Hillary’s Stage: Stand Center, Look Left

By Contributor Archive

Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Jan 22 

To everyone’s shock and surprise, Senator Hillary Clinton D-Recently From New York, has declared her run for the White House.

In 2008, as President Bush and his Iraq policy will be in its last days, Republican voters will no longer have a reason to cast Iraq protest votes as they did last fall, and Democrats will need real plans to replace “It’s Bush’s Fault.”

America will again be a pie split into three roughly equivalent pieces – Republican voters, Democrat voters and the all-important Dumb Decided, who don’t care for radical swings to either the left or the right.

In recent months, Hillary has worked to appear moderate. And I could dress up as an ape at a garden party, but that wouldn’t make me a Mountain Gorilla.

One of Hillary’s mentors was Saul Alinsky, a radical American socialist who taught that ridicule is the most powerful political weapon, and like Lenin, believed that “power is the very essence … of life” and must be achieved and maintained at any cost.

Mrs. Clinton embraced Alinsky’s radical socialist ideals of power over the people through government domination (for their own good, of course) in her Wellesley College thesis that was a glowing treatise on Alinsky’s leftist themes and confrontational approach to politics.

In the late 60s and early 70s, she staunchly defended the violent Black Panthers, worked for Robert Treuhaft, a member of the Communist Party USA who served as a counsel to the group for many years, and considered Jessica Mitford — his wife and fellow communist — a mentor.

She has associated with David Mixner, an organizer of anti-Vietnam protests investigated by the Senate about his ties to Hanoi (and later became a Clinton advisor); Robert Borosage, founder of a Marxist-leaning think tank; and a foundation that gave grants to US and Central American downline communist organizations under her tenure as its Chairman.

Hillary’s relentless climb to power on the back of biting sarcasm, shifting blame away from herself (the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and conservative talk radio did it) and her continuous embrace of national socialism cloaked by concern for The Children, The Elderly and The Poor seems to be the opposite of embracing Democracy, the rights of the individual, and rule by the people.

Has she changed her fundamental “big-government-and-my-control-of-it-is-the-seat-of-power” principles — or just her rhetoric? It will be interesting to see if these hard questions are asked – and answered – during the Presidential campaign.

What would the Dumb Decided think of these credentials if they are exposed, but more importantly, what will the millions of decent, patriot Democrat voters think if her radical views are widely debated?

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