Hiding Miss Hillary

WELLESLEY, Mass. - "The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton’s presidency it was locked away.

As forbidden fruit, the writings of a 21-year-old college senior, examining the tactics of radical community organizer Saul D. Alinsky, have gained mythic status among her critics — a “Rosetta Stone,” in the words of one, that would allow readers to decode the thinking of the former first lady and 2008 presidential candidate.

Despite the fervent interest in the thesis, few realize that it is no longer kept under lock and key. As MSNBC.com found, it is available to anyone who visits the archive room of the prestigious women’s college outside Boston. With Clinton’s opponents in the 2008 presidential race looking for the next “Swift Boat” attack ad, and the senator herself trying to cast off her liberal image, Clinton's 92-page thesis is certain to be read and reread by opposition researchers and reporters visiting the campus.

...Just as conservative authors have speculated, it was the Clintons who asked Wellesley in 1993 to hide Hillary Rodham's senior thesis from the first generation of Clinton biographers, according to her thesis adviser and friend, professor Alan H. Schechter, who describes taking the call from the White House...

...Wellesley's president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule with a specific application: "The senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available in the college archives for anyone to read -- except for those written by either a 'president or first lady of the United States."

The late Barbara Olson, author of "Hell to Pay"

Barbara Olson, the conservative lawyer and commentator, used an Alinsky quote to open every chapter of her 1999 book, "Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton." Olson, who died in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, had charged in her book that the thesis was locked away because Clinton "does not want the American people to know the extent to which she internalized and assimilated the beliefs and methods of Saul Alinsky."

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Would be fun to take an otherwise pointless trip to Wellesley, Taxachusetts, to have a peek at so august a personages fight to overcome adolescence, and find her spot among the great dictators, but for now I'll pass. Any town that was first named "Contentment" possesses a certain lure, but the loon invasion has made this Boston suburb nothing more than just another satellite of that infamous Moscow on the Charles. Perfect home for a future Clinton, though.

I do suppose that eventually someone will make available this cretin's thesis, so we'll be looking for it because a good laugh is worth its weight in gold.

PS: I found this story at, well that's the problem. I'd bookmarked the MSNBC article but not the referring site just as my PC crashed, so I'm sorry for that.

And least we forget. I never shall, having been in NYC that day.