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Politics : THE WHITE HOUSE -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (1730)	3/6/2007 2:15:53 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

you are right, the Clintons were the worse

To: puborectalis who wrote (1730)	3/6/2007 4:38:21 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

Hillary Clinton may have a little-known Achilles' heel as she runs for president in 2008 — a thesis she wrote as a 21-year-old senior at Wellesley College in 1969. Breaking News from MoneyNews.com The research paper examined the work of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky, whom she called "a man of exceptional charm." One indication of the Clintons' sensitivity about the thesis is that they had it locked away from public view for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency. The Clintons asked Wellesley in 1993 to hide Hillary's senior thesis, and Wellesley's president approved a rule that made any senior thesis of a graduate available in the women-only college's archives for anyone to read — except for those written by either a president or first lady, MSNBC reporter Bill Dedman disclosed. Conservative commentator Barbara Olson, who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, charged in a book about Hillary that the thesis was kept from public view because Hillary "did not want the American people to know the extent to which she internalized the beliefs and methods of Saul Alinsky." Alinsky founded a group in the Chicago area that trained leftist organizers around the country, and his Industrial Areas Foundation Training Institute numbered among its students labor organizer Cesar Chavez. In researching her thesis, Clinton met face to face with Alinsky, who died in 1972. "Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party," Dedman noted. Hillary's thesis became available to researchers after the Clintons left the White House. But it can be viewed only by those who actually visit the Wellesley archive in Wellesley, Mass., 12 miles west of Boston, and readers can copy only a few pages. A stolen copy was offered for sale on eBay in 2001, but it was withdrawn when Clinton's staff cited copyright law, according to Dedman. The title of Hillary's thesis, "There Is Only the Fight," is taken from a line of poetry written by T.S. Eliot: "There is only the fight to recover what has been lost and found and lost again and again." In the paper, Clinton wrote: "Much of what Alinsky professes does not sound ‘radical.' She also opined: "If the ideals Alinsky espouses were actualized, the result would be social revolution." She closed the thesis by stating that she placed Alinsky in "the pantheon of social action," Dedman writes, "next to Martin Luther King, the poet-humanist Walt Whitman, and Eugene Debs, the labor leader now best remembered as the five-times Socialist Party candidate for president." Republican political consultant Chris Lacivita, who co-produced the "Swift Boat" ads in 2004 that questioned presidential candidate John Kerry's Vietnam service, told MSNBC that nothing from a candidate's past is off-limits for negative advertising. "What someone did or said 35 years ago is certainly fair game, especially if you're running for president of the United States," he said, adding that he plans to read the thesis "very soon."