Since when have Republicans ever been honest about anything or anyone?
Hillary's thesis is actually open for anyone to read. You can bet if there was some kind of nugget the Republicans could draw from it, it would have been used against her in the 2008 campaign. An investigative reporter from MSNBC went to Wellsley College in 2007, read the thesis and reported about it.
If anything, it would be Democrats who wouldn't like what she wrote.
Here's a snip of this excellent article:
“I agreed with some of Alinsky's ideas,” she explained in “Living History,” her 2003 biography, “particularly the value of empowering people to help themselves. But we had a fundamental disagreement. He believed you could change the system only from the outside. I didn't.”
A decade later, another political science major started out on the path that Hillary Rodham had rejected, going to work for a group in the Alinsky mold. That was Barack Obama, now a U.S. senator from Illinois and her leading opponent for the Democratic nomination. After attending Columbia University, he worked as an organizer on the South Side of Chicago for the Developing Communities Project. Obama and others of the post-Alinsky generation described their work in the 1990 book “After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois,” in which Obama wrote that he longed for ways to close the gap between community organizing and national politics. After three years of organizing, he turned to Harvard Law School and then the Illinois legislature.
Clinton's friendly biographers, without being able to read the thesis in the 1990s, have downplayed the Alinsky connection. Judith Warner's "Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story" managed to describe the thesis without once mentioning Alinsky, whose name appears on every page. Gail Sheehy's "Hillary's Choice" gave the thesis a benign new title, “Aspect of the War on Poverty,” describing it as merely an examination of federal anti-poverty programs in Chicago.
In a 1993 interview with The Washington Post, about the time the Clinton health care plan was being formulated and the thesis was being sealed,
the first lady characterized her college writing as an argument against big government, supporting Alinsky's criticism of the War on Poverty programs. “I basically argued that he was right,” she told the newspaper. “Even at that early stage I was against all these people who come up with these big government programs that were more supportive of bureaucracies than actually helpful to people. You know, I've been on this kick for 25 years.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17388372/ns/politics-decision_08/t/reading-hillary-rodhams-hidden-thesis/Being a liberal, I disagree with her assertion that the War on Poverty programs are more supportive of bureaucracies than actually being helpful to people. Having worked for Head Start for years, I can personally attest to how helpful and valuable it remains to this day, as a means to conquer poverty. A Head Start mother who is a dear friend of mine to this day, attributes her success now as a doctor of Psychology, to the Head Start program and the support she received while there. A good support system is a must for anyone trying to work their way out of poverty.
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