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Why Hillary Makes Former 60's Radical Tom Hayden's Wife Scream
This is what associating with real radicals looks like, Miss Hillary.
From Tom Hayden at The Nation:
My wife Barbara has begun yelling at the television set every time she hears Hillary Clinton. This is abnormal behavior, since Barbara is a meditative practitioner of everything peaceful and organic, and is inspired by Barack Obama's transformational appeal. [snip] But as the Obama campaign gained momentum, Hillary began morphing into the persona that has my pacifist wife screaming at the television set. Going negative doesn't begin to describe what has happened. Hillary is going over the edge. Even worse are the flacks she sends before the cameras on her behalf, like that Kiki person, who smirks and shakes her head at the camera every time she fields a question. Or the real carnivores, like Howard Wolfson, Lanny Davis and James Carville, whose sneering smugness prevents countless women like my wife from considering Hillary at all.
Here's just one of the many examples Tom uses with regards to people in glass
houses...
To take just one example, the imagined association between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers will suffice. Hillary is blind to her own roots in the sixties. In one college speech she spoke of ecstatic transcendence; in another, she said, "Our social indictment has broadened. Where once we exposed the quality of life in the world of the South and the ghettos, now we condemn the quality of work in factories and corporations. Where once we assaulted the exploitation of man, now we decry the destruction of nature as well. How much long can we let corporations run us?" She was in Chicago for three nights during the 1968 street confrontations. She chaired the 1970 Yale law school meeting where students voted to join a national student strike again an "unconscionable expansion of a war that should never have been waged." She was involved in the New Haven defense of Bobby Seale during his murder trial in 1970, as the lead scheduler of student monitors. She surely agreed with Yale president Kingman Brewster that a black revolutionary couldn't get a fair trial in America. She wrote that abused children were citizens with the same rights as their parents.read more | digg story
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Comments (2)
Don't think the Republicans won't use this stuff on Clinton if she is the nominee. Imagine what they've got in the can just waiting for the day!After she's totally alienated the young, African Americans and the left just watch those Reagan Democrats turn on her.
April 27, 2008 7:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
They've been waiting 8 years to take her down and she's given them more ammo in the past 6 months than they could have ever dug up on their own..
It's mind boggling.
April 27, 2008 8:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
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