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 and Black Panthers.
"She's a hypocrite," Doris B. Walker, 89, who was a member of the
American Communist Party, said in an interview last week. "She had to
know who we were and what kinds of cases we were handling. We had a
very left-wing reputation, including civil rights, constitutional law,
racist problems."
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.' "
Hillary "hypocritical"? I find that SHOCKING!.....well....maybe not, but the point is, is that she talks about Reverend Wright and his ties to Obama, and yet she's awfully quiet about her own ties to radical ways of thinking. Of course, the Reverend Wright issue is a bit different then what Hillary's accused of, but I'd like to at least see SOME honesty from her campaign...something I don't think anyone has seen yet.
Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com
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