The Coverup of Hillary Clinton's Admiration for Communists and Socialists

Yet another Clinton coverup.

This time, it's Hillary Clinton's senior thesis that was buried.

But it's available now, if you have time for such things.

The paper is mostly about Chicago radical organizer Saul Alinsky -- a member of the Communist Party.

Clinton clearly has no problem with communism or its close cousin, socialism:

Rodham closed her thesis by emphasizing that she reserved a place for Alinsky in the pantheon of social action — seated next to Martin Luther King, the poet-humanist Walt Whitman, and Eugene Debs, the labor leader now best remembered as the five-time Socialist Party candidate for president.

Hillary for socialism!   

Or even for communism! 

There's a shocker.  Not that her national health care plan under Bill Clinton's administration was a clue.

Of course, Hillary will have her defenders who argue that the writings of a college student mean nothing:

Can a college research paper really be the Rosetta Stone to deciphering a candidate's politics or character?

“It's a moronic statement,” said Hillary Rodham's thesis adviser, Alan Schechter, now an emeritus professor at Wellesley, as well as a friend and campaign contributor to Sen. Clinton.

“The notion that a 21-year-old idealist somehow remains a 21-year-old idealist their whole life — she's not a radical at all. I think she's very mainstream. She's a pragmatist. She's a much more thoughtful, cautious, careful, pragmatic person — she's been burned so often.”

Speaking of "moronic statements," what shall we call a reference to admiration for communism and socialism as "idealism"?

Communism is not an "ideal."  It's a failed form of social and political totalitarianism that masquerades as democracy. 

If you or your relatives personally lived under communism, or if you personally know anyone who did live under communism, ask them what it was like.  Go ahead -- ask.  This blog can wait.

If you know what communism is like in practice -- the oppression, the censorship, the poverty, the shortages and black markets and corruption, the constant fear --the most charitable assumption you can make is that Hillary was hopelessly naive at age 21, and hasn't fully outgrown her naivete yet, based on her plan to nationalize health care. 

Has she made any progress at all since college?  Let's review the defense from her thesis adviser and campaign contributor who seems to think anyone who writes admiringly of communists and socialists is an "idealist":

"She's a pragmatist. She's a much more thoughtful, cautious, careful, pragmatic person — she's been burned so often.”

Pragmatist.  Got it.

It's not that Hillary has learned that communism and socialism are failed political systems that doom people living under them to misery -- but she certainly has learned that she needs to be "cautious" about saying what she thinks in order to avoid being "burned."

At least until after the 2008 election, anyway.

Do not go gentle into that good voting booth.

Comments

[DemocracyRules]

“Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." -- Winston Churchill
No matter what I think of Hilary Clinton, I think it’s a good sign that she has thought about political ideologies, she has stood for something, and she shows some chronology. This is better than the politician of any stripe, who sees a parade, and rushes to be the head of it. Furthermore, as the Churchill quote argues, people do become more sensible over time, and I doubt that she is still a Commie.

[Leroy]

We all know about Hillery's book, It Takes a Village. She says the future is not family but the larger village of teachers, pediatricians and social workers. She talks about raising children as less of a parental task than a social one...You have the destruction of the family unit. That’s very basic when you study Socialism and Marxism. We all know she had the 900 FBI files that she mis laid. The Whitewater deal. The preponderance of investigated mis deeds and the quantity highly likely investigations of this woman will prevent any good for this country. In sincerity her dislike or actual hatred of our military during the Clinton white house . Where she did not want salutes or even the military to say good morning to her. Sends the message this woman is leprosy to the U.S.A. Why the votes showed she was able to become a senator from NY when she was a carpet bagger from Little Rock. Shows how stupid we are.

[Mr X]

Hillary's thesis is finally available on line in full at www.GoPublius.com