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"The incompatibility of those two positions of 40 years ago was noted to me by Democratic old-timers who were shocked by Sen. [Hillary Clinton]'s temerity in pursuing her presidential candidacy. [Barry M. Goldwater]'s opposition to the 1964 voting rights bill (Civil Rights Act) was not incidental to his run for the White House, but an integral element of conscious departure from Republican tradition that contributed to his disastrous performance," [Robert Novak] wrote. "Of course, no political candidate should have to explain inconsistencies of her high school days. What Hillary Clinton said at Selma is significant because it betrays her campaign's panicky reaction to the unexpected rise of Sen. [Barack Obama] as a serious competitor for the Democratic nomination."
Novak wrote that Hillary Clinton answered King's challenge "the next year as the 17-year-old class president at Maine East High School in the Chicago suburbs. She described herself in her memoirs as an 'active Young Republican' and 'Goldwater girl, right down to my cowgirl outfit.' As a politically attuned honor student, she must have known that Goldwater was one of only six Republican senators who joined Southern Democratic segregationists," against the 1964 Civil Rights Act that was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement."But when in 1969 at age 22 she was the first Wellesley student to deliver the commencement address, she did not place civil rights first. She talked about a demonstration in Founder's parking lot at the college that 'protested against the rigid academic distribution requirement' and supported 'a pass-fail system' and 'a say' in 'academic decision making.' That was not quite [Martin Luther King Jr.]'s agenda."Barry Goldwater's opposition to the 1964 voting rights bill (Civil Rights Act) was not incidental to his run for the White House, but an integral element of conscious departure from Republican tradition that contributed to his disastrous performance, Novak wrote.See the full content of this document
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Hillary Clinton Was 'Goldwater Girl'
Chicago Tribune columnist and Washington political journalist Robert Novak, whose recent book "The Prince of Darkness," chronicled five decades of covering politics in Washington, wrote a column in March of 2007 exposed the fallacy that the Clinton machine has a hold on Blacks.
Hillary Clinton talked about admiring Mar...See the full content of this document
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