OMG, UNBELIEVABLE: Wellesley College 1969 Student Commencement Speech of Hillary D. Rodham

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[Liz]

What every American should know about Hillary Rodham Clinton:


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/844068/posts

[El Gato]

International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War

They were communists too, as was the "Abraham Lincoln Bridgade", made up of American communists, with equipment and "advisors" sent by Uncle Joe Stalin. The other side were no angels either, being supported, with "volunteers" (like the Chicom "volunteers in Korea a couple of decades later)

[Liz]

"There's a very strange Conservative strain that goes through a lot of New Left collegiate protests..." Yes, indeed, it's called 'incipient Fascism', and it was good of you to notice. Her "...harkening back to old virtues..." has a distinctly 'national socialist' quality to it; This is the germ of totalitarianism.

Hers is the face of American tyranny, should it come.

"Facist? Who me? What would my liberal-Marxist
friends and donors say if they knew I said this?"

[x]

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.

Something tells me there was more to it than that.

It's almost as though my mother used to say, "I'll always love you but there are times when I certainly won't like you."

I can understand why Mother Roddam felt that way. Hillary's mother problem also provides some insight as to why she is the way she is.

Flo King got Hillary right. HRC brought all the old sorority girl mentality to radicalism. Emmett Tyrrell was also insightful writing about "coat and tie" student radicals, though too self-congratulatory about his own school days.

Hillary's against organization and in favor of spontaneity, but every thing has to be organized by committees and meetings. She wanted to fight the establishment, yet rise in it and be praised and patted on the head by its leading lights. There's that schoolgirlish or schoolboyish desire "to create a newer world," to turn everything upside down and hope something better will result from it.

Words have a funny way of trapping our minds on the way to our tongues but there are necessary means even in this multi-media age for attempting to come to grasps with some of the inarticulate maybe even inarticulable things that we're feeling.

Indeed. Hillary's mind is a hodgepodge of contradictory ideas. At times she's incoherent. . That's natural for the extemporaneous remarks, but it also turns up in what must be the prepared part of the speech. "Collective group" stands out: a collective is a group and a group is a collective.

Through it all, there's schoolgirl romanticism and the unfulfillable longing for "authenticity" that was the bane of the 1960s and the 20th century in general. What is "authentic" is up for each individual to decide. And those individuals will change their minds on that subject many times. "Authenticity" is an excuse to overturn things, and after that's done, people and things won't be any more "real" or "authentic" than before.

We're searching for more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating mode of living.

Wiser minds will tell you that these aspirations can't be satisfied by politics.

"Everybody's young days are a dream, a delightful insanity, a sweet solipsism. . . . we live happily on credit. There are no obligations to be observed; there are no accounts to be kept. Nothing is specified in advance; everything is what can be made of it. . . . We are impatient of restraint . . . we readily believe . . . that to have contracted a habit is to have failed. These, in my opinion, are among our virtues when we are young; but how remote they are from the disposition appropriate for participating in the style of government I have been describing." -- Michael Oakeshott

[surrey]

I think her loyal followers think she's "the smartest woman in the world" because they don't understand a word she says. They figure she's speaking so above their simple language skills that she must be a genius, The rest of us know it's pure gobbledygook!

[FreeReign]

"There's a very strange Conservative strain that goes through a lot of New Left collegiate protests..." Yes, indeed, it's called 'incipient Fascism', and it was good of you to notice. Her "...harkening back to old virtues..." has a distinctly 'national socialist' quality to it; This is the germ of totalitarianism.

Yes, the socialists and the fascists are one and the same -- statists.

Hers is the face of American tyranny, should it come.

Her's is also the thighs and fat a*s of tyranny....

[firewalk]

She is also cheerful, good humored, good company, and a good friend to all of us.....

[wewillnotfail]

reference

[Marysecretary]

I wish they could get caught and jailed for their many crimes against America. We can hope, huh?

[ewing]

You are a glutton for punishment that is for sure, just like me!!

[Liz]

My view is that nobody escapes the consequences of their actions. The consequences may come later rather than sooner, but they will come.

[Liz]

Ah, yes, the infamous Mitford sisters. Just recently a book was published about them. Contained interesting chapters on Jessica's "American Way of Death."

[sweetliberty]

This is not the same speech that she tried for so long to keep under wraps is it? If so, I expected more. But for a few choice remarks which are no real surprise, I find her diatribe to be typical of a pseudo-intellectual malcontent who just has a fondness for playing with words and who delights in the sound of her own voice, using voluminous verbiage to say very little.

[cubreporter]

I looked it up too. It says it is not in the dictionary. Perhaps it is spelled wrong but if it is from her text...it is spelled wrong by the "smartest woman in the world." Ha,ha.heh, heh,heh.

[cubreporter]

I looked it up too. It says it is not in the dictionary. Perhaps it is spelled wrong but if it is from her text...it is spelled wrong by the "smartest woman in the world." Ha,ha.heh, heh,heh.

[Ditter]

She must have started inserting [you know] into every sentance at some time *after* graduation. Wonder when it was?

[PistolPaknMama]

It talks about integrity and trust and respect.

Obviously this was the last moment these character traits ever crossed her mind, even though not from her own understanding or example.

[GrandMoM]

bump

[Bob J]

...and it didn't turn us into cynical, bitter old women at the age of 18.

No, that took a few more months.

[CaptainK]

Bill and Hill, windbag soulmates. To be a fly on the wall listening to their pillow talk.