Hillary Clinton

The Nation on Hillary’s Radical Past

By J. Wesley ⋅ April 24, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

During the 2008 campaign we’ve met a much wartier Barack Obama than the photoshopped image he first presented to us. The real Obama turned out to be a leftwing “community activist” with close ties to anti-American racists and unrepentant 1960s terrorists. Hillary has been scoring points with that latter indiscretion.

Over at the venerable Lefty journal The Nation, Tom Hayden paid Hillary back in her own coin today:

“Hillary is blind to her own roots in the sixties . . . She was involved in the New Haven defense of Bobby Seale during his murder trial in 1970, as the lead scheduler of student monitors. . .

Most significantly in terms of her recent attacks on Barack, after Yale law school, Hillary went to work for the left-wing Bay Area law firm of Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein, which specialized in Black Panthers and West Coast labor leaders prosecuted for being communists. Two of the firm’s partners, according to Treuhaft, were communists and the two others ‘tolerated communists’. . . doesn’t she see how the Hillary of today would accuse the Hillary of the sixties of associating with black revolutionaries who fought gun battles with police officers, and defending pro-communist lawyers who backed communists? Doesn’t the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whom Hillary attacks today, represent the very essence of the black radicals Hillary was associating with in those days?”

So Democratic primary voters have a choice between:

1. A leftwing activist with a soft spot for racists and violent 1960s militants

or

2. A leftwing activist with a soft spot for racists and violent 1960s militants

So much for celebrating diversity.