Chris Lacivita is en route to Wellesley College. \u00a0And he\u2019s not looking for a date.<\/p>\n
In the spring of 1969, John McCain was being tortured in the Hanoi Hilton. \u00a0Rudy Giuliani was working in the office of the U.S. Attorney. \u00a0Little Johnny Edwards was 14;\u00a0Barack Obama was 8.\u00a0 And a certain senior at Wellesley college was putting the final touches on her senior thesis, \u201c\u2018There Is Only the Fight…\u2019: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model.”\u00a0 She defended her paper before three professors and received an A. \u00a0As a result, she was invited to speak at commencement, and shocked the audience with a defense of radical left-wing protest. \u00a0The event was covered by LIFE magazine.<\/p>\n
Hillary Rodham was a Goldwater Republican when she first met Saul Alinsky, radical leftist organizer, at a Methodist church outing. \u00a0He was the godfather of 60\u2019s hippie protest and a scary threat to the \u201cestablishment.\u201d \u00a0His influence has been cited as the driving force for transforming Rodham into a left-wing Democrat. \u00a0Though she did not fully agree with his beliefs, and she ultimately turned down an opportunity to work for him, her written defense of Alinsky has been cited by neo-cons as the \u201cRosetta Stone\u201d to understanding her true politics.\u00a0 She\u2019s been called \u201cAlinsky\u2019s daughter\u201d and \u201ca Marxist sympathizer.\u201d\u00a0 But there was no proof.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s because when Bill Clinton took office, Wellesley College passed an odd rule which stipulates, \u201cthe senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available for anyone to read — except for those written by either a president or first lady of the United States.”\u00a0 This rule sealed exactly one document: Hillary\u2019s thesis.\u00a0 As the earliest books on the Clinton administration were written, the thesis was off-limits. \u00a0But not anymore.\u00a0 Now that she is no longer first lady but merely the front-runner for the democratic nomination, the thesis is once again open for public review.<\/p>\n
Suddenly there is a parade of political agents on their way to Wellesley.\u00a0 One such agent is Chris Lacivita, the head of Progress for America, the guy who swift-boated John Kerry.\u00a0 When asked about Hillary Rodham Clinton\u2019s thesis, he smiles and says, \u201cthere\u2019s no statute of limitations\u2026 on what someone did or said 35 years ago\u2026I intend to read it very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Lacivita is en route to Wellesley College. \u00a0And he\u2019s not looking for a date. In the spring of 1969, John McCain was being tortured in the Hanoi Hilton. \u00a0Rudy Giuliani was working in the office of the U.S. Attorney. \u00a0Little Johnny Edwards was 14;\u00a0Barack Obama was 8.\u00a0 And a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[437,571,1085,1327],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","tag-first-lady","tag-hillary-rodham-clinton","tag-saul-alinsky","tag-wellesley-college"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}