compassionate misanthrope
Posted on 07/28/2007 11:42:02 AM PDT by Raebie
WASHINGTON, July 28 — They were high school friends from Park Ridge, Ill., both high achievers headed East to college. John Peavoy was a bookish film buff bound for Princeton, Hillary Rodham a driven, civic-minded Republican going off to Wellesley. They were not especially close, but they found each other smart and “interesting” and said they would try to keep in touch.
Which they did, prodigiously, exchanging dozens of letters between the late summer of 1965 and the spring of 1969. Ms. Rodham’s 30 dispatches are by turns angst-ridden and prosaic, glib and brooding, anguished and ebullient — a rare unfiltered look into the head and heart of a future first lady and would-be president. Their private expressiveness stands in sharp contrast to the ever-disciplined political persona she presents to the public now.
“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,” Ms. Rodham wrote to Mr. Peavoy in April 1967. “So far, I’ve used alienated academic, involved pseudo-hippie, educational and social reformer and one-half of withdrawn simplicity.”
Befitting college students of any era, the letters are also self-absorbed and revelatory, missives from an unformed and vulnerable striver who had, in her own words, “not yet reconciled myself to the fate of not being the star.”
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Yuckie yuckie yuckie, she is a sicko for sure.
The Saul Alinsky virus reappearing after all these years?
“Befitting college students of any era, the letters are also self-absorbed and revelatory”
I’m sorry, I never wrote the type of self-absorbed drivel in my letters to friends in college.
Are you implying that Hillary was a “LUG?”
A carpet cleaner.
Wow, that was a trip man. Self-indulgent drivel from top to bottom. Lots of big words with little meaning. And the Times declares that these letters evidence increasing sophistication? More like increasingly sophomoric.
The problem is that she sees herself at the center of attention, the font of all knowledge and wisdom. She feels destined to prove her worth by running our lives. She’s the anti-Fred who says - let the local governments take back their power because they’re closer to the people. Hillary would never want that because she doesn’t think anyone - espcially us plebes - is as good as she is. She, who as a little girl thought all the worlds cameras were on her. I suppose I felt that way once or twice but then I grew up.
I really despise her - she is like history’s worst sort of people who have sized power by whatever means. That so many can’t see through her is frightening.
Since Xmas vacation, I’ve gone through three and a half metamorphoses and am beginning to feel as though there is a smorgasbord ... spread before me
Yeah, I heard that Hill’s “freshman 10” was more like a “freshman 25”.
These candid missives may give us some real insight into who she really is since for the last 35 years or so she’s been crafting an image for the public that’s guarded and phony. I know most of us feel we do know who she is.
I remember seeing a family photo of the Rodham family when little Hillary was.. five? I don't know.
It was suppose to be a portrait of the family but little Hillary was acting up and obviously imagined that the photo was of her and her alone as "the only person in the universe".
“God, I feel so divorced from Park Ridge, parents, home, the entire unreality of middle class America,” she says. “This all sounds so predictable, but it’s true.”
She felt divorced from her hometown, parents, home, middle class America??? But Hillary proudly said that she grew up in a middle class family in the middle of America, and that they believed in the American dream. And that she still believes in that promise of America. Then how does she reconcile such campaign slogans with what she really felt or still feels?
of course Democrats never have to reconcile anything.
sorry for bringing it up.
Evolution of sophistication, viewpoint, and intellectual focus to the NYT means going from Republican to Democrat.
Socialist Utopians have a god complex. They believe they know best for everyone. “The debate is over.”
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