Hillary,Civil Rights and Bob Novak

[goclark]

I just received this from a friend by email ~ please say Bob Novak is making this up! ......

Hillary Was AGAINST the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 While a Republican and
"Goldwater Girl"

A March 12, 2007 article written by
Washington columnist Robert Novak sheds a very
revealing light on the true sentiment of Hillary
Clinton during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement.
Clinton recently was found to have minimized the great
and monumental strides taken by Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. by stating that it was Lyndon B. Johnson, then
president, who should receive the credit for the civil
rights progress including the Civil Rights Act of
1964.

In an attempt to attract black support Hillary Clinton
regularly shares her 'civil rights experience' during
every speech given to black audiences. Novak writes of
one such speech at Selma 's First Baptist Church on
the 42nd anniversary of the "bloody Sunday" freedom
march there, where Sen. Clinton declared: "As a young
woman, I had the great privilege of hearing Dr. King
speak in Chicago . The year was 1963. My youth
minister from our church took a few of us down on a
cold January night to hear . . . . And he called
on us, he challenged us that evening to stay awake
during the great revolution that the civil rights
pioneers were waging on behalf of a more perfect
union."

But Novak's article states that there's a big
problem with her statement.

The fact is, in 1963, not only was Hillary Clinton a
republican, but she was also a staunch supporter of republican Senator Barry Goldwater, well known as a
segregationist and one of the most vocal senators
adamantly against the passing of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964, which is why he lost in his presidential bid
to Lyndon B. Johnson. Novak writes "...how then could she be a 'Goldwater Girl' in the next year's
presidential election?"

He continues, "...she described herself in her memoirs as 'an active Young Republican' and 'a Goldwater girl, right down to my cowgirl outfit.'

Novak adds, "As a politically attuned honor student,
she must have known that Goldwater was one of only six Republican senators who joined Southern Democratic segregationists opposing the historic voting rights act of 1964 inspired by King. Hillary headed the Young Republicans at Wellesley College . The incompatibility of those two positions of 40 years ago was noted to me (Novak) by Democratic old-timers who were shocked by Sen. Clinton's temerity in pursuing her presidential candidacy."; Novak adds, "What Hillary Clinton said at Selma is significant because it betrays her campaign's panicky reaction to the unexpected rise of Sen. Obama as a serious competitor for the Democratic nomination.

Clinton 's plans were transformed by the advent of
Obama, an African-American threatening the hard
allegiance of black voters forged by Bill Clinton. On
one hand, the Clinton campaign has attacked Obama and his supporters. On the other hand, she has sought to solidify her civil rights credentials.

While Clinton was re-inventing her past, her road to
the White House is not going as planned. Instead of a
steady procession to coronation at the Denver
convention, she is involved in a real struggle against
credible opponents led by Obama. No wonder she and her handlers were tempted to imply the existence long ago of a young lady in Chicago 's suburbs who never really existed."



Hillary was AGAINST the passing of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 that Dr. Martin Luther King died for. As a
'Goldwater Girl' she was actually even against Lyndon
B. Johnson, the very person she now gives the credit
to for Dr. King getting to the mountaintop. She has
worked extremely hard to hide many truths about her
past, including ordering that her 92 page college
thesis that she wrote at Wellesley College be
'sealed' and unavailable to the public, an order
forced upon the college by Bill Clinton while
president, although all senior thesis' at Wellesley
have been available for public reading for over 100
years, except one ....Hillary Rodham Clinton's.

Reports have stated that information in her 'secret
thesis' could be the 'Swift Boat' ammo to be used by
the Republican Party against her should she become the nominee. (read more about 'secret thesis' at MSNBC)

[Cleita]

1. Novak is mostly full of shit and he's a Clinton hater from way

back and harbors a misogynistic hatred of Hillary more than he hates Bill.

[goclark]

5. So is he telling lies on her in this

article?

[Cleita]

6. He's doing his usually biased diatribe with

selected facts that are short of the whole truth. Incidentally, how many Democrats were Republicans before they crossed the aisle at one time? And as Republicans wouldn't they espouse Republican policies? Look Hillary is too centrist for me but for Novak to have to go all the way back to her youth to dredge up this as if it's the way she is thinking in the present is really disingenuous of him. He really hates Hillary too. He make some sneering comment when Bush got elected about the White House getting a proper First Lady with Laura Bush for a change. You can't get anymore misogynist than that.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. This needs to be addressed by the Clinton campaign

especially the sealing of the thesis. This could be ammunition used against her, especially in minority communities, if she is the nominee.

[BooScout]

3. Hillary left the Republicans....

Specifically because of their (and Goldwater's) stance regarding Civil Rights.

Bob Novak is a lying sack of shit who loves to twist his 'facts'.

[Cleita]

8. Thank you!

You explained it better than me.

[LiberalFighter]

10. (MSNBC) Reading Hillary Rodham's hidden thesis:

Reading Hillary Rodham's hidden thesis:
Clinton White House asked Wellesley College to close off access

Under Wellesley's rule, Clinton's thesis became available to researchers again when the Clintons left the White House in 2001 — available only to those who visit the Wellesley archives. But few have made the trip, and the document's allure continued to grow.

/snip/
She grew up as a Goldwater Republican, like her father, in the middle-class Chicago suburb of Park Ridge. By the time she was a freshman at Wellesley, when she was elected president of the College Republicans, her concern with civil rights and the war in Vietnam put her closer to the moderate-liberal wing of the GOP led by Nelson Rockefeller. By her junior year, she had to be talked by her professor into taking an internship with Rep. Gerald R. Ford and the House Republican Caucus. In her senior year, she was campaigning for the anti-war Democrat Eugene McCarthy.

"I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party," she has written, "as much as it left me."

Elected president of the Wellesley student government, she worked closely with the administration to increase black enrollment, to relax rules on curfews for the Wellesley girls and to give students more freedom in choosing their courses.

[quinnox]

4. Wonderful, so Hillary is now a former member of the KKK

I'm still voting for Hillary, based on Novak not being the best of sources.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

7. You know the hate is really blind when those

who support a different candidate would rather believe Novak and Drudge. You do the wingers work for them.

[goclark]

9. Didn't say that I believed it ~ just want to know

what part(s) he lied about ~

[Marie26]

11. Ridiculous

HRC became an activist for civil rights & women's rights while at college. Her senior thesis was probably sealed because it was so radical that the Republicans would chomp at the bit to use it for mudslinging. Her thesis was about Saul Alinsky, a radical community activist. Since when did Dems start listening to a single think Robert Novak has to say?