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Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (b. 1947), member of the Democratic Party, former Senator from New York, and the 67th Secretary of State of the United States. From 1993 to 2001 her husband, Bill Clinton, was President of the United States.

Hillary Rodham Clinton
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67th United States Secretary of State
From: January 21, 2009-January 30, 2013
President Barack Hussein Obama
Predecessor Condoleezza Rice
Successor John Forbes Kerry
U.S. Senator from New York
From: January 3, 2001 – January 21, 2009
Predecessor Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Successor Kirsten Gillibrand
Information
Party Democrat
Spouse(s) Bill Clinton
Religion Methodist

She is an elitist, liberal, pro-abortion advocate, supports the death penalty, has yet to embrace same sex marriage publicly but does support civil unions, and supports federal funding for embryotic stem-cell research.

In Hillary Clinton's and former President Bill Clinton's four-decade marriage, her husband has admitted to being a serial adulterer.[1]

As a feminist and role model for young girls and women, Hillary Clinton lied for and covered up her husband's betrayal of trust.[2]

Early life

Hillary Diane Rodham was born October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois to Hugh Rodham and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham. Hugh was from a Pennsylvania family of coal miners, but decided on higher education and graduated from Penn State University before moving to Chicago and becoming prosperous as a merchant. He also voted Republican and was known as a martinet. Hillary grew up in the upscale Chicago suburb of Park Ridge with two younger brothers, Hugh Jr. (born 1950) and Anthony (born 1954). Hillary attended Maine East High School, where she was involved in many extracurricular activities; was active in the Methodist church, and worked for Republican campaigns as a Goldwater Girl. In her memoirs Hillary Clinton described herself in 1964 as "an active Young Republican" and "a Goldwater girl, right down to my cowgirl outfit." Columnist Robert Novak observed, "As a politically attuned honor student, she must have known that Goldwater was one of only six Republican senators who joined Southern Democratic segregationists opposing the historic voting rights act of 1964 inspired by King."[3]

As a tenth-grader, she heard the Rev. Martin Luther King speak in person, and years later she remarked in a speech "As a young girl I had the great privilege of hearing Dr. King speak in Chicago. The year was 1963....[Dr. King] called on us, he challenged us that evening to stay awake during the great revolution that the civil rights pioneers were waging on behalf of a more perfect union."[4] In the eleventh grade, she was class vice-president, and she was in the top 5% of her class when she graduated in 1965.

College

Hillary Rodham then entered Wellesley College, an elite woman's college near Boston, and seemingly a Republican activist. During the summer of 1968, she participated in Wellesley's Washington Internship Program where she worked as an intern in the office of Melvin Laird, then a congressman from Wisconsin, and attended the Republican convention in Miami as a Nelson Rockefeller supporter; Rockefeller would eventually lose the nomination to Richard Nixon. She was the commencement speaker at her graduation from Wellesley in 1969, during which she argued forcefully against the war in Vietnam and said, "And the challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible." In her speech, she also acknowledged the influence of her roomate and friend Eleanor D. Acheson in helping Hillary become the first student in Wellesley College history to deliver its commencement address.[5] Ms. Acheson, a lawyer and lesbian lobbyist,[6]—the granddaughter of President Harry Truman’s secretary of state Dean Acheson—is credited for having introduced the young Hillary to political circles.

Saul Alinsky

 
Letter by Hillary Rodham dated 1971, sent to community organizer and leftist radical Saul Alinsky.

By 1968 Rodham had abandoned her Republicanism in favor of liberalism, and in June 1969, she appeared in Life magazine, having written a statement advancing a cause of leftist politics and activism[7]. She also embraced a book, Reveille for Radicals[8], a work originally written in 1946 by a former archaeologist and full-time communist, Saul Alinsky, who in his book taught how to organize a community to the point where the "have-nots" (the poor) take from the "haves" (the middle-classes and rich), and she admitted that she had read it many times before her first of several meetings with him.

In a letter written in 1971, Rodham had asked Alinsky when his new book, Rules For Radicals was going to be published:

"When is that new book coming out — or has it come and I somehow missed the fulfillment of Revelation? I have just had my one-thousandth conversation about Reveille [for Radicals] and need some new material to throw at people. You are being rediscovered again as the New Left-type politicos are finally beginning to think seriously about the hard work and mechanics of organizing. I seem to have survived law school, slightly bruised, with my belief in and zest for organizing intact."

Rules For Radicals[9] outlined twelve basic rules[10] for overthrowing a government, and Rodham read it voraciously. Alinsky's methods included "demonizing" and "ridiculing" the opposition, using the expertise of poor as a weapon, and using lies and innuendo to their fullest advantage. Alinsky wrote:

"A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage—the political paradise of communism...An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth—truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations...."[11]

In her 1969 thesis entitled "There Is Only The Fight"[12] she praised Alinsky and his methods for community organizing:

"His are the words used in our schools and churches, by our parents and their friends, by our peers. The difference is that Alinsky really believes in them...Alinsky is regarded by many as the proponent of a dangerous socio/political philosophy. As such, he has been feared — just as Eugene Debs or Walt Whitman or Martin Luther King has been feared, because each embraced the most radical of political faiths — democracy." [13]

Alinsky died in 1972, a short time after Rules For Radicals was published. Later on, at the behest of the Clinton White House, Rodham's thesis would be hidden, obtainable to a select few, and it would be in 2005 that it would be uncovered, despite being hidden by the college at Clinton's request[14]. The two things that became clear in the following years was the fact that Hillary Rodham Clinton was solidly on the left, using the Alinsky method of overthrowing the Constitutional system of the United States, as well as going to any length to conceal her radicalism—and the lies of others within the Democratic Party—from the public.[15]

Early Career

Main article Hillary Clinton early life and career

Hillary told classmates in college her ambition was to marry a Senator.

1992 Presidential campaign

Alleged civil rights violations

The Hill magazine reported Hillary Clinton may have been involved in civil rights violations by monitoring illegal wiretaps and domestic spying on political opponents during the 1992 camapaign.[16] After the revelations came to light in a book entitled, Her Way[17] by Don Van Natta Jr., an investigative reporter at the New York Times, and Jeff Gerth, who spent 30 years as an investigative reporter at the paper, a Republican official remarked,

“ it is rather unbelievable that [Hillary] Clinton would listen in to conversations being conducted by political opponents, but refuse to allow our intelligence agencies to listen in to conversations being conducted by terrorists as they plot and plan to kill us.[16] ”

First Lady

Main article Hillary Clinton First Lady

Hillary Clinton was a colorless First Lady characterized by her drab personal appearance and dress, poor taste in interior design, rudeness and foul mouth mistreatment of subordinates, and a ruthless political ambition manifested in a failed Healthcare “reform” boondoggle.

U.S. Senate

Main article Hillary Clinton Senate career

The "inevitable" Hillary Clinton, 2000-2008 version

Main article Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign

Secretary of State

Main article Hillary Clinton Secretary of State

Hillary Clinton's job as Obama's Secretary of State was the subject of a Congressional investigation after it had become evident that the deaths of four Americans during the Islamic terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi were caused by incompetence and malfeasance.[18]

The "inevitable" Hillary Clinton, 2014-2016 version

Main article United States presidential election, 2016

On April 12, 2015, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her candidacy for the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2016 presidential election via a video on her website.[19]

Wikipedia

On the issue of the controversial, biased online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Clinton sent a message of congratulations that was read at the opening session of the Wikimania 2012 conference in Washington, DC.[20]

NAFTA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Clinton Global Initiative

After Congressional Democrats voted down President Obama's proposal to create a NAFTA-like Pacific Trade Zone with China, Japan, and about a dozen other countries, to no one one surprise Hillary Clinton once again flip-flopped to garner headlines in support of what public opinion polls were saying. CNN reported Hillary had spoken out in favor of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) no less than 45 times prior, an issue which supposedly she now opposes.[21]

"Don't let anyone tell you corporations and businesses create jobs"

Speaking to a group of Democratic loyalists in Massachusetts in 2014, Hillary indulged some of the old-fashioned unprovoked, pointless partisanship and divisiveness well known to the victims of Clintonism. Hillary Clinton alleged, "Don't let anyone tell you that corporations and businesses create jobs."[22]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Multiple references:
    • Olson, Barbara (2001) Hell to Pay (Washington D. C.: Regnery), p. 211. Retrieved from GoogleBooks.
    • Wattenberg, Daniel (April 1994). "Love and hate in Arkansas", The American Spectator, vol. 27, no. 25. Reprinted at American Spectator website. Archive subscription required.
  2. ↑ Clinton, Hillary (January 1998). "Interview with Matt Lauer". Today Show television program, NBC. Transcribed at Leany.com.
  3. ↑ Novak, Robert D. (March 12, 2007). "Hillary, King and Goldwater". Townhall.com website/Columnists. See Townhall.com.
  4. ↑ Sweet, Lynn (March 6, 2007). "Clinton's Selma speech. Text as delivered". Chicago Sun-Times website/Lynn Sweet Blog.
  5. ↑ Clinton, Hillary (May 31, 1969). "Wellesley College 1969 student commencement speech". Wellesley College website. Retrieved on June 30, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Changes under way in Task Force public policy & government affairs department". National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (December 19, 2006). Retrieved on June 30, 2011.
  7. ↑ Cosgrove, Ben (February 15, 2014). "LIFE with Hillary: Portraits of a Wellesley grad, 1969, photograph 15". Time magazine website/Life/Photography.
  8. ↑ Alinsky, Saul (1946). Reveille for Radicals (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
  9. ↑ Alinsky, Saul (1971). Rules for Radicals (New York: Random House). Archived at Internet Archive.
  10. ↑ Ibid, "12 rules for radicals" (excerpt). Reprinted at Best of Beck website/Activism.
  11. ↑ Ibid., pp. 10-11.
  12. ↑ Clinton, Hillary (1969). "There is only the fight" (Political science B.A. senior honors thesis) (Wellesley MA: Wellesley College). Reprinted at Nuke's N2l's. Copyrighted material, for fair educational use only.
  13. ↑ Ibid, p. 6, 74.
  14. ↑ Noonan, Peggy (June 23, 2005). "Eine Kleine Biographie". The Wall Street Journal website.
  15. ↑ Multiple references:
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Bolton, Alexander (October 16, 2007). "GOP targeting Clinton on phone-call snooping". The Hill website/News.
  17. ↑ Gerth, Jeff and Van Natta, Don, Jr. (2007). "Her way: The hopes and ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton" (New York, NY: Little, Brown and Co.) Book page at Amazon.com website.
  18. ↑ Page, Susan (May 10, 2013). "Sen. Graham: Hillary Clinton should testify on Benghazi". USA Today website.
  19. ↑ "Getting Started | Hillary Clinton" (April 12, 2015). YouTube video, 2:18, posted by Hillary Clinton.
  20. ↑ Bashour, Nicholas Michael (July 17, 2012). "Wikimania 2012 swan song". Wikimedia blog website.
  21. ↑ Multiple references:
  22. ↑ "Clinton shifts left: 'Don't let anyone tell you' that 'businesses create jobs'" (October 24, 2014). YouTube video, 0:36, posted by GOP War Room.

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