Hillary's amazing past?!

I have been fuming over the Sean Hannity via Stephanopoulos' question to Obama in the last debate regarding his supposed connections with Bill Ayers, which the Hillary camp is now perpetuating. Tom Hayden, citing his wife's current revulsion over Hillary, writes an eye-opening article on this subject. Geez, my jaw was literally dropping over the facts that he presents. Not that I condemn Hilliary's connections, but the sheer hypocrisy of her current stance is appalling.

Here is a salient excerpt:

To take just one example, the imagined association between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers will suffice. Hillary is blind to her own roots in the sixties. In one college speech she spoke of ecstatic transcendence; in another, she said, "Our social indictment has broadened. Where once we exposed the quality of life in the world of the South and the ghettos, now we condemn the quality of work in factories and corporations. Where once we assaulted the exploitation of man, now we decry the destruction of nature as well. How much long can we let corporations run us?"

She was in Chicago for three nights during the 1968 street confrontations. She chaired the 1970 Yale law school meeting where students voted to join a national student strike again an "unconscionable expansion of a war that should never have been waged." She was involved in the New Haven defense of Bobby Seale during his murder trial in 1970, as the lead scheduler of student monitors. She surely agreed with Yale president Kingman Brewster that a black revolutionary couldn't get a fair trial in America. She wrote that abused children were citizens with the same rights as their parents.

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". Then she went on to Washington to help impeach Richard Nixon, whose career was built on smearing and destroying the careers of people through vague insinuations about their backgrounds and associates. (All these citations can be found in Carl Bernstein's sympathetic 2007 Clinton biography, A Woman in Charge.)

Check it out the entire article -- it's worth the read.

By the way, I knew Bob Treuhaft in the mid-seventies when I was still practicing criminal law in the S.F. Bay area. He was a sweet, but totally committed guy. And - a fact I'll bet you did not know - he was married to Jessica Mitford.

~ tom