Tom Hayden Looks at Clinton’s 60s Past

Sometime the truth hurts…the guy is telling an “honest” truth…

More dirt of clintons.
When it would be enough?
When White House will sink from clinton’s dirt?
That what this election about?

this is not clinton dirt
the history he is listing is easy enough to find out.
but to compare her to nixon is not fair.and incorrect.
check out what obama the uniter did to alice palmer and some of the other he has run against
I wonder if he has ever won office
outright fair and square?

at least we know where sen. clinton stands today.
Where does obama stand on the issues that face us today?
(and please, no hope, change, above the fray speech)
Sen. clinton has the answers for todays
issues-obama only copies

I am a small town, working-class, white, middle-aged women. I know Obama is right when he says that we cling to guns and religion in rural America. We do. Why is it that every time he speaks a simple truth this man gets slammed for it? Obama is intelligent and that scares people. It shouldn’t. Intelligence is a good trait for a president to have. We’ve gone for eight years without it and look where it’s gotten us.
Obama will win and he will be a great president!

Is there anyone out there who has not figured out that Clinton stands for nothing and yet everything depending on which minute/day it is?
Is there anyone out there who has not figured out that Clinton is a liar and maniuplator?
Is there anyone out there who actually AGREES with her fuzzy math in counting the uh..”votes” and really believes she wants all votes counted whe she would dismiss over 40% “undecided in Michigan”?
Is there anyone out there who really thinks we should just dismiss all the caucus states, red states and small states?
Is there anyone out there who really thinks you should change the rules of the party’s election process AFTER we are 3/4 through the campaign?
Is there anyone left out there that would vote for her in spite of just a few of her negatives I’ve listed?
If so there is not hope for you.

If the main point is that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is a hypocrite, then “Yes, she is!” This is an important corrective to Sen Clinton’s smear tactics, however tactically savvy they may seem at the time. You see, hers and President Bill Clinton’s pasts have more skeletons — and ugly ones at that. But if she can get the media lapdogs to focus on Senator Barack Obama, and claim she has been “vetted” already (when?) then people do not focus on what is in her closet. She gets a “pass” as does Senator John McCain.
The fact that the corporate cable media like CNN and FOXNews repeat the Clinton mantra ad nauseum is reason for despair. Good on Tom Hayden for doing his homework and reporting on this story.
(And, for the record, if you were not radical in the 1960s then you must have been brain-dead or a moral minion, given the civil and women’s rights movements, the war, student uprising, decolonization etc. But because Clinton makes an obscure Obama “relationship” seem relevant, then if it is good for the goose it is good for the gander! BTW how about her top surrogate, Bill Clinton? Why doesn’t he have to answer for his pardons of two Weathermen? If she was so influential in his government, why didn’t she advise him against pardons? Of course the media has asked neither of them that question — because they already have been vetted.)
Hypocrisy and double-standards.

Leave it to Obama hacks in the media to not be able to tell the difference between flirting with the left-wing in your teens and twenties and choosing radical, anti-American friends and mentors in your 30s and 40s.
Voters know the difference, Jake, even though you and The Nation don’t. Give it up. Obama is unelectable.

So we don’t all grow and mature? Tom Hayden went into politics and joined the “establishment.” What is this story about anyway? It seems to be the same old story: say good things about Clinton but always couch them in some kind of veiled smear; she’s “GOT to win NH” and she did; she’s “GOT to win TX and OH” and she did; she’s “GOT to win PA”, and she did but that’s still not good enough. How is it she keeps winnning the big states against all odds and the media still insists none of it matters?

Jgaw: Boo hoo hoo, so Clinton is the victim again? When will she stop being the victim, when she’s elected President?? If Fox is against her why are her surrogates PRAISING the network repeatedly. Why hasn’t she denounced Ed Rendell’s statements emphatically praising Farrakhan and saying what a great leader he was? Why does she have a 60% negative rating nationally among Americans citizens? She was the first lady, the wife of an ex-president with an astounding name recognition, yet she has no money (which explains her desperation for free air time in debates), her campaign is in a shambles, her top staffers are defecting TO Obama, her chief strategist was making backroom deals with the Colombian government, her husband was making deals with the Colombian AND Chinese governments.
There are unanswered questions regarding Vince Foster, Peter Paul, Hsu, Vinod Gupta among others, questions relating to the drug cartel. The fact that they STILL won’t release last years taxes (which is what EVERYBODY wanted in the first place), still not releasing info from the Clinton Library, donors list are unanswered (who do the owe favors to, who have they promised grants to, pardons to, contracts to…etc). The list goes on, why if they are innocent and have nothing to hide are they being secretive? Why won’t she release her earkmarks (where misc money went that was spent in NY)??? Questions when she was a Goldwater Girl are still not known by the majority of voters today. The fact that all these and more are questionable is a huge problem if she wants to be CIC.
The chances of her winning this nom is slim to NONE, yet she continues the negative Rovian attacks to discredit her democratic opponent while praising her republican opponent in the hopes to run again in 2012. That is her only resolve in sticking it out, she wants Obama to collapse. Who does that? Who but an android candidate who is less interested in uniting our country and our party, but more interested in power. She’s power hungry, her husband (guilt ridden from his philandering days) is power hungry for her and they will stop at nothing to win. Simple as that.
One sad thing is that racism unfortunately plays a role in this election cycle (hopefully not a significant one in the GE), and the Clintons are reveling and IN FACT taking advantage of people’s fear, prejudices and bigotry to get ahead. For that reason alone, I WILL NEVER SUPPORT HER , nor will I ever get the great respect I had for Bill Clinton throughout his good and bad times.

Wake up America ,well stated and so true……………

Thanks for helping keep the record straight. I was wondering how Hillary could have ‘weathered’ the 60s with her passionately liberal ideals without being a little at the fringe. As for Obama, he was born in 1961, so he wasn’t a major player right then.
Clinton’s assertions do need some vetting, such as this. I hope we can have a lot more of it coz some of us don’t have the resources or time to dig through the archives.
We can read it when you do. Thanks to Tom Hayden, a radical who pretty much ought to know who’s who and who did what. I wonder if Obama wore a flag pin on his diapers ….

“We cannot afford to have the White House used as a TRAINING GROUND for an INEXPERIENCED MAN with irrational impulses!” -Richard Nixon on the stump, 1960,
“Our nation cannot AFFORD an INEXPERIENCED leader who needs ON-THE-JOB TRAINING!” -Hillary Clinton on the stump, 2007

Afrocentric, Black Liberation Theology — These are the things that Obama should clearly explain what his position is.
People should read this article.
Wright clearly meant what he said, and he is very effective, of course, with Obama’s willingess to allow thousands of blacks (including his children) to listen to Wright’s falseful preach.
A 1990 poll taken by the New York Times/CBS found that 10 percent of blacks in New York City thought the AIDS virus was “deliberately created in a laboratory in order to infect black people,” while another 19 percent thought the theory might possibly be true, a finding that was confirmed in a similar poll by Newsweek/Gallup in March 1990. And the paranoia among blacks has only gotten worse, according to a 2005 study by Rand Corporation and Oregon State University, which showed that half of African Americans surveyed believed that AIDS is man-made, more than one quarter said it was created in a government lab, and 12 percent claimed that the virus was spread by the CIA.

“Thanks to Tom Hayden, a radical who pretty much ought to know who’s who and who did what. I wonder if Obama wore a flag pin on his diapers ….”
Obama was a red diaper baby (his mommie was kind of a commie). Now, there’s nothing WRONG with that, Lord knows, and the press (and nearly everybody else) has managed not to mention it, just as no one mentioned Clinton’s youthful and tenuous Panther connection when Bill Clinton was running for president — but many may wonder at, and disdain, Obama’s misrepresentation of his entire biography — particularly his close association with Ayers and Dohrn, in corporatizing the Chicago “education reform” movement, taking over the Illinois Senate seat, and the like.
Whatever happens with Obama’s zillion-dollar attempt to ascend to the presidency without passing “GO”, it’s safe to say that tender candidate Obama has subverted so many of the celebrity uber-left to shill for his undercover candidacy that there’s going to be no “left” left. Maybe that was the point of this tiresome and racially-DIVISIVE exercise.

Are the Superdelegates so afraid of the Clintons that they are overlooking their questionable past and even thinking of putting them back in office?White Water, travel gate, file gate etc., murder of sex harrassment witness a day before she testifies etc. Investigation into the death of Vincent Foster should be re-opened now that they don’t have presidential immunity!

Barry Both Ways writes:
“You’ve got to be kidding me? This just proves that you are running out of material to bash Hillary with.”
That “left spokesman” Hayden is still papering the internet with a piece red-baiting Clinton for working for somebody who tried to help Bobby Seale — the BLACK man who sat SHACKLED in a CHICAGO courtroom for an extended period, lest we forget, alongside his unshackled white co-defendants in the Chicago 7 festivities provoked, if you care to look at it that way, by Obama’s pals in the Weathermen — is utterly contemptible.
That nearly no one has taken Hayden to task PUBLICLY over this piece — however, see the comments to it at commondreams.org (where comments are not, so far, censored in favor of Obama as they are at Huffington Post) — other than for the sexism of laying his pukey opinions on “my wife” — one is marginally surprised and a little relieved that Hayden hasn’t dragged some or all of his PAST wives into it! –doesn’t, I think, mean that nobody objects to it.
People are afraid, it seems, to speak out against the made-up “movement” flim-flam put out by the Obama/corporate-uber-left machine.

Mr. Tom has a nerve-by the time you wade through his 60′s history and get to hillary
his past makes hillary look like a girl scout.
mr. tom and bobby seale,abbie hofman,
and jerry rubin,I rememeber them as being part of the Chicago seven.
hofman, rubin, gone
these people have been trying to overthrow the gov. forever.
so now they have their front man obama
well I guess he will get into office now.
and of course jane fonda endorsed him
for whatever her endorsement is worth.
bobby seale the how barbeque man
and ben and jerry ice cream men.
moderation in all things
better to take to middle road
instead of having these old heads rear again,
and incite a new crop of far-lefties

reed

Some people never grow up Tom Hayden is one of them and Jane fonda and Ayers I think kids 18-24 should be liberal with thier thoughts but the kids today are not in the middle of a draft so I see no reason for this radical tone I think if Obama and them start a draft it should be all smart college kids first let them drink thier latte’s from thier helments .

The only thing Americans SHOULD remember is When Hillary used Judgement to lie about running from snipper fire in Bosnia on 3, midmorning campaigns(no sleep deprivation) she proved once again(Yes to Iraq War, Whitewater,Vince Foster to mention only a few problems) that her judgement to make Major decisions as Commander in Chief is DOUBTFUL,not to mention UNTRUSTWORTHY. WORLD LEADERS will not trust her on ANY Peace Treaties and they are watching this whole election. More Recently…Read DemocracyNow 4-22-08,entitled”Pentagon’s Pundits:A Look at the Defence Department’s Propaganda Program”, How the pentagon sent retired military officers to all the news media to talk REPEATEDLY(just like Rev Wright’s inflamatory video aired for 6 weeks and 1 week airing of Hillary’s snippers in Bosnia..Fair? Balanced reporting?) (brainwashing) on national TV, to convince Americans a for going to war.4-24-08 Huffington Post reported that President Bush’s former “Press Secretary” Tony Snow just got hired as a “CNN Contributer”….The Pentagon again does not want Senator Obama to become the next President of the United States… Americans ask your self WHY?Karl Rove and Bill Kristol just got hired by Time Magazine and Washington Post? Americans, ask yourself WHY does the news media cater to the Pentagon? I think, the Pentagon can control the Clinton’s because of their past JUDGEMENTS on their decisions, ie Whitewater, Vince Foster suicide, Monica Lewinski,etc. And of course, the Pentagon can control McCain, because of McCain’s wife Cindy and HER drug addiction past. and other sneeky things about McCain. The only Unknown, uncontrolable, is Senator Obama..the real Maverick? That is why so much air time 6 weeks of Rev Wright’s speech versus 1 week of Hillary’s Snipper in Bosnia speech AND now the John Ayers/Obama association and NOWHERE on the national TV is it aired about the recent disappearance amid Audit of the Clinton’s Library Builder’s CFO John Glasgow? Read Huffington Post 1-30-08, Foxnews.com 3-16-08, and arkansasbusiness.com, 1-31-08. Americans view on National TV the disappearance of Stacy Peterson REPEATEDLY AIRED, Polamy, Florida Teens assaulting people? Where is John Glasgow? Clinton’s EXTENDED their 07 Tax Returns(Clinton Pres. Library funds would be in that 07 Return) conviently, Obama and McCain disclosed thier 07 Tax Returns! TRUST Clintons? Remember Whitewater investigation and Vince Foster? Trust Clintons? No wonder the Pentagon’s choice for President are the Clintons, they are controllable. Americans read all news papers, Huffington Post,Christian Science Monitor (required reading at Harvard),Watch PBS and Democracy Now TV.BECOME REALLY INFORMED and look at ALL the news….DAILY.

Now why would you give this a place on this blog? It is an absurd, desperate attempt, by the irrelevant Tom Hayden, to take the heat off of Obama for his current associations with the lunatic fringe, which is relevant in that Barack Obama is running for the highest office in the land.
Halli Casser-Jayne

I am amazed at the number of commenters who have made allegations about Obama without presenting any evidence or proof. Are we all supposed to be dumb enough to believe these allegations just because it’s on a comment thread? I am especially amused about the allegations regarding attempts to take over the Chicago school system. Surely the Tribune would have noticed and provided an article you could link to? What are all these allegations about Mrs. Martin? I’m sure that if she had something against Obama the campaign would have run it up the flagpole by now. And the Walmart commenter is completely ignoring the anti-union, anti business, tactics that Walmart was engaging in back then. Now that the activists have been able to expose their record and HRC’s shameful collaboration, HRC should get a pass?
Even those who pretend to critisize HRC by bringing up Foster, etc. are trying to stifle discussion by pretending that there are no current reasons to prefer Obama to Clinton.
If Hillary is such a good person, why did she not disown, rebuke and reject Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos? Why is she actually advertising on his show? What did Bill promise in return for all those speeches? And why is she determined to destroy the Democratic Party?
The commenters who make all these claims about Obama while pretending HRC is clean as the driven snow seem to be inhabiting an alternate universe. Or be well paid by someone who wants Clinton in the White HOuse.

Obama is the left wing nuts project he has been groomed for this race and to think they just thought we would be so stupid not to realize thier game plan I guess they just think moderate Dems don’t need to have a say we need a third party is what this says to me.

Jake: Check out Elizabeth Edwards op-ed in today’s New York Times: Bowling 1, Health Care 0. It’s about the media’s shallow coverage of the presidential race. Your article is a vivid example of what she is talking about.

Amelia: And these conclusions were proven in court and the Clintons are serving life sentences, are they?

The media would do us all a big favor if they would stop alternating the candidate smearing they’re engaged in. This story on radical Hillary is true and accurate, well known by all the oldsters, but should have been out there on the front end of her coronation. Ten days now of jacking with Obama, we watch the move turn to 10 days of messing with Hillary, the loser. Go figure. It’s about media cashing in, by keeping Hillary alive.
She’s done.

Elizabeth Edwards in the NYT:
“… voters who take their responsibility to be informed seriously enough to search out information about the candidates are finding it harder and harder to do so, particularly if they do not have access to the Internet.”
The people most likely NOT to have access to the internet AND the time to seek out accurate information are, of course, the poor — among whom are the “urban”, i.e., poor, black masses.
Edwards generously notes that the media short-shrifted Biden and Dodd, early in the Democratic primaries. The person MOST shafted, however, was John Edwards, the candidate who’d be the best president if only — unlike tender candidate Obama — because Edwards made his own money, instead of being taken up in his youth and groomed, by one corporate cabal or another, for “going into politics”.
Edwards STILL is the best Democratic bet for a nominee who can win the General Election AND govern afterwards. Edwards is the real deal. And Mrs. Edwards is a goddess of bravery and rationality.

I think we know who the real deal is. Clinton friend after Clinton friend is moving to the Obama camp. The very newspaper that endorsed her rebuked her tatics. How many judases can there be before people start to understand it is the candidate herself that is the problem? You know I think many of the Clinton supporters deep inside know the truth. So they wish to say well your candidate is no better. But the truth is all these revelations you guys bring out about Obama have already been vetted by Obama supporters. We actually believe in having a candidate that we can trust so when you bring up these quote “news stories” it is nothing we did not already know. Instead of hopping on how bad you wish Obama was why not do some vetting of Mrs Clinton. I think you will really be surprised at what you find. We during this campaign see how she treats friends who she feels betrayed her she tries to run them in the mud. If you want a President who can be ruthless even with their own friends then vote Hillary Clinton 08. For me loyalty maters most. It must be nice to have a candidate that would risk loosing the election rather then disowning a man he has know for over 20 years of his life. That is the message the Yes We Can folks believe is critical for a new type of politics.

well, that ought to take care of the Goldwater Girl stuff.
I don’t see anything in that list that Hillary and we supporters wouldn’t be proud of, except the commie stuff, not sure how tenuous that relationship is (worked for the law firm, etc.)
yeah, people took to the street in ’68 to fight for racial justice and anti-Viet Nam war. And yes, proud that Hillary was marching, not bombing.
and yeah, proud that Hillary helped impeach Nixon. And proud that she helped fight Bill Clinton’s impeachment as far as that goes.
She was a fighter then, and a fighter now. But not a revolutionist.
That’s the difference.
Hillary ’08

Macevelli would be proud of Clinton. And some of you love that about her. I guess it is an unsurmontable gulf because I would hate that about a leader I would put in to power. I believe at the end of the day it is not about you but the people you serve. I guess taht is the big difference Obama supporters want the diplomat while Hillary supporters wants the SOB that knows how to get her pound of flesh.

Now the ex-Mr. Hanoi Jane speaks out for Obama. Keep up the good work Wright, Hayden, Clyburn

Posted by: jgaw
“at least we know where sen. clinton stands today.
Where does obama stand on the issues that face us today?
(and please, no hope, change, above the fray speech)
Sen. clinton has the answers for todays
issues-obama only copies”
No sir we do not. Hillary has had more faces then a secret agent. From Iowa till PA was have seen more Hilary Clintons then we can count. She has run a campaign that has had more shakeups then a bag of pop corn. With Fox doing their damn best to get Hillary on the Democratic ticket it is surprising Obama is doing as good as he is. You can tell when she is deceiving because she starts that damn head nodding thing. Knod in agreement with me guys. That damn head knodding seems so fake a child could see thru it. Wait children do love Obama. I guess a child can see thru her tricks.

Hillary is thought of as a fighter.
If she is, I’d tag her as a true
heavyweight. Trouble is she is so sadly
out of shape, overweight, and always
leads with the LEFT. She telegraphs
her punches and expects her opponents
to take a dive in the early rounds.
Obama apparently didn’t get the message.
I expect her to show up at the big
match in Denver with ill-fitting
trunks, Bill in her corner, and if
Lanny Davis can’t referee….a large
towel for the tears.

“Now the ex-Mr. Hanoi Jane speaks out for Obama. Keep up the good work Wright, Hayden, Clyburn”
Funny thing about “Hanoi Jane”, who was the second of Hayden’s several wives. Back when Fonda was Barbarella, and wanting to do something to help stop the Viet Nam war, she went to Berkeley to find out how to be of use to the Movement, and ’twas Hayden who taught Fonda “left” politics.

Hillary Clinton is a shape shifting political whore, a genuine American Fraud without a moral compass. By any means necessary seems to be the rallyng cry of her campaign. Her cheerleaders and surrogates have even been persuaded to collaborate with her in rhetoric intentionally designed to undermine the will of the American people. Hillary is relentless and some of her supporters admire her ability to remain engaged even when the only point of her battle is to slander and dehumanize a member of her own party and the clear choice of the grassroots of her party. Hillary is the last stand of the old political guard that thinks they can scare us into selecting her.

Thank god for Tom Hayden and his wife exposing Hillary’s radical past and thus her hypocritical stance today towards Obama. She is so full of it!
More, we need more people like Tom Hayden to come out and stop her in her tracks!

sorry jgsaw I’m not going to feel sorry for somebody with a 100 million dollar income who thinks she is just folks. The fact of the matter is, HRC stood and did nothing regarding wal-mart, and if you think that associating her with the wal-mart of the present due to that past association, then you must be outraged about how she would like to call Obama a terrorist sympathizer for the ayers thing.
She is caving, she is desperate, and she has now gotten to the point where she will gladly rip this country apart with her extremism in order to win a nomination that would all but promise a defeat in February. Make no mistake, more people will turn out to vote against HRC than Obama, and more people will turn out to vote FOR Obama than support McCain. All that aside it is not only a matter of electability. She is now running on many of the same policies of the current Bush Whitehouse. Not leaving Iraq, pre-emptive strike on Iran. No social security plan beyond a committee. Health insurance instead of health care. Already working to send jobs to Columbia via NAFTA, No education plan, commitment to send US troops to defend middle east countries. No plan for Afghanistan or to get Bin Laden.

Doesn’t the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whom Hillary attacks today, represent the very essence of the black radicals Hillary was associating with in those days? And isn’t the Hillary of today becoming the same kind of guilt-by-association insinuator as the Richard Nixon she worked to impeach?”
I HAVE HEARD HILLARY PROBABLY ONCE SAY ANYTHING ABOUT JEREMIAH WRIGHT. I HAVE NEVER HEARD HER PROCLAIM OBAMA’S guilt-by-association. IT IS THE MEDIA- BOTH ONLINE AND ON CABLE TV THAT KEEPS REV. WRIGHT IN THE SPOTLIGHT. THANK YOU!

Hilary Clinton has now become one of the same old time politicians who will do everything she can to take anyone down. Bill Clinton had a softer side to him. Hilary does not. She is known for being very vindictive. I know she attempts to portray she is interested. I don’t think so – I have read and researched lots. I find her very scarey!! Just my opinion!!
I have read about all of these same facts. And sadly they are true. I live here in California and remember well those years. The antiwar movement was strong here in San Francisco Bay Area. I was never involved, but demonstrations were all over. I was a new college graduate from midwest and was quite shocked. Communist labels were applied quickly. Whether justified or not, I am not sure. FBI was coming down hard. Many labels were probably unjustified and FBI ruined people rampantly. I believe we now refer to it as “McCarthy
Style.” Everyone today agrees Vietnam war was big mistake.
During those days young Hilary Clinton did become involved. Yes she did work for this radically labeled law firm located here in San Francisco or Oakland. The Hilary Clinton of today has become a very vindictive Senator displaying everything she once despised. She also worked for Goldwater who supported segregation. Seems she has changed sides a few times in finding herself.
I am waiting to see what the Bill and Hilary Clinton’s arrangement with Richard Mellon Scaife of Pennsylvania plays out to be. Don’t forget Richard Scaife is the one behind financing the take down of President Bill Clinton. Scaife’s right wing newspaper endorsing Hilary Clinton for 2008 Pennsylvania Primary was shocking. Scaife is member of a powerful Republican group that takes care of things and gets people into office. Destroys people. Just gets it done. And done secretly behind the scenes. Voters we need to keep our eyes open. I do know in Pennsylvania some pretty dirty underground tricks were played. One thing they did was send flyers to all unions to disperse “red alert” Barack Obama associates with terrorists and ad directed them to FBI site. Pretty blatant campaign abuse! And released just before election voting. Good chance these were sent to many more people as well.
William Ayers connection is slim and nothing. Events mentioned happened 40 years ago. Barack Obama was youngster at that time. Have checked everything else as well.
Hilary Clinton has become a person who seems to not follow rules and will lie rampantly.

Tom Hayden needs to keep quiet, he has no shame. He betrayed the wife, Jane Fonda who financially supported him and his politics all of those years. Now, I guess he needs attention. There is a lot of difference between a lawyer defending an individualo who expouses a particular political philosophy, no matter how wrong and an individual who actually set off bombs to kill people and cause anarchy.

This thread reminds me of the election of Governor Patrick of Massachusetts. He was attcked for his legal work in defense of someone convicted of rape and someone accused of murder. The Republican opponent was rabid with inflammatory ads. Note, John Adams defended the British prosecuted in the Boston Massacre. Here is an excerpt from the Boston Globe:
They are the pinstriped professionals the public loves to hate, the butt of cocktail party jokes, the easy targets who rank near car salesmen and telemarketers on most people’s lovability scale.
And in this year’s gubernatorial campaign, their calling — defending the accused — has become fodder for a fusillade of Republican attacks against the Democratic nominee, Deval L. Patrick , who wrote letters on behalf of a convicted rapist and defended an admitted cop killer.
Now, the lawyers of Massachusetts are fighting back.
Horrified to see Patrick, a fellow member of the bar, pilloried for the convicts he has defended, litigators, prosecutors, and defense lawyers are rushing to defend the candidate — and the nobility of their profession.
The Massachusetts Association of Court Appointed Attorneys is circulating a memo calling Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey’s attacks an assault on the Constitution. The presidents of the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Boston Bar Association have penned an opinion piece noting that John Adams defended the British troops accused of murdering patriots at the Boston Massacre. And tomorrow , Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, the leading trade publication in the state, will endorse Patrick for governor, the first time it has backed a candidate for political office in its 34-year history.
Lawyers say that Healey’s targeting of their profession has become the main topic of conversation in wood-paneled offices and district court lobbies from Pittsfield to Provincetown.
“There are a lot of angry lawyers out there,” said David L. Yas , editor and publisher of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
The source of the ire: two ads from the Healey campaign that highlight Patrick’s legal work. One takes aim at Patrick’s defense of Carl Ray Songer , an escaped convict who murdered a state trooper on a Florida highway in 1973. As a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in 1985, Patrick argued successfully that Songer was not able to present evidence of his character and education in court, and Songer’s death sentence was reduced to life in prison.
“While lawyers have a right to defend admitted cop killers, do we really want one as our governor?” the ad asks.
The other ad spotlights Patrick’s efforts, as a lawyer in private practice, to support the parole petition of Benjamin LaGuer , who was convicted in 1984 of binding his 59-year-old neighbor with a telephone cord and raping her.
“What kind of person defends a brutal rapist?” the ad asks.
Yas said lawyers “regard these ads as misinformed, distasteful, and insulting and in some ways they might even be disingenuous.”
. . .

Belle Starr,
Here is a snippet on Hayden:
“As his former fellow radical David Horowitz recalled:
Hayden and I were deadly serious about our revolutionary agendas.
During the Vietnam War, Tom traveled many times to North Vietnam,
Czechoslovakia and Paris to meet communist North Vietnamese and Viet
Cong leaders. He came back from Hanoi proclaiming he had seen “rice
roots democracy at work.” (…) Hayden offered tips on conducting
psychological warfare against the U.S. He arranged trips to Hanoi for
Americans perceived as friendly to the Communists and blocked entry
to those seen as unfriendly, like the sociologist Christopher Jencks.
He attacked as “propaganda’ stories of torture and labeled American
POWs returning home with such stories as “liars.”
And Hayden’s “revolutionary” activities were not confined to
traitorous oversees excursions:
On the domestic front, Hayden advocated urban rebellions and called
for the creation of “guerrilla focos” to resist police and other law
enforcement agencies. For a while he led a Berkeley commune called
the “Red Family,” whose “Minister of Defense” trained commune members
at firing ranges and instructed high school students in the use of
explosives. He was also an outspoken supporter of the violence-prone
Black Panther Party.”
IMHO, he was not interested in defending the CONSTITUTION. He was interested in destroying it.

countallthevotes writes:
“[Hayden's] former fellow radical David Horowitz … ”
Ah, was Horowitz ever REALLY a “radical”? Who knows? As for Hayden, maybe it was all those prosperous-if-pointless years in the California Legislature, or all the wives, or who knows what — but Hayden’s prose style AND politics seem to have degenerated.

you do not read comments by sen. clinton supporters saying obama and michelle are unfit to live. and the biggest frauds on the earth. and do not be further fooled-there is plenty to say about the obamas-many of us try to stay on the fact that he is not ready to gov. this country. but the guy is fit to live.
why don’t you obama supporters take a page out of that fake uniter above the fray play book of his and try to stick with attacking sen.clinton on the issues and talk about how she and obama differ.

MAGDA – Being Mentored by Pinko Communists during your formative years is not a Badge of Honor that one wears while hammering on your opponent for a far lessor evil.

Belle Starr,
Yes, that is the Deval Patrick. However, the point of my post was the groudswell for him in response to attacks for his work as a criminal defense lawyer, like Clinton. Mass. Bar Assoc, Mass Assoc of Cout Appointed Attorneys, Boston Bar Association are made up of civil and crim. Defense attorneys and Republicans and Democrats. Yet, they came together to defend Patrick against the attacks on the legal profession.
It is one thing to be a lawyer, as guaranteed by the 6th Amendment to the United States Constitution, and quite another thing to be a bomber, robber, anarchist, like Ayres.

Hillary’s connections to the violent revolutionary left includes at least one of the members of the Weather Underground her husband pardoned.
In a September 6, 2001 online article of the Jewish World Review, David Horowitz has this to say about Hillary’s connection with Linda Evans(one of the WU pardonees, she was caught in 1985 with 740 lbs of dynamite and had been sentenced to 40 years in prison):
“The agent of her mercy was New York congressman Jerry Nadler, one of President Clinton’s staunchest defenders during the impeachment process and one of Sen. Clinton’s chief supporters during her election bid. ”
Whatever Hillary claims to have known or not known about that pardon then, I wonder no one is asking if she approves of the pardon today.

Hillary Clinton Cavorted with Communists during a TIME OF WAR. This is truly sad.
And thought we knew everything about Hillary’s unsavory past. But now this. What’s next?
Man I hate Commies.

How is Hayden ‘smearing Clinton’? She DID those things. He didn’t make them up. If it reads like a ‘smear’, then she’s in worse shape than anyone thought. It’s too bad she’s so divorced from the truth.

“How is Hayden ‘smearing Clinton’? She DID those things.”
This is Hayden’s ham-headed attempt to red-bait Clinton, to confuse the story of Obama’s long relationship with the rich-kid Weathermen.
Well, Obama’s boy dinging Clinton for supporting Bobby Seale is particularly contemptible. If I didn’t have to go cook supper, I’d track down HAYDEN’s contemporary remarks on Bobby Seale.
Guess Obama only goes for rich WHITE radicals: Barry’s FIRST foray into electoral politics was an attempt to unseat former Panther Bobbie Rush in Chicago. Obama lost, 2-to-1.
After that, Obama adopted the strategy he’s still using, of bullying everybody else off the ballot.

We all know the difference is that he’s a black man. When he’s mentioned, black, african american is usually in there, rev wright, black liberationist theology which is all bogus crap to frame a false debate with the “hero” john mccain. She is allowed to associate with radicals because she has convinced the media that her story line of fall and comeback is better than real issues.

eyes which are ALLEGEDLY wide open say_
“well you can come out of the closet for now; their gone……. All those Russians are now rich fat cats.”
Ya Babe, SOME of the Ruskies doing some serious robber barronism right now. Eventually they figured out the Coddling Communism didn’t work so well.
Which goes back to Hills. Why was she coddling the Commies and their FAILED ideology in a time of war?
Everybody knows communism is a losing proposition, apparently it took Hills a little longer than everyone else.
And Ya I gotts the hate for the Commies. You I can agree to disagree, here. To each his/her own.

eyes ALLEGEDLY wide open
Its called McRezkoism among other things.
And this is a Baby you and your Friends HATCHED.
So enjoy, babe.

COMMANDER GUY:
so Clinton was coddling commies while cavorting during the cold cold war.
Was she cavorting casually or carefully?
And, Sir…..ARE YOU BLOODY OUT OF YOUR MIND?

Get back to me when Hayden discovers proof that Hillary constructed bombs, then detonated them in attacks against American institutions.
The far left in this country are truly despicable people. People like Hayden, Fonda and Ayers should go live in some South American banana Republic, They don’t deserve a country like ours.

oh my, never thought i’d see the day 40 years later when ANYONE would listen to tom hayden on any subject. very few of us even listened to him way back when. he must be desperate for a little attention.

mark kraft,
check your elections
jane fonda endorsed obama for president.

I am 69 years old and was and still am a great admirer of Tom Hayden and his ex-wife Jane Fonda. I agree that Hillary, was probably what one would term a ‘radical’ in those days. Now she seems to be a factory girl from Indiana or Pennsylvania, i.e. any state that consists of heavy industry. Oh how the leopard changes its spots in Clinton’s case. I just hope when all is said and done, someone will send the old gal through a car wash and remove the stripes and colors she has painted herself with in an attempt to be EVERYONE’S dream candidate.

Stop trying to kill the messenger boys and girls. Tom Hayden had a decent run as a CA State Assemblyman and he has as much right to his opinions as any of us on this post!. Hillary Clinton is a liar flat out with no sugar-coating and she will change up her story the moment she seems to be in trouble. She has with her vaunted 35 years experience run the worst primary race campaign for someone who was the frontrunner that anyone can remember. Hayden has told the truth. I suspect given Hillary’s supporters inability to acknowledge her out and out pandering and lying…she deserves them as her supporters and they deserve her as their candidate. But the outcome is going to be different this time folks…the rest of us are not willing the take the hit for your misguided commitment to a woman who would drop the lot of you today, if we offered her the nomination to do just that. Remember Hill supporters, you are simply a means to an end. The corporations own Mrs. Clinton lock stock and barrel.

Oh is this a contest about who has more 60′s cred? PUHLEAZE. what did this generation do with those high ideals, well in the seventies they started to clean up the earth, in the 80′s they made alot of junk bond $ so they could buy deloreans and blow the rest up their nose, in the 90′s they continued to fight the 60′s battle and both side showed their lack of morals. meanwhile their children are not voting based on 60′s cred but on what ideals passed onto them where actually put into effect. we like John Edwards and we like Barak Obama. why? Barack does not say I will do the work for you instead we must all work to improve ours and others lives. we are looking forwards to John Edwards poverty tour.

America- where no trial is necessary- you’re guilty by association.

tom hayden is michael corleone’s attorney

Couple of things…
1. Please don’t cite a blog as “proof” of your view. Yes, computer keyboards lie still and let you write anything you want- and the same goes for blogs written by those with a personal view to push, regardless of how preposterous it may be…
2. If you find a blog or other source that intrigues you, please check other sources to confirm the information included within. That’s called “research and verification”, folks. It is what us pros do. If you can’t find that confiration, then don’t trust the info in the blog until you can…
3. Maybe it is just me, but why wouldn’t we want a president who is willing to listen to and interact with people from all political views? Isn’t gathering input from different sources before making a decision something we want a good leader to do? Would you rather have an adminsitration made up of one person belieivng the are the sole source of knowledge and them being surrounding by boot-licking yes-men lackeys? We’ve had that for the past 8 years and it hyasn’t worked out so well…

Attention America! We must not allow our nation to be divided by politicians seeking election or media outlets seeking “Hot” stories to gain advertising dollars.
Other than the indigenous people, all other Americans came from some other nation and brought with them a corresponding cultural influence. A casual observation would reflect English, Irish, Italian, Polish, French, Chinese, Spanish and yes African traditions interwoven into the fabric which is America. Our pre-American origins and traditions are as important too us as family history. We should not be required to abandon who we are nor should we seek to destroy the cultural heritage of other Americans.
The beauty of America is its diversity and the ability of this diverse population to love this country. What makes us unique as Americans is the flavoring we receive from exposure to this diversity. What make us strong is the ability of our citizens to rally in defense of the promise of our Constitution and our common interest.
As a nation we are faced with some of the greatest challenges in our history. To overcome these challenges we must unite our people. Do not be deceived… the real enemies of America are those that seek to weaken us using the age old “Divide and conquer” strategy. “United we stand…Divided we fall”.

Hillary is just too plain negative and she has far too much baggage for the nation to herald her as someone with a fresh perspective. Ditto for McCain who spent most of his politicla life decrying the platforms he has now been forced to choose as the GOP nominee.
Obama is the only rational choice. It’s is Obama’s policies that will lead the nation. It is not the spiritual reckoning with Christ that was assisted by Wright nor is it the work of the charitable foundation board on which he served with Ayers.
America is great at finding distractions to problems. For once, make a generational change that will scream out we want better. We demand better.
Obama is a leader that we cand hol dup and who will restore the shine of America on the world stage once again.
Taking that chance is well worth it.

I’m not one of these nut cases who believes that 9/11 was an inside job or anything like that, but I have to admit I was intrigued by the candidacy of Ron Paul. The mind-numbing uniformity of candidates for any high office these days is truly stultifying. There is no appreciable difference between Clinton and Obama, and McCain is just another rich white guy (not that I have anything against rich white guys) whose belief that government has the cure for whatever ails you differs little fundamentally from what the Democrats offer. You want real change? How about a smaller government that intrudes less on our personal lives and takes less out of our pockets. Now that would be REAL change.

Chris,
Mutual funds in 401Ks do pay capital gains by the fund managers when they sell positions as they rearrange their portfolis. And, if investors in stocks that make up the mutual funds are going to pay more in taxes, that would discourage them investing in those stocks they will park their money elsewhere which indirectly affect stocks in funds. Chill out dude, Rev. Wright and Howard Dean are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic aka the Democrat Party. And the band played on…

Don’t worry.
Have some more Obama’s secrets.

“obama has cnn.msnbc
mccain has fox
clinton-has everybody against her”
—-Posted by: jgaw | Apr 27, 2008 1:08:50PM
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Ha,ha, ha…
CNN=Clinton News Network and Obama-hating Dobbs
FOX=Non-stop Obama hater and…Clinton lover! (For now.)
CLINTON CAMPAIGN CHAIR TERRY MCAULIFFE SPEAKING TO FOX NEWS ON APRIL 22: “Fair and balanced FOX.”
PA Governor and HUGE Clinton backer Ed Rendell interview [3/31/08]: “FOX has done the fairest job, and remained the most objective of all the cable networks… you actually have done a very balanced job of reporting the news.”
William Kristol in NYT, 4/28/08: “Hillary Clinton….a very impressive candidate.”
Rush Limbaugh: Vote for Hillary! Operation Chaos!
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“moderation in all things
take the middle road
sen. clinton”
—-Posted by: jgaw | Apr 27, 2008 1:08:50PM
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Guffaw!
Pseudo-tough China comments, to the extent that her campaign’s China policy adviser recently resigned in protest. Richard Baum resigned in light of what he called “grossly misguided accusations” made by Clinton about China. “As a lifelong Democrat, it saddens me that Sen. Clinton has chosen to take the low road in her effort to gain our party’s presidential nomination.”
Clinton said this on 4/22/08: “I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president, we will attack Iran….In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally OBLITERATE them.”
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And this from HRC in 4/16/08 PA Debate:
“I think that we should be looking to create an umbrella of deterrence that goes much further than just Israel. Of course I would make it clear to the Iranians that an attack on Israel would incur MASSIVE RETALIATION from the United States, but I would do the same with other countries in the region.”
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This drew incredulous reaction from many, including this one from nuclear deterrence theorist George E. Lowe, who wrote the book “The Age of Deterrence” and has won awards for his writing on nuclear deterrence:
“Who the HELL is she talking to? Whose IDEAS are these”, Lowe asked me, rhetorically, “[Wesley] Clark didn’t seem to know anything about this; he was blindsided. So where did these crazy, dangerous ideas come from? Look, I’ve been in this business for fifty years, I know nuclear deterrence. She had to have been talking to somebody like Doug Coe or his elite inner circle.”
[NOTE: Coe is the head of the Washington-based Christian fundamentalist group 'The Family,' first covered at length in Jeff Sharlet's 2003 Harper's story 'Jesus Plus Nothing: Undercover Among America's Secret Theocrats.'"Book is out this May.]
It was conjecture, and Lowe would be the first to admit that, but he would also stick to his call pegging Clinton’s “nuclear umbrella” as a fast track to global nuclear war.
Nuclear weapons can’t be used as “umbrellas.” That’s nuts, an idea one would have expected from SAC head General Curtis LeMay, parodied in Dr. Strangelove. Today, one would expect it from a Neocon.
And this reaction from conservative David Books on MTP:
“I’m amazed…that it didn’t become a bigger issue. Because what it says, I think, to a lot of Americans, two Arab countries or two Middle Eastern countries get in a war and we’re going to get in the middle of it?..I don’t know why she would’ve said it, what policy thinking behind it was. It seems to me extremely perilous.”
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Add to that MANDATED health care….
So, moderation in all things and taking the middle road EXCLUDES Sen. Clinton!

Is there some reason that you do not refer to former Sen. Hayden with his title as a former elected official? He served in both the California Senate and the California State Assembly. Calling him simply a “former 60s radical” is ignorant and misleading.