Letters to the Editor

• I suppose it is possible...

  [Read the article: A glimpse at Versailles]
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  ...That Kelley is what passes for a "progressive" these days in Texas. Out here in the real world, (Texas ain't the real world, pard, unless you are getting high with Willie Nelson on his vegetable oil powered tour bus) that's just a Texan who hasn't completely lost his mind drinking the kool-aid and chewing on his crayons. He probably has more in common with a young Hillary Clinton than he realizes, politically speaking.

  Hillary Rodham had always been interested in politics, and now she took an active role in the school government. For a time she served as President of the College Republicans. She was deeply affected by the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. She had met him in person when her youth minister, the Reverend Don Jones, brought her to hear King preach in 1962. Encouraged by Professor Alan Schechter, Hillary Rodham attended the Wellesley in Washington program and before long she became a dedicated Democrat. By that time she was selected valedictorian of her Wellesley class. About this transition she would later say “I have gone from a Barry Goldwater Republican to a New Democrat, but I think my underlying values have remained pretty constant; individual responsibility and community. I do not see those as being mutually inconsistent.” Her final thesis in college was on leftist organizer Saul Alinsky. She earned her bachelor's degree in Political Science and graduated with honours in 1969. Hillary Rodham became the first student commencement speaker at Wellesley College and in her speech at graduation day she said, "The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible." The speech received a standing ovation and an article was written about her in Life . This was her very first national media exposure.

  After college she entered Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut in 1969. She allegedly chose Yale Law School over Harvard Law School after meeting a chauvinistic Harvard professor at a cocktail party. Hillary Rodham became a member of the Board of Editors of Yale Law Review and Social Action and met her future husband Bill Clinton at the Yale library. She also made friends with children's advocate Marian Wright Edelman who would become a life long mentor. Hillary wrote her thesis on the rights of children, a thesis that is now well known and recognized. She also worked with underprivileged children at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. Hillary Rodham graduated from Yale Law School in 1973 and became a legal advisor at the Children's Defence Fund.

  http://www.hillary-rodham-clinton.org/education.html

  Of course, Hillary had absolutely nothing to do with the civil rights movement. And all those years in Arkansas won't affect the way you speak or anything. Everything is BIG in Texas. Big and stupid.

  Permalink Saturday, May 5, 2007 12:56 PM