'self' and nothing about 'man'".
Hillary Rodham: angst-ridden
In April 1967, she wrote of struggling to discover who she was. "Since Xmas vacation, I've gone through three-and-a-half metamorphoses and am beginning to feel as though there is a smorgasbord of personalities spread before me. So far, I've used alienated academic, involved pseudo-hippie, educational and social reformer and one-half of withdrawn simplicity."
She asked her friend: "Can you be a misanthrope and still love or enjoy some individuals? How about a compassionate misanthrope?" Six months later she informed him: "Sunday was lethargic from the beginning as I wallowed in a morass of general and specific dislike and pity for most people but me especially."
The 30 letters, which she describes at one point as "my usual drivel", are signed "Hillary", "H", or "Me" - which she suggests is "the world's saddest word". Their spelling is near-perfect, the handwriting neat and legible and the punctuation flawless.
Mr Peavoy, now an English lecturer in California and a self-confessed hoarder, kept the missives and provided copies to the New York Times.
Those searching for salacious details of sexual high jinks or drug taking will be disappointed. She wrote in late 1967 that she "met a boy from Dartmouth and spent a Saturday night in Hanover", a reference to the New Hampshire town that is the home of Dartmouth College, but appears to disapprove of girls sleeping with their boyfriends. Reporting that a fellow student had been caught in her boyfriend's apartment at 3.15am, she declared: "I don't condone her actions, but I'll defend to expulsion her right to do as she pleases - an improvement on Voltaire."
Hillary was moving away from supporting Barry Goldwater, the Republican presidential candidate of 1964, to become a critic of the Vietnam War who said in a 1969 graduation speech that her generation had the "indispensable task of criticising and constructive protest".
After mocking a visit to a Young Republicans convention as "a farce that would have done Oscar Wilde credit", she began referring to Republicans as "they" rather than "we".
The future Mrs Clinton, whose campaign last week reacted with outrage to a Washington Post article that focused on her cleavage, was apparently having fashion trouble even as a student. "I'm sitting here at a stolen table in a pair of dirty denim bell-bottoms, a never-ironed work shirt and a beautiful purple felt hat with a purple polka-dotted scarf streaming off it," she wrote in her final letter in March 1969.
How high was she?
“Hillary Clinton student letters reveal high mind “
She did too much LSD in the 60’s and never came down.
Oy.
Here’s a couple of words you should have learned, Hillary; pretentious and pedantic.
Well she sure did pick a man, if you define a man by the number of women he's slept with.
It wasn’t that long after these letters were written that she would be cornering the pork belly futures market.
To me, the letters reveal a disturbed, moody girl, trying a little too hard to sound like a mix between a pseudo-philosopher and poetry slam participant. I wonder if her pen pal snapped his fingers while reading them.
Dumb libs fall for this crap in the same way they fall for performance "art." It will backfire on them. They are projecting their own insecure impression onto the average voter, which is why these letters got out.
How did she STILL HAVE letters she SENT?
Was John Peavoy ARKANCIDED or is he still alive?
Everything about her is a fraud. Her stories and anecdotes that are designed to make a point about something are generally made up. Gore used to do that too. Which one of them said their mother sang "Look for the Union Label" to them a child (even though the song hadn't been written yet)? Crap like that.
So, she can use 50 cent words. That doesn’t qualify her to run the country.
She was a no good, heartless, power hungry bitch back then, the only thing that has changed is amount of time that has passed.
IF she were a republican (now) the press would treat these letters as evidence of a disturbed mind. Sounds to me like Hilary was sure she knew all the answers to life even then.
I want to read her senior thesis, which is being hidden by her alma mater.
Seems she hasn’t changed AT ALL!
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