Hillary Names Former La Raza President to Co-Chair Her Campaign

[mountainclmbr]

http://www.breitbart.com/print.php?id=D8OF4GN01&show_article=1&cat=0
Clinton Names Activist to Campaign Post 
 
Apr 12 10:54 AM US/Eastern
By BETH FOUHY
Associated Press Writer
 
NEW YORK (AP) - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton announced Thursday that Raul Yzaguirre, a prominent Hispanic activist and former president of the National Council of La Raza, would co-chair her presidential campaign and lead its outreach to Hispanic voters. 



Yikes!!!

[Sindawe]

Is anyone surprised by this?

[Manedwolf]

La Raza is all but a terrorist group. Even the name means "THE RACE". Warning sign? Uh....?

No, I'm not surprised by this development at all. I just HOPE it's used against her to demolish her chances.

[Ben]

No, I'm not surprised by this development at all.

I actually am. I can think of a lot of things to call Hillary, but "stupid" isn't one of them. I don't see how this could do anything but hurt her with the swing voters she desperately needs.

[Eleven Mike]

Add this to the Edwards campaign staff who made ugly comments about religious folk.  Maybe they're just running out of left-wingers who haven't done or said vile things.  Hard to imagine, I know.  Or maybe such people have always been in the picture and they just happen to get exposed more in our new age of information. 

[mountainclmbr]

She has to win the primary vote so she is calculating ways to appeal to the far left base. Obama will take much of one traditional Democrat group. Hillary is trying for another group. Richardson may get much of the Hispanic vote though.

[CAnnoneer]

She is desperate. Desperate people sometimes do stupid things.

[Perd Hapley]

Her husband was the First Black President.  Someone from the New York Sun already predicted John Edwards would be the First Female President.  Obviously, Mrs. Bill Clinton wants to be the First Hispanic President.

[Manedwolf]

Her husband was the First Black President.  Someone from the New York Sun already predicted John Edwards would be the First Female President.  Obviously, Mrs. Bill Clinton wants to be the First Hispanic President.

Except that Hispanic - La Raza is like Arab - Hezbollah.

One is a very extreme and dangerous subset with an agenda, doesn't speak for all. But she's apparently endorsing THAT agenda.

[The Rabbi]

The usual wisdom is for Dems to run to the left during the primary and to the center during the general.  I would guess this is the former.  Hillary has taken lots of heat from her core for supporting the Iraq War (or not opposing it.  Or not opposing it enough.  Or whatever they want her to do) so maybe this is her shoring it up and making a left run around Obama.

[De Selby]

I realize that La Raza is not popular on these boards, but that doesn't mean most of America thinks it's a terrorist organization.

She's trying to get the hispanic vote back from the GW Bush camp, who were pretty successful in wooing it with their generous immigration policies and moderate conservative family values agenda.  The hispanic population is NOT a far-left leaning bunch in America.

She's clearly going to lose the adamantly anti-immigrant crowd vote, but she didn't have that anyway.  It's a smart move.

[Desertdog]

don't see how this could do anything but hurt her with the swing voters she desperately needs.

Maybe she believes she will pick up enough illegal votes to compensate for the loss of swing voters.

[Manedwolf]

I realize that La Raza is not popular on these boards, but that doesn't mean most of America thinks it's a terrorist organization.

The FBI seems to. I assume they have very good reasons.

The fact that its founder has endorsed violence, and the fact that a good lot of them seem to empathize with Hamas and Hezbollah tends to raise eyebrows.

"We have an aging white America ... They are dying ...We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him."

-Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington and founder of the La Raza Unida political party

Perhaps Homeland Security should open up some case files to the public, so Americans see just what sort of people she's associating with.

[De Selby]

Manedwolf,

The FBI thinks La Raza are terrorists? Are you serious? Where is this information?

Where did you find that a lot of La Raza members "empathize with Hizbullah and Hamas"?  Wasn't Villaraigosa out there in the streets marching with American Jews in support of Israel during the war this summer?

Where are these "terrorist connections" you're talking about?

[Manedwolf]

Manedwolf,

The FBI thinks La Raza are terrorists? Are you serious? Where is this information?

Where did you find that a lot of La Raza members "empathize with Hizbullah and Hamas"?  Wasn't Villaraigosa out there in the streets marching with American Jews in support of Israel during the war this summer?

Where are these "terrorist connections" you're talking about?

[CAnnoneer]

Excellent job, Manedwolf. But, I think it will do little good with leftists who think jihadists are freedom-fighters and Iran is a democracy. The portrait of the fearless leader in the background is just priceless.

[De Selby]

Manedwolf,

Wait, so now the PLO (that fought wars with Hizbullah and Hamas) is the organization you're referring to?

Yitzhak Rabin has numerous photo ops with Yassir Arafat as well.  Does that mean Yitzhak Rabin was a terrorist?

This just seems to me a silly point to make.  A photo op with someone who's met several presidents and was part of a movement that was recognized by the entire planet as the legitimate representative of a large ethnic group does not constitute "supporting terror."  And it's the opposite of supporting Hamas--before he died, Arafat tried to destroy the group.  He proved incapable, but nonetheless...many Hamas members were tortured and killed by Arafat's policemen, now led by Muhammad Dahlan.

[Eleven Mike]

I realize that La Raza is not popular on these boards, but that doesn't mean most of America thinks it's a terrorist organization.

LaRaza , terrorist or not, is very unpopular with many, many Americans, many of whom might vote for a Democrat if they thought he/she would draw a harder line on the border than does Bush.  Many pundits suggested that the Dem's could beat the Rep's at their own game by taking a more aggressive approach to illegal immigration.  They don't appear to have taken that advice.  At the very least, a smart Dem. would avoid being overly friendly with open-border groups, at least until 2009.

[mountainclmbr]

http://www.nodnc.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=9

Support for the defense of the Newhaven 9 Black Panthers, a black, Marxist seperatist group:



At Yale, Hillary helped edit the Yale Review of Law and Social Action ? a leftwing journal which promoted cop-killing and featured cartoons of pig-faced police. (3)

A series of hard-Left mentors introduced Hillary to the brass-knuckle realities of revolutionary activism. As a Wellesley undergraduate, she met and interviewed radical organizer Saul Alinsky, whose Machiavellian tactics she admired. Hillary's senior thesis supported Alinsky's call for class warfare. (4)

At Yale, Hillary found a new Svengali, in the form of leftwing law professor Thomas Emerson, known around campus as "Tommy the Commie." Emerson recruited Hillary and other students to help monitor the trial of the New Haven Nine for civil rights violations. Hillary took charge of the operation, scheduling the students in shifts, so that student monitors would always be present in the courtroom. She befriended and worked closely with Panther lawyer Charles Garry. (5)

Some believe that the enormous pressure exerted by the Left helped ensure light sentences for the New Haven Nine. Whether or not this is true, the punishments were mild.

"Only one of the killers was still in prison in 1977," reports John McCaslin in the Washington Times. "The gunman, Warren Kimbro, got a Harvard scholarship and became an assistant dean at Eastern Connecticut State College. Ericka Huggins, who boiled the water for Mr. Rackley's torture, got elected to a California school board." (6)

Hillary's defenders argue that she played no "significant" role in the New Haven Nine's defense. This is semantic hairsplitting. Obviously, Hillary was less "significant" than Charles Garry or "Tommy the Commie" Emerson. But Hillary served as a trusted lieutenant to these movers and shakers. Moreover, she had a national profile as a campus activist. Hillary was no rank-and-file student protester, as her apologists claim.

Indeed, Hillary's work for the Panthers won her a summer internship at the Berkeley office of attorney Robert Treuhaft in 1972. A hardline Stalinist, Treuhaft had quit the Communist Party in 1958 only because it was losing members and no longer provided a good platform for his activism. (7) "Treuhaft is a man who dedicated his entire legal career to advancing the agenda of the Soviet Communist Party and the KGB," notes historian Stephen Schwartz. (8 )

The defense of the New Haven Nine marked Hillary?s initiation into the sinister underworld of the hardcore, revolutionary Left. To my knowledge, Hillary has never publicly renounced nor apologized for her role in that movement.

[The Rabbi]

And your point?
Yes, Hillary is/was hard left.  Hopefully that fact will come out during the campaign.  But that isn't a crime.  Not yet anyway.
Joschka Fischer, the former German foreign minister was a molotov throwing radical who had his pic taken beating up a police officer.

[mountainclmbr]

http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/0307yza.pdf

NCLR is eager to see election reform that secures the right of all Americans to vote. Election
reform should be guided by current law ensuring access to language minority voters. It should
not become a vehicle for adding barriers to any part of the voting process, whether it is voter
education, registration, or casting a vote. We urge you to ensure that additional, unnecessary
measures to confirm or verify the eligibility of voters -- which have a clear, disparate impact
on Latinos or language minorities -- are not imposed.

Bring out your dead........bring out your dead...... voters.

[CAnnoneer]

Yes, Hillary is/was hard left.  Hopefully that fact will come out during the campaign.  But that isn't a crime.  Not yet anyway.

Facilitating crimes and criminals should be a crime. Somehow it has slowly become a gray area, so long as it is politically motivated. A bizarro world indeed.

The West has been destroying itself from inside for quite a few decades. If we are so unlucky, we might find out what is next - a rebirth or the Dark Ages.

[De Selby]

I'm with you comrade CAnnoneer, we need to stop these anti-state agitators from spreading their worthless propaganda under the protection of "free" speech.  Everyone knows that leftist speech costs bajillions in terms of the Glory of the Republic.  I propose that we outlaw Hilary Clinton as an enemy of the people.  For the Children!


Seriously though...A Clinton run for president is not the end of the world.  I don't think she's half the politician the media makes her out to be, and I predict a self-destruct somewhere along the campaign trail. 

[The Rabbi]

Yes, Hillary is/was hard left.  Hopefully that fact will come out during the campaign.  But that isn't a crime.  Not yet anyway.

Facilitating crimes and criminals should be a crime. Somehow it has slowly become a gray area, so long as it is politically motivated. A bizarro world indeed.

The West has been destroying itself from inside for quite a few decades. If we are so unlucky, we might find out what is next - a rebirth or the Dark Ages.

But you've already found ways to suppress, eh Comrade?  Polonium.  Who would have thought?

[mountainclmbr]

The Constitution of the United States limits the power of the Federal Government and the Bill of Rights establishes individual rights that the Federal Government is not to infringe upon. Federal politicians take an oath to uphold the Constitution. Those politicians that want Socialist-style government control, and I include Hillary among them, take office with the intent of doing the opposite of what they swore to do. They are trying to turn the Constitution on its head. That seems like fraud to me.