Hillary Clinton Quiet About Her Own Radical Ties

[oldpol]

When Hillary Rodham Clinton questioned rival Barack Obama's ties to 1960s radicals, her comments baffled two retired Bay Area lawyers who knew Clinton in the summer of 1971 when she worked as an intern at a left-wing law firm in Oakland, Calif., that defended communists & Black Panthers. Malcolm Burnstein, 74, a partner at the firm who worked closely with Clinton during her internship, said he was traveling in Pennsylvania in April when Clinton attacked Obama for his past interactions with William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, members of Students for a Democratic Society who went on to found the bomb-making Weather Underground.

"Given her background, it was quite hypocritical," Burnstein said. "I almost called the Philadelphia Inquirer. I saw what she and her campaign were saying about Ayers and I thought, 'Well, if you're going to talk about that totally bit of irrelevant nonsense, I'll talk about your career with us.' "

In her campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, Clinton has said little about her experiences in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s, including her involvement with student protests and her brief internship at the law firm, Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein. She has said she worked on a child custody case, although former partners recall her likely involvement in conscientious objector cases and a legal challenge to a university loyalty oath....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/18/AR2008051802101_2.html?sid=ST2008051802293

[TooBigaTent]

1. Yes, how dare she defend conscientious objectors and challenge university loyalty oaths.

Since when is standing up for liberal values a negative?

Disclaimer - I do not support Sen. Clinton, nor Sen. Obama, at this point. They are both far too conservative.

But, back to the point - the willingness of Democrats to attack other Democrats for having "links" to a liberal past is beyond disgusting. It just shows that both camps are more intersted in obtaining power than moving this country back from the conservative abyss we are falling into.

[Texas Hill Country]

2. this is BARF... but more to the point... even the groups she might have defended, emphasis

on might, because she was an intern at a good sized lawfirm, have decried some of the groups that people are questioning in Obama's camp... (BP vs NBP, etc)