Hillary Rodham's Wellesley Commencement Speech

Wellesley College ^ | May 31, 1969 | Hillary Rodham

[Slyfox]

How uplifting.
I hate poems that don’t rhyme.

[Slyfox]

Worth a look see.

[cardinal4]

Worth a look see.

Im going to print up a stack of them and use them as toilet paper during the next snowstorm.

[Mr. Mulliner]

My goodness, this woman could be hung by her own words regarding power and power-sharing. What a freaking hypocrite.

[Alberta's Child]

Sounds like a typical thought pattern for a 1960s college student. In all of those words, I don't think she actually said a damned thing.

[Charles Henrickson]

For more on Hillary's college days, see one of the funniest threads of the last couple years, FR's interactive novel:

A Wellesly Wench

[Slyfox]

Actually, the wordiness without saying anything denotes two things: She was speaking not to the entire gathering but only to those primed for what she had to say. Also, it is a trait shared by many psychpaths.

[Slyfox]

I remember that! What a hoot! Thanks, I am going to bookmark it for all to see when they visit my profile page.

[martin_fierro]

I'm more interested in reading HilLIARy's Senior Thesis. It's supposedly under VERY tight wraps.

[ikka]

In all of those words, I don't think she actually said a damned thing.

She said something... she just didn't think something, though.

[Ditter]

Ouch!

[Alberta's Child]

One of the most tragic things that happened yesterday, a beautiful day, was that I was talking to woman who said that she wouldn't want to be me for anything in the world. She wouldn't want to live today and look ahead to what it is she sees because she's afraid.

Sounds like Hillary knew some pretty screwy people back then. I can imagine her having this conversation in a dorm room somewhere with the shades drawn, with a woman who was so afraid of the future that she didn't have the courage to get out of bed in the morning.

[cardinal4]

Thats funny. Huangs Chinese Restaurant! LOL!!!

[Slyfox]

This speech was Hillary's first attempt to come across as a savioress to "her" people.
"She" will step up to the plate and be unafraid and lead those timid souls...

Sorry, time for me to get a barf bag.

[timydnuc]

Reaction:

Yawn, burp, barf. Wait a minute, there's another response...it's coming...it's coming......RIPPPPPPP! Ah, the fart! Just what is needed to top off the response.

HRC is an ODB, and an ODB she will always be.

ODB=Old Dou#hebag).

[Gracey]

I got through more than half of this but........ can you PLEASE interpret this for me. I must not be anywhere near as smart as the smartest woman in the world. Am I dense? Can't understand anything.......

[Sacajaweau]

In all of those words, I don't think she said a damned thing.

It's just a different day. Another scripted appearance of "know nothing" Hillary. She hasn't changed a bit, has she!!

Notice the reference to the "media" and of course the references to "trust" and "integrity".

Good article. It says a lot about her doesn't it...Power, power, power!!!!!!!!

[Slyfox]

Yeah, I'd like to see it also but just in case you are curious, Saul Alinsky was the subject matter.

Here is an article that was written about the thesis.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[Slyfox]

In this speech, Hillary is introducing herself to the world at large as a leader among the Radicals. She is using language that probably many of the students understood, however, unless you are a Radical, of the Saul Alinsky persuasion, you'd sorta be left in the dark. Alinsky's entire life focus was to disrupt society as a whole and his favorite target was the middle class. Hillary was considered the perfect ideal of a 'Radical'.

I read accounts that Hillary's father wanted to shrink into his seat because she had just insulted Senator Brooke, a black man and I think he was a Republican. She used him as a 'focus of evil', as a whipping boy.

Her picture made Life Magazine.