Hillary Rodham's Wellesley Commencement Speech

Wellesley College ^ | May 31, 1969 | Hillary Rodham

[Slyfox]

Barbara Olsen weighs in on the subject. Great article.

[CyberAnt]

"integrity, trust ... trite and old"

No wonder she's all screwed up!

[martin_fierro]

Yup!

That's the article that originally piqued my interest.

[ThirstyMan]

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.

Yes Senator Brooke was both black and a Republican. She showed him no respect while herself saying nothing of any consequence. I quote her:

"We're not interested in social reconstruction; it's human reconstruction."

Say What Ms. Rodham?
And the difference between "social" and "human" reconstruction is?
What a bunch of angry word garbage.
Mr. Brooke was a distinguished person and always very well respected here in Massachusetts.
Obviously from this speech one can sense her self-confidence, her more perfect vantage point which has always been with her.
And her strong self-righteous streak goes back a l-o-n-g way.

[oyez]

Where you don't manipulate people.

She's a master-manipulater now. Beleive me, it probably a sexual thing with her.

[oyez]

Thre was a classic story; Faust maybe?

[mrustow]

The final section could only be called a "poem" in the sense of being pc doggerel.

[giotto]

To be educated to freedom must be evidenced in action, and here again is where we ask ourselves, as we have asked our parents and our teachers, questions about integrity, trust, and respect. Those three words mean different things to all of us. Some of the things they can mean, for instance: Integrity, the courage to be whole, to try to mold an entire person in this particular context, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. If the only tool we have ultimately to use is our lives, so we use it in the way we can by choosing a way to live that will demonstrate the way we feel and the way we know. Integrity -- a man like Paul Santmire. Trust. This is one word that when I asked the class at our rehearsal what it was they wanted me to say for them, everyone came up to me and said "Talk about trust, talk about the lack of trust both for us and the way we feel about others. Talk about the trust bust." What can you say about it? What can you say about a feeling that permeates a generation and that perhaps is not even understood by those who are distrusted? All they can do is keep trying again and again and again. There's that wonderful line in East Coker by Eliot about there's only the trying, again and again and again; to win again what we've lost before.

Huh??? Was she high? Or just a babbling idiot? Oh well, she obviously had what it takes to be a politician, even then--in other words, the ability to go on and on and on, without saying anything. The fact that she does it so inarticulately makes one wonder how she could have been selected, out of 400 students, to give this address. She must have had extensive files on the other students...

[Slyfox]

Oh well, she obviously had what it takes to be a politician, even then--in other words, the ability to go on and on and on, without saying anything.

She was speaking to the Radicals in the audience. Take heart. If you didn't understand it you must not be a Radical.

[aShepard]

What a terrible diatribe. Disjointed, said nothing.

But then we have to remember 1969. She was probably at the podium looking down into the blue haze of pot smoking pseudo bra-burning neo feminists, and this total drivel probably made sense to them.

You know, it's for the children, you know!