20070415 A Darn good article about Hillary Clinton

A Darn good article about Hillary Clinton

Wellesley Class Sees One of Us Bearing Standard

Posted April 15, 2007

Hat tip: Yikes! April 14th, 2007 by donsurber

http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2007/04/14/caption-this/ “In case you missed it at the Drudge Report”

As I can only be sure that it is no surprise for anyone who has read my columns and blogs for the last number of years, I have never been an avid fan of New York Senator Hillary Clinton.

I doubt very seriously that I can, at this point, gather any information that would or could put me in a different direction as my thoughts have hardened over the years – and I’m convinced that she will say anything to get elected. Not to mention her palpable disdain for the military and law enforcement… and her love of big intrusive government, an expanded social-welfare state, and class warfare.

But the New York Times campaign piece from April 14^th, 2007 is a compelling read: “Wellesley Class Sees ‘One of Us’ Bearing Standard” By TAMAR LEWIN

Yes, I understand that the article appears in what many of us consider to be the national web site for liberals and the national Democratic Party (– just as the Baltimore Sun is the web site for the Maryland Democratic Party.)

But reading this piece gives any fair minded arbiter of national politics insight into the phenomena we know as “Hillary.”

For her Wellesley classmates, Hillary Clinton’s quest to become the first female president is a generational mirror. Some like what they see; others are less certain.

They were there for her fiery commencement speech, delivered at the height of the Vietnam War, when she described her class’s search for a “more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating mode of living” and said that every protest was “unabashedly an attempt to forge an identity in this particular age.” The speech landed Hillary Rodham in the spotlight as a celebrated archetype of a new generation of women.

“We were very proud of her: she was a feminist; she was outspoken,” said Jane Moss, a classmate who now teaches French at Colby College. “Hillary was speaking for all of us, for a generation that felt we weren’t being heard.”

From their days at Wellesley, where they attended Wednesday teas and fought to end parietal hours and curfews, to their pioneering careers in law, academia and science, the 400 members of that Class of 1969 have been marked by the profound shift in women’s roles that accompanied their coming of age.

Throughout their journey, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been both a standard-bearer and a touchstone to measure themselves against.

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Read the rest here: “Wellesley Class Sees ‘One of Us’ Bearing Standard”

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