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How the Clintons hid Hillary's thesis
MSNBC Interactive ^ | Sept. 6, 2007 | Bill Dedman

Posted on 11/12/2007 1:19:58 PM PST by jmaroneps37

“…It was early 1993, in the first days of the Clinton administration, when Hillary Clinton's friend and former thesis adviser at Wellesley College took the phone call that would land him in the middle of a political intrigue. "I got a call from ... the White House — shortly after the inauguration, saying the Clintons had decided not to release her thesis," professor Alan H. Schechter told MSNBC.com. "I said, 'Why? It's a good thesis.' I got some mumbo jumbo about how they were beginning to work on health care and she had criticized Sen. Moynihan in the thesis, and didn't want to alienate him." In fact, the thesis from 1969 contains not a negative word about .... Moynihan, the late Democratic senator from New York, and Schechter allows that the real source of fear must have been the subject of the academic paper: Chicago radical organizer Saul Alinsky.

"I argued with them that they should release it……. "The more you hide something, the more people will want it," Schechter said. "It was a stupid political decision, obviously, at the time." After the call from the White House, Wellesley's president, …… consulted with lawyers and closed access to any thesis written by a U.S. president or first lady, a rule affecting only Hillary D. Rodham's thesis. “…. the thesis can be read at your local library — one library at a time, that is. A single copy, on microfilm, can be ordered from Wellesley on a 30-day interlibrary loan. “…… but anyone who publishes the text could be liable for statutory damages of up to $150,000. Of course, it's not clear whether a presidential candidate would want to draw even more attention to her writings on an old radical by suing.” © 2007

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1969; alinsky; hillary; hillarysecrets; thesis; wellesley
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You know darn well that if there was something damaging in a Republican's college writings it would be published and no one would be held accountable for the breach of copyright. Democrats are allowed to violate sealed documents. The do it every day and especially at election time.
1 posted on 11/12/2007 1:19:59 PM PST by jmaroneps37
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I have a pdf copy of it. Ramblings of an idiot.

I’d rather read John Galt’s speech in Atlas Shrugged ( and I’ve never been able to get thru that)

I seem to remember, there was a very small window where it was available from the web.

2 posted on 11/12/2007 1:24:08 PM PST by stylin19a
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To: jmaroneps37

Hidden?!

The Communist Manifesto is readily available.


3 posted on 11/12/2007 1:25:30 PM PST by ryan71
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To: TigersEye

Have you read it?


4 posted on 11/12/2007 1:30:08 PM PST by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslim's demands)
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...but anyone who publishes the text could be liable for statutory damages of up to $150,000.

That's a cause worth contributing to. And I'm sure for the RNC it's fairly small potatoes compared to its worth as a damaging weapon of mass destruction. Political TV Ads are more expensive than that................

5 posted on 11/12/2007 1:30:36 PM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: jmaroneps37
She should have gone in and simply replaced the Marxist Saul Alinsky thesis with one titled “Why I Love America” and that would be that (As long as the replacement was done on a manual or selectric).
6 posted on 11/12/2007 1:32:13 PM PST by DBrow
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“How the Clintons hid Hillary’s thesis”

They hid it in Sandy Burglar’s undies?


7 posted on 11/12/2007 1:32:33 PM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (I am a proud anti-invasion racist!)
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To: jmaroneps37

I think that the contents of Hillary’s almost 40 year old thesis is not near as troubling as some her more recent and well documented pronouncements.


8 posted on 11/12/2007 1:34:43 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: jmaroneps37

A worthy cause for online filesharing.
Is there a pdf in circulation anywhere?


9 posted on 11/12/2007 1:38:26 PM PST by sbMKE
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To: jmaroneps37
but anyone who publishes the text could be liable for statutory damages of up to $150,000.

Not very freaking likely, esp. if published for free. Can you say "Fair Use"?

/not legal advice, get a lawyer before publishing, just saying...

10 posted on 11/12/2007 1:42:38 PM PST by piytar
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$150 grand is all. Rush should take up a collection and get the papers. She should now even be allowed to run if she is hiding papers or any other information about her past.


11 posted on 11/12/2007 1:44:10 PM PST by RC2
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To: stylin19a

I have it also.
And I got it, or either got the link, here. ;-)


12 posted on 11/12/2007 1:44:22 PM PST by LadyPilgrim ((Jesus is real, He will never fail...I will serve him now, and throughout all eternity! ))
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To: pandoraou812

I have heard about it for years. No one has read it because they won’t release it. If it’s not her own personal Marxist Manifesto, as most of us suspect, then why are they hiding it? Why are they hiding the notes on her health care plan? Why do the Clinton’s hide as much as they can get away with hiding?


13 posted on 11/12/2007 1:45:28 PM PST by TigersEye (I'm voting for Duncan Hunter. Nominee or not.)
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My first BARF ALERT – Is this the proper procedure?

I finished Alinksy’s Rules For Radicals last week.

The man was insightful and anyone on either side of any organizing effort would find it useful. It should be studied.

One of his first points is the obvious that the means/ends argument always comes down to which specific means and which specific end. The problem is that he defines every issue in the context of communism as the correct end. He can then rationalize any action.

Although his specific examples are fairly tame, Alinsky’s rhetoric is designed to inspire revolution. I didn’t get the feeling that he always meant revolution in the metaphorical sense. Thus Slick Hillie doesn’t want everyone understanding whose feet she was sitting at.

At one point he feeds 100 blacks with can after can of baked beans and gives them tickets to the symphony so they would as loudly as possible express themselves through their backsides. This was a real tactic designed to get wives to pressure their husbands to give into Alinksy’s demands.

The title should have never been Rules For Radicals but Farting At The Symphony.


14 posted on 11/12/2007 1:45:58 PM PST by Psychic Dice (ArtOfPsychicDice.com)
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To: sbMKE

You have FReepMail


15 posted on 11/12/2007 1:46:23 PM PST by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: sbMKE
From an August 1st post...

Hillary's thesis

16 posted on 11/12/2007 1:47:54 PM PST by Diver Dave
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To: pandoraou812

I guess I’ve been misinformed. Some here say it’s available. Years ago the word was it was not.


17 posted on 11/12/2007 1:48:15 PM PST by TigersEye (I'm voting for Duncan Hunter. Nominee or not.)
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It’s almost hidden in plain sight - here’s a link to a pdf of the whole thing. Download, read and distribute at will (your own peril).

http://www.freedomunderground.org/view.php?v=3&t=3&aid=24118


18 posted on 11/12/2007 1:54:47 PM PST by sbMKE
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I could have sworn I read it online a couple of years ago. And if I remember correctly, it was so gawd awful I don’t blame her for wanting to keep it hidden.


19 posted on 11/12/2007 1:59:23 PM PST by jennyjenny
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To: Psychic Dice
At one point he feeds 100 blacks with can after can of baked beans and gives them tickets to the symphony so they would as loudly as possible express themselves through their backsides.

typical obnoxious juvenile left-wing tactics at getting noticed in a world of grownups.

20 posted on 11/12/2007 1:59:48 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (keep the heat on the hillary.)
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