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| 2014-09-22 | ||
| Previously unpublished correspondence between Hillary Clinton and the late left-wing organizer Saul Alinsky reveal new details about her relationship with the controversial Chicago activist and shed light on her early ideological development. Clinton met with Alinsky several times in 1968 while writing a Wellesley college thesis about his theory of community organizing. Clinton's relationship with Alinsky, and her support for his philosophy, continued for several years after she entered Yale law school in 1969, two letters obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. The letters obtained by the Free Beacon are part of the archives for the Industrial Areas Foundation, a training center for community organizers founded by Alinsky, which are housed at the University of Texas at Austin. The letters also suggest that Alinsky, who died in 1972, had a deeper influence on Clinton's early political views than previously known.
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| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #2 She “agreed with some of Alinsky’s ideas,” Clinton wrote in her first memoir, but the two had a “fundamental disagreement” over his anti-establishment tactics. Hillary, like Obama anything that comes out of their mouths cannot be believed. I suspect that, both Hillary and Obama disagreed with anti-establishment tactics since both got inside the system they detested and gnawed away at it from within. The results are evident today. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-09-22 15:43 |
| #1 christopher hitchens: fantastic on America's Worst Family, the Clintons |
| Posted by: anon1 2014-09-22 13:52 |