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Hil's College Thesis
Reveals Her Mind
By BARBARA OLSON
"He who fears corruption fears life."
— Saul Alinsky, "Rules for Radicals"
This quote immediately came to mind after my reading of Hillary Rodham's Wellesley College senior thesis — a document kept under lock and key since the 1992 elections.
Back then, when researchers and journalists were searching for information on the newly elected First Couple, Wellesley suddenly declared that it would seal the thesis of any graduate who became President or First Lady.
A few weeks ago, however, I came into possession of Hillary's suppressed thesis. In those 75 pages, the future First Lady reveals herself as someone steeped in the political lore and history of one of America's most political cities. No, not New York — Chicago. There she began her political journey from Goldwater girl to leftist icon.
The thesis' title, "There is Only the Fight ... An Analysis of the Alinsky Model," exposes Clinton's strong ideological attachment to her most influential mentor, Saul Alinsky.
Reading this work makes it clear why she had to remove it from public view, for Alinsky, who died in 1972, was a radical social activist who preached grass-roots organizing and intense, confrontational politics.
While Clinton was studying under Alinsky, he was preparing what would be his final and most important book: "Rules for Radicals," published less than two years after Hillary graduated from Wellesley and only one year before his death.
Alinsky's hold on Hillary is astonishingly evident in her thesis, which is replete with his yet-unpublished political tactics. The thesis reveals that he was moving from local organizing efforts to a new arena — the national stage.
She wrote: "His [Alinsky's] new aspect, national planning, derives from the necessity of entrusting social change to institutions, specifically the United States government."
Alinsky, we can now see, taught Hillary the political tactics that she successfully deployed in Arkansas and the White House and is now beginning to use in New York.
What were his lessons?
Alinsky defined "obtaining power" as a key tactic of organizing his "mass jujitsu." His formula for attack: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it."
This principle has become the essence of the Clinton rapid-response tactic and a key aspect of Hillary's attacks on what she has dubbed "a vast right-wing conspiracy."
The Clinton White House has adhered to Alinsky's rule that "ridicule is man's most potent weapon" and followed his advice to "let nothing get you off your target."
Hillary discusses another Alinsky rule — "power is the very essence, the dynamo of life" — in her thesis. Clearly, she had absorbed his lesson that one must first obtain power to achieve real change.
But nowhere in her thesis — or in her later life — does she seem to recognize the classical liberal critique that the relentless pursuit of power is antithetical to democracy.
Perhaps the most prescient part of the thesis is a quote from a profile of Alinsky in The Economist: "His charm lies in his ability to commit himself completely to the people in the room with him. In a shrewd though subtle way, he often manipulates them while speaking directly to their experience."
Although her thesis was written several years before she cornered Bill Clinton in the Yale Law School library, Hillary had come to recognize the potential power of a man of exceptional charm.
Alinsky recognized the potential of his student and offered her a paying job to develop organizers for "mass power-based organizations." Hillary's thesis confirmed the offer and called it "tempting." But she decided law school was a better place to develop the skills necessary to effect the changes in government she has spent so much of her life trying to achieve.
Hillary's thesis received an A. So far, her political acumen in New York has yielded her at best a C-. But her story continues to unfold.
Olson is the author of "Hell to Pay:
The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton."
Alinsky probably got more "Hillary attention" than the Big Creep ever got. And then he died.
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I'd love to know who slipped Broom Hildies Thesis to Barbara Olson.
Maybe it'll be posted on the net in its complete and telling format.I'm sure we could find some great quotes in it. :~)
Was Wellesley ashamed of it for lo these seven years - that it had to be kept under lock and key?
Was Wellesley ashamed of it for lo these seven years - that it had to be kept under lock and key?
No, they were afraid the voters might get wise to Hillary. However, they needen't have worried about that. Any state (New York) who would vote for Chuck Schummer for Senate, would, no doubt, add Hillaryinski to the pot.
Wellesley College web site can be found by clicking here.
Or you write or call or e-mail:
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481 USA
Phone: (781) 283-1000
webmaster@wellesley.edu
Restricting access to this type of information (e.g., thesis, dissertation, other scholarly research) is academically indefensible and it show that Wellesley no longer places a premium on academic standards.
gracias, senor.
it does offer an insight into the clintons' media control. ridicule is the #1 objective of the dems. i first noticed it in 1980. reagan had just won the election and college dems were yelling "ray-gun".
no doubt emotion pervades the media. there is very little reasoned thought on television. images are judged immediately by viewers' biases. it explains why a fat or ugly person will probably never be president again. hollywood values are dominant.
the dems are admirable in their understanding and manipulation of the masses. on the way to totalism, folks.
It takes a STUPID public, and a partnering Press, for any of Alinksy's evil ideas to work, imho.
Oh yes, and of course, it takes a WITCH to commandeer the orders.
Thank you for that informative post. Too bad there was no access to the thesis before the election.
bttt
From "Hell to Pay:"
"In the fall of 1968, Hillary informed her thesis advisor, political scientist Alan Schechter, that she would write a paper questioning how much control poor people should have over programs designed for their benefit."
THAT is what she did not want out in the open -- she doesn't think the "poor people" warrant any 'power!'
bttt
again
Just a note - I asked BKO about the whereabouts and ownership of the Hillary Wellesley Thesis and she said "I meant to get it out onto a website" after another freeper Doug from Upland got questions through to her on KIEV870 radio. Still waiting.
Thanks -- I'm hoping that this is a 'timing' thing -- keeping the powder dry until a few days before the vote.
...hmmmmmm, maybe Alinsky needs to get added to the Clinton corpses file?
17 Posted on 11/12/2001 16:49:06 PST by FL_engineer
18 Posted on 11/12/2001 16:56:37 PST by ladyinred
19 Posted on 11/13/2001 12:08:46 PST by GOBUSHCHENEYGO
...HILLARY's now KILLED IN ACTION worst Enemy...
...It's now OUR turn to stand in tall for her
20 Posted on 11/13/2001 12:14:51 PST by ALOHA RONNIE
21 Posted on 11/13/2001 12:21:33 PST by lavaroise
Those people are not only against emancipation of the people, but they are themselves heavily slaved to material secular means of achieving things. Much like Bin Laden resorting to violence (however the cloak of religion he may don, it does not change his enslavement to material means), the likes of the Clinton simply abhor religion and the obliging under God theme: a balance of Earthly powers, avoiding seduction by them, using them as a blessing when needed, instead of as a master to which we train our skills, having them serve us while they compete for us.
The essence of the anti-Christian is whomever pretends to protect people from God's wrath, while the Christian will accept God's wrath and will only seek to protect people from Earthly cruel powers. Hence the Devil in our politics only seek to hide and to actively orient us to slave ourselves to material means instead of God, in an effort to put us on the other side of the fence, confronting the wrathful God who time and again take our powers away from us when we die.
power is not the dynamo of life, balance of competing powers enslaved to us is the dynamo of life, power is the dynamo of the serf and of the other death. I do not fear corruption, I pity it.
22 Posted on 11/13/2001 12:37:23 PST by lavaroise
23 Posted on 11/13/2001 13:18:28 PST by ironman
24 Posted on 02/01/2002 10:45:42 PST by babl2me
If the dear Junior Senatwhore wants the Bush White House to give Full Disclosure on the Enron Junk...she should start in her own backyard....
25 Posted on 02/01/2002 11:09:55 PST by Alabama_Wild_Man
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