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Here's a good article from the NYT in 2007 about Hillary Clinton's changing political perspective in college for those who are interested:
Dynamism is a function of change, Ms. Rodham said in her speech. On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means. Although we too have had our demonstrations, change here is usually a product of discussion in the decision-making process.
Her handwritten remarks on file in the Wellesley archives abound with abbreviations, crossed-out sentences and scrawled reinsertions, as if composed in a hurry. Yet Ms. Rodhams words are neatly contained between tight margins. She took care to stay within the lines, even when they were moving so far and fast in 1968. While student leaders at some campuses went to the barricades, Ms. Rodham was attending teach-ins, leading panel discussions and joining steering committees. She preferred her confrontation politics cooler.
She was not an antiwar radical trying to create a mass movement, said Ellen DuBois, who, with Ms. Rodham, was an organizer of a student strike that April. She was very much committed to working within the political system. From a student activist perspective, there was a significant difference.
As the nation boiled over Vietnam, civil rights and the slayings of two charismatic leaders, Ms. Rodham was completing a sweeping intellectual, political and stylistic shift. She came to Wellesley as an 18-year-old Republican, a copy of Barry Goldwaters right-wing treatise, The Conscience of a Conservative, on the shelf of her freshman dorm room. She would leave as an antiwar Democrat whose public rebuke of a Republican senator in a graduation speech won her notice in Life magazine as a voice for her generation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/us/politics/05clinton.html?pagewanted=all
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)I don't have to say a word. Her record speaks for her.
The world is watching the consequences of her actions, people are sick, dying, jobless, without health care, thanks to her and her ilk.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Marr
(20,317 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)have even comprehended at that age,but I think that's very common with people who are driven.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)American imperialism in the Middle East. How can we just overlook a million dead Iraqi's? Seriously, how can anyone overlook her responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi children?
madokie
(51,076 posts)I too have made changes in my way of thinking as my life progressed, as I learned new things. I have the most respect for a person who has the wherewithal to do just that.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)but I didn't know she was an Alinsky "follower." Does that mean we're going to hear more about Mr. Alinsky this campaign season?
Also, it sounds like she's always been very pragmatic in her approach to politics.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)a job but forgot that she wrote a paper on him. And,yeah, I'm sure his name will be drug through the mud again if she gets the nom,not that it did the GOP any good with Obama.